16 Great Works of Literary Speculative Fiction

Explore 16 great works of literary speculative fiction, featuring masterpieces that blend imagination, philosophy, and profound storytelling. Discover must-read books that redefine genres.

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Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

by Russell Hoban

This acclaimed story is set in an England that has suffered a nuclear holocaust. Society has regressed to an Iron Age, semi-literate state represented by …
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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival …
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Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the …
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Wittgenstein's Mistress

by David Markson

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is …
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Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster

by Richard Brautigan

Three books in the manner of their original editions.
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The Inheritors

by William Golding

A small tribe of Neanderthals find themselves at odds with a tribe comprised of homo sapiens, whose superior intelligence and agility threatens their doom.
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The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

From the author of the widely praised "The Truth About Celia" comes a mesmerizing new work that imagines the world of the afterlife and its …
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