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Amazon Editors, 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime

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— <— Citations thread —> Broderick Di Filippo

This list, posted online in 2015 by "Amazon editors", is a selection of their favorites, "considering criteria such as vision, character creation, world building, and storytelling style."

Ranked: No

Titles Cited: 100

Publication: http://www.amazon.com/100sff, 2015

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl (Night Shade Books, 2009)
Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
Greg Bear, Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985)
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood (Roc, 1998)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Knopf, 1983)
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Crown, 2006)
Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara (Ballantine, 1977)
Pierce Brown, Red Rising (Ballantine Del Rey, 2014)
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion (HarperCollins/Eos, 2001)
Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (Doubleday, 1979)
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Tor, 2001)
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (Chatto & Windus , 1984)
Kristin Cashore, Graceling (Harcourt, 2008)
C. J. Cherryh, Foreigner (DAW, 1994)
Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor, 2002)
Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury, 2004)
Ernest Cline, Ready Player One (Crown, 2011)
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Scholastic Press, 2008)
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (Atheneum , 1973)
Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Bantam, 1975)
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (Del Rey , 1982)
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (Delacorte, 1991)
Neil Gaiman, American Gods (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2001)
William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
William Goldman, The Princess Bride (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)
Lev Grossman, The Magicians (Viking, 2009)
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures (Ace, 1993)
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice (Bantam Spectra, 1995)
Hugh Howey, Wool (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle (Methuen, 1986)
Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (Tor, 1990)
Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim (Eos, 2009)
Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (Donald M. Grant, 1982)
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper & Row, 1974)
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (Orbit, 2013)
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1962)
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
H. P. Lovecraft, edited by Peter Straub, Tales (Library of America, 2005)
George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (HarperCollins Voyager, 1996)
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954)
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Ballantine, 1968)
Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Knopf, 2006)
Patricia A. McKillip, Riddle-Master (Ace, 1999)
China Mi�ville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillan, 2000)
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Sceptre, 2004)
Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark (Orbit, 2002)
Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon (Gollancz, 2002)
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
Garth Nix, Sabriel (Moonstone/HarperCollins, 1995)
Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Ballantine Del Rey, 2015)
Daniel O'Malley, The Rook (Little, Brown, 2012)
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens (Gollancz, 1990)
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (Knopf, 1996)
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (DAW, 2007)
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Scholastic, 1998)
Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (Villard, 1996)
Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (Tor, 2010)
John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Tor, 2005)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
Sheri S. Tepper, Grass (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937)
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation (Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals, 2014)
Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (George Smith, 1873; France 1871)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
Jo Walton, Among Others (Tor, 2011)
Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni (HarperCollins, 2013)
Andy Weir, The Martian (Crown, 2014)
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
Scott Westerfeld, Uglies (Simon Pulse, 2005)
Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair (DAW, 1988)
Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon, 2010)

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