Top 100 Sci-Fi meme

This is a top 100 Sci-Fi list, which can be found here. I know Celeste will probably win this one, lol, though I would put even odds on Anna winning, except they seem to be very strictly in the Sci-Fi category and have a bias against stuff that leans more towards Fantasy (e.g. is there any Piers Anthony on here at all?). Anyway, copy it, bold the ones you've read!

1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
2. Frank Herbert, Dune
3. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
4. Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. George Orwell, 1984
6. Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
7. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
10. William Gibson, Neuromancer
11. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
12. Larry Niven, Ringworld
13. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
14. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
15. Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
16. H G Wells, The Time Machine
17. Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
18. Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End
19. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
20. H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
21. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
22. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
23. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
24. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
25. Niven & Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
26. Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
27. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
28. Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
29. Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
30. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
31. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
32. Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In Time
33. Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
34. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
35. Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
36. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
37. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
38. Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
39. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
40. Carl Sagan, Contact
41. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
42. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
43. John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
44. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
45. Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
46. Philip K Dick, UBIK
47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
48. Isaac Asimov, The End Of Eternity
49. Walter M Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
50. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
51. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
52. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
53. Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
54. L Ron Hubbard, Battlefield Earth
55. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
56. Iain M Banks, Player Of Games
57. Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
58. Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed
59. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
60. David Brin, Startide Rising
61. Greg Bear, Eon
62. Peter F Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction
63. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
64. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
65. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
66. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
67. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
68. Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars
69. Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
70. Robert A Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
71. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
72. Robert A Heinlein, Citizen Of the Galaxy
73. Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
74. Robert A Heinlein, The Puppet Masters
75. Robert A Heinlein, Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
76. C S Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
77. Clifford Simak, Way Station
78. John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
79. Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
80. Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
81. H G Wells, The Invisible Man
82. Julian May, The Many-Colored Land
83. Dan Simmons, Ilium
84. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
85. E E 'Doc' Smith, Grey Lensman
86. William Gibson, Burning Chrome
87. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in KA's Court
88. Michael Crichton, Sphere
89. Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
90. David Brin, The Postman
91. Clifford Simak, City
92. Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
93. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
94. Edwin A Abbott, Flatland
95. Philip K Dick, VALIS
96. Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
97. Greg Bear, Blood Music
98. Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
99. James Blish, Cities in Flight
100. David Brin, The Uplift War

Yikes, 11 out of 100 for me. I actually really love Sci-Fi, though you wouldn't know it from this list. I just have a tendency to pick up whatever crap I find in used book stores indiscrimintely. So I probably read quite a bit of Sci-Fi that Sci-Fi experts would consider trash. I have quite a few of these in my to read stack and haven't got to them yet, and I know I read one other Heinlen book besides Starship Troopers, but can't remember which one, lol.

Alicia Book Meme

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog.


The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below.

1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (book one only) --I've read all three.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (a few only)--I've read more than a few.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -- I've read all of them.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down- Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

51 out of 100 -- though a few I had read to me when I was a kid. You can consider all the rest italicized for me as I have tons of classic book lists that I look at regularly to decide what I should read next. Surprised to see some of these on here, I don't think I have seen "A Fine Balance" on any lists before and was a very excellent read, though horribly depressing.