Science Fiction bestsellers

The Ministry of Time

A Novel

By: Kaliane Bradley
Narrated by: George Weightman & Katie Leung
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“This book covered some pretty heavy topics in the best way possible! The romance was so slight but so fun and this is definitely one of those books that you’ll think about long after you’ve finished reading it! Read more

Gideon the Ninth

Locked Tomb: Book #1

By: Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

“Fantasy, horror, murder mystery with lesbian necromancers in space! 10/10 butch & femme representation without the whole story revolving around romance. So creepy & queer & good! Read more

The Wild Robot Escapes

The Wild Robot: Book #2

By: Peter Brown
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

“Roz is back, and better than ever! After being refurbished, our dear robot gets shipped off to work for the Shareef family on their dairy farm. And since she’s no mere automaton, she proves to be an invaluable asset — not only to the cows she has befriended, but also to the Shareef children. Yet despite her newfound friends, she still yearns to... Read more

Fledgling

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds. But Shori is a fifty-three-year-old vampire with a ravenous hunger for blood, the lost child of anancient species of near-immortals who live in dark symbiosis with humanity. Genetically modified to be able to walk in... Read more

This Is How You Lose The Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

“Mood readers will love this book. It’s all vibes, with the plot coming in secondary and mattering very little. Symbols upon symbols, time travel and experimentation with writing form. What an experience. Read more

The Midnight Library

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

“I found this book to be a profound and heartwarming exploration of life's alternate paths. The concept of experimenting with different life choices in our final hour is both imaginative and thought-provoking. The author skillfully handles sensitive subjects, making it clear that readers should be in the right mental space to fully appreciate... Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“Have you ever felt lost or wondered what we are here for? This very necessary, kind, creative, utopian sci-fi delves into these questions and more through the relationships of a tea monk and a sentient robot who are open to listen, learn, share, and teach that the possibility of a future built sustainably, ethically, and with purpose could be... Read more

Iron Widow (Book 1)

Iron Widow: Book #1

By: Xiran Jay Zhao
Narrated by: Rong Fu
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

“Iron Widow is addictive, non-stop, and insane! I LOVE this book so much! Take control of your life. Take control of your body. Make the patriarchy pay through blood and vengeance! This alt-reality world mixes Chinese culture and Pacific Rim, with addictive action, complex characters, and an unstoppable fury. Zetian wants revenge and will bring... Read more

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Wayfarers: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

“This is the funnest, tenderest, most lovable space romp you’ll ever take. There’s a fun plot but the real reason to read this book is the crew of the Wayfarer. Fair warning: You’ll want to follow them anywhere! With inter-species romance, plenty of pronouns, and space-age wisdom, this book made us feel more tender to our own young species of... Read more

Dune

Book One in the Dune Chronicles

Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff & Scott Sowers
Length: 21 hours 1 minute

“Set in the distant future in a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the Padishah Emperor, Dune is the story of a young man whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis, the only source of the 'spice' melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe.... Read more

How High We Go in the Dark

A Novel

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure & Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“The characters in these interconnected stories are so real and unique. Each person's perspective (each really lovingly narrated by different voice actors) adds another layer of understanding to the ways in which humanity reels from the aftereffects of pandemic and climate change. It's a touching book, and I was genuinely moved during some of the... Read more

All Systems Red

Murderbot Diaries: Book #1

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

“The protagonist is a reluctant killing machine with a wicked sense of humor. What more could you want? Read more

Network Effect

Murderbot Diaries: Book #5

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

“Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries has become one of my favorite series of all time, and Network Effect is a perfect addition. Murderbot is still trying to figure out what it wants after hacking its governor module. In the meantime, it spends its days protecting the humans it cares about. Of course, everything goes terribly wrong when a friend... Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book Set

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Arina Ii & Kevin Shen
Length: 18 hours 54 minutes

The first three books in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series packaged together.

What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new book set. Step inside Tokyo’s... Read more

Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle
Narrated by: André Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, Georgia Bird, Liz Kerin, Mara Wilson, Mark Oshiro, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher & TJ Klune
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“You might not have known that you needed a Queer Horror Novel set in modern day Hollywood with a homophobic studio, questionable use of AI, and a screenwriter being haunted by his most terrifying creations after being told by his boss he needs to kill off his gay characters...but I’m here to tell you that you do, in fact, need this novel.... Read more

The Life Impossible

A Novel

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Joanna Lumley & Jordan Stephens
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“Breathtaking down to the final sentence. This book is one that keeps you hanging on, makes you think deeply about life, and comforts you all at the same time. I wish I could experience it for the very first time all over again. Read more

Harrow the Ninth

Locked Tomb: Book #2

By: Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today bestselling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns agalaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor’s hauntedspace station.Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight anunwinnable war.... Read more

Always Coming Home

A Novel

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi & Isabella Star LeBlanc
Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

“One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . A study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like—for society and for the art of storytelling.""—The MillionsReissued for a new generation of readers, Always Coming Home is Ursula K. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing... Read more

The Sunlit Man

A Cosmere Novel

Secret Projects: Book #4

By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: William DeMeritt
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

From the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time—#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson adds to his Cosmere universe shared by Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive with a new standalone novel that combines fantasy and science fiction. Narrated by William DeMeritt. Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night... Read more

The Mercy of Gods

Captive's War: Book #1

By: James S.A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

“The thrilling academic breakthroughs, tense rivalries, and workplace crushes of the scientists on Anjiin suddenly seem petty when the Carryx, terrifying and powerful insectoid aliens, invade and nearly wipe out humanity. But when the scientist team, reunited on the Carryx home planet in a puzzling captivity, are forced to resume similar... Read more

A Closed and Common Orbit

Wayfarers: Book #2

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“Becky Chambers has built a dazzling and expansive science fiction universe and seems determined to introduce readers to every corner. The AI Sidra and young Jane provide swapping viewpoints between a bustling, multi-species city sprawling over a moon and a sterile factory among miles and miles of junkyard on a planet with extremely skewed... Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

A Novel

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Arina Ii
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

“If you had a chance to travel in time, would you? Even if there were multiple rules that must be followed, including you cannot change the present, and the cost of breaking the rules means losing your life. Would you do it? In Before the Coffee gets Cold, you follow four different customers who have come to a coffee shop, hidden in the alleys of... Read more

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed: Book #2

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson, Patricia R. Floyd & Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Best-selling author Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed novels have won numerous awards, and she is a recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Parable of the Talents was selected as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying... Read more

All Systems Red [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

The Murderbot Diaries 1

Murderbot Diaries: Book #1

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: David Cui Cui, Khaya Fraites, Zeke Alton, Alejandro Ruiz, Aure Nash, Bradley Foster Smith, Holly Adams, Megan Dorminy, Natalie Van Sistine, Michael John Casey & Rayner Gabriel
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

"A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.
""As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.""
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the... Read more

The Stars Too Fondly

A Novel

By: Emily Hamilton
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton weaves a suspenseful, charming, and irresistibly joyous tale of fierce friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe itself.So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship.They just wanted to know why,... Read more

Red Rising

Red Rising: Book #1

By: Pierce Brown
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

“Action scenes so intense they are borderline cheesy but in the BEST way! Read more

System Collapse

Murderbot Diaries: Book #7

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse.Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if... Read more

A Memory Called Empire

Teixcalaan: Book #1

By: Arkady Martine
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel
A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019
A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of Geek
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” Nominee
A Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee

"A Memory... Read more

Blood Over Bright Haven

A Novel

By: M. L. Wang
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever, in this standalone dark fantasy from the author of The Sword of Kaigen.

“Powerful, thought-provoking. . . . Fans of R.F. Kuang’s Babel will find much to admire here, from the intricate magic system to the... Read more

Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, Book 2)

Iron Widow: Book #2

By: Xiran Jay Zhao
Narrated by: Rong Fu
Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow.

After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. Revelations about an enemy who dangles... Read more

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“I just recently went through a deep dive reread of ALL The Hunger Games books (yes, in 2024!) and WOW do they still hold up! Do I remember loving them? Absolutely yes. Do I remember feeling inspired to overthrow the government? Also yes. But what I forgot, or maybe didn't fully understand at the time I first read them, was how delicately and... Read more

Fugitive Telemetry

Murderbot Diaries: Book #6

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently... Read more

Rogue Protocol

Murderbot Diaries: Book #3

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

The third thrilling book in the increasingly popular Murderbot Diaries, which began with All Systems Red. SciFi's favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And... Read more

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #2

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“Just as wonderful and as tender as A Psalm for the Wild-Built. A sweet and earthy cup of tea to warm the soul. New and old characters to giggle with, cry with, and just flat out fall in love with. A book that I will return to again and again. Read more

Artificial Condition

Murderbot Diaries: Book #2

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action-adventure All Systems Red Artificial Condition continues The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main... Read more

Record of a Spaceborn Few

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!Brimming with Chambers' signature blend of heart-warming character relationships and dazzling adventure, Record of a Spaceborn few is the third standalone installment of the Wayfarers series, set in the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, and following a new motley crew on a journey to another... Read more

Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

“Tender and weird and sort of uncapturable. More lit fiction than SciFi, more alien love letter to humanity, than observational critique of earth's people. A poignant yet quirky coming of age story with a beautiful but realistic mother-daughter relationship and a hilarious alien-to-home planet device. Read more

The Dispossessed

A Novel

Hainish Cycle

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen KingFrom the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them.A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated... Read more

Leviathan Wakes

The Expanse: Book #1

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 20 hours 55 minutes

From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl.  Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but... Read more

Sea of Tranquility

A novel

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey & Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

“I am a huge fan of Mandel’s work and was ridiculously excited to finally sit down and read this––and my god, it did not disappoint! A series of interwoven tales set anywhere from hundreds of years ago to thousands of years in the future, this book made me feel just about everything a human being can feel. I cannot recommend it enough. Read more

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem Series: Book #1

By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Over 1 million copies sold in North America

“A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”—Barack Obama •... Read more

Hench

A Novel

By: Natalie Zina Walschots
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

“This smart, funny, and thought-provoking novel follows Anna, a hench-for-hire. She has the same concerns that we all do: paying the bills, finding love, avoiding getting killed by superheroes. But when she gets caught in the crossfire during a showdown between a supervillain and a hero, she is gravely injured in both body and soul. As she... Read more

Exit Strategy

Murderbot Diaries: Book #4

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

"I love Murderbot!" -Ann Leckie The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous... Read more

Leviathan Falls

Expanse: Book #9

By: James S.A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 19 hours 40 minutes

This is how it ends. Leviathan Falls is the explosive final novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning Expanse series, now a major TV series.The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war... Read more

Dune Messiah

Book Two in the Dune Chronicles

Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Euan Morton, Simon Vance & Katherine Kellgren
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an... Read more

Exhalation

Stories

By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon & Ted Chiang
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

“A spectacular collection, with too many standout stories for me to pick a favorite. The title story is perhaps the best exploration I've ever read of the nature of consciousness and the search for meaning. Chiang's writing is at once dizzyingly cerebral and profoundly heartbreaking, rooted in an unrestrained passion for scientific speculation... Read more

Kindred

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

“This was my first time reading Octavia Butler. To say I was unprepared for the character study and journey she would take me on would be a great understatement. Dana, a black woman living in 1970s California mysteriously travels back in time (repeatedly) to the antebellum South and must find a way to stay put in her own time with as little... Read more

Neuromancer

Sprawl Trilogy

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Neuromancer is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future, it is a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our... Read more

Termination Shock

A Novel

By: Neal Stephenson
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 22 hours 53 minutes

New York Times BestsellerFrom Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless... Read more

Zathura

Jumanji: Book #2

By: Chris Van Allsburg
Narrated by: Ensemble Cast
Length: 19 minutes

On the last page of the Caldecott-winning book Jumanji, young Danny Budwing is seen running after his brother, Walter, with a game tucked under his arm. Now twenty years later, Chris Van Allsburg is ready to reveal what happened when Danny and Walter rolled the dice. This time the name of the game is Zathura, and the battling Budwing boys are in... Read more