100 Main Fantasy and Science-Fiction Books

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

www.mirf.ru (Russian), 112 Books

Critera:" Our list includes only those books and series that have become universally recognized pillars of fantasy literature or have had a significant impact on the development of individual fantasy trends. At the same time, we did not give in to the temptation to attribute the main contribution to science fiction to English-speaking authors: almost a fifth of our list is occupied by books by Russian masters of the word.

So, here are those 100 books that, according to MirF, any self-respecting fan of science fiction simply must read!" (translated)

voters:
Boris Nevsky,
Dmitry Zlotnitsky,
Vladimir Puzii,
Petr Tyulenev

This list was originally published in 2008 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
673 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
218 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
712 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 American English
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
372 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 British English
12062 Prelude To Foundation Isaac Asimov 1988 American English
5333 Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 American English
9222 Slan A. E. van Vogt 1940 Canadian English
917 The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951 British English
1323 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 1960 American English
3150 Malevil Robert Merle 1972 French French
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
528 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 American English
893 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
1531 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 1990 American English
294 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
321 We Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 Russian Russian
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
368 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 American English
327 Solaris Stanislaw Lem 1961 Polish Polish
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
15685 The Hainish Novels And Stories Ursula K. Le Guin 2017 American English
14212 Ender's War Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
14499 Бездна голодных глаз H. L. Oldie 1993 Ukrainian Russian
951 A Princess Of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
13361 The Skylark Of Space Edward Elmer Smith 1928 American English
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
3086 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey 1968 American English
14180 Chanur's Venture C. J. Cherryh 1984 American English
10738 The Vor Game Lois McMaster Bujold 1990 American English
2470 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
776 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
14435 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
9690 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
14453 Making Money Terry Pratchett 2007 British English
11874 Monday Begins On Saturday Arkadi Strugatski 1964 Russian Russian
13772 Tale Of The Troika Arkady Strugatsky 1968 Russian Russian
14680 Меч Без Имени Andrei Belyanin 1999 Russian Russian
13361 Aelita Alexei Tolstoy 1923 Russian Russian
13361 The Amphibian Man Alexander Belyaev 1928 Russian Russian
13361 Andromeda Ivan Yefremov 1957 Russian Russian
13533 Noon, 22nd Century Arkady Strugatsky 1961 Russian Russian
13743 Menschen Wie Götter Sergej Snegow 1966 Russian Russian
14011 Великий Гусляр Kir Bulychev 1976 Russian Russian
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
278 A Wizard Of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 American English
9239 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
1289 A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin 1996 American English
12473 The Witcher Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
14680 Alvklingan Nick Perumov 1999 Russian Russian
13361 The People Of The Black Circle Robert E. Howard 1934 American English
13806 The First Book Of Lankhmar Fritz Leiber 1970 American English
3159 Nine Princes In Amber Roger Zelazny 1970 American English
14180 Dragons Of Autumn Twilight Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman 1984 American English
14212 Dragons Of Winter Night Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman 1985 American English
14212 Dragons Of Spring Dawning Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman 1985 American English
14554 волкодав Maria Semyonova 1995 Russian Russian
2593 The Gods Of Pegana Lord Dunsany 1905 Irish English
286 The Once and Future King T. H. White 1958 British English
1395 The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 American English
9585 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 1967 American English
2192 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 British English
234 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
13361 The Wizard Of The Emerald City Alexander Wolkow 1939 Russian Russian
13524 The Girl From The Earth Kirill Bulytsev 1960 Russian Russian
14335 Выстрел с монитора Vladislav Krapivin 1986 Russian Russian
399 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1995 British English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
2144 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998 British English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
2232 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
11546 Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp 1939 American English
2132 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 American English
15685 Волонтёры Челкеля Andrey Valentinov 2009 Russian Russian
13806 The Chronicles Of The Deryni Katherine Kurtz 1970 American English
15685 Temnaya Zvezda Hroniki Artsii Vera Kamsha 2009 Russian Russian
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
9718 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
661 Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice 1976 American English
1688 Carrie Stephen King 1974 American English
7783 The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 American English
1757 Books of Blood Clive Barker 1984 British English
2665 The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
629 Titus Groan Mervyn Peake 1946 British English
525 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1950 British English
1953 Titus Alone Mervyn Peake 1959 British English
13361 The Lovers Philip José Farmer 1952 American English
14435 The Time Patrol Poul Anderson 1991 American English
10025 The Dreaming City Michael Moorcock 1961 British English
9254 To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip José Farmer 1971 American English
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
1793 The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle 1968 American English
1079 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
11353 Memory And Dream Charles de Lint 1994 Canadian English
13739 The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling 1990 American English
14499 The Iron Dragon's Daughter Michael Swanwick 1993 American English
14001 The Eye In The Pyramid Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14001 The Golden Apple Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14093 Leviathan Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1981 American English
14650 Night Watch Sergei Lukyanenko 1998 Russian Russian