Readers’ Picks: Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of the Decade

Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. They appear to be sleepwalking. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey.  And the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic.

Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen.

In this tale of passion and obsession, part of the All Souls Trilogy, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.

This bestselling urban fantasy series features Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter.

A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next.

Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl’s imaginary friend. But when her father died, Tippy fell into the Stillreal, the underbelly of the Imagination, where discarded ideas go when they’re too Real to disappear. Now, he passes time doing detective work for other unwanted ideas – until Tippy runs into The Man in the Coat, a nightmare monster who can do the impossible: kill an idea permanently. Now Tippy must overcome his own trauma and solve the case, before there’s nothing left but imaginary corpses.

Ranking alongside George R. R. Martin as a groundbreaking master of fantasy, Robin Hobb delivered a trilogy beginning with Fool’s Assassin about the adventures of FitzChivalry Farseer and his uncanny friend the Fool.

In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself—the first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett.

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.