Worldbuilding Feast

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

Blood Over Bright Haven

M.L. Wang

Mad Sisters of Esi

Tashan Mehta

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Color of Magic

Terry Pratchett

A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler

A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine

Too Like the Lightning

Ada Palmer

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

Emma Mieko Candon

The Works of Vermin

Hiron Ennes

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Seth Dickinson

The Hands of the Emperor

Victoria Goddard

The Wetworks Miracle

Caleb Sierra

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

Ann Leckie

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson