My Top 10 Science Fiction Books of All Time! (As of 2024)

[@mattamant915]

Kingdoms Of Death is definitely my favorite of the series and is also my book of the year. Truly a masterpiece.

[@PetrikLeo]

@@mattamant915 woohoo!!!! Same as me! 😄

[@nmal8702]

Enjoyed watching this video so much! Thank you for sharing this list, will definitely give some of these books a try!

[@jaishans]

Petrick my man. Love the t-shirt. Green Bone 💚💚💚. Also want to say love your choices of sci-fi books. I just finished Howling Dark and it blew my mind. Dune is my most fave sci-fi and Howling Dark came so close !! I wonder if Demon in White will outpace it. 😅

[@ZOMGfantasy]

Yesss! I shall plan to work through this list next year! Thanks Petrik!! 😁

[@PetrikLeo]

Thank you, Zammar!! Good luck with your reading and writing!

[@P.J.Osto-Author]

Reread Hyperion this year on audible, definitely one of the best

[@PetrikLeo]

@@P.J.Osto-Author about to reread it too!!

[@jacketernity4609]

Great 👍🏻 video as always good sir. Merry Christmas 🎄 Petrik to you & your family!

[@PetrikLeo]

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you and your family, too! :)

[@aidanomalley5326]

I had the exact same experience reading the first chapter of the vanished birds! I also thought of the Ken Liu comparison, and Spear Cuts Through Water is maybe my favorite book I read this year - can't wait to hear your thoughts once you get to it. It has one of the most gorgeous covers in my collection. Simon Jimenez is definitely on my insta-buy list now.

[@77thass]

Merry Christmas to you as well and Choco Boy. I can’t wait to start Sun Eater in Jan 2025.

[@PetrikLeo]

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you, too! :)

[@flingyeah5555]

Petrick I am curently on "Wall of Storms" Dandelion Dynasty. "Grace of Kings" felt like Aerys's reign and Roberts rebellion(25-30 years in 1 books). I am glad i got recommended by you! At first remembering names was hard but eventually I adapted. I just started Mistborn: The Final empire parallelly. After learning how big Cosmere is it was necessary to be absorbed in! I think after finishing these two I'll take on a SF series and Joe Abercrombie's The First Law....

[@PetrikLeo]

Oh, that's a good comparison. You're going to love The Wall of Storms and The First Law! :)

[@irishknight6893]

Awesome video my friend!! I can’t wait to start Howling Dark after I finish Fury of The Gods! Also post the vlogs from Dragonsteel soon please 🙏🏻 🙏🏻

[@PetrikLeo]

Thank you, friend! The vlog will be posted this week! :)

[@SheWasOnlyEvie]

I’m so happy to see The Vanished Birds on your list!

[@PetrikLeo]

Of course! So sorry I haven't read Spear yet. Life just keep pushing it from my reading pile. 🥲

[@SheWasOnlyEvie]

@@PetrikLeo You’ll get to it when you get to it! Whenever you do, I hope you will enjoy it. 💜

[@safinan8008]

Happy Christmas to you and ur family 🎉🎉🎉

[@PetrikLeo]

Likewise, Safina!

[@Raiikashi]

Sun Eater is such a good series that after finishing it, no other book was sticking for me these last couple weeks so I just got to reread sun eater. From book 2 on every entry in the series is elite . Demon in White is my favorite one with kingsdoms of death and howling dark tied for 2nd

[@StoryGirl1128]

Can’t wait to get into Red Rising and Sun Eater!

[@PetrikLeo]

@@StoryGirl1128 you're going to love them!

[@Chudi2000]

That Green Bone Saga T-Shirt is 🔥🔥🔥

[@PetrikLeo]

@@Chudi2000 thank you!! 😄

[@fjuran1]

Great books all in all, being Hyperion is only one of the older ones on your list, there are so many older sci-fi novels that you should explore, of course leaving Dune out of that list. To name a few of the authors that I have loved, Miller, Delaney, Mieville, Bear, Brin, Bedford, Robinson, Dick, Willis, Asimov, Clarke etc, etc. We you get a chance you should read a couple of these a year, as a break away from Fantasy to refresh the pallet so to speak, LOL.

[@noname3609]

I'll definetly read some of those in future ! Thank you Petrik ! How is it going with Crossroads ? :)) Merry X-mass Petrikk !!!! Favourite Sci-Fi I think it is Dune ! :D

[@PetrikLeo]

Still struggling with Crossroads. Getting there, though! Merry Christmas to you, too!

[@fcsolis]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is my all time favorite sci-fi book. The next are the two books in AG Riddle's The Extinction Files series, namely Pandemic and Genome. I think Blake Crouche's best work is the three-book Wayward Pines series. Thank you.

[@cynthiafialka]

Merry Christmas Petrik! I’d add Project Hail Mary but I think maybe you weren’t that crazy about it.

[@PetrikLeo]

@@cynthiafialka i enjoyed that! But loved Martian much more. Merry Christmas to you, too! 😄

[@nazimelmardi]

Banks - Culture series is criminally left out on booktube nowdays. Commonwealth by Hamilton also deserves more attention.

[@PetrikLeo]

@@nazimelmardi both are series I want to try someday. Amidst my other 1000 books in my TBR 😂

[@nazimelmardi]

@ Brian Lee Durfee just posted a review of the Commonwealth Saga. The man knows the thing. 😎of course he has by accident in the video background Culture.

[@leafyksj1756]

I’m reading Recursion right now after reading Dark Matter earlier this year. Not too far into the book yet but I really enjoyed Dark Matter so I have no doubt it’s gonna be good!

[@PetrikLeo]

I think it's even better than Dark Matter. I hope it will be the same for you! :)

[@rajtheleepan]

Good video brother, and oh darn, I din notice your T-shirt until end of the video, so you have sweared into “no peak” clan ? 😅

[@PetrikLeo]

@@rajtheleepan i have indeed became one of the No Peak Clan! 😄

[@dphunk87]

Kingdoms of death was amaze balls

[@PetrikLeo]

@@dphunk87 SO AMAZING

[@SwagDragon1]

Neuromancer and Altered Carbon would have to be on my list! Cyberpunk has such a special place in my heart, though I am loving Sun Eater!

[@mariareadsssf]

Hoping to get to more SF in the future. So far my only favorites are from Octavia E. Butler, the "Earthseed" duology and "Kindred". As an honorable mention I have "Annihilation" by Jeff VanderMeer. It would have been a favorite if I did not watched the movie first (back when I only read Lit Fic). When I watched the movie I did not knew about the book so I spoiled myself for the twist. I recommend the movie, but only after reading the book.

[@michaelbarlow3623]

Dark Age my favorite Red Rising. Hyperion prob #1 for me, with Foundation maybe close close # 2.

[@PetrikLeo]

Awesome! I need to try Foundation again. I tried that one a while ago!

[@coryleekoch3659]

Heroes Die is FANTASTIC.

[@PetrikLeo]

@@coryleekoch3659 criminally underrated book!

[@caitlinl2750]

I’ve read all but 2!🎉

[@brandoncordeau7277]

I dont really read a lot of sci-fi I am more lf a fantasy and horror person so i think for sci fi i have to say red rising (onlfy read the original trilogy but just started iron gold) is my favorite and then dune after that but i only read the first book for that i plan to finish the series soon (frank not brian) I'm not sure why i havent read them yet because i liked the first book a lot

[@joshhall1967]

Sun Eater is "fantasy in space" genre. I don't recall any science in that series.

[@PetrikLeo]

I guess we're reading different books. Or you don't consider Star Wars as sci-fi. Unless you're talking about hard sci-fi. This series is not that. :)

[@felder1122]

i’m currently on ashes of man and as much as i loved demon and white and kingdoms of death, howling dark is just something special to me….. *POTENTIAL SPOILERS* from the betrayals, to the romance, to Kharn Segara, the secrets behind him, The Quiet, Switch, Bassander Lin and Prince Aranata…. Howling Dark is my favorite sci-fi book of all time (as of 2024)

[@gianlucamarcheselli8427]

In the last 10/15 years i didn’t see great sf books. For me the last great sf cycle has been revelation space by Alastair Reynolds. We had great sf in the 80-90s. C.j. Cherry, frederick pohl (gateway), vernor vinge, david brin, lois mcmaster bujold, orson scott card, dan simmons, ian banks. Apart dan simmons, all this great authors have been forgotten. Or so it seems to me.

[@radudumanovschi3387]

Les Enfants du capitaine Grant) by Jules Verne is the answer to your question

[@franckcoffin463]

This is very skewed toward recent releases. That doesn't mean there aren't good books in this list but that's my biggest pet peeves with most fantasy/scifi booktubers, they all read the same books and all those books are fairly recent...

[@PetrikLeo]

@@franckcoffin463 Too bad my list doesn't click with you. For what its worth, i tried several scifi classics and many of them did not gel with me. Dune does not even made it to my favorites. Just a matter of preference. If you have such a big pet peeve with most SFF booktubers, don't hesitate to stop watching. No offense taken! You should always prioritize what you like to watch for yourself. 😊

[@ultrasrifat1495]

never liked empire of silence, other 9 of them is good

[@PetrikLeo]

Not a bad statistic of comparison! :D

[@zenthepoet.]

Peeeetrik

[@PetrikLeo]

Zeeennn!

[@Duncdunc2377]

Why can’t you ever actually rank your top 5 lol

[@PetrikLeo]

@@Duncdunc2377 i can't. I envy anyone who can have ONE top favorite book of all time.

[@neondemon5137]

Have you seen the fandoms of literally any popular thing?

[@Duncdunc2377]

@@PetrikLeo haha I get it! I can do it but my list changes every other day🤣

[@PetrikLeo]

@@Duncdunc2377 see!? That's what I mean. It changes everyday. 😂😂

[@Filthyanimal9]

Thx for sharing! Reading Dark Forest trilogy and Hoping to make it up to Disquiet Gods in 2025!

[@PetrikLeo]

Woohoo!! Enjoy both of them! :)