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Top 100 Sci-Fi Books

A

• Joe Abercrombie
  • The First Law series
    • The Blade Itself ***½
    • Before They Are Hanged ***½
    • Last Argument of Kings ****
  • The First Law standalones
    • Best Served Cold ****
    • The Heroes ****½
    • Red Country ***½
  • The Age of Madness trilogy
    • A Little Hatred ****
    • The Trouble With Peace *****
    • The Wisdom of Crowds ***
      
      
• Douglas Adams
  • The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series ****
    
    
• Katherine Addison
  • The Goblin Emperor ****
    
    
• Brian W. Aldiss
  • Hothouse *** ½
  • Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction ****
    
    
• Poul Anderson
  • Tau Zero ***
    
    
• Isaac Asimov
  • The Foundation series
    • Foundation ****
    • Foundation and Empire *** ½
    • Second Foundation *** ½
    • Foundation’s Edge *** ½
    • Foundation and Earth ** ½
    • Prelude to Foundation **½
  • The Robot series
    • I, Robot ****
    • The Caves of Steel *** ½
    • The Naked Sun *** ½
  • The Gods Themselves *** ½
    
    
• Margaret Atwood
  • The MaddAddam trilogy
    • Oryx and Crake ****½
    • The Year of the Flood ****

B

• R. Scott Bakker
  • The Aspect-Emperor series
    • The Judging Eye ****
    • The White-Luck Warrior *****
    • The Great Ordeal ****½
    • The Unholy Consult ****½
      
      
• Josiah Bancroft
  • The Books of Babel
    • Senlin Ascends ****½
    • Arm of the Sphinx ****
    • The Hod King *****
    • The Fall of Babel **½
      
      
• Iain M. Banks
  • Against a Dark Background ***
    
    
• T.J. Bass
  • The Hive series
    • Half Past Human ***
    • The Godwhale ***
      
      
• Robert Jackson Bennett
  • The Divine Cities
    • City of Stairs ****
    • City of Blades ****
    • City of Miracles ****
      
      
• K.J. Bishop
  • The Etched City ***
    
    
• Dan Brown
  • Origin *½
    
    
• Steven Brust
  • The Book of Jhereg ***½

C

• James Branch Cabell
  • Jurgen, A Comedy Of Justice *****
    
    
• Karel Capek
  • R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) ***
  • War With the Newts ***½
    
    
• M.R. Carey
  • The Girl With All the Gifts ***
    
    
• B. Catling
  • The Vorrh Trilogy
    • The Vorrh *****
    • The Erstwhile ****
    • The Cloven *****
  • Hollow ****
    
    
• Michael Chabon
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay *****
  • The Yiddish Policemen’s Union ****½
    
    
• Becky Chambers
  • The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ***
    
    
• Ted Chiang
  • Stories of Your Life and Others *****
  • Exhalation ****½
    
    
• Arthur C. Clarke
  • A Fall of Moondust ***
    
    
• Susanna Clarke
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell *****
  • Piranesi *****
    
    
• Carlo Collodi
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio **
    
    
• James S.A. Corey
  • The Expanse
    • Leviathan Wakes ***½
    • Caliban’s War ***½
    • Abaddon’s Gate ***
    • Persepolis Rising ***
      
      
• Michael Crichton
  • Sphere ***
    
    
• Blake Crouch
  • Dark Matter ****
  • Recursion ***½
    
    
• John Crowley
  • Engine Summer *****
  • Aegypt: The Solitudes ***
  • Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr ****½

D

• Philip K. Dick
  • The Penultimate Truth ***
  • A Maze of Death ****
  • A Scanner Darkly ***
  • Martian Time-Slip ****
  • The Man in the High Castle ***½
  • Our Friends from Frolix 8 ***
  • Dr. Bloodmoney ***½

E

• Nicholas Eames
  • Kings of the Wyld ***½
    
    
• E.R. Eddison
  • The Worm Ouroboros ****
    
    
• Greg Egan
  • Axiomatic ****
  • Permutation City ***½
  • The Best of Greg Egan ****½
    
    
• Dave Eggers
  • The Circle **½
    
    
• Steven Erikson
  • The Malazan Book of the Fallen
    • Gardens of the Moon ****
    • Deadhouse Gates ****½
    • Memories of Ice *****
    • House of Chains ****
    • Midnight Tides *****
    • The Bonehunters *****
    • Reaper’s Gale ****
    • Toll the Hounds *****
    • Dust of Dreams ***½
    • The Crippled God *****

• Andreas Eschbach
  • The Hair-Carpet Weavers ****

F

• Charles G. Finney
  • The Circus of Dr. Lao ***
  
  
• Michael R. Fletcher
  • Beyond Redemption ***

G

• John Gardner
  • Grendel *****

• William Gibson
  • Burning Chrome *****
  • The Sprawl Trilogy
    • Neuromancer ****½

H

• Peter F. Hamilton
  • The Commonwealth Saga
    • Pandora’s Star ***½
    • Judas Unchained ***½
      
      
• Nick Harkaway
  • Gnomon *****
    
    
• M. John Harrison
  • The Centauri Device ***
  • You Should Come With Me Now ****
  • The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy
    • Light *****
    • Nova Swing ****
    • Empty Space: A Haunting ****½
      
      
• Scott Hawkins
  • The Library at Mount Char *****
    
    
• Frank Herbert
  • Dune series
    • Dune *****
    • Dune Messiah ****
    • Children of Dune ****½
    • God Emperor of Dune ****½
    • Heretics of Dune ***½
    • Chapterhouse: Dune ****
      
      
• Robert Holdstock
  • Mythago Wood ****
    
    
• Kameron Hurley
  • The Stars Are Legion ****
    
    
• Dave Hutchinson
  • Fractured Europe series
    • Europe in Autumn *****
    • Europe at Midnight ****½
    • Europe in Winter ****

I

• Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Never Let Me Go *****
  • The Buried Giant ***½
  • Klara and the Sun ****

J

• Marlon James
  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf ****
    
    
• N.K. Jemisin
  • The Broken Earth Trilogy
    • The Fifth Season *****
    • The Obelisk Gate ****
    • The Stone Sky *****

• Robert Jordan
  • The Wheel of Time
    • The Eye of the World **½

K

• Marc-Uwe Kling
  • QualityLand **½

L

• R.A. Lafferty
  • The Best of R.A. Lafferty ****½
  • Nine Hundred Grandmothers *****
  • Past Master ****
    
    
• Mark Lawrence
  • The Broken Empire trilogy
    • Prince of Thorns ****
    • King of Thorns ****½
    • Emperor of Thorns ****
  • The Red Queen’s War trilogy
    • Prince of Fools ***½
      
      
• Yoon Ha Lee
  • Ninefox Gambit ****
    
    
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Earthsea Novels ****
  • The Word for World is Forest ***½
  • Worlds of Exile and Illusion ****
    
    
• Stanislaw Lem
  • The Star Diaries ***
  • Solaris ****½
    
    
• David D. Levine
  • Arabella of Mars ***
    

• Mark Leyner
  • The Sugar Frosted Nutsack ****

• David Lindsay
  • A Voyage to Arcturus *****
    
    
• Cixin Liu
  • Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
    • The Three-Body Problem ****
    • The Dark Forest ****
    • Death’s End ****½
      
      
• Ken Liu
  • The Grace of Kings ****
  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories ****
    
    
• H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories ***½
  • The Thing at the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories ***½
    
    
• Scott Lynch
  • Gentleman Bastard series
    • The Lies of Locke Lamora ****
    • Red Seas Under Red Skies ****

M

• George R.R. Martin
  • Tuf Voyaging **
  • Songs of the Dying Earth (ed. with Gardner Dozois) ****
    

• A. Lee Martinez
  • Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain ***
    

• Cormac McCarthy
  • The Road *****
    

• Jack McDevitt
  • Priscilla Hutchins series
    • The Engines of God ***
    • Chindi ***
      

• Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Changeling Sea ****
  • Ombria in Shadow ****
    

• China Mieville
  • This Census-Taker ***
  • Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories ***½
  • The Last Days of New Paris ***½
    

• A.A. Milne
  • Winnie-the-Pooh ****

• David Mitchell
  • The Bone Clocks ****

• Michael Moorcock
  • The Elric Saga
    • Elric of Melnibone, The Elric Saga Volume 1 ***½

• C.L. Moore
  • Jirel of Joiry ***½

• Richard K. Morgan
  • Thin Air ***

N

• Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
  • The Mote in God’s Eye ****

P

• Ada Palmer
  • Terra Ignota series
    • Too Like the Lightning ****
    • Seven Surrenders *****
    • The Will To Battle ****
    • Perhaps the Stars *****
      

• Mervyn Peake
  • The Gormenghast Novels *****
    

• Terry Pratchett
  • Discworld series
    • The Truth ****
    • Thief of Time ****
    • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents ***½
    • Night Watch ****
    • The Wee Free Men ***½
    • Monstrous Regiment ***½
    • A Hat Full of Sky ****
    • Going Postal ****

• Thomas Pynchon
  • The Crying of Lot 49 **

R

• Alastair Reynolds
  • Revelation Space Series
    • Revelation Space ****
    • Chasm City ***½
    • Redemption Ark ****
    • Absolution Gap ****
    • Galactic North ***½
    • Inhibitor Phase ****
  • Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
    • Aurora Rising (The Prefect) ***½
    • Elysium Fire ***
  • Terminal World ***½
  • Eversion ****
    
    
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • 2312 **½
  • Aurora ***½

S

• Brandon Sanderson
  • The Stormlight Archive
    • The Way of Kings ***½
    • Words of Radiance ***½
    • Oathbringer ***
      
      
• Andrzej Sapkowski
  • The Last Wish ***

• Jose Saramago
  • The Elephant’s Journey ***
    
    
• Karl Schroeder
  • Lady of Mazes ****
    
    
• Michael Shea
  • Nifft the Lean **
    
    
• Mary Shelley
  • Frankenstein ***½
    

• Robert Sheckley
  • Untouched by Human Hands ****
  • Citizen in Space ****
  • Dimension of Miracles ****

• Clifford D. Simak
  • Way Station ****
    
    
• Dan Simmons
  • Song of Kali ****
  • Ilium Series
    • Ilium *****
    • Olympos ****
      
      
• Cordwainer Smith
  • The Rediscovery of Man ****½
    
    
• E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith
  • Lensman series **
    
    
• Olaf Stapledon
  • Star Maker & The Last and First Men *****
  • Odd John ****
    
    
• Neal Stephenson
  • Cryptonomicon *****
  • Seveneves ****½
  • The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland) ***½
  • Fall or, Dodge in Hell **½
  • Termination Shock ****

• Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
  • Monday Starts on Saturday ***½

• Michael Swanwick
  • Stations of the Tide ****
  • The Iron Dragon’s Daughter series
    • The Iron Dragon’s Daughter ****½
    • The Dragons of Babel ****
    • The Iron Dragon’s Mother ****

T

• Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Elder Race ****
  • Children of Time series
    • Children of Time ****
    • Children of Ruin ***
  • The Final Architecture series
    • Shards of Earth ***½
    • Eyes of the Void ***½
      
      
• Walter Tevis
  • The Man Who Fell To Earth ****
    
    
• J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Fall of Gondolin ***
    
    
• Dempow Torishima
  • Sisyphean ****

V

• Catherynne M. Valente
  • Radiance ****½
  • Space Opera ***
    
    
• Jack Vance
  • The Dying Earth novels ****½
  • Night Lamp ***
    
    
• Jeff VanderMeer
  • Ambergris Series
    • City of Saints and Madmen ***
    • Shriek: An Afterword ****
    • Finch ****
  • Southern Reach Series
    • Annihilation *****
    • Authority ****
    • Acceptance ****
  • Borne series
    • Borne ****
    • Dead Astronauts ***

W

• Peter Watts
  • Blindsight *****
  • The Freeze-Frame Revolution ****
    
    
• Andy Weir
  • Project Hail Mary ***½
    
    
• Martha Wells
  • The Murderbot Diaries
    • All Systems Red ****
    • Artificial Condition ****
      
      
• Oscar Wilde
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray ****½
    
    
• Gene Wolfe
  • The Book of the Long Sun ****
  • The Book of the Short Sun ****

• John Wyndham
  • The Midwich Cuckoos ***

Z

• Roger Zelazny
  • This Immortal ****
  • Jack of Shadows ***
  • The Chronicles of Amber (books 1-5) ****