The 50 Greatest Science Fiction Books of All Time

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 480 "Greatest Books of All Time" lists curated by TheGreatestBooks. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/14/25)

  1. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (1949)
  2. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
  3. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
  4. Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
  5. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
  6. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
  7. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1953)
  8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979)
  9. A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
  10. The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
  11. The Time Machine - H. G. Wells (1895)
  12. Foundation - Isaac Asimov (1951)
  13. The Left Hand Of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
  14. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
  15. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (1995)
  16. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (2004)
  17. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (1968)
  18. War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells (1898)
  19. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
  20. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
  21. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1870)
  22. Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)
  23. The Aleph And Other Stories - Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
  24. Crash - J. G. Ballard (1973)
  25. The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells (1896)
  26. At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft (1936)
  27. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (1954)
  28. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem (1961)
  29. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
  30. The Giver - Lois Lowry (1993)
  31. 2001 - Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
  32. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin (2015)
  33. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (1950)
  34. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (1951)
  35. The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
  36. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne (1864)
  37. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler (1979)
  38. Ubik - Philip K. Dick (1969)
  39. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (1957)
  40. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (1959)
  41. Parable Of The Sower - Octavia E. Butler (1993)
  42. Darker Than You Think - Jack Williamson (1948)
  43. Time and Again - Jack Finney (1970)
  44. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (1992)
  45. The Sound Of His Horn - Sarban (1952)
  46. Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey (1968)
  47. Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany (1975)
  48. Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
  49. The Children of Men - P. D. James (1992)
  50. The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe (1980)

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