I’ve listed below all the science fiction books I’ve read that I can remember, in no particular order. I’ve included the names of authors, and any other titles they’ve written directly below their first mention. See my 2-part article What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books for my insights and takeaways from these books.
The best books are bolded, the great ones are underlined, and my absolute favorites are in red. I’ll keep this list updated as I read new ones.
- Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
- Forward the Foundation
- Foundation
- Foundation and Empire
- Second Foundation
- Foundation’s Edge
- Foundation and Earth
- Caves of Steel
- Bicentennial Man
- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
- The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
- Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
- Speaker for the Dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind
- Ender’s Shadow
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Shadow Puppets
- The Forever War (Joe Haldeman)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- Dune Messiah
- Destination Void
- The Jesus Incident
- The Lazarus Effect
- The Ascension Factor
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe, and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Mostly Harmless
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- Animal Farm
- Neuromancer (William Gibson)
- Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
- Starship Troopers
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
- A Scanner Darkly
- Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
- The Invisible Man
- The Time Machine
- Ringworld (Larry Niven)
- Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
- The Fall of Hyperion
- Endymion
- The Rise of Endymion
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
- The Lost World
- Prey
- Sphere
- The Andromeda Strain
- Timeline
- Congo
- Altered Carbon (Richard Morgan)
- Broken Angels
- Woken Furies
- Wool (Hugh Howey)
- Shift
- Dust
- Nexus (Ramez Naan)
- Crux
- Apex
- Singularity Sky (Charles Stross)
- Iron Sunrise
- Accelerando
- Saturn’s Children
- Glasshouse
- Rainbow’s End (Vernor Vinge)
- I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
- Pacific Edge (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- The Gold Coast
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur Clarke)
- 2010: Odyssey Two
- 2061: Odyssey Three
- 3001: The Final Odyssey
- Childhood’s End
- Snow Crash (Neil Stephenson)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
- From the Earth to the Moon
- A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
- A Wind in the Door
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
- The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
- The Golden Globe (John Varley)
- Makers (Cory Doctorow)
- The Circle (Dave Eggers)
- Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds)
- Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- The Dispossessed
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)
- Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
- Old Man’s War (John Scalzi)
- I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
- Contact (Carl Sagan)
- The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)
- The Stand (Stephen King)
- The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
- Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury)
- Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
- The Man in the High Castle
- Gateway (Frederik Pohl)
- Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
- The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
- Pandora’s Star (Peter Hamilton)
- Judas Unchained
- Permutation City (Greg Egan)
- World War Z (Max Brooks)
- Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- Red Mars
- Green Mars
- Blue Mars
- The Three Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
- Blindsight (Peter Watts)
- Echopraxia
- Lilith’s Brood (Octavia Butler)
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