Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR.
Back around the first of August NPR asked readers to vote on their favorite science fiction and fantasy novels (or series). The results are in.
I’m not a big fan of science fiction and fantasy, so when I finished counting I was surprised to find that I had read 22 of the books on this list:
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NIffenegger
- A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Of course a lot of these (Bradbury, Orwell, Vonnegut, Heinlein, Verne) are classics that I read many years ago, and I remember how disappointed I was in Stranger in a Strange Land. But still. . . .
How about you? How many of the works on this list have you read?
