S&L Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles
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1 The Lord of the Rings (The ...
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4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 207,242 ratings
2 A Game of Thrones (A Song o...
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4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 414,549 ratings
3 Ender's Game (Ender's Saga,...
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 401,028 ratings
4 The Hobbit
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,045,747 ratings
5 Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 299,579 ratings
6 The Ultimate Hitchhiker's G...
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 114,687 ratings
7 Harry Potter Boxset (Harry ...
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4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 87,406 ratings
8 The Name of the Wind (The K...
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4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 105,330 ratings
9 1984
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 907,087 ratings
10 The Foundation Trilogy (Fou...
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 30,609 ratings
11 The Lion, the Witch, and th...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 627,740 ratings
12 Fahrenheit 451
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 512,847 ratings
13 Brave New World
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 547,487 ratings
14 The Hitchhiker's Guide to t...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 515,786 ratings
15 Watchmen
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 193,584 ratings
16 The Eye of the World (Wheel...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 102,643 ratings
17 Good Omens
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 145,000 ratings
18 The Hunger Games Trilogy Bo...
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4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 55,001 ratings
19 American Gods
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 188,074 ratings
20 A Clash of Kings (A Song of...
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 212,714 ratings
21 Snow Crash
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 100,082 ratings
22 A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1)
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 315,088 ratings
23 Starship Troopers
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 65,216 ratings
24 The Golden Compass (His Dar...
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 489,932 ratings
25 World War Z: An Oral Histor...
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 111,041 ratings
26 Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set ...
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4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 5,671 ratings
27 Animal Farm
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 981,238 ratings
28 Frankenstein
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 465,068 ratings
29 The Gunslinger (The Dark To...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 149,754 ratings
30 Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 113,666 ratings
31 The Princess Bride
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 325,204 ratings
32 Do Androids Dream of Electr...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 96,913 ratings
33 Slaughterhouse-Five
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 470,173 ratings
34 A Storm of Swords (A Song o...
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4.51 of 5 stars 4.51 avg rating — 182,810 ratings
35 Magician (The Riftwar Saga,...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 21,546 ratings
36 The Stand
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 211,578 ratings
37 I, Robot
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 84,974 ratings
38 Dracula
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 279,740 ratings
39 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 45,580 ratings
40 The Color of Magic (Discwor...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 92,026 ratings
41 Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 140,577 ratings
42 Assassin's Apprentice (Fars...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 48,883 ratings
43 Daemon (Daemon, #1)
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 9,847 ratings
43 The Blade Itself (The First...
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 26,545 ratings
45 Neverwhere
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 125,447 ratings
46 The Wise Man's Fear (The Ki...
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4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 70,176 ratings
47 The Handmaid's Tale
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 250,293 ratings
47 Storm Front (The Dresden Fi...
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 85,237 ratings
49 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 70,271 ratings
50 Lord of the Flies
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 907,328 ratings
51 Rendezvous with Rama (Rama,...
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 41,603 ratings
52 The Martian Chronicles
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 68,034 ratings
53 The Left Hand of Darkness
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 27,174 ratings
54 The Dragonriders of Pern (D...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 10,930 ratings
55 The Road
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 273,714 ratings
56 2001: A Space Odyssey (Spac...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 73,481 ratings
57 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 40,870 ratings
58 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 252,656 ratings
59 The War of the Worlds
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 72,868 ratings
60 Old Man's War
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 33,032 ratings
61 The Way of Kings (The Storm...
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4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 32,702 ratings
62 Watership Down
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 149,691 ratings
63 Flowers for Algernon
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 140,704 ratings
64 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earth...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 68,146 ratings
65 The Time Traveler's Wife
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 690,582 ratings
66 The Belgariad: Volume One
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 7,157 ratings
67 Through the Looking-Glass, ...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 33,943 ratings
68 His Dark Materials (His Dar...
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 58,937 ratings
69 Wizard's First Rule (Sword ...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 84,700 ratings
70 His Majesty's Dragon (Temer...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 20,863 ratings
71 The Silmarillion
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 76,716 ratings
72 The Graveyard Book
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 128,104 ratings
73 The Mote in God's Eye (Moti...
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 25,103 ratings
73 Anathem
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 22,336 ratings
75 Pandora's Star (Commonwealt...
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 11,929 ratings
76 The Sword of Shannara Trilo...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 7,169 ratings
77 Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 19,347 ratings
77 A Dance With Dragons (A Son...
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 115,942 ratings
79 A Feast for Crows (A Song o...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 153,073 ratings
80 The Stars My Destination
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 13,455 ratings
81 Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 35,449 ratings
82 The Once and Future King (T...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 49,480 ratings
83 Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Tr...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 29,129 ratings
84 Harry Potter and the Sorcer...
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4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 1,792,725 ratings
85 Tigana
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15,515 ratings
86 A Fire Upon the Deep
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 15,709 ratings
87 The Dispossessed
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 22,395 ratings
87 Childhood's End
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 36,712 ratings
89 Cat's Cradle
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 128,809 ratings
90 The Time Machine
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 114,899 ratings
91 Lord of Light
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 9,846 ratings
92 Ready Player One
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 59,338 ratings
93 The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 97,630 ratings
94 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 110,579 ratings
95 Charlie and the Chocolate F...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 227,297 ratings
96 Jurassic Park
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 357,826 ratings
97 The Hundred Thousand Kingdo...
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 9,077 ratings
98 The Dragonbone Chair (Memor...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 22,783 ratings
99 The Book of the New Sun
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
100 Lucifer's Hammer
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 17,833 ratings
836 books · 694 voters · list created August 11th, 2011 by Boots (votes) .
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message 1: by Boots (new)

Boots When series are counted as one I feel like I've read a shamefully low amount of books, either that or a shamefully high amount of series, but whichever it is I can't fill 100 spots because of it.

I intend to add books as I read them and adjust my order of favorites accordingly, I hope everyone who votes does the same. Hopefully in the end we'll have a fairly good idea of what Sword and Laser's Top-100 looks like.


message 2: by Susanna (new)

Susanna Where can I find the original list?


message 3: by Boots (new)

Boots Susanna wrote: "Where can I find the original list?"

This list was inspired by the NPR Top-100 for The Sword and Laser book club.


message 4: by Susanna (new)

Susanna Ah, so you're not limiting to it, then? (As I see the list currently has 147 books on it.)


message 5: by Boots (last edited Aug 12, 2011 10:23am) (new)

Boots No, I kind of thought the best way to do it was let everyone choose their own personal 100 favorites and then whatever has made it into the Top-100 on the list will be the Top-100. But now that you mention it, it could end up the Top-∞. To be honest I hadn't really taken it into consideration.


message 6: by Christopher (new)

Christopher That is a great list so far...


message 7: by Kris (new)

Kris Boots this is working great...I had about 70 books I voted for but I now can fill out nmy list based on the bigger list everyone is adig to...genius..


message 8: by Andrew (new)

Andrew I can't believe that 'Moon' and 'Starship Troopers' are ahead of 'Stranger'. On my personal list, Troopers would be somewhere around wrapped in concrete and sent into orbit. Glad to see 'Golden Compass' getting some love. After I finished my backreading for S&L 'Subtle Knife' was the first thing I grabbed.


message 9: by Susanna (new)

Susanna I, personally, think that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a better novel than Stranger in a Strange Land (haven't read Starship Troopers); but it's fun when tastes vary.


message 10: by Philip (new)

Philip Very good idea Boots. The list is a very efficient way to add to my to-read shelf.

The NPR list has Cryptonomicon at #53. I think it's an outstanding book, but I question it's place among Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Neal Stephenson is hard to label, but I consider this book speculative fiction and historical fiction.


message 11: by Susanna (new)

Susanna It's a hard boundary sometimes to figure out, the one between science fiction and speculative fiction.

I often think the ones critics respect get the latter title! Like The Handmaid's Tale.


message 12: by Sffgeek (new)

Sffgeek .


message 13: by Ayrton (new)

Ayrton None ofe Jules Verne? Why?


message 14: by Kadivs (last edited Mar 08, 2013 07:09am) (new)

Kadivs In normal SF-toplists on GR, I have read the majority of books, at least in the top 30. In this one, I've read a single book and the one I'm currently reading is in it as well. Something tells me it's a bit heavy on the fantasy side or, alternatively, differs greatly from all other toplists. (It lacks everything by verne, has not even the classics like "We", 1984 and so on in it and so on)


message 15: by Boots (new)

Boots I count forty-eight sci-fi books in the top one-hundred. Jules Verne and many other classics are on the list, just not in the top one-hundred.


message 16: by Corinne (new)

Corinne What does S&L mean?


message 17: by Susanna (new)

Susanna "Sword and Laser" - as in the Sword and Laser Book Club.


message 18: by Boots (new)

Boots I'm sorry I thought I had put that in the description.


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