The Best Science Fiction of 2019 – #SciFiMonth

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It’s almost the end of SciFiMonth 2019 (weep), so for my last list of the event, I want to share my favorite science fiction books of the year so far. 2019 has been a pretty good year in general for speculative fiction, and even though I didn’t read all the SF I wanted to, I’m very happy with this list. I came up with a total of sixteen favorites, and you can click on the titles if you’d like to read my reviews.

Five Reads

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

Do You Dream of Terra Two? by Temi Oh

Our War by Craig DiLouie

Three Laws Lethal by David Walton

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Four and a half Reads

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason

The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson

Ration by Cody T. Luff

A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker

Salvation Day by Kali Wallace

The Girl Who Could Move Sh * t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford

Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik

Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman


You will probably see some of these books appear on my other Best Of lists closer to the end of the year, but I did want to shine a light on ALL the science fiction I loved this year. Have you read any of these books?

Also, heads up. I have a giveaway starting on Saturday to close out SciFiMonth, and you’ll be able to choose any sci-fi book I’ve talked about all month. Any of these books are up for grabs!

Posted November 26, 2019 by Tammy in Best Books of the Year / 32 Comments

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32 responses to “The Best Science Fiction of 2019 – #SciFiMonth

  1. Looks like you’ve read some amazing sci-fi this year! All Systems Red and Sisters of the Vast Black are both on my TBR, and I’ve heard such good things about Blake Crouch’s work that I need to give it a try. One of my friends really enjoyed A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World so I should really check it out.
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    • Tammy

      A Boy and His Dog might be my favorite book of the year. I’m still putting my list together, but it’s definitely in the top three.

  2. So a bunch of these are on my list- but I have read Wanderers and Salvation Day! Enjoyed them both. Iā€™m not sure off the top of my head which books Iā€™d put on my best of lists. Iā€™ll have to think on it.

    • Tammy

      I’m going to have to cut down my “ultimate” best of list eventually, and add in all the fantasy I read. At least we have another month to think about it:-)

    • Tammy

      You should check out Terra Two! I’m sad because it hasn’t really gotten much publicity, and it totally deserves to be on everyone’s best of list.

  3. There are many more in this list I’d like to read, but so far I’ve read Sisters of the Vast Black and All Systems Red, and thoroughly enjoyed them both. Sisters was very different than I’d expected and packed so much story within it, as did All Systems Red. I love Murderbot!

    • Tammy

      Sisters was different from what I was expecting as well. There really were lots of great books this year:-)

  4. I haven’t read any of the books you’ve mentioned but I want to read Aurora Rising so badly! Hopefully I can get around to it šŸ˜€

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