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NPR Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

Updated 7 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	4.54	1,379 reads
#2	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams	4.24	3,302 reads
#3	Ender's Game Orson Scott Card	4.26	2,423 reads
#4	Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	3,643 reads
#5	A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.37	3,084 reads
#6	1984 George Orwell	4.21	5,145 reads
#7	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.89	3,096 reads
#8	The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire Isaac Asimov	4.21	235 reads
#9	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88	2,427 reads
#10	American Gods Neil Gaiman	4.03	2,011 reads
#11	The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.19	884 reads
#12	The Eye of the World Robert Jordan	4.01	1,434 reads
#13	Animal Farm George Orwell Boris Grabnar (Translator) Celâl Üster (Translator) Celâl Üstüner (Translator)	4.04	4,029 reads
#14	Neuromancer William Gibson	3.8	1,206 reads
#15	Watchmen Alan Moore	4.43	1,202 reads
#16	I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.05	848 reads
#17	Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein	3.67	546 reads
#18	The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss	4.42	1,995 reads
#19	Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.09	1,867 reads
#20	Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.85	2,089 reads
#21	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick	3.94	1,207 reads
#22	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09	2,182 reads
#23	The Gunslinger Stephen King	3.6	1,277 reads
#24	2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke	4.07	712 reads
#25	The Stand Stephen King	4.15	1,064 reads
#26	Snow Crash Neal Stephenson	3.96	1,027 reads
#27	The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury	4	639 reads
#28	Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut	4.07	855 reads
#29	The Absolute Sandman, Volume One	4.61	87 reads
#30	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.93	871 reads
#31	Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.75	545 reads
#32	Watership Down Richard Adams	4.07	576 reads
#33	Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey	3.78	262 reads
#34	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein	3.84	377 reads
#35	A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.	3.93	378 reads
#36	The Time Machine H. G. Wells	3.69	948 reads
#37	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Anthony Bonner (Translator) Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)	3.57	452 reads
#38	Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes	4.28	1,311 reads
#39	The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells	3.74	614 reads
#40	Nine Princes in Amber Roger Zelazny	3.62	215 reads
#41	Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings	3.9	295 reads
#42	The Mists of Avalon: Avalon Book 7 Marion Zimmer Bradley	3.88	235 reads
#43	Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson	4.45	2,875 reads
#44	Ringworld Larry Niven	3.63	409 reads
#45	The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin	4.07	794 reads
#46	The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien	3.93	676 reads
#47	The Once and Future King T. H. White	3.79	183 reads
#48	Neverwhere Neil Gaiman	4.13	1,099 reads
#49	Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke	3.97	463 reads
#50	Contact Carl Sagan	4.06	348 reads
#51	Hyperion Dan Simmons	4.27	1,021 reads
#52	Stardust Neil Gaiman	3.99	929 reads
#53	Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson	4.24	477 reads
#54	World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks	3.9	1,010 reads
#55	The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle	3.87	199 reads
#56	The Forever War Joe Haldeman	3.96	588 reads
#57	Zei mărunți Terry Pratchett	4.28	449 reads
#58	Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson	3.24	157 reads
#59	Shards of Honour Lois McMaster Bujold	3.87	150 reads
#60	Going Postal Terry Pratchett	4.38	416 reads
#61	The Mote in God's Eye Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle	3.79	209 reads
#62	Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind	3.72	419 reads
#63	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.03	1,468 reads
#64	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke	3.99	668 reads
#65	I Am Legend Richard Matheson	3.94	599 reads
#66	Magician: Apprentice Raymond E. Feist	4.01	400 reads
#67	The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks	3.33	244 reads
#68	The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian Robert E. Howard	3.95	46 reads
#69	Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb	4.11	762 reads
#70	The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger	3.94	813 reads
#71	The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson	4.62	2,132 reads
#72	Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne	3.69	279 reads
#73	Homeland R. A. Salvatore	3.95	237 reads
#74	Old Man's War John Scalzi	4.13	914 reads
#75	The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson	4.07	333 reads
#76	Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke	3.95	579 reads
#77	Kushiel's Dart Jacqueline Carey	3.84	192 reads
#78	The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin	4.21	497 reads
#79	Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury	3.9	353 reads
#80	Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Gregory Maguire	3.39	544 reads
#81	Gardens of the Moon Steven Erikson	3.98	572 reads
#82	The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde	3.89	298 reads
#83	Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks	3.59	514 reads
#84	The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart	3.9	73 reads
#85	Anathem Neal Stephenson	4.14	340 reads
#86	Furies of Calderon Jim Butcher	3.9	278 reads
#87	The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe	3.68	220 reads
#88	Heir to the Empire Timothy Zahn	4.04	382 reads
#89	Outlander Diana Gabaldon	3.9	630 reads
#90	Elric of Melniboné Michael Moorcock	3.49	167 reads
#91	The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury	3.91	230 reads
#92	Sunshine Robin McKinley	3.56	97 reads
#93	A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge	3.94	304 reads
#94	The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov	3.99	365 reads
#95	Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson	3.75	361 reads
#96	Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle	3.66	105 reads
#97	Doomsday Book Connie Willis Rafael Marín Trechera (Translator)	3.83	248 reads
#98	Perdido Street Station China Miéville	3.98	308 reads
#99	A Spell for Chameleon Piers Anthony	3.34	123 reads
#100	Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis	3.81	197 reads