Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books (Pre-2000)

Top 100 Books (Pre-2000)

A statistical survey of the all-time Top 100 sci-fi books

[S1] First book in a series; [C] Single-author collection; [A] Multiple author anthology

1	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game [S1]	1985
2	Frank Herbert	Dune [S1]	1965
3	Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1]	1979
4	Ray Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451	1953
5	George Orwell	1984	1949
6	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	1932
7	Isaac Asimov	Foundation [S1]	1951
8	Philip K. Dick	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	1968
9	H.G. Wells	The Time Machine	1895
10	William Gibson	Neuromancer [S1]	1984
11	Isaac Asimov	I, Robot [C]	1950
12	Robert A. Heinlein	Stranger in a Strange Land	1961
13	Michael Crichton	Jurassic Park [S1]	1990
14	Arthur C. Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey [S1]	1968
15	Douglas Adams	Restaurant at the End of the Universe [S2]	1980
16	H.G. Wells	The War of the Worlds	1898
17	Orson Scott Card	Speaker for the Dead [S2]	1986
18	Ray Bradbury	The Martian Chronicles [C]	1949
19	Dan Simmons	Hyperion [S1]	1989
20	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five	1969
21	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness [S4]	1969
22	Neal Stephenson	Snow Crash	1992
23	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	1818
24	Isaac Asimov	Foundation and Empire [S2]	1952
25	Douglas Adams	Life, the Universe and Everything [S3]	1982
26	Robert A. Heinlein	Starship Troopers	1959
27	Isaac Asimov	Second Foundation [S3]	1953
28	Frank Herbert	Dune Messiah [S2]	1969
29	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War [S1]	1974
30	Philip K. Dick	The Man in the High Castle	1962
31	Arthur C. Clarke	Childhood's End	1953
32	Arthur C. Clarke	Rendezvous with Rama [S1]	1973
33	Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon	1966
34	Robert A. Heinlein	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress	1966
35	Orson Scott Card	Xenocide [S3]	1991
36	Frank Herbert	Children of Dune [S3]	1976
37	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Dispossessed [S6]	1974
38	Larry Niven	Ringworld [S1]	1970
39	Orson Scott Card	Ender's Shadow [S1]	1999
40	Walter M. Miller Jr.	A Canticle for Leibowitz [S1]	1959
41	Isaac Asimov	The Caves of Steel	1954
42	H.G. Wells	The Invisible Man	1897
43	Iain M. Banks	Consider Phlebas [S1]	1987
44	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Cat's Cradle	1963
45	Jules Verne	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	1870
46	Michael Crichton	The Andromeda Strain	1969
47	Carl Sagan	Contact	1985
48	Kim Stanley Robinson	Red Mars [S1]	1992
49	Isaac Asimov	Foundation's Edge [S4]	1982
50	Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	1962
51	Dan Simmons	The Fall of Hyperion [S2]	1990
52	Philip K. Dick	Ubik	1969
53	Stanislaw Lem	Solaris	1961
54	Jules Verne	Journey to the Center of the Earth	1864
55	John Wyndham	The Day of the Triffids	1951
56	H.G. Wells	The Island of Doctor Moreau	1896
57	Neal Stephenson	The Diamond Age	1995
58	Michael Crichton	Sphere	1987
59	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book	1992
60	Philip K. Dick	A Scanner Darkly	1977
61	Octavia E. Butler	Kindred	1979
62	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Lathe of Heaven	1971
63	Mary Doria Russell	The Sparrow [S1]	1996
64	Alfred Bester	The Stars My Destination	1955
65	Michael Crichton	Timeline	1999
66	Vernor Vinge	A Fire Upon the Deep [S1]	1992
67	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	The Sirens of Titan	1959
68	Ray Bradbury	The Illustrated Man [C]	1951
69	Isaac Asimov	The Naked Sun	1956
70	Iain M. Banks	The Player of Games [S2]	1988
71	C.S. Lewis	Out of the Silent Planet [S1]	1938
72	Isaac Asimov	The Gods Themselves	1972
73	Octavia E. Butler	Parable of the Sower [S1]	1993
74	Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle	The Mote in God's Eye [S1]	1974
75	Neal Stephenson	Cryptonomicon	1999
76	Isaac Asimov	The Robots of Dawn [S3]	1983
77	Arthur C. Clarke	2010: Odyssey Two	1982
78	Lois McMaster Bujold	Shards of Honour [S1]	1986
79	Edgar Rice Burroughs	A Princess of Mars [S1]	1912
80	Yevgeny Zamyatin	We	1921
81	Arkady & Boris Strugatsky	Roadside Picnic	1972
82	Isaac Asimov	The End of Eternity	1955
83	David Weber	On Basilisk Station [S1]	1992
84	Octavia E. Butler	Dawn [S1]	1987
85	Connie Willis	To Say Nothing of the Dog	1998
86	Richard Matheson	I Am Legend	1954
87	Iain M. Banks	Use of Weapons [S3]	1990
88	Frederik Pohl	Gateway [S1]	1977
89	Alfred Bester	The Demolished Man	1953
90	Kim Stanley Robinson	Green Mars [S2]	1993
91	Arthur C. Clarke	The City and the Stars	1956
92	C.S. Lewis	Perelandra [S2]	1943
93	Philip K. Dick	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said	1974
94	Lois McMaster Bujold	The Warrior's Apprentice [S2]	1986
95	Philip K. Dick	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	1965
96	John Wyndham	The Chrysalids	1955
97	Roger Zelazny	Lord of Light	1967
98	Peter F. Hamilton	The Reality Dysfunction [S1]	1996
99	Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg	Nightfall	1990
100	Edwin A. Abbott	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions	1884