The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)

Mary Doria Russell

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Humans

Matt Haig

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Hank Green

Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

Sylvain Neuvel

We Are the Ants

Shaun David Hutchinson

Spin (Spin, #1)

Robert Charles Wilson

Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

Sue Burke

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)

Larry Niven

Remnant Population

Elizabeth Moon

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler

The Host

Stephenie Meyer

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

Contact

Carl Sagan

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Becky Chambers

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin