The Bones Beneath My Skin

T.J. Klune

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

Eddie Robson

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

Heat

R. Lee Smith

The Cage (The Cage, #1)

Megan Shepherd

Earth Fathers Are Weird (Earth Fathers, #1)

Lyn Gala

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey

We Are the Ants

Shaun David Hutchinson

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Humans

Matt Haig

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

Octavia E. Butler

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)

Pittacus Lore

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com

Kimberly Lemming

Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians, #1)

Ruby Dixon

The Host

Stephenie Meyer

The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey

Obsidian

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Mickey7

Edward Ashton

You Weren't Meant to Be Human

Andrew Joseph White

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

Joe Haldeman

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Dan Simmons

Contact

Carl Sagan

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin