Reddit 100 Favourite Sci-Fi Books

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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,676 ratings
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Dune (Dune, #1)
Dune (Dune, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,570,103 ratings
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Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,502 ratings
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,969,876 ratings
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Watchmen
Watchmen 4.39 avg rating — 585,768 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 1,449,668 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.09 avg rating — 495,919 ratings
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The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,637 ratings
9.
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon 4.23 avg rating — 763,506 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,536 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 3.89 avg rating — 354,033 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,927 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,205 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 176,919 ratings
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 179,261 ratings
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash 4.01 avg rating — 293,447 ratings
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 309,563 ratings
18.
Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion / Endymion / Rise of Endymion
Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion / Endymion / Rise of Endymion 4.56 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 112,798 ratings
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 114,093 ratings
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Childhood’s End
Childhood’s End 4.12 avg rating — 169,989 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.25 avg rating — 143,135 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land 3.92 avg rating — 323,265 ratings
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The Expanse Boxed Set: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate
The Expanse Boxed Set: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate 4.66 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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The Red Rising Trilogy Series Collection #1-3
The Red Rising Trilogy Series Collection #1-3 4.62 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
26.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 4.15 avg rating — 136,866 ratings
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Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon 4.23 avg rating — 115,696 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 330,482 ratings
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The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles 4.16 avg rating — 279,617 ratings
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine 3.89 avg rating — 552,893 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 1,266,754 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids 4.01 avg rating — 115,097 ratings
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) 4.42 avg rating — 107,094 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle 3.59 avg rating — 229,228 ratings
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The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by: Liu Cixin
4.40 avg rating — 204,547 ratings
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Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by: Liu Cixin
4.41 avg rating — 159,259 ratings
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Tunnel in the Sky
Tunnel in the Sky 3.96 avg rating — 14,173 ratings
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 65,232 ratings
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by: Liu Cixin
4.08 avg rating — 460,746 ratings
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The Culture: Consider Phlebas/Player of Games/Use of Weapons
The Culture: Consider Phlebas/Player of Games/Use of Weapons 4.51 avg rating — 513 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 116,692 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,414 ratings
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The Passage / The Twelve / The City of Mirrors (The Passage #1-3)
The Passage / The Twelve / The City of Mirrors (The Passage #1-3) 4.58 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers 4.01 avg rating — 241,815 ratings
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The Commonwealth Saga (Commonwealth Saga, #1-2)
The Commonwealth Saga (Commonwealth Saga, #1-2) 4.54 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Ubik
Ubik 4.11 avg rating — 118,725 ratings
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Cat’s Cradle
Cat’s Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 428,349 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds 3.83 avg rating — 340,265 ratings
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 216,448 ratings
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The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun 4.23 avg rating — 4,541 ratings
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 1,031,441 ratings
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The Time Trilogy (Time Quintet, #1-3)
The Time Trilogy (Time Quintet, #1-3) 4.31 avg rating — 7,951 ratings
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Seveneves
Seveneves really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 122,806 ratings
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The Void Trilogy (Void #1-3)
The Void Trilogy (Void #1-3) 4.60 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2) 3.87 avg rating — 173,224 ratings
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Sphere
Sphere 3.83 avg rating — 194,863 ratings
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Timeline
Timeline 3.87 avg rating — 214,268 ratings
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The Sirens of Titan
The Sirens of Titan 4.15 avg rating — 153,660 ratings
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Mars Trilogy
Mars Trilogy 4.35 avg rating — 819 ratings
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The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 72,229 ratings
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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 33,061 ratings
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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)
The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 27,222 ratings
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The Genocides
The Genocides 3.69 avg rating — 1,661 ratings
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Anathem
Anathem 4.17 avg rating — 74,547 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer 4.16 avg rating — 92,359 ratings
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Nova
Nova 3.80 avg rating — 8,860 ratings
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 115,492 ratings
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Windhaven
Windhaven 3.68 avg rating — 7,144 ratings
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Dying of the Light
Dying of the Light 3.56 avg rating — 7,608 ratings
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The Children of Men
The Children of Men 3.67 avg rating — 51,101 ratings
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 367,303 ratings
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The Reckoners Series Hardcover Boxed Set: Steelheart; Firefight; Calamity
The Reckoners Series Hardcover Boxed Set: Steelheart; Firefight; Calamity 4.50 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3.85 avg rating — 218,532 ratings
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man 3.63 avg rating — 211,117 ratings
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Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
Look to Windward (Culture, #7) 4.23 avg rating — 28,822 ratings
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Excession (Culture #5)
Excession (Culture #5) 4.20 avg rating — 33,411 ratings
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Prador Moon (Polity Universe, #1)
Prador Moon (Polity Universe, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 7,868 ratings
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Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 69,500 ratings
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 270,582 ratings
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
Ringworld (Ringworld #1) 3.94 avg rating — 127,119 ratings
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Prey
Prey 3.79 avg rating — 183,690 ratings
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Halo: The Fall of Reach
Halo: The Fall of Reach 4.26 avg rating — 34,225 ratings
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The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #1-3)
The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #1-3) 4.42 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
84.
The First Formic War
The First Formic War 4.48 avg rating — 276 ratings
85.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #1)
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 2,590 ratings
86.
Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #2)
Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 722 ratings
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The Lensman Series: Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, Second Stage Lensmen & The Vortex Blaster
The Lensman Series: Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, Second Stage Lensmen & The Vortex Blaster 4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3) 3.90 avg rating — 26,672 ratings
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Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
Man Plus (Man Plus #1) 3.75 avg rating — 8,615 ratings
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Armor
Armor 4.10 avg rating — 20,366 ratings
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The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier Series 5 Books Set (The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier #1-5)
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier Series 5 Books Set (The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier #1-5) 4.42 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive, #1)
The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 18,109 ratings
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The Dragon Riders of Pern (4 book box set)
The Dragon Riders of Pern (4 book box set) 4.59 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Permutation City
Permutation City
by: Greg Egan
4.06 avg rating — 12,307 ratings
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Diaspora
Diaspora
by: Greg Egan
4.10 avg rating — 10,685 ratings
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The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by: Greg Bear
3.86 avg rating — 16,125 ratings
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Anvil of Stars (Forge of God, #2)
Anvil of Stars (Forge of God, #2)
by: Greg Bear
3.92 avg rating — 6,890 ratings
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The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl 3.75 avg rating — 77,340 ratings
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Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love 3.97 avg rating — 36,722 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,107 ratings
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