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Best Science Fiction Books of 2022

The Science Fiction Novels of 2022 That Won Awards and Readers' Votes

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Best Science Fiction Books of 2022

Which science fiction novels defined 2022? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads Choice Awards science fiction vote.

Books that won or were shortlisted for several awards come first, followed by the books readers voted for most.

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1

Nona the Ninth

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb)

by Muir, Tamsyn

Her city is under siege.The zombies are coming back.And all Nona wants is a birthday party.In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach a...

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2

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

by Moreno-garcia, Silvia

In 1871, Carlota Moreau lives with her father at the remote Yucatan hacienda of Yaxaktun, where Doctor Moreau's experiments have created the hybrid people who are her family and her companions. Montgomery Laughton, the e...

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3

The Kaiju Preservation Society

The Kaiju Preservation Society

NÃO ESTAMOS APENAS PROTEGENDO VOCÊ DOS ANIMAIS. ESTAMOS PROTEGENDO OS ANIMAIS DE VOCÊ.Quando a cidade de Nova York é assolada pela covid-19, Jamie Gray perde o emprego e passa a trabalhar com delivery. Até que faz uma en...

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4

The Spare Man (cover not available)

The Spare Man

by Mary Robinette Kowal

Tesla Crane, an inventor and heir, and her husband Shan are on a honeymoon aboard a luxury space liner when a death turns into a murder inquiry. Tesla's service dog Gimlet and her sharp wit help. A cocktail-fuelled myste...

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5

The Mountain in the Sea

The Mountain in the Sea

When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause long enough to look at th...

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6

Venomous Lumpsucker

Venomous Lumpsucker

In a near future where extinction is a financial product and species are traded as credits, Karin Resaint, an animal-cognition scientist, and Mark Halyard, a mining executive with an illegal short position, team up to fi...

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7

Sea of Tranquility

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Ca...

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8

Upgrade

Upgrade

by Blake Crouch

Logan Ramsay is about to get the brain he always dreamed of. But will he be transformed into something more than human… or something less?When the SWAT team gives the all-clear and Logan Ramsay steps into the basement, h...

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9

How High We Go in the Dark

How High We Go in the Dark

by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for g...

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10

The Measure

The Measure

by Nikki Erlick

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out.But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents...

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11

Leviathan Falls

Leviathan Falls (The Expanse)

by James S.a. Corey

The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series.“An all-time ge...

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12

Metronome (cover not available)

Metronome

Aina and Whitney have spent twelve years in exile on an island, each tied to a croft by pills they must take from a machine every eight hours. When their parole is due and no one comes, supplies stop and a stray sheep ap...

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13

The Coral Bones

The Coral Bones

Three women, linked by the ocean, live in different centuries: Hana, a marine biologist documenting the decline of the Great Barrier Reef; Judith, a teenager voyaging from Sydney in 1839; and Telma, who in a ravaged 22nd...

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14

The Red Scholar's Wake

The Red Scholar's Wake

by Aliette De Bodard

Xich Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xich Si expects to be tortured...

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15

Plutoshine

Plutoshine

by Lucy Kissick

On Pluto, a team led by the terraformer Lucian is building a giant mirror to bring light and warmth to the surface. After a tragedy leaves the colony's founder in a coma, Lucian starts teaching sign language to Nou, a gi...

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16

Dead Silence

Dead Silence

by S. A. Barnes

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.Claire Kovalik is day...

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17

Hunt the Stars

Hunt the Stars

by Mihalik, Jessie

Captain Tavi Zarola leads a small bounty-hunting crew and wants to stay out of the spotlight, but her crew needs money. She takes a job from Torran Fletcher, the ruthless general from the other side of the war between hu...

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18

Ocean's Echo

Ocean's Echo

by Everina Maxwell

When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone with coercive powers strong enough to co...

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19

Mickey7

Mickey7

by Edward Ashton

Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous-even suicidal- the crew...

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20

Station Eternity

Station Eternity

by Mur Lafferty

Mallory Viridian is a magnet for murders, so she retreats to Eternity, a sentient space station shared with alien visitors, to keep other people safe. Then a shuttle of humans is on its way, a tourist is poisoned, and a...

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