I see lots of posts and discussions about people rereading their favorite series multiple times over the years. People ask about which series you reread the most, which series make the best rereads, etc. Some people talk about how it’s an annual tradition for them.
I never reread anything. I don’t enjoy rereading stories once I know the ending and I’m always eager to move on to the next book/series, no matter how much I loved it. With the massive amount of content available right now, I find it wild that so many people spend so much time rereading things. Just curious, am I alone in this?
Edit: Just wanted to say thanks for everyone who’s responding! Lots of interesting insights! I can’t reply to everyone but it’s been super cool to hear everyone’s thoughts and opinions.
Hello everyone! You posted your list of top 10 favorite books or series and we have (finally) completed the list. This list includes all entries with 5 or more votes.
Full list can be found here along with the cleaned up data set if anyone is ambitious.
Previous poll results from 2021 and the Top Lists Wiki
This year had nearly 976 individual votes with nearly 10,000 total votes. There are nearly 1200 series/novels on the full list.
Special thanks to the other mods for helping out majorly, especially u/kjmichaels who did so much. Thanks also to u/CoffeeArchives, u/Valkhyrie, and u/happy_book_bee. We wouldn’t have this done without all that you did.
|No.|Series|Votes|Author|Rank Change| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |1|The Stormlight Archive|380|Brandon Sanderson|0| |2|Middle-Earth Universe|371|J.R.R. Tolkien|0| |3|First Law World|336|Joe Abercrombie|3| |4|A Song of Ice and Fire|310|George R.R. Martin|1| |5|Mistborn|257|Brandon Sanderson|-2| |6|The Wheel of Time …
What are your favorite one liners from villains?
“Do you wanna know how I got these scars?” still goes hard imo
I was recently reading The Outsider and I finally noticed something. I’m sick of Stephen King’s meandering. I really don’t want 97 descriptions for every single object and person in the story. It got so exhausting and I ended up putting the book down.
He’s great at building tension and keeping you hooked but boy does he ramble and I really can’t take it. It’s actually so mentally tiring. I don’t know how he gets away with it. Starting to feel he’s overrated. And his sentence are pretty plain, except he’s just so good at tension. What do you think?
I mean it a silly question because the answer is we are all human. And it’s not like it’s a huge deal or anything, but I am just genuinely curious because it seems like the purpose of a major publishing company/editor should not let this happen when it’s the crux of their business. Don’t they have auto detect for typos?
And I am talking major books that sell millions of copies. Currently reading Under the Whispering Door and noticed one.
So, quick disclaimer before I say anything else: I think that genre and sub-genre labels are only (moderately) useful in as far as they can make it easier for people to find other works they might like. It’s really exhausting and unproductive to want to categorize everything, and even more so to gatekeep categories and engage in long arguments about where they should begin or end.
With that out of the way, I just wanted to offer some thoughts on the reason why I, as a reader, tend to frequently seek out works that have been described as “hard science fiction”
I feel that too often hard sci-fi writers and readers tend to be stereotyped as insufferable elitists who care a lot about “scientific realism”™ and look down on any work that features things that “couldn’t actually happen”
I know a few people like this (maybe they’ll show up here lol), but for me, and for many other readers and I think writers too, the real reason is …
Figure this may be of interest to the sub. It includes six short stories that have previously only been published within various large anthologies over the years. If this is inappropriate to post mods pls delete.
‘Bears Discover Fire’ won the Hugo and the Nebula and has been anthologised often, but… I just don’t get it. The SF device is not especially interesting, the human story told not captivating, and in general my reaction is ‘so what?’. Clearly, objective evidence of the story’s acclaim suggests I’m the idiot (plausible, if you know me), but no matter how I try, I just don’t get it.
Does anyone else have a similar non-‘getting it’ relationship to an acclaimed work of print SF?
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/58th-nebula-awards-finalists/
Nebula Award for Novel
Nebula Award for Novella
Got a community’s feedback on another subreddit and compiled this list. Not necessarily the best or most classic sci-fi ever, but it covers most of the bases.
I have never read any of these books and for the most part, have never read these author’s either.
Some exceptions were made when:
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Please feel free to let me know which books obviously need to be added to the list, and which definitely should be removed from the list.
EDIT: Thanks for all the advice! I switched out quite a few from the same author and dropped a couple entirely.
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|Old Man’s War|John Scalzi|
|Ringworld|Larry Niven …
As the title says, any such book suggestions are welcome
Edit - Generation ships stories are welcome too as long as it deals with vast spans of time
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