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

George Orwell · Motihari, India

Neuromancer

William Gibson · Conway, United States

Watchmen

Alan Moore · Northampton, United Kingdom

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov · Petrovichi, Russia

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

Stephen King · Portland, United States

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson · Fort Meade, United States

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · Indianapolis, United States

The Sandman

Neil Gaiman · Portchester, United Kingdom

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · Manchester, United Kingdom

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein · Butler, United States

Watership Down

Richard Adams · Newbury, United Kingdom

Dragonriders of Pern

Anne McCaffrey · Cambridge, United States

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein · Butler, United States

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

H.G. Wells · Bromley, United Kingdom

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

J.R.R. Tolkien · Bloemfontein, South Africa

The Once and Future King

T.H. White · Bombay, India

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke · Minehead, United Kingdom

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

Terry Pratchett · Beaconsfield, United Kingdom

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

Jules Verne · Nantes, France

The Legend of Drizzt Series

R.A. Salvatore · Leominster, United States

Old Man's War

John Scalzi · Fairfield, United States

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke · Minehead, United Kingdom

Kushiel's Dart

Jacqueline Carey · New York City, United States

The Earthsea Cycle

Ursula K. Le Guin · Berkeley, United States

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury · Waukegan, United States

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

Neal Stephenson · Fort Meade, United States

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

Isaac Asimov · Petrovichi, Russia

The Mars Trilogy

Kim Stanley Robinson · Waukegan, United States

Lucifer's Hammer

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle · Los Angeles, United States

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

C.S. Lewis · Belfast, United Kingdom

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