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Amazon's 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime

Description: Unleash your mind with these 100 extraordinary science fiction & fantasy books. The Amazon editors got together and picked our very favorites, considering criteria such as vision, character creation, world building, and storytelling style. What do you think? How many have you read? Source: http://www.amazon.com/b?node=12661600011 List Challenges: http://www.listchallenges.com/amazons-100-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books

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1

by George Orwell

82,389 members

1,275 reviews

4.2

7 Members: merrystar, deldevries, rretzler, Bretzky1, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Ray Bradbury

54,213 members

1,003 reviews

4

7 Members: merrystar, deldevries, jerry-book, rretzler, Bretzky1, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Frank Herbert

42,874 members

695 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: merrystar, jerry-book, rretzler, fuzzi, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, Kriegskaese,Bretzky1

4

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,035 members

769 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, deldevries, jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,951 members

723 reviews

4.2

7 Members: merrystar, deldevries, jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, Kriegskaese

6

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,694 members

963 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, deldevries, rretzler, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Isaac Asimov

15,098 members

271 reviews

4

6 Members: merrystar, deldevries, rretzler, fuzzi, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,600 members

1,149 reviews

4.1

6 Members: deldevries, jerry-book, rretzler, Bretzky1, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

9

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,797 members

309 reviews

3.9

5 Members: jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,717 members

325 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, jerry-book, Bretzky1, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

11

American Gods {original}

33,707 members

933 reviews

4.1

4 Members: jerry-book, rretzler, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Connie Willis

7,993 members

376 reviews

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Neal Stephenson

20,250 members

401 reviews

4.1

5 Members: KimarieBee, deldevries, gypsysmom, MrsIsIn, ManWithAnAgenda

14

18,296 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: KimarieBee, deldevries, jerry-book, gypsysmom

15

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,348 members

744 reviews

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, deldevries, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

16

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,409 members

209 reviews

4

5 Members: deldevries, rretzler, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

64,832 members

3,494 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: KimarieBee, deldevries, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,020 members

384 reviews

4

5 Members: merrystar, jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,998 members

158 reviews

3.9

5 Members: merrystar, jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

162 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: merrystar, deldevries, jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Orson Scott Card

41,348 members

1,051 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, jerry-book, rretzler, fuzzi,ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

22,167 members

447 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, deldevries, rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Mary Shelley

42,901 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rretzler, fuzzi, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

24

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,537 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, deldevries, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Stephen King

22,915 members

495 reviews

3.8

3 Members: deldevries, kschnewatts, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,177 members

708 reviews

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda,Bretzky1

27

by Terry Pratchett

34,938 members

794 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, BookstoreOwnerLJO

28

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

7,590 members

192 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,247 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, BookstoreOwnerLJO

30

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

20,583 members

794 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, MrsIsIn

31

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,620 members

1,272 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, rretzler, gypsysmom

32

Interview with the Vampire

22,953 members

333 reviews

3.8

3 Members: KimarieBee, rretzler, gypsysmom

33

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,499 members

227 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Cormac McCarthy

34,582 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, deldevries, gypsysmom

35

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

18,575 members

1,284 reviews

4.1

3 Members: deldevries, rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,243 members

223 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,779 members

268 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,400 members

476 reviews

4

3 Members: rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

39

9,994 members

187 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom

40

by Mary Doria Russell

7,747 members

407 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

41

by Anne McCaffrey

9,119 members

181 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Scott Westerfeld

14,139 members

663 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ManWithAnAgenda

43

11,806 members

276 reviews

4.2

2 Members: KimarieBee, jerry-book

44

The Dragonbone Chair

by Tad Williams

6,281 members

79 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, fuzzi

45

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

9,421 members

315 reviews

4

2 Members: jerry-book, ManWithAnAgenda

46

6,512 members

394 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

47

Castle in the Air

by Diana Wynne Jones

4,293 members

100 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Assassin's Apprentice

12,601 members

287 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

49

by Octavia E. Butler

8,487 members

355 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Curse of Chalion

by Lois McMaster Bujold

4,847 members

175 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, jerry-book

51

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

27,064 members

779 reviews

3.9

2 Members: rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda,KimarieBee

52

by Kim Stanley Robinson

8,360 members

185 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom

53

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,793 members

684 reviews

4.1

2 Members: deldevries, gypsysmom

54

2,828 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Samuel R. Delany

3,759 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Daniel O'Malley

2,986 members

206 reviews

4.1

Member: MrsIsIn

57

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,147 members

234 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Jacqueline Carey

7,026 members

238 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

9,448 members

309 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15,571 members

715 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

by C. J. Cherryh

2,357 members

65 reviews

3.9

Member: fuzzi

62

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)

by H. P. Lovecraft

1,190 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, jerry-book,ManWithAnAgenda

63

Pawn of Prophecy

by David Eddings

8,009 members

137 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

64

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

2,273 members

136 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jerry-book

65

Guilty Pleasures

by Laurell K. Hamilton

8,659 members

225 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

66

by Patricia A. McKillip

1,941 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

67

10,835 members

357 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

68

Lord Foul's Bane

by Stephen R. Donaldson

6,192 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jerry-book

69

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,679 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: jerry-book

70

by Jeff VanderMeer

6,396 members

371 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: deldevries

71

by Richard Matheson

4,850 members

191 reviews

4

Member: rretzler

72

The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester

6,312 members

175 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

73

by Joe Haldeman

2,219 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

74

by Kristin Cashore

10,831 members

584 reviews

4.1

75

The Sword of Shannara

by Terry Brooks

7,900 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

76

by Pierce Brown

7,302 members

407 reviews

4

77

by William Gibson

7,269 members

62 reviews

3.8

78

by Richard K. Morgan

6,994 members

217 reviews

4

79

by Stanisław Lem

6,604 members

158 reviews

3.9

80

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker

5,464 members

365 reviews

4.1

81

Daughter of the Blood

3,347 members

91 reviews

4.1

82

by Richard Kadrey

2,491 members

178 reviews

3.8

83

by Sheri S. Tepper

2,386 members

49 reviews

4

84

The Speed of Dark

by Elizabeth Moon

2,232 members

108 reviews

4

85

The magicians: A novel

by Paul Gropman

3 members

86

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

16,412 members

300 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Diana Gabaldon

23,919 members

989 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom,merrystar

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