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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

82,158 members

1,274 reviews

4.2

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

2

by Ray Bradbury

54,040 members

1,000 reviews

4

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

3

by Frank Herbert

42,709 members

693 reviews

½ 4.3

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

4

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

45,877 members

767 reviews

4.1

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

5

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,875 members

723 reviews

4.2

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

6

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,552 members

961 reviews

4

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

7

by Isaac Asimov

15,041 members

270 reviews

4

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

8

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,432 members

1,144 reviews

4.1

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

9

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,769 members

308 reviews

3.9

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

10

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,666 members

324 reviews

4.1

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

11

American Gods {original}

33,626 members

932 reviews

4.1

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

12

by Connie Willis

7,977 members

375 reviews

4.1

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

13

by Neal Stephenson

20,210 members

398 reviews

4.1

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

14

18,188 members

1,246 reviews

½ 4.3

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

15

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,267 members

742 reviews

4.1

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

16

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,388 members

209 reviews

4

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

17

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

64,681 members

3,488 reviews

½ 4.3

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

18

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,962 members

384 reviews

4

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

19

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,977 members

157 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

41,233 members

1,048 reviews

½ 4.3

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

22

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

22,092 members

447 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, deldevries, rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Mary Shelley

42,781 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rretzler, fuzzi, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

24

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,473 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, deldevries, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Stephen King

22,826 members

494 reviews

3.8

3 Members: deldevries, kschnewatts, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,093 members

706 reviews

4.1

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

27

by Terry Pratchett

34,808 members

789 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, BookstoreOwnerLJO

28

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

7,553 members

190 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,237 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, BookstoreOwnerLJO

30

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

20,474 members

791 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, MrsIsIn

31

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,547 members

1,271 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, rretzler, gypsysmom

32

Interview with the Vampire

22,971 members

333 reviews

3.8

3 Members: KimarieBee, rretzler, gypsysmom

33

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,480 members

227 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Cormac McCarthy

34,497 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, deldevries, gypsysmom

35

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

18,543 members

1,280 reviews

4.1

3 Members: deldevries, rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,218 members

222 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,728 members

268 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,326 members

476 reviews

4

3 Members: rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

39

9,971 members

187 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom

40

by Mary Doria Russell

7,729 members

406 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

41

by Anne McCaffrey

9,091 members

180 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Scott Westerfeld

14,082 members

662 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ManWithAnAgenda

43

11,768 members

275 reviews

4.2

2 Members: KimarieBee, jerry-book

44

The Dragonbone Chair

by Tad Williams

6,264 members

78 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, fuzzi

45

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

9,407 members

314 reviews

4

2 Members: jerry-book, ManWithAnAgenda

46

6,455 members

392 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

47

Castle in the Air

by Diana Wynne Jones

4,269 members

100 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Assassin's Apprentice

12,580 members

284 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

49

by Octavia E. Butler

8,426 members

354 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Curse of Chalion

by Lois McMaster Bujold

4,837 members

173 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, jerry-book

51

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

27,013 members

775 reviews

3.9

2 Members: rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda,KimarieBee

52

by Kim Stanley Robinson

8,333 members

184 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom

53

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,745 members

683 reviews

4.1

2 Members: deldevries, gypsysmom

54

2,821 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Samuel R. Delany

3,742 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Daniel O'Malley

2,976 members

206 reviews

4.1

Member: MrsIsIn

57

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,118 members

233 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Jacqueline Carey

7,003 members

238 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

9,376 members

306 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15,506 members

713 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

by C. J. Cherryh

2,351 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

7,994 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

64

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

2,264 members

135 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jerry-book

65

Guilty Pleasures

by Laurell K. Hamilton

8,635 members

225 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

66

by Patricia A. McKillip

1,941 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

67

10,802 members

349 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

68

Lord Foul's Bane

by Stephen R. Donaldson

6,175 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jerry-book

69

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,670 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: jerry-book

70

by Jeff VanderMeer

6,368 members

368 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: deldevries

71

by Richard Matheson

4,838 members

190 reviews

4

Member: rretzler

72

The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester

6,296 members

175 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

73

by Joe Haldeman

2,209 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

74

by Kristin Cashore

10,779 members

583 reviews

4.1

75

The Sword of Shannara

by Terry Brooks

7,889 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

76

by William Gibson

7,255 members

62 reviews

3.8

77

by Pierce Brown

7,229 members

402 reviews

4

78

by Richard K. Morgan

6,991 members

217 reviews

4

79

by Stanisław Lem

6,591 members

158 reviews

3.9

80

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker

5,434 members

362 reviews

4.1

81

Daughter of the Blood

3,333 members

91 reviews

4.1

82

by Richard Kadrey

2,483 members

178 reviews

3.8

83

by Sheri S. Tepper

2,378 members

48 reviews

4

84

The Speed of Dark

by Elizabeth Moon

2,234 members

108 reviews

4

85

The magicians: A novel

by Paul Gropman

3 members

86

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

16,379 members

300 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Diana Gabaldon

23,848 members

988 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom,merrystar

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