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I love weird books. Future books, magic books, alien books, dragon books – I love them. And every time I read a science fiction or fantasy book, I think, “Why don’t I read more of this genre???” It makes me so happy. Who doesn’t want to be happy??? So here is a list of great science fiction and fantasy debuts that will hopefully make you happy. (And could help you cross off #2 on the Read Harder Challenge.) It’s incredible to think that some of these were a first book! A few are not the author’s debut book, but their debut in that format. And the titles marked with an asterisk (*) are the author’s first English-language translation.

And this is just a teeny, tiny fraction of the amazing science fiction and fantasy debuts out there. Tell us about yours in the comments!