# Top 5 Sci-Fi Books on Goodreads > Goodreads' most-read sci-fi books this week: Dinniman's dungeon mystery, Robb's futuristic murder, and Mandel's time-travel tale. - Title: Top 5 Sci-Fi Books on Goodreads · Woman's World | Shortify - Summary: Goodreads' most-read sci-fi books this week: Dinniman's dungeon mystery, Robb's futuristic murder, and Mandel's time-travel tale. Matt Dinniman's 'The Eye of… - Keywords: the eye of the bedlam bride, dungeon crawler carl, j.d. robb, fury in death, emily st. john mandel, sea of tranquility, becky chambers, a psalm for the wild-built, us defiant few, sci-fi, goodreads, dystopian - Source: Woman's World — https://womansworld.com/entertainment/books/most-read-sci-fi-books-on-goodreads-now-like-dungeon-crawler-carl - Author: Ed Gross - Published: 2026-10-01T00:30:18+00:00 - Read time: 2 min - Topics: the eye of the bedlam bride, dungeon crawler carl, j.d. robb, fury in death, emily st. john mandel, sea of tranquility, becky chambers, a psalm for the wild-built, us defiant few, sci-fi, goodreads, dystopian ## Top Sci-Fi Book on Goodreads Matt Dinniman's 'The Eye of the Bedlam Bride' tops Goodreads' sci-fi list as the sixth Dungeon Crawler Carl installment. > When I first started writing [Dungeon Crawler Carl], I was writing a very simple straightforward story about a dude and his cat on an alien game show. ## J.D. Robb's New Release J.D. Robb's 'Fury in Death' is the 63rd installment in his futuristic In Death series, set in 2058 New York. > I wanted to try something a little different. I love writing romance and suspense, but I also wanted a twist. ## Emily St. John Mandel's Book Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' spans centuries, connecting 1912 wilderness experiences with a moon colony in 2400. > I thought, 'Why not try things that I never thought I’d try before? Everything’s awful, so I’m just going to write whatever I want.' ## Alexis Patton's Trilogy Alexis Patton's 'Us Defiant Few' concludes her dystopian Us Dark Few trilogy with characters escaping imprisonment and searching for Project Helix. > I love video games and dystopian books. The Giver was a huge inspiration for me as well as Divergent. ## Becky Chambers' Novel Becky Chambers' 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' follows tea monk Sibling Dex on a quest to find what people need in a post-robot society. > A soft spot for tea, farms, cob houses, bugs, green roofs, and overgrown buildings. ## Dungeon Crawler Carl Series Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series began as a simple alien game show story but evolved into a complex political plot. > I’ll start writing something and discover, 'Oh, I need to know about the Queen’s corgis,' for example. ## Fury in Death Details J.D. Robb's 'Fury in Death' features NYPSD detective Eve Dallas investigating a biotech executive's murder in a near-future New York setting. > I could illustrate my own feeling that while the toys may change, people remain basically the same. ## Sea of Tranquility Story Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' mixes time travel, pandemic fiction, and reality questions through centuries of interconnected lives. > The way to make time travel work for myself, as the writer, was to have a character in the year 2400 saying, 'We don’t really understand why time travel works as well as it does.' ## Us Defiant Few Plot Alexis Patton's 'Us Defiant Few' involves Khalani and Takeshi escaping imprisonment, with Takeshi losing his memory and searching for Project Helix. > Ultimately, I had a dream about the characters in my book and I knew the dream took place in prison. ## A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers' 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' explores purpose and humanity through tea monk Sibling Dex and robot Splendid Speckled Mosscap. > What do people need? The first Monk & Robot novella uses their developing friendship to explore purpose, contentment, humanity’s relationship with technology. ## Goodreads List Highlights The top five sci-fi books on Goodreads this week include both new releases and titles popular years after publication. > Science fiction has always been a genre where almost anything goes, and the sci-fi books readers can’t get enough of on Goodreads this week certainly prove it. ## Author Insights Authors describe their sci-fi books' origins, from Mandel's pandemic-inspired autofiction to Chambers' solarpunk themes. > I’d also been wanting for a really long time to write a time travel story. ## Key takeaway Matt Dinniman's 'The Eye of the Bedlam Bride' leads Goodreads' sci-fi list with 63 new releases, while Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' and Becky Chambers' 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' remain popular years after publication.