The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)

Mary Doria Russell

Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Humans

Matt Haig

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)

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 (Southern Reach, #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

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

Larry Niven

Remnant Population

Elizabeth Moon

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

Octavia E. Butler

The Host (The Host, #1)

Stephenie Meyer

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

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 (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Liu Cixin