Science Fiction Bookshelf
Just in case my house burns down, here is my list of top science fiction (and some fantasy) reads from the last few decades of browsing. Where it makes sense to do so, I've grouped titles by author or theme. Fittingly, an alphabetical sort puts 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' in number one spot, where it belongs.
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- A Fire Upon the Deep / A Deepness in the Sky
- A Princess of Mars / Tarzan the Barbarian
- A Rose for Ecclesiastes / The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth.
- Altered Carbon
- Ancillary Justice
- Behold the Man
- Berserker
- Bloom / The Collapsium
- BlindSight / Starfish
- Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon
- Come, Hunt an Earthman
- Conan the Barbarian
- Cordelia's Honour
- Dark Eden / The Holy Machine
- Dragon's Egg
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
- Dune
- Ender's Game
- Farenheit 451
- Farthest Star
- Gray Matters
- Hunter's Run
- I, Robot / Nightfall
- Lord of Light
- Lord Valentine's Castle / Majipoor Chronicles
- Midshipman's Hope
- Neuromancer
- Neverness
- Northwest of Earth
- Parable of the Sower
- Permutation City
- Pern series
- Planet of Adventure
- Player of Games
- Ringworld / Known Space
- Stories of Your Life
- Starship Troopers
- Tales of Dying Earth
- The Black Cloud (Fred Hoyle) / Eater (Gregory Benford) / Ice (James Follet)
- The Day of the Triffids
- The Embedding
- The Flight of the Horse
- The Forever War
- The Hair-Carpet Weavers
- The High Crusades
- The Lavalite World (series in reverse order)
- The Quantum Thief
- The Martian
- The Martian Chronicles
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- The Pride of Chanur
- The Seedling Stars / Cities in Flight
- The Stars My Destination
- The Trouble Twisters
- The War of the Worlds
- There Is No Antimemetics Division / Fine Structure
- Time Travellers Never Die
- Trafalgar
- Triplanetary / First Lensman / The Skylark of Space / Skylark 3
- True Names & Other Dangers / The Peace War
- Way Station