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NPR Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

Updated 18 days ago
100 Books
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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.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.55	923 reads
#2	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams	4.24	2,178 reads
#3	Ender's Game Orson Scott Card	4.26	1,640 reads
#4	Dune Frank Herbert	4.28	2,382 reads
#5	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.39	2,046 reads
#6	1984 George Orwell	4.2	3,344 reads
#7	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.93	2,032 reads
#8	The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire Isaac Asimov	4.17	141 reads
#9	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.89	1,609 reads
#10	American Gods Neil Gaiman	4.02	1,377 reads
#11	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.21	602 reads
#12	The Eye of the World Robert Jordan	4.01	984 reads
#13	Animal Farm George Orwell Boris Grabnar (Translator) Celâl Üster (Translator) Celâl Üstüner (Translator)	4.06	2,648 reads
#14	Neuromancer William Gibson Giampaolo Cossato (Translator) Sandro Sandrelli (Translator)	3.86	757 reads
#15	Watchmen Alan Moore	4.44	822 reads
#16	I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.04	550 reads
#17	Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein	3.69	361 reads
#18	The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss	4.4	1,340 reads
#19	Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.11	1,211 reads
#20	Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.86	1,372 reads
#21	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick	3.96	802 reads
#22	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09	1,429 reads
#23	The Gunslinger Stephen King	3.63	857 reads
#24	2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke Stanley Kubrick	4.04	484 reads
#25	The Stand Stephen King	4.15	702 reads
#26	Snow Crash Neal Stephenson	3.94	685 reads
#27	The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury	3.98	423 reads
#28	Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut	4.09	571 reads
#29	The Absolute Sandman, Volume One	4.68	65 reads
#30	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.9	559 reads
#31	Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.72	356 reads
#32	Watership Down Richard Adams	4.09	365 reads
#33	Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey	3.83	178 reads
#34	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein	3.78	229 reads
#35	A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.	3.94	240 reads
#36	The Time Machine H. G. Wells	3.67	611 reads
#37	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Anthony Bonner (Translator) Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)	3.49	297 reads
#38	Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes	4.28	889 reads
#39	The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells	3.77	344 reads
#40	Nine Princes in Amber Roger Zelazny	3.62	138 reads
#41	Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings	3.86	201 reads
#42	The Mists Of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley	3.87	174 reads
#43	Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson	4.43	1,844 reads
#44	Ringworld Larry Niven	3.67	268 reads
#45	The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin	4.06	528 reads
#46	The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien	3.98	407 reads
#47	The Once and Future King T. H. White	3.82	147 reads
#48	Neverwhere	4.14	753 reads
#49	Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke	4.04	307 reads
#50	Contact Carl Sagan	4.09	244 reads
#51	Hyperion Dan Simmons	4.27	660 reads
#52	Stardust Neil Gaiman	3.97	636 reads
#53	Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson	4.27	299 reads
#54	World War Z Max Brooks	3.92	704 reads
#55	The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle	3.88	148 reads
#56	The Forever War Joe Haldeman	3.96	387 reads
#57	Small Gods Terry Pratchett	4.29	299 reads
#58	Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson	3.23	123 reads
#59	Shards of Honour Lois McMaster Bujold	3.86	104 reads
#60	Going Postal Terry Pratchett	4.4	285 reads
#61	The Mote in God's Eye Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle	3.8	141 reads
#62	Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind	3.68	284 reads
#63	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.04	974 reads
#64	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke	4.01	454 reads
#65	I Am Legend Richard Matheson	3.94	399 reads
#66	Magician: Apprentice Raymond E. Feist	3.98	273 reads
#67	The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks	3.25	173 reads
#68	The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian Robert E. Howard	3.86	29 reads
#69	Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb	4.1	515 reads
#70	The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger	3.92	568 reads
#71	The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson	4.61	1,368 reads
#72	Voyage Au Centre de La Terre Elyette Roussel	3.7	158 reads
#73	Homeland R. A. Salvatore	3.93	146 reads
#74	Old Man's War John Scalzi	4.17	595 reads
#75	The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Neal Stephenson	3.99	205 reads
#76	Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke	3.93	387 reads
#77	Kushiel's Dart Jacqueline Carey	3.9	134 reads
#78	The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin	4.16	306 reads
#79	Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury	3.83	243 reads
#80	Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Gregory Maguire	3.39	317 reads
#81	Gardens of the Moon Steven Erikson	3.96	405 reads
#82	The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde	3.9	202 reads
#83	Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks	3.55	323 reads
#84	The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart	3.88	54 reads
#85	Anathem Neal Stephenson	4.2	224 reads
#86	Furies of Calderon Jim Butcher	3.84	191 reads
#87	The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe	3.64	148 reads
#88	Heir to the Empire Timothy Zahn	4.06	245 reads
#89	Outlander Diana Gabaldon	3.89	432 reads
#90	Elric of Melniboné Michael Moorcock	3.44	132 reads
#91	The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury	3.96	158 reads
#92	Sunshine Robin McKinley	3.6	64 reads
#93	A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge	4	202 reads
#94	The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov	3.94	235 reads
#95	Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson	3.75	230 reads
#96	Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle	3.57	68 reads
#97	Doomsday Book Connie Willis	3.79	182 reads
#98	Perdido Street Station China Miéville	4	198 reads
#99	A Spell for Chameleon Piers Anthony	3.19	78 reads
#100	Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis	3.82	131 reads