Amazon Editors, 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime
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This list, posted online in 2015 by "Amazon editors", is a selection of their favorites, "considering criteria such as vision, character creation, world building, and storytelling style."
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 100
Publication: http://www.amazon.com/100sff, 2015
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 100
Publication: http://www.amazon.com/100sff, 2015
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl (Night Shade Books, 2009)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- Greg Bear, Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood (Roc, 1998)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Knopf, 1983)
- Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Crown, 2006)
- Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara (Ballantine, 1977)
- Pierce Brown, Red Rising (Ballantine Del Rey, 2014)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion (HarperCollins/Eos, 2001)
- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (Doubleday, 1979)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Tor, 2001)
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (Chatto & Windus , 1984)
- Kristin Cashore, Graceling (Harcourt, 2008)
- C. J. Cherryh, Foreigner (DAW, 1994)
- Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor, 2002)
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury, 2004)
- Ernest Cline, Ready Player One (Crown, 2011)
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Scholastic Press, 2008)
- Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (Atheneum , 1973)
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
- David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (Del Rey , 1982)
- Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (Delacorte, 1991)
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2001)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)
- Lev Grossman, The Magicians (Viking, 2009)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures (Ace, 1993)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Bantam Spectra, 1995)
- Hugh Howey, Wool (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle (Methuen, 1986)
- Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (Tor, 1990)
- Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim (Eos, 2009)
- Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (Donald M. Grant, 1982)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper & Row, 1974)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (Orbit, 2013)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1962)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- H. P. Lovecraft, edited by Peter Straub, Tales (Library of America, 2005)
- George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (HarperCollins Voyager, 1996)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954)
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Ballantine, 1968)
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Knopf, 2006)
- Patricia A. McKillip, Riddle-Master (Ace, 1999)
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillan, 2000)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Sceptre, 2004)
- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark (Orbit, 2002)
- Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon (Gollancz, 2002)
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- Garth Nix, Sabriel (Moonstone/HarperCollins, 1995)
- Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Ballantine Del Rey, 2015)
- Daniel O'Malley, The Rook (Little, Brown, 2012)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens (Gollancz, 1990)
- Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (Knopf, 1996)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (DAW, 2007)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Scholastic, 1998)
- Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (Villard, 1996)
- Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (Tor, 2010)
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Tor, 2005)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Sheri S. Tepper, Grass (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation (Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals, 2014)
- Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (George Smith, 1873; France 1871)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
- Jo Walton, Among Others (Tor, 2011)
- Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni (HarperCollins, 2013)
- Andy Weir, The Martian (Crown, 2014)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- Scott Westerfeld, Uglies (Simon Pulse, 2005)
- Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair (DAW, 1988)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon, 2010)
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