Library Journal Best Books - Science Fiction (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

2025

All the Water in the World
(*)
Eiren Caffall

Death of the Author
(*)
Nnedi Okorafor

The Garden
(*)
Nick Newman

Picks and Shovels
(*)
Cory Doctorow

Symbiote
(*)
Michael Nayak

Dissolution
(*)
Nicholas Binge

Idolfire
(*)
Grace Curtis

Luminous
(*)
Silvia Park

Murder by Memory
(*)
Olivia Waite

Two Truths and a Lie
(*)
Cory O'Brien

The Ephemera Collector
(*)
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

Esperance
(*)
Adam Oyebanji

Of Monsters and Mainframes
(*)
Barbara Truelove

The Afterlife Project
(*)
Tim Weed

Amplitudes
(*)
Lee Mandelo

The Folded Sky
(*)
Elizabeth Bear

Shroud
(*)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Inner Space
(*)
Jakub Szamalek

Automatic Noodle
(*)
Annalee Newitz

The Shattering Peace
(*)
John Scalzi

Sunward
(*)
William Alexander

What We Can Know
(*)
Ian McEwan

The Heist of Hollow London
(*)
Eddie Robson

Saltcrop
(*)
Yume Kitasei

Exo
(*)
Colin Brush

Simultaneous
(*)
Eric Heisserer

Slow Gods
(*)
Claire North

We Will Rise Again
(*)
Annalee Newitz

Award Categories

Christian Fiction

Contemporary Romance

Crime Fiction

Crime Fiction: Mystery

Crime Fiction: Suspense

Crime Fiction: Thriller

Fantasy

Graphic Novels

Historical Fiction

Historical Romance

Horror

LGBTQIA+ Romance

Literary Fiction

Paranormal Romance

Pop Fiction

Romance

Romantasy

Science Fiction

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018