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NPRs Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time

In 2011, NPR set out to make a list of what their listeners believed to be the best science fiction and fantasy books ever written. More than 5,000 people nominated books, then over 60,000 people voted on the best ones. This list is highlights the most popular books voted by NPR readers across these two genres.

The Lord of the Rings
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game
Dune
A Game of Thrones
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire
Brave New World
American Gods
The Princess Bride
The Eye of the World
Animal Farm
Neuromancer
Watchmen
I, Robot
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Name of the Wind
Slaughterhouse 5
Frankenstein
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Handmaid's Tale
The Gunslinger
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Stand
Snow Crash
The Martian Chronicles
Cat's Cradle
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
A Clockwork Orange
Starship Troopers
Watership Down
Dragonflight
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Time Machine
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Flowers for Algernon
The War of the Worlds
Nine Princes in Amber
Pawn of Prophecy
The Mists Of Avalon
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Ringworld
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Silmarillion
The Once and Future King
Neverwhere
Childhood's End
Contact
Hyperion
Stardust
Cryptonomicon
World War Z
The Last Unicorn
The Forever War
Small Gods
Lord Foul's Bane
Shards of Honour
Going Postal
The Mote in God's Eye
Wizard's First Rule
The Road
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
I Am Legend
Magician: Apprentice
The Sword of Shannara
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
Assassin's Apprentice
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Way of Kings
Voyage Au Centre de La Terre
Homeland
Old Man's War
The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Rendezvous with Rama
Kushiel's Dart
The Dispossessed
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gardens of the Moon
The Eyre Affair
Consider Phlebas
The Crystal Cave
Anathem
Furies of Calderon
The Shadow of the Torturer
Heir to the Empire
Outlander
Elric of Melniboné
The Illustrated Man
Sunshine
A Fire Upon the Deep
The Caves of Steel
Red Mars
Lucifer's Hammer
Doomsday Book
Perdido Street Station
A Spell for Chameleon
Out of the Silent Planet