npr's list (12/100)

• 1984, orwell
• 20,000 leagues under the sea
• 2001: a space odyssey, clarke
• a canticle for leibowitz
• a clockwork orange, burgess
• a fire upon the deep
• a song of ice and fire series, martin
• american gods, gaiman
• anathem
• animal farm, orwell
• brave new world, huxley
• cat's cradle, vonnegut
• childhood's end
• contact
• cryptonomicon
• do androids dream of electric sheep?, dick
• doomsday book
• dragonflight
• ender's game, card
• fahrenheit 451, bradbury
• flowers for algernon
• frankenstein, shelley
• going postal
• i am legend
• i, robot, asimov
• jonathan strange and mr norrell
• journey to the center of the earth
• lucifer's hammer
• mistborn trilogy
• neuromancer, gibson
• neverwhere
• old man's war
• perdido street station
• rendezvous with rama
• ringworld
• slaughterhouse-five, vonnegut
• small gods
• snow crash, stephenson
• something wicked this way comes
• stardust
• starship troopers
• stranger in a strange land, heinlein
• sunshine
• the amber chronicles
• the belgariad
• the book of the new sun
• the caves of steel
• the chronicles of thomas covenant, the nonbeliever
• the codex alera series
• the conan the barbarian series
• the crystal cave
• the culture series
• the dark tower series, king
• the diamond age
• the dispossessed
• the dune chronicles, herbert
• the elric saga
• the eyre affair
• the farseer trilogy
• the forever war
• the foundation trilogy, asimov
• the handmaid's tale, atwood
• the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, adams
• the hyperion cantos
• the illustrated man
• the kingkiller chronicles, rothfuss
• the kushiel's legacy series
• the last unicorn
• the left hand of darkness
• the legend of drizzt series
• the lord of the rings, tolkien
• the malazan book of the fallen series
• the mars trilogy
• the martian chronicles, bradbury
• the mists of avalon
• the moon is a harsh mistress
• the mote in god's eye
• the once and future king
• the outlander series
• the princess bride, goldman
• the riftwar saga
• the road
• the sandman series, gaiman
• the silmarillion
• the space trilogy
• the stand, king
• the sword of shannara trilogy
• the sword of truth series
• the thrawn trilogy
• the time machine
• the time traveler's wife
• the vorkosigan saga
• the war of the worlds
• the way of kings
• the wheel of time series, jordan
• the xanth series
• watchmen, moore + gibbons
• watership down
• wicked
• world war z

other

• altered carbon
• blindsight
• gateway
• player of games
• spin
• the night's dawn
• the stars my destination
• the windup girl
• ubik
• a shadow in summer
• assassin's apprentice
• black sun rising
• daughter of the empire
• dresden files
• engineer trilogy
• game of thrones
• gardens of the moon
• gormenghast
• heroes die
• lies of locke lamora
• lord foul's bane
• prince of thorns
• the amulet of samarkand
• the black company
• the blade itself
• the darkness that comes before
• the dragonbone chair
• the name of the wind
• the troupe