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61 Best Science Fiction Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best Science Fiction books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best science fiction books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. 1
    The Martian
  2. 2
    Dune

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

  3. MOST RECOMMENDED!
    3
    Snow Crash

    Snow Crash

    A Novel

    Neal Stephenson

  4. 4
    1984

    1984

    George Orwell

  5. 5
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  6. 6
    Station Eleven

    Station Eleven

    A Novel

    Emily St. John Mandel

  7. 7
    Hyperion
  8. 8
    The Hunger Games
  9. 9
    The Left Hand of Darkness

    The Left Hand of Darkness

    Ursula K. Le Guin

  10. 10
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

  11. 11
    Leviathan Wakes
  12. 12
    The Three-Body Problem
  13. 13
    Jurassic Park
  14. 14
    Foundation

    Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

  15. 16
    Neuromancer
  16. 17
    Oryx and Crake

    Oryx and Crake

    A Novel

    Margaret Atwood

  17. 18
    The Sparrow

    The Sparrow

    A Novel

    Mary Doria Russell

  18. 19
    Doomsday Book
  19. 20
    The Blazing World and Other Writings
  20. 21
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  21. 22
    Stories of Your Life and Others
  22. 23
    Stranger in a Strange Land

    Stranger in a Strange Land

    Robert A. Heinlein

  23. 24
    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

  24. 25
    Slaughterhouse-Five
  25. 26
    Altered Carbon

    Altered Carbon

    Richard K. Morgan

  26. 27
    The Stand

    The Stand

    Stephen King

  27. 28
    The Fifth Season
  28. 29
    2001 A Space Odyssey
  29. 30
    Ringworld
  30. 31
    Binti
  31. 32
    The Legend Trilogy
  32. 33
    Red Rising
  33. 34
    Kindred

    Kindred

    Octavia E. Butler

  34. 35
    Watchers

    Watchers

    Dean Koontz

  35. 36
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  36. 37
    The War of the Worlds
  37. 39
    Dragonflight

    Dragonflight

    Anne McCaffrey

  38. 41
    The Dispossessed

    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

  39. 43
    A Canticle for Leibowitz

    A Canticle for Leibowitz

    Walter M. Miller Jr.

  40. 44
    The Windup Girl

    The Windup Girl

    Paolo Bacigalupi

  41. 45
    Solaris

    Solaris

    Stanislaw Lem

  42. 46
    The City & The City
  43. 47
    The Last Policeman
  44. 48
    The Children of Men
  45. 49
    The Fold

    The Fold

    A Novel

    Peter Clines

  46. 50
    The Gone World

    The Gone World

    Tom Sweterlitsch

  47. 52
    Otherland
  48. 54
    Dhalgren

    Dhalgren

    Samuel R. Delany

  49. 55
    Darwin's Radio
  50. 56
    The Real Story
  51. 59
    Ammonite

    Ammonite

    Nicola Griffith

  52. 60
    Amatka

    Amatka

    Karin Tidbeck

  53. 61
    Dust

    Dust

    A Novel

    Elizabeth Bear

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