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NPR Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

More than 60,000 ballots were cast in NPR's annual summer reader's survey. These are the top 100 winners - ordered by the number of votes they received.

#1

The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,443 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

#2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 3,343 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

#3

Ender's Game

1985 • 2,385 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

#4

Dune

1965 • 4,323 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

#5

A Game of Thrones

1996 • 3,019 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

#6

1984

1949 • 5,278 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

#7

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 3,366 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

#9

Brave New World

1930 • 2,788 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

#10

American Gods

2001 • 2,423 Readers • 635 pages 4

#11

The Princess Bride

1973 • 1,216 Readers • 465 pages 4.2

#12

The Eye of the World

1990 • 1,809 Readers • 708 pages 4

#13

Animal Farm

1945 • 3,742 Readers • 122 pages 4

#14

Neuromancer

1984 • 1,662 Readers • 271 pages 3.9

#15

Watchmen

1987 • 1,203 Readers • 415 pages 4.5

#16

I, Robot

1950 • 1,085 Readers • 264 pages 4.1

#17

Stranger in a Strange Land

1961 • 811 Readers • 422 pages 3.7

#18

The Name of the Wind

1 • 2,497 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

#19

Slaughterhouse 5

1968 • 2,199 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

#20

Frankenstein

181 • 2,378 Readers • 353 pages 3.8

#21

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 1,574 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

#22

The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 2,628 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

#23

The Gunslinger

1976 • 1,498 Readers • 238 pages 3.6

#24

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 • 975 Readers • 251 pages 4.1

#25

The Stand

1978 • 1,451 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.2

#26

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,388 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#27

The Martian Chronicles

20 • 829 Readers • 182 pages 4

#28

Cat's Cradle

1963 • 1,067 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

#29

#30

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,318 Readers • 149 pages 3.9

#31

Starship Troopers

1959 • 622 Readers • 353 pages 3.7

#32

Watership Down

1972 • 771 Readers • 478 pages 4.1

#33

Dragonflight

1968 • 363 Readers • 347 pages 3.8

#34

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

1966 • 532 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#35

A Canticle for Leibowitz

1959 • 542 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

#36

The Time Machine

1894 • 1,061 Readers • 140 pages 3.7

#37

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

1866 • 575 Readers • 394 pages 3.5

#38

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 1,572 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

#39

The War of the Worlds

694 Readers 3.7

#40

Nine Princes in Amber

1970 • 286 Readers • 175 pages 3.6

#41

Pawn of Prophecy

1982 • 408 Readers • 262 pages 3.9

#43

Mistborn: The Final Empire

2006 • 3,214 Readers • 534 pages 4.4

#44

Ringworld

1970 • 527 Readers • 288 pages 3.7

#45

The Left Hand of Darkness

1969 • 1,219 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

#46

The Silmarillion

1977 • 876 Readers • 481 pages 4

#47

The Once and Future King

1958 • 462 Readers • 650 pages 3.8

#48

Neverwhere

1996 • 1,400 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

#49

Childhood's End

1953 • 652 Readers • 212 pages 4

#50

Contact

1985 • 567 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

#51

Hyperion

1989 • 1,637 Readers • 481 pages 4.3

#52

Stardust

1997 • 1,135 Readers • 248 pages 4

#53

Cryptonomicon

1999 • 642 Readers • 1,152 pages 4.3

#54

World War Z

2006 • 1,091 Readers • 355 pages 3.9

#55

The Last Unicorn

1968 • 398 Readers 3.9

#56

The Forever War

1974 • 744 Readers • 218 pages 3.9

#57

Small Gods

1992 • 489 Readers • 388 pages 4.3

#58

Lord Foul's Bane

1977 • 242 Readers • 369 pages 3.2

#59

Shards of Honour

1986 • 260 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

#60

Going Postal

2004 • 448 Readers • 422 pages 4.4

#61

The Mote in God's Eye

1974 • 317 Readers 3.8

#62

Wizard's First Rule

18 • 494 Readers • 848 pages 3.7

#63

The Road

2006 • 1,793 Readers • 287 pages 4

#64

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

2004 • 1,142 Readers • 1,028 pages 4

#65

I Am Legend

1954 • 709 Readers • 312 pages 3.9

#66

Magician: Apprentice

1982 • 521 Readers • 485 pages 4

#67

The Sword of Shannara

1976 • 318 Readers • 670 pages 3.2

#68

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

2003 • 72 Readers • 464 pages 3.9

#69

Assassin's Apprentice

1995 • 956 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

#70

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 1,037 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

#71

The Way of Kings

2010 • 2,695 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

#72

Voyage Au Centre de La Terre

2001 • 302 Readers • 64 pages 3.7

#73

Homeland

1990 • 314 Readers • 343 pages 3.9

#74

Old Man's War

2005 • 1,024 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

#76

Rendezvous with Rama

1973 • 663 Readers • 112 pages 4

#77

Kushiel's Dart

2001 • 308 Readers • 930 pages 3.9

#78

The Dispossessed

1974 • 856 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

#79

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1962 • 525 Readers • 232 pages 3.9

#80

#81

Gardens of the Moon

1999 • 1,087 Readers • 559 pages 4

#82

The Eyre Affair

2001 • 400 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

#83

Consider Phlebas

1987 • 680 Readers • 544 pages 3.5

#84

The Crystal Cave

1970 • 148 Readers • 514 pages 3.9

#85

Anathem

2008 • 558 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.2

#86

Furies of Calderon

2004 • 428 Readers 3.8

#87

The Shadow of the Torturer

1980 • 475 Readers • 276 pages 3.7

#88

Heir to the Empire

1991 • 407 Readers • 404 pages 4.1

#89

Outlander

1991 • 870 Readers • 627 pages 3.9

#90

Elric of Melniboné

1972 • 297 Readers • 24h 12m 3.4

#91

The Illustrated Man

1901 • 322 Readers • 244 pages 4

#92

Sunshine

2003 • 128 Readers • 476 pages 3.6

#93

A Fire Upon the Deep

2010 • 530 Readers • 624 pages 4

#94

The Caves of Steel

1952 • 397 Readers • 200 pages 4

#95

Red Mars

1992 • 515 Readers • 671 pages 3.8

#96

Lucifer's Hammer

1977 • 157 Readers • 642 pages 3.7

#97

Doomsday Book

1992 • 398 Readers • 587 pages 3.8

#98

Perdido Street Station

2000 • 571 Readers 4

#99

A Spell for Chameleon

1977 • 130 Readers • 344 pages 3.2

#100

Out of the Silent Planet

1938 • 249 Readers • 155 pages 3.8