About Cabbage Tree Books

A guide to the best in sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction — built for readers who take their books seriously.

Cabbage Tree Books is a book recommendation and review site run by Ben Luxon, a science fiction author with a lifelong obsession with speculative fiction of all kinds.

The goal is simple: help readers find their next great book. Whether you're looking for a gateway into a new genre, hunting for something similar to a book you loved, or trying to work out where to start with a famous author's back catalogue — we've got a guide for it.

We cover science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dystopian fiction, with a particular love for stories that ask difficult questions about humanity, technology, and what it means to be alive in strange times.

Affiliate disclosure: Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click through and buy a book, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only ever recommend books we genuinely believe in.

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