Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books (Voted by NPR)

[demonS]

Book List

Book List

1. The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien\
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams\
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card\
4. The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert\
5. A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin\
6. 1984 by A Novel by George Orwell\
7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury_\
8. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov\
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley\
10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman\
11. The Princess Bride by William Goldman\
12. The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan\
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell\
14. Neuromancer by William Gibson\
16. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov\
17. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein\
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles by by Patrick Rothfuss\
19. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut\
20. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley\
21. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick\
22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood\
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King\
24. 2001 - A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke\
25. The Stand by Stephen King\
26. Snow Crash by by Neal Stephenson\
27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury\
28. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut\
30. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess\
31. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein\
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams\
33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey\
34. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein\
35. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr._\
36. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells\
37. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes\
38. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne\
39. The War Of The Worlds by H. G. Wells\
40. The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny\
41. The Belgariad by David Eddings\
42. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley\
43. The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson\
44. Ringworld by Larry Niven\
45. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin\
46. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien\
47. The Once And Future King by T. H. White\
48. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman\
49. *****hood's End by Arthur C. Clarke\
50. Contact by Carl Sagan\
51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons\
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman\
53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson\
54. World War Z by Max Brooks\
55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle\
56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman\
57. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett\
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson\
60. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett\
61. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle\
62. The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind\
63. The Road by Cormac McCarthy\
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke\
65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson\
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist\
67. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks\
68. The Conan the Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Shultz\
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb\
70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger\
72. Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne\
73. The Legend of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore\
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi\
75. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson_\
76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke\
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey\
78. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin\
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury\
80. Wicked by Gregory Maguire\
81. The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson\
82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde\
83. The Culture Series by Iain Banks\
84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart\
85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson\
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher\
87. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe\
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn\
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon\
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock\
91. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury\
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley\
93. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge\
94. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov\
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson\
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle\
97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis\
98. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville\
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony\
100. The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis\

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[jazzphan]

Thanks for posting the list - gave me quite a few titles to check out!. I was surprised at how many of them I have actually read. Just finished 'Malazan' series by Erikson,really enjoyed it. Was surprised that the Hobbit is not on the list.

I thought I might see one or two of these: Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut, Glory Road by Heinlein, Chrysalids and Day of the Triffids by John Wyndam, Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth series by L. Ron Hubbart, Dragonlance by Weiss/Hickman, Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove.

But, the Sci Fi/Fantasy field is so diverse now that I'm sure most of us have a few of our own books we thought we'd see here. So thanks again for posting the list - it's full of some great works and was very thought provoking.

[RobertX]

If Watership Down is considered "fantasy," so should Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

The setting takes place in a continued World War of some sort.

Apart from that, nice list.

[jazzphan]

Good point...it really does depend on how the genre is defined. These days there are so many offshoots or sub groups its pretty hard to say .

[maumort]

Just a quick pointer: if you don't have a kindle you can easily convert these books into PDF or EPUP with a program called Calibre.

Alternatively you can just download the kindle app for your computer and open the MOBI files from there. It all works.

Thanks for the list and the books, demonS

[connor17]

Asimov received in 1966 the Best All-time Novel Series Hugo Award for the Foundation series. This is not the normal award, but the all-time one.
This is a really good serie, and you really don't see it comming, the end part is frightening.