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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

82,449 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

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

2

by Ray Bradbury

54,246 members

1,006 reviews

4

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

3

by Frank Herbert

42,913 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

46,086 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

38,980 members

723 reviews

4.2

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

6

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,730 members

963 reviews

4

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

7

by Isaac Asimov

15,108 members

271 reviews

4

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

8

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

42,651 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.

11,801 members

309 reviews

3.9

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

10

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,724 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

7,997 members

376 reviews

4.1

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

13

by Neal Stephenson

20,255 members

401 reviews

4.1

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

14

18,314 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.3

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

15

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,370 members

744 reviews

4.1

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

16

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,415 members

209 reviews

4

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

17

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

64,868 members

3,496 reviews

½ 4.3

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

18

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,039 members

385 reviews

4

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

19

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

11,007 members

158 reviews

3.9

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

20

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

164 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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

21

by Orson Scott Card

41,370 members

1,051 reviews

½ 4.3

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

22

The Colour of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

22,190 members

447 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, deldevries, rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Mary Shelley

42,945 members

714 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rretzler, fuzzi, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

24

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,550 members

255 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: merrystar, deldevries, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Stephen King

22,934 members

495 reviews

3.8

3 Members: deldevries, kschnewatts, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,199 members

709 reviews

4.1

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

27

by Terry Pratchett

34,962 members

794 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, BookstoreOwnerLJO

28

The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

7,602 members

192 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

6,249 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, BookstoreOwnerLJO

30

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

20,605 members

795 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, MrsIsIn

31

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

39,634 members

1,273 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, rretzler, gypsysmom

32

Interview with the Vampire

22,966 members

333 reviews

3.8

3 Members: KimarieBee, rretzler, gypsysmom

33

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,508 members

227 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Cormac McCarthy

34,599 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

3 Members: KimarieBee, deldevries, gypsysmom

35

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

18,583 members

1,284 reviews

4.1

3 Members: deldevries, rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda

36

Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,252 members

223 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,777 members

268 reviews

4.1

3 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,418 members

476 reviews

4

3 Members: rretzler, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

39

9,998 members

187 reviews

3.8

3 Members: jerry-book, rretzler, gypsysmom

40

by Mary Doria Russell

7,749 members

407 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

41

by Anne McCaffrey

9,121 members

181 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, fuzzi, gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Scott Westerfeld

14,151 members

663 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, ManWithAnAgenda

43

11,811 members

276 reviews

4.2

2 Members: KimarieBee, jerry-book

44

The Dragonbone Chair

by Tad Williams

6,279 members

79 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, fuzzi

45

Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

9,427 members

315 reviews

4

2 Members: jerry-book, ManWithAnAgenda

46

6,525 members

394 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

47

Castle in the Air

by Diana Wynne Jones

4,297 members

100 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

48

Assassin's Apprentice

12,610 members

287 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

49

by Octavia E. Butler

8,513 members

355 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Curse of Chalion

by Lois McMaster Bujold

4,850 members

175 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, jerry-book

51

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

27,073 members

779 reviews

3.9

2 Members: rretzler, ManWithAnAgenda,KimarieBee

52

by Kim Stanley Robinson

8,366 members

185 reviews

3.8

2 Members: jerry-book, gypsysmom

53

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,784 members

684 reviews

4.1

2 Members: deldevries, gypsysmom

54

2,827 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

by Samuel R. Delany

3,761 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Daniel O'Malley

2,988 members

206 reviews

4.1

Member: MrsIsIn

57

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,150 members

234 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

by Jacqueline Carey

7,027 members

238 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

9,418 members

310 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15,588 members

715 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

by C. J. Cherryh

2,358 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

8,010 members

137 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

64

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

2,274 members

136 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jerry-book

65

Guilty Pleasures

by Laurell K. Hamilton

8,666 members

225 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

66

by Patricia A. McKillip

1,941 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

67

10,842 members

357 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

68

Lord Foul's Bane

by Stephen R. Donaldson

6,198 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: jerry-book

69

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter

2,684 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: jerry-book

70

by Jeff VanderMeer

6,398 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

6,314 members

175 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

73

by Joe Haldeman

2,220 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gypsysmom

74

by Kristin Cashore

10,841 members

584 reviews

4.1

75

The Sword of Shannara

by Terry Brooks

7,903 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

76

by Pierce Brown

7,319 members

408 reviews

4

77

by William Gibson

7,270 members

62 reviews

3.8

78

by Richard K. Morgan

6,996 members

217 reviews

4

79

by Stanisław Lem

6,608 members

158 reviews

3.9

80

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker

5,469 members

366 reviews

4.1

81

Daughter of the Blood

3,347 members

91 reviews

4.1

82

by Richard Kadrey

2,493 members

178 reviews

3.8

83

by Sheri S. Tepper

2,389 members

49 reviews

4

84

The Speed of Dark

by Elizabeth Moon

2,235 members

108 reviews

4

85

The magicians: A novel

by Paul Gropman

3 members

86

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

16,417 members

300 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom,ManWithAnAgenda

87

by Diana Gabaldon

23,939 members

989 reviews

4.2

Member: gypsysmom,merrystar

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