I'll add:

A Canticle for Leibowitz
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm. One of my favorite books.
The whole Madaddam Trilogy by Atwood - (side note - Atwood, like Octavia Butler, is an incredible tea leaf reader. I think that's why she's unsettling.)
This is how you lose the Time War - an epistolary novel set far in the future
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell - he also wrote Cloud Atlas. I'd call it dystopian fantasy in a way. Also a favorite of mine.

I also like sci-fi or dystopian anthologies - I have one from several years ago - Wastelands. It has some really great stories.

Anonymous wrote:The list below are apparently popular at my local used book store so might be worth checking out:

Modern Science Fiction (Cixin, Corey, Jeminsin, Weir, Wells, etc.)

Oops forgot to add these:

Classic Science Fiction (Asimov, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein, Le Guin, etc.)

The list below are apparently popular at my local used book store so might be worth checking out:

Modern Science Fiction (Cixin, Corey, Jeminsin, Weir, Wells, etc.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean this is an incredibly vast category.

The Expanse Series
Dungeon Crawler Carl
All of Scalzi but Old Man's War particularly.
Ancillary Justice
The Light Brigade
Murderbot
Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Three Body Problem
Doomsday Book

Had no idea these were books, loved both of the shows!

Science Fiction isn’t usually my choice of genre, but I’m also reading these series after enjoying the shows. Three Body Problem is a very interesting story, and Murderbot is so much fun. I hear Alexander Skarsgard’s voice in my head whenever the Murderbot speaks. FWIW, the DCPL has both series with a short wait, and both are also on KindleUnlimited.

On the dystopian front, I really enjoyed The School for Good Mothers. (Though I just googled to double-check the title, and be warned that some people seem to hate it). It made me wish I was in a book club because I was so desperate to talk it over with other people who had read it!

The Postmortal by Drew Magary. A shot gets invented that basically eliminates death by natural causes.

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. It's kind of the OG post-apocalyptic novel. I loved it. The only problem was the MoCo library system didn't have it so I had to buy it. But it was worth it, would re-read.

Anonymous wrote:Cloud Cuckoo Land is a combination science fiction, historical fiction and speculative fiction. Some storylines were more riveting than others, but I still think about this book though it’s been several years since I read it.

This one stuck with me, too, especially the space ship story. So good.

Anonymous wrote:Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Broken Earth by N.K. Jamisen as mentioned above.

Both of these are heavy reading. For lighter writing try

Scythe series
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
The Mercy of the Gods—new series start from James Covey

I love Atwood but man heavy reading is right for Oryx and Crake. I could not make myself get through it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean this is an incredibly vast category.

The Expanse Series
Dungeon Crawler Carl
All of Scalzi but Old Man's War particularly.
Ancillary Justice
The Light Brigade
Murderbot
Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Three Body Problem
Doomsday Book

Had no idea these were books, loved both of the shows!

NP and I came to this thread specifically to recommend Three Body Problem. It's not the best writing ever (full disclosure) but still SO GOOD to read.

Also OP, any Ursual K. LeGuin you still haven't read.

And it's YA, but I recently re-read The Sunlit Lands trilogy because my teen was reading them and was pleasantly impressed all over again.

Anonymous wrote:I mean this is an incredibly vast category.

The Expanse Series
Dungeon Crawler Carl
All of Scalzi but Old Man's War particularly.
Ancillary Justice
The Light Brigade
Murderbot
Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Three Body Problem
Doomsday Book

Had no idea these were books, loved both of the shows!

Cloud Cuckoo Land is a combination science fiction, historical fiction and speculative fiction. Some storylines were more riveting than others, but I still think about this book though it’s been several years since I read it.

More speculative than sci fi, but I just finished The Antidote by Karen Russell and it is amazing.

The Blueprint and The Dream Hotel for dystopias. Both were chilling.

The Silo trilogy - Wool, Shift, and Dust

Anonymous wrote:I mean this is an incredibly vast category.

The Expanse Series
Dungeon Crawler Carl
All of Scalzi but Old Man's War particularly.
Ancillary Justice
The Light Brigade
Murderbot
Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Three Body Problem
Doomsday Book

Lots of good books here! I loved the Murderbot and Wayfarer series. I’ve just finished book 2 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. A couple of other options I’ve read recently, Annie Bot and Mal Goes to War. Very different books but both explore AI and what it means to be human.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Broken Earth by N.K. Jamisen as mentioned above.

Both of these are heavy reading. For lighter writing try

Scythe series
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
The Mercy of the Gods—new series start from James Covey