Npr Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

#2

The Lord of the Rings

#1-3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,366 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

#3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 3,164 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

#4

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 2,255 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

#5

Dune

#1 of 8 in Dune

1965 • 4,094 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

#6

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

1996 • 2,842 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

#7

1984

1949 • 4,968 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

#8

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 3,159 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

#9

The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire

#1-3 of 7 in Foundation (Publication Order)

1950 • 296 Readers • 615 pages 4.2

#10

Brave New World

1930 • 2,607 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

#11

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

2001 • 2,284 Readers • 558 pages 4

#12

The Princess Bride

1973 • 1,145 Readers • 465 pages 4.2

#13

The Eye of the World

#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

1990 • 1,715 Readers • 708 pages 4

#14

Animal Farm

1945 • 3,492 Readers • 122 pages 4.1

#15

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 1,571 Readers • 271 pages 3.9

#16

Watchmen

#1 of 12 in Watchmen

1987 • 1,153 Readers • 415 pages 4.4

#17

I, Robot

#1 of 6 in Robot, chronological order

1950 • 1,019 Readers • 264 pages 4

#18

Stranger in a Strange Land

#1 of 1 in Stranger in a Strange Land

1961 • 767 Readers • 422 pages 3.7

#19

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

1 • 2,350 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

#20

Slaughterhouse 5

Critical Insights

1968 • 2,065 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

#21

Frankenstein

181 • 2,227 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

#22

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 1,488 Readers • 223 pages 4

#23

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 2,410 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

#24

The Gunslinger

#1 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1976 • 1,421 Readers • 238 pages 3.6

#25

2001: A Space Odyssey

#1 of 4 in Space Odyssey

1968 • 919 Readers • 251 pages 4

#26

The Stand

1978 • 1,359 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.2

#27

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,316 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#28

The Martian Chronicles

20 • 777 Readers • 182 pages 4

#29

Cat's Cradle

1963 • 985 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

#30

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,238 Readers • 149 pages 3.9

#31

Starship Troopers

Heinlein's Juveniles

1959 • 587 Readers • 353 pages 3.7

#32

Watership Down

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

1972 • 726 Readers • 478 pages 4.1

#34

The Time Machine

1894 • 1,001 Readers • 140 pages 3.7

#35

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 1,461 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

#36

The War of the Worlds

650 Readers 3.8

#37

Nine Princes in Amber

#1 of 10 in The Chronicles of Amber

1970 • 267 Readers • 175 pages 3.6

#40

Ringworld

#1 of 5 in Ringworld

1970 • 498 Readers • 288 pages 3.7

#41

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,149 Readers • 267 pages 4

#42

The Silmarillion

Middle-earth Universe

1977 • 817 Readers • 481 pages 4

#44

Neverwhere

#1 of 2 in London Below, The World of Neverwhere

1996 • 1,292 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

#45

Childhood's End

1953 • 619 Readers • 212 pages 4

#46

Contact

1985 • 540 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

#47

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 1,553 Readers • 481 pages 4.3

#48

Stardust

#1 of 1 in Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust

1997 • 1,070 Readers • 248 pages 4

#49

Cryptonomicon

1999 • 591 Readers • 1,152 pages 4.3

#50

World War Z

World War Z

2006 • 1,030 Readers • 355 pages 3.9

#51

The Last Unicorn

1 The Last Unicorn

1968 • 382 Readers 3.9

#52

The Forever War

#1 of 2 in The Forever War

1974 • 681 Readers • 218 pages 4

#53

Small Gods

#13 of 41 in Discworld

1992 • 467 Readers • 388 pages 4.3

#54

Lord Foul's Bane

#1 of 3 in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

1977 • 237 Readers • 369 pages 3.2

#55

Shards of Honour

#1 of 16 in Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

1986 • 240 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

#56

Going Postal

#33 of 41 in Discworld

2004 • 420 Readers • 422 pages 4.4

#57

The Mote in God's Eye

#1 of 3 in Moties

1974 • 296 Readers 3.8

#58

Wizard's First Rule

#1 of 15 in Sword of Truth

18 • 458 Readers • 848 pages 3.7

#59

The Road

2006 • 1,676 Readers • 287 pages 4

#60

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

#1 of 1 in Strange & Norrell

2004 • 1,093 Readers • 1,028 pages 4

#61

I Am Legend

1954 • 646 Readers • 312 pages 3.9

#62

The Sword of Shannara

#10 of 33 in Shannara (Chronological Order)

1976 • 293 Readers • 670 pages 3.2

#63

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

#1 of 5 in Conan the Cimmerian

2003 • 69 Readers • 464 pages 3.9

#64

Assassin's Apprentice

#1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1995 • 899 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

#65

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 962 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

#66

The Way of Kings

#1 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 2,502 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

#67

Voyage Au Centre de La Terre

#9 of 2 in Wishbone Classics

2001 • 271 Readers • 64 pages 3.7

#68

Homeland

#1 of 3 in The Dark Elf Trilogy

1990 • 286 Readers • 343 pages 4

#69

Old Man's War

#1 of 6 in Old Man's War

2005 • 970 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

#70

Rendezvous with Rama

#1 of 4 in Rama

1973 • 637 Readers • 112 pages 3.9

#71

Kushiel's Dart

#1 of 3 in Phèdre's Trilogy

2001 • 285 Readers • 930 pages 3.9

#72

The Dispossessed

#6 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

1974 • 806 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

#73

Something Wicked This Way Comes

2 Green Town

1962 • 502 Readers • 232 pages 3.8

#74

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

#1 of 4 in The Wicked Years

1995 • 515 Readers • 406 pages 3.4

#75

Gardens of the Moon

#1 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen

1999 • 1,044 Readers • 559 pages 4

#76

The Eyre Affair

#1 of 8 in Thursday Next

2001 • 370 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

#77

Consider Phlebas

#1 of 10 in Culture

1987 • 646 Readers • 544 pages 3.5

#78

The Crystal Cave

#1 of 5 in Arthurian Saga

1970 • 136 Readers • 514 pages 3.9

#79

Anathem

2008 • 527 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.2

#80

Furies of Calderon

#1 of 6 in Codex Alera

2005 • 405 Readers • 516 pages 3.8

#81

The Shadow of the Torturer

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1980 • 432 Readers • 276 pages 3.6

#82

Heir to the Empire

#1 of 3 in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

1991 • 379 Readers • 404 pages 4.1

#83

Outlander

#1 of 10 in Outlander

1991 • 804 Readers • 627 pages 3.9

#84

Elric of Melniboné

#1 of 12 in The Elric Saga

1972 • 291 Readers • 24h 12m 3.4

#85

The Illustrated Man

1901 • 304 Readers • 244 pages 4

#86

Sunshine

2003 • 128 Readers • 476 pages 3.6

#87

A Fire Upon the Deep

#1 of 3 in Zones of Thought

2010 • 500 Readers • 624 pages 4

#88

The Caves of Steel

#1 of 4 in Robot

1952 • 368 Readers • 200 pages 3.9

#89

Red Mars

#1 of 3 in Mars Trilogy

1992 • 475 Readers • 671 pages 3.8

#90

Perdido Street Station

#1 of 3 in New Crobuzon

2000 • 556 Readers 4

#91

A Spell for Chameleon

#1 of 41 in Xanth

1977 • 130 Readers • 344 pages 3.2

#92

Out of the Silent Planet

#1 of 3 in The Space Trilogy

1938 • 229 Readers • 155 pages 3.8

#93

Mistborn: The Final Empire

1 The Cosmere

2006 • 2,993 Readers • 541 pages 4.4

#94

Lucifer's Hammer

#1 of 1 in Lucifer's Hammer, Audio

1977 • 139 Readers • 642 pages 3.6

#95

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

1966 • 488 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#97

Magician: Apprentice

#1 of 4 in The Riftwar Saga

1982 • 521 Readers • 485 pages 4

#98

Doomsday Book

#1 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

1992 • 381 Readers • 587 pages 3.8

#99

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

#1 of 3 in Capitaine Nemo

1866 • 531 Readers • 394 pages 3.5