Here’s a top ten list I’ve been planning to do for a while, but I’ve been waiting until I read enough standalone speculative fiction to make a list that only featured books I truly loved. As it happens, I’ve probably had enough books to go on this list for several months now, but it’s never a bad thing to make the books fight for your love!
For my purposes, standalone books generally means books that aren’t part of a series, although in this list I stretch it a little to a book that’s a standalone spin-off to an unfinished series I don’t intend to read, and another book that stands alone but will have other books written in the same world. It’s all a bit fuzzy, as there are plenty of great books in wider series that do stand alone, but for the most part those would be captured in my Top Ten Favourite Series lists. At some point I might do a ‘Top Ten books in series that aren’t in my Top Ten Favourite Series list’, but that’s a list for another time! Onwards to great books.
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