100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels

I stumbed across the 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (arch) and thought it would be fun to se how I compare. My own list is here. Links are to any that I've reviewed, which number... 17. Crass omissions from their list: Hobbit, LoTR, Crowley: the Deep, Engine Summer, Beasts; Icehenge; White Queen; Jack Vance; Aldiss, and more.

1. Dune by Frank Herbert

2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov

3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - only technically scifi

4. 1984 by George Orwell - ditto

5. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - way too high

6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - read as a teenager

7. Neuromancer by William Gibson

8. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - read years ago; I haven't felt the urge to re-read it; perhaps I should; but Earthsea is her best

9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - again, read years ago

10. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - and again; elegaic, but I dount they rank this high

11. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - never read

12. Hyperion by Dan Simmons - quite enjoyed this but this is too high

13. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - decent

14. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin - tosh

15. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - never read

16. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - years ago, seems high though

17. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - never read

18. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke - its OK

19. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. - decent

20. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - too high

21. Contact by Carl Sagan - never read

22. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by H.G. Wells - I think I read this as a teenager; I think it is likely tosh but don't really remember

23. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - I think I read this as a short story or novella

24. The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons - can't remember

25. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - again, this is the wrong one. Her politics isn't really great; her adventures were better

26. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer - never read

27. World War Z by Max Brooks - never read

28. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville - never read

29. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein - should be higher

30. Solaris by Stanisław Lem - read as a teenager, I recall this as boring and pointless

31. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - never read

32. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein - I'd put this higher

33. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman - and this

34. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - not really scifi

35. Ringworld by Larry Niven - terrible

36. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor - never read

37. Blindsight by Peter Watts - meh

38. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - I recall the film

39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - as-a-teenager; decent

40. Anathem by Neal Stephenson - too low

41. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi - never read

42. The Power by Naomi Alderman - never read

43. City by Clifford D. Simak - never read

44. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton - as-a-teenager; can't recall

45. Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold - never read

46. Gateway by Frederik Pohl - as-a-teenager; decent

47. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - never read

48. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - never read

49. Embassytown by China Miéville - I think I read this after M gave it to me for Christmas years back. It was OK, but didn't inspire me to read others-by

50. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - never read

51. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - as-a-teenager; decent, should be higher

52. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - read, quite liked; see-also Broken Angels

53. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson - never read

54. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal - never read

55. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds - yup, liked this

56. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe - should be much higher

57. Light by M. John Harrison - no

58. Wool by Hugh Howey - never read

59. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie - higher

60. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson - decent

61. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson - terrible; DNF

62. Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - never read

63. Red Rising by Pierce Brown - never read

64. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - never read

65. Under the Skin by Michel Faber - never read

66. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge - higher

67. Morning Star by Pierce Brown - never read

68. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - I think I read 1 and 2 when D did, on the holiday to Spain

69. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami - never read

70. Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill - never read

71. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham - read-as-a-teenager; can't recall

72. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart - read years ago, not that wonderful

73. Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky - never read

74. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North - never read

75. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - never read

76. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - never read

77. Eon by Greg Bear - meh

78. Diaspora by Greg Egan - never read

79. The Postman by David Brin - never read

80. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - never read

81. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - quite liked

82. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard - read-as-a-teenager; should read again I think

83. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham - ditto

84. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - never read

85. Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - meh

86. The Night Side of the Sun by David Wingrove - never read

87. Pavane by Keith Roberts - higher

88. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi - never read

89. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson - never read

90. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis - never read

91. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

92. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick - read-as-a-teenager; can't recall

93. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - never read

94. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - kinda generic potboilerish, if I recall correctly

95. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins - never read

96. Recursion by Blake Crouch - never read

97. The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross - never read

98. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey - never read

99. Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer - never read

100. The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin - never read