This Quest was inspired by the List "Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction" created by heathersdesk, winner of Q1 2026 community voting.

The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three.

All of her groundbreaking works, exploring themes of Afrofuturism, power, and survival.

A selection of classic crime and mystery novels covering a variety of eras and authors. For especially prolific and well-known authors, only their canon works are included.

Embark on this epic space adventure that includes some of the greatest and a few rising star space opera series! (This only includes main series books, not novellas, spin-offs or side stories.)

A fantasy universe created by Sir Terry Pratchett, Discworld is a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants, which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. These are comedic novels that parody traditional fantasy tropes. All books can be read as standalones.

An introduction to the SciFi genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.

The four books in Tolkien’s main Middle-earth saga + several other collections published posthumously.

If you think real world societies are bad (you'd be right)... get a load of *these.*

Whether it's sci-fi or fantasy, you like a big series. You love when a book says 1 of 5/10/50+. Is the reading order of the series hotly debated? Is there a wiki chart to show how the books connect? Even better. Come spend some time in these worlds.

Competitions for power, notoriety, love, or maybe even your life.

A collection of the most influential works in literature from the United States.

An introduction to the Fantasy genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.

Books that made it on the big screen

For when you're craving a good sapphic story, a collection of books that feature sapphic characters and/or a sapphic romance.

A collection of the pilot books for popular series, for those of us who love to follow a character's journey for as long as an author will let us! Some of the below series have heavily debated starting points and book read orders--in those cases the pilot was selected based on what seems to be the most popular approach.