Rather than trying to do a more detailed ranking, I am just placing these into blunt recommended and not recommended categories.
Recommended
- A Fire Upon the Deep (Vinge 1992)
- Ancillary Justice (Leckie 2013)
- Artemis (Weir 2017)
- Children of Memory (Tchaikovsky 2023)
- The Toaster Project (Thwaites 2011)
- Things Fall Apart (Achebe 1958)
Not Recommended