Why it made the list: If you want to truly run the gamut of incredible short stories then you need to look no further than Yoon Ha Lee's Conservation of Shadows. Interested in the technical aspects of origami? Want to read about a doomed space fleet that hurtles itself into a black hole? The incredible breadth and beautiful prose will keep you reading with no story replicating the same feeling.

Read if you like: mathematics, boggling tone shift and literature that keeps you up at night thinking.