The 50 Best Sci-Fi Books for Every Kind of Reader

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Men's Health, 49 Books

Joshua St. Clair and Milan Polk created this list for Men's Health titled "The 50 Best Sci-Fi Books for Every Kind of Reader"

This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1421 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
312 Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges 1962 Argentinian Spanish
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
893 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
13793 The Ghost In The Shell Shirow Masamune 1989 Japanese Japanese
528 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 American English
473 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
12043 Akira Katsuhiro Otomo 1982 Japanese Japanese
266 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British English
1698 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 2002 American English
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
66 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
2326 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
327 Solaris Stanislaw Lem 1961 Polish Polish
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
2740 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
1451 The Children of Men P. D. James 1992 British English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
5620 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
2398 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
2237 Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 American English
5934 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 British English
363 The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 1969 American English
1531 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 1990 American English
1476 Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1884 British English
361 Foundation Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
9921 Children Of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 British English
4533 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
427 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 British English
3129 Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
9366 Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
1381 Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel 2014 Canadian English
2145 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 American English
5699 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
9538 Binti Nnedi Okorafor 2015 Nigerian English
9980 Shadow & Claw Gene Wolfe 1994 American English
673 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
2469 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
368 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 American English
153 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 British English
459 The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells 1896 British English
13283 How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu 2010 American English
13530 Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler 1980 American English