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Top 100 Novels as voted by ISFDB users

Rank Rating Title Year Author(s)
1 9.60 Gravity's Rainbow 1973 Thomas Pynchon
2 9.54 Lord of Light 1967 Roger Zelazny
3 9.50 The Stars My Destination 1956 Alfred Bester
4 9.40 The Sheep Look Up 1972 John Brunner
5 9.33 Fury 1950 Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore
6 9.25 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1965 Philip K. Dick
7 9.25 Doorways in the Sand 1976 Roger Zelazny
8 9.23 Flowers for Algernon 1966 Daniel Keyes
9 9.17 The Demolished Man 1952 Alfred Bester
10 9.14 Creatures of Light and Darkness 1969 Roger Zelazny
11 9.06 Stand on Zanzibar 1968 John Brunner
12 9.05 More Than Human 1953 Theodore Sturgeon
13 9.05 Nine Princes in Amber 1970 Roger Zelazny
14 9.00 A Wizard of Earthsea 1968 Ursula K. Le Guin
15 9.00 Eye of Cat 1982 Roger Zelazny
16 9.00 Norstrilia 1975 Cordwainer Smith
17 9.00 The Space Merchants 1953 C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl
18 9.00 We Who Are About To ... 1977 Joanna Russ
19 9.00 Sarah Canary 1991 Karen Joy Fowler
20 9.00 Judgment Night 1952 C. L. Moore
21 8.95 A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959 Walter M. Miller, Jr.
22 8.93 Dune 1965 Frank Herbert
23 8.93 A Night in the Lonesome October 1993 Roger Zelazny
24 8.91 The City and the Stars 1956 Arthur C. Clarke
25 8.90 The Left Hand of Darkness 1969 Ursula K. Le Guin
26 8.89 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865 Lewis Carroll
27 8.87 Fahrenheit 451 1953 Ray Bradbury
28 8.86 Lyonesse: The Green Pearl 1985 Jack Vance
29 8.86 Timescape 1980 Gregory Benford
30 8.86 The Princess Bride 1973 William Goldman
31 8.84 This Immortal 1966 Roger Zelazny
32 8.84 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 Philip K. Dick
33 8.83 The Forever War 1975 Joe Haldeman
34 8.83 Titan 1979 John Varley
35 8.83 At the Mountains of Madness 1936 H. P. Lovecraft
36 8.83 Crash 1973 J. G. Ballard
37 8.83 The Last Battle 1956 C. S. Lewis
38 8.83 Roadmarks 1979 Roger Zelazny
39 8.80 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 George Orwell
40 8.80 Gateway 1977 Frederik Pohl
41 8.78 Use of Weapons 1990 Iain M. Banks
42 8.76 The Return of the King 1955 J. R. R. Tolkien
43 8.75 The Mote in God's Eye 1974 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
44 8.75 Brightness Falls from the Air 1985 James Tiptree, Jr.
45 8.75 Isle of the Dead 1969 Roger Zelazny
46 8.73 Childhood's End 1953 Arthur C. Clarke
47 8.72 I Am Legend 1954 Richard Matheson
48 8.72 Rendezvous with Rama 1973 Arthur C. Clarke
49 8.71 Lyonesse: Madouc 1989 Jack Vance
50 8.71 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 2006 Max Brooks
51 8.69 Mission of Gravity 1954 Hal Clement
52 8.69 Ubik 1969 Philip K. Dick
53 8.68 Martian Time-Slip 1964 Philip K. Dick
54 8.67 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls 1985 Robert A. Heinlein
55 8.67 Wasp 1957 Eric Frank Russell
56 8.67 Sign of the Unicorn 1975 Roger Zelazny
57 8.67 The Giver 1993 Lois Lowry
58 8.67 Anathem 2008 Neal Stephenson
59 8.65 The Dream Master 1966 Roger Zelazny
60 8.64 The Anubis Gates 1983 Tim Powers
61 8.64 The Player of Games 1988 Iain M. Banks
62 8.63 Way Station 1963 Clifford D. Simak
63 8.62 The Island of Dr. Moreau 1896 H. G. Wells
64 8.62 Son of Man 1971 Robert Silverberg
65 8.62 The Silver Chair 1953 C. S. Lewis
66 8.62 The Fellowship of the Ring 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien
67 8.62 The Man in the High Castle 1962 Philip K. Dick
68 8.62 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1979 Douglas Adams
69 8.60 The Day of the Triffids 1951 John Wyndham
70 8.58 The Algebraist 2004 Iain M. Banks
71 8.58 Jack of Shadows 1971 Roger Zelazny
72 8.57 To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971 Philip José Farmer
73 8.57 The Farthest Shore 1972 Ursula K. Le Guin
74 8.57 Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden 1983 Jack Vance
75 8.57 The Eyes of the Overworld 1966 Jack Vance
76 8.57 The Shadow Rising 1992 Robert Jordan
77 8.57 The Name of the Wind 2007 Patrick Rothfuss
78 8.56 Orphans of the Sky 1963 Robert A. Heinlein
79 8.55 Hyperion 1989 Dan Simmons
80 8.54 Behold the Man 1969 Michael Moorcock
81 8.53 Cat's Cradle 1963 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
82 8.53 The End of Eternity 1955 Isaac Asimov
83 8.50 Altered Carbon 2002 Richard Morgan
84 8.50
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 1971
Аркадий Стругацкий?Arkady Strugatsky
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Борис Стругацкий?Boris Strugatsky
85 8.50 Darwinia 1998 Robert Charles Wilson
86 8.50 Chasm City 2001 Alastair Reynolds
87 8.50 Dying Inside 1972 Robert Silverberg
88 8.49 The Two Towers 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien
89 8.49 Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death 1969 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
90 8.48 Ringworld 1970 Larry Niven
91 8.46 A Deepness in the Sky 1999 Vernor Vinge
92 8.44 Inverted World 1974 Christopher Priest
93 8.44 Startide Rising 1983 David Brin
94 8.44 Up the Walls of the World 1978 James Tiptree, Jr.
95 8.43 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Arthur C. Clarke
96 8.43 A Clockwork Orange 1962 Anthony Burgess
97 8.41 The Puppet Masters 1951 Robert A. Heinlein
98 8.41 The Shadow of the Torturer 1980 Gene Wolfe
99 8.40 A Fire Upon the Deep 1992 Vernor Vinge
100 8.40 The Speed of Dark 2002 Elizabeth Moon

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