Today I want to share a challenge with you all: my definitive list of science fiction reads! They are books I feel every sci-fi fan should read at least once in their lifetime, and as well as creating a challenge for myself I hope that it can be challenge for some of you too. Although I already have a Top Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Challenge, I wanted to create one that reflected all different types of science fiction, including Young Adult. So it will actually be a mix of books I’ve loved, books I really feel I should read because they’re considered classics, and some titles that might often be overlooked, as well as some books that I’ve heard a lot of good things about.
If you’d like to join in, feel free! I’ll be keeping track of my progress too, on a separate post. Don’t forget to check out the schedule for the rest of today’s posts. You can also Tweet about the event using the hashtag #RRSciFiMonth.
‘Classic’ science fiction
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Ringworld by Larry Niven
- The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Newer science fiction
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Attwood
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
- Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Young Adult science fiction
- Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Breathe by Sarah Crossan
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
- Legend by Marie Lu
- Cinder by Melissa Meyer
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- Across the Universe by Beth Revis
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
- What’s Left Of Me by Kat Zhang
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