Alphabetically on author. Reviewed books are hyperlinked. Non-reviewed books will get a reread & review somewhere in the future. I’ll limit this list to 25, so if I add a book, I bump another title out.
Isaac Asimov
Foundation 1-4 (1951, ’52, ’53, ’82)
Iain M. Banks
Excession (1996)
John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Don DeLillo
Zero K (2016)
Greg Egan
Schild’s Ladder (2002)
M. John Harrison
You Should Come with Me Now (2017)
Frank Herbert
Dune (1965)
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy (2015)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (2007)
Ada Palmer
Too Like the Lightning (2016)
Dexter Palmer
Version Control (2016)
Kim Stanley Robinson
Aurora (2015)
The Ministry for the Future (2020)
Carter Scholz
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818)
Neal Stephenson
Anathem (2008)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Gene Wolfe
The Book of the New Sun (1980-83)
Check my favorite fantasy list here. Consult the author index for a list of all reviews, or my other favorite lists.
Click here for an index of my non-fiction or art book reviews only, and here for an index of my longer fiction reviews of a more scholarly & philosophical nature.
Weighing a pig doesn't fatten it. 
Will be interesting to see how your list changes over time! I’ve only read 6 of these.
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I’ve been trying to start “Excession” for a few months now, but I know I will need more concentration than I can afford right now to enjoy it. But I see that many of my own favorite books are in your list 🙂
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I like Excession so much because the protagonists are all Ships. I would have liked another few Culture novels that focussed on Ships, since they are so awesom & funny at the same time, but sadly Banks died.
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Btw, I think it’s a pretty standard, fairly classic SF favorite list, featuring the usual suspects like Dune & Foundation, so I guess (a big) overlap with other people’s lists is to be expected. Not that that’s a problem…
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