Sci Fi Book Recommendations for Beginners || Books with Emily Fox
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- The Sci-Fi genre can be intimidating so I decided to film a "Beginner's Guide to Sci-fi" to be able to give you some recommendations! Here are books I would recommend for beginners who want to read some sci-fi books. Wether you usually read more contemporaries or action-packed books, you should be able to find the sci-fi equivalent here!
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
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Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
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Station Eleven - Emily St-John Mandel
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The Humans - Matt Haig
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Replay - Ken Grimwood
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
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Wool - Hugh Howey
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Pines - Blake Crouch
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Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
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Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
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I swear your recommendations are so refreshing! It's like a breath of fresh air in the community! These are books that you don't typically hear people talk about that much! A bunch of these are now going to my never ending TBR! THANK YOU!
씨누나 루니 You're so right. It seems like other BookTubers are all talking about the same books.
Emily, I hate to be that person that only comments on your makeup, but damn that eye makeup! 🔥
Feel free to comment on my makeup at any time :P
There's a tutorial on it on my makeup channel (there's a link in the description box!) :)
I love how your reviews are not mere plot synopses, rather an assessment of the flavor of story.
I love Flowers for Algernon so much!! It was so sad! Almost all of the others are on my wish-list; can't wait to read them!
What's the best Sci-Fi book you've ever read?? :D`
City by Clifford D. Simak ❤
Oh and The Martian cronicles by Ray Bradbury
Ready Player One!
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, literally THE best book I’ve read in my life so far (but like almost all of his books are great)
and The Overman Culture by Edmund Cooper is something I really enjoyed as well:D
Ender's game
My 7th grade english class made us read Flowers for Algernon and I still remember it to this day at 27. Its a great pick. Heres a sub by the way
YEAS! I was waiting for this video ever since you said was coming out, thank you!
Because of you I read The seven deaths of Evelyn hardcastle, and I just finished it and I LOVED it! So glad I read it.Thanks for the recommendations!
Thank you so much!!!! This was exactly the recommendation video I have been in need of!! Love your channel!
YES perfect timing! I love your recommendations :)
My recommendation for new sci-fi readers is to not read Dune (at least not yet). It is big, full of scientific descriptions, weird names and lots of characters/relations to keep track of, and generally hard to read for a beginner. Yes, it often considered one of the best Sci-Fi books of all time, but work up to it. Don't read it first because it is the top of lists you find.
If you do want something more classic and well-known than Emily's great picks, try Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Both are shorter books and have an easy to read writing style.
thecultofpop Dune was my first scifi read lol but i agree with you though. Have you seen the movie or the mini series?
Oh no. Dune is my boyfriend’s favorite book, and he has given me his copy so I can read it... I’m not a sci-fi reader (although I would like to read more!) 😬
If you read a lot, you can get through it and really enjoy it. Just look up a Dune character tree or something to help track things. It just isn't a good starting point in most cases. Not to disparage the great story.
Agreed, Dune is NOT a beginner's sci fi book.
@@mharris499 wrong Dune was my first Science fiction novel and I really enjoyed it. I understood everything and it's really good. I'd recommend people to read it .
One of my goals for this year is to start reading Sci-Fi, so you just saved me (I actually have gotten some of the recommendations bc of your videos) you’re the best
Definitely trying out a few of these! Thank you for the recommendations!
Thank you so much for this video! Hope to have more videos like this at some point. I definitely added a few of these to my TBR.
And as many people have said many times before, thank you for suggesting books that aren't all over booktube, its absolutely refreshing and so overdue. 🧡
YES! Loved it! You never disappoint! Thanks for the great videos.
I'm just getting into sci-fi and I think this video has been really helpful as you gave clear and easy info about each book, so we can figure out what we wanna read! Thank you, Emily!
I’m not a huge sci-fi reader, but some of these books I have read and enjoyed. “Flowers for Algernon” is now added to my TBR 🙂
Thanks for the recommendations! I will definitely be picking up some of these as soon as possible.
Your recs are GREAT for beginners! I loved most of these. Replay is in my all-time top 5.
Really solid recommendations! The Long Way is my favorite! I'd also recommend Saga (graphic novel).
Emily, this makeup look fits you PERFECTLY! I just watched your tutorial and I want to do it so badly! Hazel eyes are really beautiful on you too. I just added Flowers for Argenon to my TBR because that book sounds INCREDIBLE.
Can you also do a guide for “intermediate readers” of sci-fi who want to get into harder genres of sci-fi! This video was really good but I’ve already read a lot of these and want to get more into things like Dune etc. but I don’t know where to start and what’s worth reading!
I'm planning to! I'm just hoping to read a few more myself before :)
Have you tried "The Martian" yet? It´s hard sci-fi, but also very funny. :)
Flughansa yes I have already read it! I did enjoy it and while it is hard sci fi, it was a pretty simple plot and world. I’m looking for something maybe more immersive with a more complex world. Thanks for rec anyway
A 88 The three body problem x
Children of Time is an easier read that begins to build you towards reading books like Dune. You'll love it, and the sequel comes out in May 2019
Thank you so much for this video! I always find sci-fi intimidating because i don’t know where to start, this video was so helpful :)
I'm so happy that you posted this video !! Since discovering your channel i wanted to read sci-fi, but i didn't know where to start !!!
I recently read Slaughterhouse Five for the first time and I loved it. The first Sci Fi book I ever loved was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Some more recommendations:
If you like short stories and/or magical realism, try The Paper Menagerie (the short story collection) by Ken Liu.
If you like dystopia, try Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (author of Handmaidens Tale)
If you like dystopia and/or social commentary, try Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
And in general, I recommend Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. One of my favorite books of all time.
Just read the Paper Menagerie! It really feels like fairy tales a out space! Some of the stories were so beautiful, a great one to start withn
I have not read the whole collection but Levar Burton read the paper menagerie on his podcast and it brought tears to my eyes.
Umm ok so english is our second language i speak english well but the thing is i want to gift a book to my 13 years old niece so would u plzzzzzz suggest me some sci fi ,historical, knowledgeable or political books written in easy english for my niece...he is not that bad in english he speaks engliah pretty well n also understand most ofthe things but still...so plzzzzzzzz suggest me some pf the books written in easy english on the topics mentioned above befpre my niece's birthday plzzzZZZ IT WILL HELP ME ALOTT( pllzzz recommend non fictional books on the topics mentioned above)
I remember starting sci-fi by picking up "The Robots of Dawn" by Asimov, in my school library at 13. It was groundbreaking for me. Afterwards I was reading a lot of his short robot stories. Another great starting book was Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
I’ve added a few books to my TBR that I am pretty excited for from this. Thanks for the recs. I LOVE that you have Wool and Dark Matter on the list. Two of my favorite Sci-Fis.
Flowers for Algernon was the first book I read from your recommendations a few years ago 💙😭 I’ve loved you ever since! Thanks for this video.
This is such a helpful video! I usually read mystery/thriller books but have been wanting to branch out. Thanks for the recommendations!
Wow Emily you’ve made me a very happy viewer today and basically read my mind! Thank you so much for making this video!
Flowers for Algernon is my favorite book ever. It was one of the only books to make me cry. I could read it ten times in a row and not get sick of it.
Flowers for Algernon is one of my all time favorite books ❤
Thank you so much! I’m so happy. Will go and read them all❤️📔
I really love this insightful video! Thank you so much! You should definitely do this for other genres too x
I love your recommendations! Perfect end to my workoholic day. Thank youu, and don't stop making vids. Ever.😎😎😎
I have just been stepping my toe into sci-fi lately and so many of these sound really good! Thanks for the recommendations!!
GIRL THOSE GREEN CONTACTS ARE FIRE
Right? For once they're not straight up glow in the dark green 😂
They're technically called Hazel so maybe that's why!
If someone wants to transition from historical fiction to sci -fi I recommend Kindred by Octavia Butler. Slavery and time travel. Very well written.
el marbo Her Xenogenesis/Lillith's Brood trilogy is actually hard sci-fi. It is not beginner-friendly because it has really alien aliens and raises some complex existential/philosophical questions, but it is awesome.
LovelyLooker122 Hi I don't think Kindred is part of that trilogy. I think it's a stand alone
thankyou!
Ever since I've seen this video I've been going through the books mentioned one by one...I've read the Long way to small angry planet, The humans, Flowers for Algernon and Station Eleven, and I've loved every single one of them..thank you so much for introducing me to sci fi...You are amazing
A lot of those books in this videos are on my favorites-of-all-time list. Thanks for the video!
Dark matter was so good!!! Thank you for the recommendation! I need to get my hands on Pines
I absolutely adore Harry August and Wool. So I will definitely be reading all of these others.
Finally I found youtuber that has similar reading taste with me, I'm so haaaaaaaaappy. From now on I'll believe in you for book rec. Keep doing your good work and thanks for your rec!!!:)
The long way to a small angry planet was really exhausting, I had high expectations for this book but it just gave me a headache. Thank you for the reccomendations ❤️
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Weird, I LOVED station eleven but I never would have considered it sci-fi strictly because I "don't like sci-fi." This definitely opened my eyes!! There's so many vastly different types of sci-fi out there. I always have flashbacks to this one sci-fi book I tried to read once about a cat in space and it was all astronaut jargon and I had no idea what anyone was saying and I never picked up sci-fi again. Definitely interested in the more character-driven ones.
I just started The illuminae Files. I am on Gemina and loving the series. It's mind blowing. I was always afraid of Sci-Fi but I find myself reaching for it more often.
I got so many new books to read!
Also, love your makeup :D
I subscribed the second you picked up The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. it's one of my favourite books of all time and I wish it got more love and attention
I read "A Long Way To A Small Angry Planet" by your recommendation from your June wrap up (I think) and let me just say it was a wonderful first introduction to sci-fi, I plan to read many more!
I really enjoy these kind of videos :) I have the pines trilogy and dark matter, I really need to read them soon. I've watched seasons 1 & 2 of Wayward Pines already but I really need to read the books. Great video ☺
Scifi is my favorite genre, thanks for making this video!! I'm almost done with station eleven, thanks for recommending
These are great recs! So many are on my tbr but I have read dark matter and LOVED it!
thank you for this, this is very helpful, i’ve been wanting to read sci-fi but don’t know where to start. i read Flowers for Algernon for my Cognitive Psych class and i really enjoyed it 🧡
Flowers for Algernon broke me! One of my absolute favorite books ever!
Dark matter was a life changing book! Loved it :)
Some great recommendations in this video, many I enjoyed and some I've not got to yet. A Much better video than the standard top 10 scifi lists
A lot of really good suggestions. I read Flowers For Algernon many, many years ago and loved it. I'm due for a re-read of it. I LOVED Replay when I read it a few years ago. Dark Matter is high on my TBR list. Several others looked very intriguing.
Great recommendations! The Humans is one of my absolute all time favorites! Flowers for Algernon is up there too. I also love dark matter and station eleven. The first 15 lives of Harry August is high on my list to read.
Great video! I added some to my TBR, and I just got the seven deaths!
Thanks for this video! I think The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle sounds really interesting. I loved Clue growing up and I love a good mystery!
Can you do one for fantasy?!
For sure!
I second this
Yes! I love this idea!
@@sanakaram5940 I third this
Is the vid out yet? I just discovered this channel, and consequently this comment.
Continuing...
"Decision at Doona" (1975) by Anne McCaffrey
"A Mirror for Observers" (1954) by Edgar Pangborn
"Norstrilia" (1978) by Cordwainer Smith
"Hospital Station" (1979) and "Double Contact" (1999) by James White (both part of his "Sector General" series)
Re-Birth (1955) by John Wyndham (originally published in England as "The Chrysalids")
Omg most useful video to ever exist on RUclips. Thanks!!
I TOTALLY love The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Several other books you mentioned were also really awesome!
Thank you for the information ma'am. it's well appreciated.
I loved The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (I wish more people talked about it) - such an interesting sci-fi twist on a murder-mystery. I also adore A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and The Themis Files. Great recommendations in here!
The Humans sounds so awesome!!
I'm old-school, so my recommendations will come from decades back. First there are Heinlein's 13 juvenile novels. I'll recommend two: "Time for the Stars" (1956) and "Have Space Suit -- Will Travel" (1958).
The Jan Darzek novels of Lloyd Biggle Jr, especially "Watchers of the Dark" (1966) and "Silence Is Deadly" (1977). Although I think anything by Biggle would be worth reading.
"The Witches of Karres" (1966) and "The Demon Breed" (1968) by James H. Schmitz.
"Ten Years To Doomsday" (1964) by Chester Anderson & Michael Kurland
"The Butterfly Kid" (1967) by Chester Anderson (one of the funniest books I've read)
"Rimrunners" (1989) by C. J. Cherryh
"The Overman Culture" (1976) by Edmund Cooper
"Firestar" (1996) by Michael Flynn (first of a quadrilogy)
"Inherit the Stars" (1977) by James P. Hogan (first of five related novels)
"The Long Twilight" (1982) by Keith Laumer
First we like the video, then we watch it 😂
Paula Martins exactly what I did 😂
Her beautiful face alone is enough reason to "like" before it quickly becomes aware how great her and the channel are !!
Okay so I’ve been watching your videos for a couple years, probably close to 3 now. And this popped up on my suggestion page so I decided to watch it. Watching this shocked me because of how different you looked after your surgery. I think I forgot how big of a change it was, now that I look back on old shots of you. And I’m also noticing all the small things that you pointed out when talking about your jaw surgery, how the one side of your mouth differs from the other when you talk or smile, small stuff like that that I never noticed until I DONT notice it anymore in your new vids 😯
I may or may not have bought 6 books while watching this video.... CAN'T WAIT!!
awesome recommendations! I love so many of these (Wool, Station Eleven, Flowers for Algernon)! Would you consider doing recommendations for like "intermediate" or "advanced" sci-fi? Because I guess I have read a lot of the basics and would love to hear your favs that are more hard sci-fi
I love your make up. I love these recommendations as well 😍 good video emily ❤
I hope you know she has a beauty channel? :)
I do ☺
Hi Emily! I picked up the humans by matt haig because of you and i’m LOVING it! Thank you!
Humans has been on my TBR for some time now, I put a request in with my library last week for a copy. I can't wait for it!
Replay was great, the only one in this list I’ve read. I’ll have to take up a few of these other recommendations.
My first sci-fi book was The Day of the Triffids and it is still one of my most favourite. I read Flowers for Algernon too and I fell in love with the story. Yesterday I started Dark Matter so I can't wait what's gonna be :) Hope you will make fantasy recommendations too :)
Great books! I need to re-read Flowers for Algernon!
What is the color of your nail polish? I love it!
Very interesting list and most I haven’t read. I did read the first three Wool books and thought they were very good. I bought Dark Matter but haven’t read it yet. Looking forward to it. Good video, I enjoyed it.
wow, your makeup looks so cool!
FINALLY SOME LOVE FOR THE SILO SERIES! SO GOOD! I heard Ridley Scott is gonna be making the movie. Perfect choice for director... If done right it could be AMAZING.
Love this. Would be awesome if you did a fantasy one!
I would love, love , love a reading list of the best post-apocalyptic reads. I just finished Zone One and I want more!
I LOVE the Road to Nowhere series! The third book releases in April. It's a women's/gender dystopia where women and babies no longer survive pregnancy, and the books (so far) can actually work as standalones, so if you're not up for a full series, you don't feel like you're missing out
First sci-fi I ever read was Illuminae and I loved it.... I loved Pines series too!
I think sci-fi beginners should always try short story collections! It lets you get a taste of the kinds of concepts and stories in the genre without having to immerse yourself for 300 pages. Jodi Lynn Nye is I think one person who has edited a ton of good themed anthologies. If you want a recommendation of a particular author, for SURE try Theodore Sturgeon--his concepts are so cool, and they can be as much horror/fantasy as sci-fi. Timothy Zahn short stories are also a great idea: his plots and mechanisms are dead-on every time, and if you like his short stories you can read his Dragonback series (YA sci-fi) or one of his classics like Warhorse ♥
I really really love your recommendations! I have read half of the books you mentioned and I enjoyed all of them. The other half sounds so so interesting as well, especially The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I like that the books you recommend all have unique premises that are not generic sci-fi. I don’t know whether you’ve made a video like this but about thriller recommendations before, but if not I would be very interested in watching it!
One other book that have similar premise that I also enjoy is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, although it’s more of a historical novel with a slight sci-fi twist.
I do one every fall!
Last year: ruclips.net/video/qNpnXr3z2pQ/видео.html :)
I literally just received my order of The Humans in the mail today. So excited to read it
I really hope you'll like it!
What's the difference between the white cover with the nose and the one with the dog? Didn't the former include the dog?
Great list 👍👍
Loved flowers for algernon :D
An excellent series for younger readers that isn't super well-known is Everworld. I read a bunch of the books when I was younger and they were coming out. I don't remember all the details, but remember enjoying it and want to go back and read the whole series. It is written by K.A. Applegate, who wrote the Animorphs series.
Except for the first three, I want to read all of these!
hi Emily! i would like to recommend you the Millenium series its a great mystery/ bit of crime series and i think you will definitely like it!
Sci Fi books spark the joy and makes curious.
Nice Video! Great Books! Read them all. To me, Algernon was the best!
I’d love to get your take on different sub genres of sci-if. As someone just started venturing further into sci-fi, I’m still very much trying to find what suits me.
I’m reading a bunch of bigger books this month (Children of Time, Fire Upon the Deep and Pandora’s Star 😣) so I’m hoping I’m not going to burn myself out. This is what happens when all of my library requests ship at the same time 🤦♀️ lol.
I just finished Dark Matter and I really enjoyed it. It was definitely like a movie script but I actually enjoyed that about the book. Will definitely be picking up the Wayward Pines trilogy! I read Sleeping Giants and liked it but I thought I would love it more but I'll definitely continue on with the series. I've got Station Eleven on my shelf so will be giving it a read at some point.