121 Greatest Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · Bloemfontein, South Africa
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · Richland, United States
Dune
Frank Herbert · Tacoma, United States
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin · Bayonne, United States
1984
George Orwell · Motihari, India
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · Waukegan, United States
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · Petrovichi, Russia
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · Godalming, United Kingdom
American Gods
Neil Gaiman · Portchester, United Kingdom
The Princess Bride
William Goldman · Highland Park, United States
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan · Charleston, United States
Animal Farm
Neuromancer
William Gibson · Conway, United States
Watchmen
Alan Moore · Northampton, United Kingdom
I, Robot
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein · Butler, United States
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · Madison, United States
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · Indianapolis, United States
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · London, United Kingdom
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · Chicago, United States
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · Ottawa, Canada
The Dark Tower Series
Stephen King · Portland, United States
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke · Minehead, United Kingdom
The Stand
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · Fort Meade, United States
Cat's Cradle
The Sandman
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · Manchester, United Kingdom
Starship Troopers
Watership Down
Richard Adams · Newbury, United Kingdom
Dragonriders of Pern
Anne McCaffrey · Cambridge, United States
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr. · Smyrna, United States
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells · Bromley, United Kingdom
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · Nantes, France
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · Brooklyn, United States
The War of the Worlds
The Amber Chronicles
Roger Zelazny · Euclid, United States
The Belgariad
David Eddings · Spokane, United States
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley · Albany, United States
Ringworld
Larry Niven · Los Angeles, United States
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · Berkeley, United States
The Silmarillion
The Once and Future King
T.H. White · Bombay, India
Childhood's End
Contact
Carl Sagan · Brooklyn, United States
Hyperion
Dan Simmons · Peoria, United States
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle · New York City, United States
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman · Oklahoma City, United States
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett · Beaconsfield, United Kingdom
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Stephen R. Donaldson · Cleveland, United States
The Vorkosigan Saga
Lois McMaster Bujold · Columbus, United States
Going Postal
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle · Los Angeles, United States
The Sword of Truth Series
Terry Goodkind · Omaha, United States
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke · Nottingham, United Kingdom
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson · Allendale, United States
The Riftwar Saga
Raymond E. Feist · Los Angeles, United States
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
Terry Brooks · Sterling, United States
The Conan the Barbarian Series
Robert E. Howard · Peaster, United States
The Farseer Trilogy
Robin Hobb · Berkeley, United States
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger · South Haven, United States
The Stormlight Archive
Brandon Sanderson · Lincoln, United States
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Legend of Drizzt Series
R.A. Salvatore · Leominster, United States
Old Man's War
John Scalzi · Fairfield, United States
Rendezvous with Rama
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey · New York City, United States
The Earthsea Cycle
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Wicked
Gregory Maguire · Albany, United States
The Malazan Book of the Fallen
Steven Erikson · Toronto, Canada
The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde · London, United Kingdom
The Culture Series
Iain M. Banks · Dunfermline, United Kingdom
The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart · Sunderland, United Kingdom
Anathem
The Codex Alera Series
Jim Butcher · Independence, United States
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · Brooklyn, United States
The Thrawn Trilogy
Timothy Zahn · Chicago, United States
The Outlander Series
Diana Gabaldon · Williams, United States
The Elric Saga
Michael Moorcock · Mitcham, United Kingdom
Sunshine
Robin McKinley · Warren, United States
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge · Waukesha, United States
The Caves of Steel
The Mars Trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson · Waukegan, United States
Lucifer's Hammer
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis · Denver, United States
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville · London, United Kingdom
The Xanth Series
Piers Anthony · Oxford, United Kingdom
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu · Tianjin, China
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis · Belfast, United Kingdom
The Space Trilogy
The Black Company
Glen Cook · New York City, USA
Light
M. John Harrison · Rugby, England
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi · Paonia, Colorado, USA
The Expanse
James S.A. Corey · Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
The Martian
Andy Weir · Davis, California, USA
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie · Toledo, Ohio, USA
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · Woodhall Spa, England
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine · New York City, USA
The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells · Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · Washington D.C., USA
Among Others
Jo Walton · Aberdare, Wales, UK
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar · Goshen, Indiana, USA
Jade City
Fonda Lee · Calgary, Canada
Temeraire
Naomi Novik · New York City, USA
Babel
R.F. Kuang · Guangzhou, China
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett · Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman · Norwich, England
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · Southport, England
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · Nagasaki, Japan
The City & The City
China Miéville · Norwich, England
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern · Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson · York, England
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · Merville, British Columbia, Canada
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin · Iowa City, Iowa, USA
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone · Ottawa, Canada
The Will of the Many
James Islington · Drouin, Victoria, Australia
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling · Yate, United Kingdom
The Dandelion Dynasty
Ken Liu · Lanzhou, China
Based on NPR's Top 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books
Greatest Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works and the Birth Places of Their Creators
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