Science Fiction & Fantasy
Other worlds, better questions. Le Guin to Borges.
101 essential works
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
1954 · United Kingdom
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Dune
Frank Herbert
1965 · United States
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1984
George Orwell
1949 · United Kingdom
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Foundation (trilogy)
Isaac Asimov
1951 · United States
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
1979 · United Kingdom
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1818 · United Kingdom
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
1969 · United States
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Neuromancer
William Gibson
1984 · United States
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The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
1937 · United Kingdom
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
1953 · United States
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
1985 · United States
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
1985 · Canada
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
1968 · United States
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A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
George R.R. Martin
1996 · United States
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Hyperion
Dan Simmons
1989 · United States
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American Gods
Neil Gaiman
2001 · United Kingdom/United States
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The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
1974 · United States
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We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924 · Russia
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Solaris
Stanisław Lem
1961 · Poland
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His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
1995 · United Kingdom
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
1960 · United States
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
1992 · United States
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
1972 · United Kingdom
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
2004 · United Kingdom
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The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
1974 · United States
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Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
1953 · United Kingdom
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Good Omens
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
1990 · United Kingdom
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The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
1956 · United States
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Roadside Picnic
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
1972 · Soviet Union/Russia
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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
1963 · United States
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The Gormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake
1946 · United Kingdom
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The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
1950 · United Kingdom
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The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
1980 · United States
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
1966 · United States
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Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
2000 · United Kingdom
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Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
1968 · United Kingdom
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Tigana
Guy Gavriel Kay
1990 · Canada
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Ubik
Philip K. Dick
1969 · United States
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The Once and Future King
T.H. White
1958 · United Kingdom
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Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
1967 · United States
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
1961 · United States
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The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
2007 · United States
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The Chronicles of Amber
Roger Zelazny
1970 · United States
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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
1895 · United Kingdom
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
1966 · United States
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The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
2008 · China
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Gateway
Frederik Pohl
1977 · United States
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Little, Big
John Crowley
1981 · United States
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The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
1953 · United States
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The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
1979 · West Germany
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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Vol. 1)
Steven Erikson
1999 · Canada
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Conan the Barbarian (The Complete Chronicles)
Robert E. Howard
1932 · United States
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
1979 · United States
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
1993 · United States
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, Vol. 1)
Robin Hobb
1995 · United States
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Elric of Melniboné
Michael Moorcock
1972 · United Kingdom
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
1870 · France
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The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
1898 · United Kingdom
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Contact
Carl Sagan
1985 · United States
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More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon
1953 · United States
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
2006 · United States
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Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
1973 · United Kingdom
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The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Vol. 1)
Tad Williams
1988 · United States
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Hard to Be a God
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
1964 · Soviet Union/Russia
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Blindness
José Saramago
1995 · Portugal
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Blood Music
Greg Bear
1985 · United States
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Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon
1930 · United Kingdom
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The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
1988 · United Kingdom
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Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
1992 · United States
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The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
1968 · United States
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The Female Man
Joanna Russ
1975 · United States
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Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany
1975 · United States
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The Cyberiad
Stanisław Lem
1965 · Poland
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
1992 · United States
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A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
1992 · United States
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Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
1968 · United States/Ireland
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The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett
1983 · United Kingdom
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Dying Inside
Robert Silverberg
1972 · United States
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Tau Zero
Poul Anderson
1970 · United States
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The Prestige
Christopher Priest
1995 · United Kingdom
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Fevre Dream
George R.R. Martin
1982 · United States
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
1962 · United States
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Way Station
Clifford D. Simak
1963 · United States
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Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
1990 · United Kingdom
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Stardust
Neil Gaiman
1999 · United Kingdom
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Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy
1976 · USA
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The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
2015 · USA
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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2014 · USA
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All Systems Red
Martha Wells
2017 · USA
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Ringworld
Larry Niven
1970 · USA
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Old Man's War
John Scalzi
2005 · USA
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The City & the City
China Mieville
2009 · UK
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
2002 · United States
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The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
2010 · United States
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Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
2013 · United States
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Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
2000 · UK
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The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
1996 · USA
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
2014 · USA
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Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2015 · UK
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Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
2019 · New Zealand
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The Stand
Stephen King
1978 · USA
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