Npr Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

#2

The Lord of the Rings

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

1954 • 1,858 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 • 4,282 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

#4

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 3,013 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

#5

Dune

#1 of 8 in Dune

1965 • 5,512 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

#6

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire

1996 • 3,848 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

#7

1984

1949 • 6,840 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

#8

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 4,350 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

#9

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

#1-3 of 9 in Foundation (Publication Order)

1950 • 415 Readers • 615 pages 4.2

#10

Brave New World

1900 • 3,553 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

#11

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

2001 • 3,023 Readers • 635 pages 4

#12

The Princess Bride

1973 • 1,564 Readers • 399 pages 4.2

#13

The Eye of the World

#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

1990 • 2,261 Readers • 708 pages 4

#14

Animal Farm

1945 • 4,798 Readers • 122 pages 4

#15

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 2,161 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

#16

Watchmen

#1 of 12 in Watchmen

1987 • 1,539 Readers • 415 pages 4.4

#17

I, Robot

#0.1 of 4 in Robot

1950 • 1,425 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

#18

Stranger in a Strange Land

#1 of 1 in Stranger in a Strange Land

1961 • 1,028 Readers • 422 pages 3.7

#19

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

1 • 3,162 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

#20

Slaughterhouse 5

2 Critical Insights

1968 • 2,871 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

#21

Frankenstein

181 • 3,040 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

#22

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 2,027 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

#23

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 3,424 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

#24

The Gunslinger

#1 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1982 • 1,904 Readers • 238 pages 3.6

#25

2001: A Space Odyssey

#1 of 4 in Space Odyssey

1968 • 1,227 Readers • 221 pages 4.1

#26

The Stand

1978 • 1,842 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.2

#27

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,784 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#28

The Martian Chronicles

1950 • 1,066 Readers • 182 pages 4

#29

Cat's Cradle

1963 • 1,372 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

#30

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,698 Readers • 72 pages 3.9

#31

Starship Troopers

23 Heinlein's Juveniles

1959 • 798 Readers • 353 pages 3.7

#32

Watership Down

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

1972 • 1,053 Readers • 385 pages 4.1

#34

The Time Machine

1894 • 1,346 Readers • 144 pages 3.7

#35

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 2,008 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

#36

The War of the Worlds

18 Smart Pop

1897 • 877 Readers • 192 pages 3.7

#37

Nine Princes in Amber

#1 of 15 in The Chronicles of Amber

1970 • 378 Readers • 175 pages 3.6

#40

Ringworld

#1 of 5 in Ringworld

1970 • 685 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

#41

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,555 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

#42

The Silmarillion

5 Middle-earth Universe

1977 • 1,175 Readers • 481 pages 3.9

#44

Neverwhere

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

1996 • 1,736 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

#45

Childhood's End

1953 • 831 Readers • 212 pages 4

#46

Contact

1985 • 702 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

#47

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 2,078 Readers • 492 pages 4.3

#48

Stardust

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

1997 • 1,415 Readers • 248 pages 4

#49

Cryptonomicon

1999 • 864 Readers • 1,152 pages 4.2

#50

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15 World War Z

2006 • 1,364 Readers • 5h 59m 3.9

#51

The Last Unicorn

3 The Last Unicorn

1968 • 487 Readers 3.9

#52

The Forever War

#1 of 2 in The Forever War

1974 • 955 Readers • 203 pages 4

#53

Small Gods

#13 of 41 in Discworld

1992 • 642 Readers • 388 pages 4.3

#54

Lord Foul's Bane

#1 of 4 in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

1977 • 299 Readers • 369 pages 3.3

#55

Shards of Honour

#1 of 16 in Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

1986 • 325 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

#56

Going Postal

#33 of 41 in Discworld

2004 • 579 Readers • 422 pages 4.4

#57

The Mote in God's Eye

#1 of 3 in Moties

1974 • 400 Readers 3.8

#58

Wizard's First Rule

#1 of 14 in Sword of Truth

18 • 628 Readers • 848 pages 3.7

#59

The Road

1974 • 2,319 Readers • 287 pages 4

#60

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

#1 in Strange & Norrell

2004 • 1,475 Readers • 865 pages 4

#61

I Am Legend

1954 • 910 Readers • 312 pages 3.9

#62

The Sword of Shannara

#10 of 33 in Shannara (Chronological Order)

1976 • 404 Readers • 670 pages 3.3

#63

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

#1 of 2 in Conan the Cimmerian

2003 • 99 Readers • 464 pages 3.9

#64

Assassin's Apprentice

#1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1995 • 1,258 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

#65

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 1,307 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

#66

The Way of Kings

#1 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 3,446 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

#67

Journey to the Center of the Earth

#9 of 3 in Wishbone Classics

1864 • 437 Readers • 242 pages 3.7

#68

Homeland

#1 of 3 in The Dark Elf Trilogy

1990 • 414 Readers • 343 pages 3.9

#69

Old Man's War

#1 of 6 in Old Man's War

2005 • 1,354 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

#70

Rendezvous with Rama

#1 of 4 in Rama

1973 • 859 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

#71

Kushiel's Dart

#1 of 3 in Phèdre's Trilogy

2001 • 380 Readers • 930 pages 3.9

#72

The Dispossessed

#6 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1974 • 1,109 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

#73

Something Wicked This Way Comes

10 Green Town

1962 • 668 Readers • 232 pages 3.9

#74

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

#1 of 4 in The Wicked Years

1995 • 857 Readers • 406 pages 3.4

#75

Gardens of the Moon

#1 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen

1999 • 1,357 Readers • 559 pages 4

#76

The Eyre Affair

#1 of 7 in Thursday Next

2001 • 521 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

#77

Consider Phlebas

#1 of 10 in Culture

1987 • 895 Readers • 544 pages 3.6

#78

The Crystal Cave

#1 of 4 in Arthurian Saga

1970 • 175 Readers • 514 pages 3.9

#79

Anathem

2008 • 722 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.1

#80

Furies of Calderon

#1 of 6 in Codex Alera

2004 • 528 Readers 3.9

#81

The Shadow of the Torturer

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1980 • 601 Readers • 276 pages 3.7

#82

Heir to the Empire

#1 of 3 in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

1991 • 533 Readers • 528 pages 4.1

#83

Outlander

#1 of 14 in Outlander

1991 • 1,074 Readers • 627 pages 3.9

#84

Elric of Melniboné

#1 of 18 in The Elric Saga

1972 • 360 Readers • 24h 12m 3.5

#85

The Illustrated Man

1901 • 425 Readers • 244 pages 4

#86

Sunshine

2003 • 189 Readers • 476 pages 3.6

#87

A Fire Upon the Deep

#1 of 5 in Zones of Thought

1992 • 675 Readers • 624 pages 3.9

#88

The Caves of Steel

#1 of 4 in Robot

1952 • 499 Readers • 200 pages 4

#89

Red Mars

#1 of 3 in Mars Trilogy

1992 • 663 Readers • 671 pages 3.7

#90

Perdido Street Station

#1 of 8 in New Crobuzon

2000 • 729 Readers • 24h 9m 4

#91

A Spell for Chameleon

#1 of 45 in Xanth

1977 • 181 Readers • 344 pages 3.4

#92

Out of the Silent Planet

#1 of 3 in The Space Trilogy

1938 • 314 Readers • 155 pages 3.8

#93

Mistborn: The Final Empire

#1 of 3 in The Mistborn Saga: The Original Trilogy

2006 • 4,170 Readers • 534 pages 4.5

#94

Lucifer's Hammer

#1 of 1 in Lucifer's Hammer, Audio

1977 • 201 Readers • 642 pages 3.7

#95

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

1963 • 696 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#97

Magician: Apprentice

#1 of 4 in The Riftwar Saga

1982 • 705 Readers • 485 pages 4

#98

Doomsday Book

#1 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

1992 • 503 Readers • 593 pages 3.8

#99

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

#1 of 3 in Capitaine Nemo

1866 • 730 Readers • 394 pages 3.6