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 1-5 (1951, ’52, ’53, ’82, ’86)
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)
Heretics of Dune (1984)
Chapterhouse-Dune (1985)
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy (2015)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (2007)
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.
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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