100 Science-Fiction books you should read

I got this list from somewhere - no idea where I'm afraid - and thought it might be a good idea to re-post it here. I've highlighted in bold the one's I've actually read. The ones in italic are books I own but haven't read yet. See how many you've read.


  The Postman – David Brin
  The Uplift War – David Brin
  Neuromancer – William Gibson 
  Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
  Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  The Long Tomorrow – Leigh Brackett
  Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys
  The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
  Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
  Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
  The City and the Stars – Arthur C. Clarke
  2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  Armor – John Steakley
  Imperial Stars – E. E. Smith
  Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 
  Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card 
  Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
  Dune – Frank Herbert
  The Dosadi Experiment – Frank Herbert
  Journey Beyond Tomorrow – Robert Sheckley
  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  Valis – Philip K. Dick
  A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
  The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
  1984 – George Orwell
  Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells 
  The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
  The Island of Doctor Moreau – H. G. Wells
  The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells
  A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  Alas, Babylon – Pat Frank
  A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
  From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
  Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
  Nova Express – William S. Burroughs
  Ringworld – Larry Niven 
  The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  The Unreasoning Mask – Philip Jose Farmer
  To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer
  Eon – Greg Bear
  Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
  The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
  Lightning – Dean Koontz
  The Stainless Steel Rat – Harry Harrison
  The Fifth Head of Cerebus – Gene Wolfe
  Nightside of the Long Sun – Gene Wolfe
  A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson 
  Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
  The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
  Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  Doomsday Book – Connie Wills
  Beserker – Fred Saberhagen
  Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K. LeGuin
  The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin 
  Babel-17 – Samuel R. Delany
  Dhalgren – Samuel R. Delany 
  Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
  The Forever War – Joe Haldeman 
  Star King – Jack Vance
  The Killing Machine – Jack Vance 
  Trullion: Alastor 2262 – Jack Vance
  Hyperion – Dan Simmons
  Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
  Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein
  A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
  More Than Human – Theodore Sturgeon
  A Time of Changes – Robert Silverberg
  Gateway – Frederick Pohl 
  Man Plus - Frederick Pohl 
  The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  Mission of Gravity – Hal Clement
  The Execution Channel – Ken Macleod
  Last and First Men – W. Olaf Stapledon 
  Slan – A. E. van Vogt
  Out of the Silent Planet – C. S. Lewis
  They Shall Have Stars – James Blish 
  Marooned in Realtime – Vernor Vinge
  A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge
  The People Maker – Damon Knight
  The Giver – Lois Lowry
  The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  Contact – Carl Sagan
  Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
  The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
  Battlefield Earth – L. Ron Hubbard
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
  Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Jack Finney
  Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boulle