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In July of 2022, Powell's Books published "Powell's Essential List: 25 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far)." These are selections from various store employees that they considered to be essential.
| China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | 9 out of 10 |
| Neil Gaiman | American Gods | 7 out of 10 |
| William Gibson | Pattern Recognition | |
| Brandon Sanderson | Mistborn | |
| Scott Lynch | The Lies of Locke Lamora | 8 out of 10 |
| Cixin Liu | The Three-Body Problem | 6 out of 10 |
| Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind | |
| Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | 7 out of 10 |
| Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples | Saga: Volume 1 | |
| Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | 10 out of 10 |
| Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | |
| Becky Chambers | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | 9 out of 10 |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Binti | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Binti: Home | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Binti: The Night Masquerade | |
| Neal Stephenson | Seveneves | |
| N.K. Jemisin | The Fifth Season | 8 out of 10 |
| Naomi Novik | Uprooted | 8 out of 10 |
| Charlie Jane Anders | All the Birds in the Sky | 5 out of 10 |
| Martha Wells | All Systems Red | 8 out of 10 |
| Katherine Arden | The Bear and the Nightingale | |
| Tillie Walden | On a Sunbeam | 7 out of 10 |
| Marlon James | Black Leopard, Red Wolf | |
| Ted Chiang | Exhalation | |
| Samantha Shannon | The Priory of the Orange Tree | |
| Nghi Vo | The Empress of Salt and Fortue | 7 out of 10 |
| P. Djèlí Clark | A Master of Djinn | 7 out of 10 |
The list preserves the order of the original, which I think may be the original publication order. I've expanded Binti: The Complete Trilogy into its three separate books.
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