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Highest Ranked Novels of the 1960s

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.
Place Score Year Title Type Authors
1 450 1965 Dune NOVEL Frank Herbert
2 280 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness NOVEL Ursula K. Le Guin
3 247 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
4 237 1968 Stand on Zanzibar NOVEL John Brunner
5 225 1966 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
6 149 1967 Lord of Light NOVEL Roger Zelazny
7 120 1969 Up the Line NOVEL Robert Silverberg
8 110 1963 Glory Road NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
9 101 1966 This Immortal NOVEL Roger Zelazny
10 100 1969 Nightwings NOVEL Robert Silverberg
11 96 1962 The Man in the High Castle NOVEL Philip K. Dick
12 87 1966 Babel-17 NOVEL Samuel R. Delany
13 86 1968 Rite of Passage NOVEL Alexei Panshin
14 85 1969 The Jagged Orbit NOVEL John Brunner
15 85 1969 Isle of the Dead NOVEL Roger Zelazny
16 85 1967 The Einstein Intersection NOVEL Samuel R. Delany
17 85 1965 The Star Fox NOVEL Poul Anderson
18 70 1965 El unicornio NOVEL Manuel Mujica Láinez
19 65 1967 Chthon NOVEL Piers Anthony
20 64 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death NOVEL Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
21 63 1969 Bug Jack Barron NOVEL Norman Spinrad
22 63 1969 Fourth Mansions NOVEL R. A. Lafferty
23 62 1963 Way Station NOVEL Clifford D. Simak
24 57 1962 A Wrinkle in Time NOVEL Madeleine L'Engle
25 53 1966 Flowers for Algernon NOVEL Daniel Keyes
26 51 1966 The Crystal World NOVEL J. G. Ballard
27 51 1962 A Clockwork Orange NOVEL Anthony Burgess
28 50 1969 The Andromeda Strain NOVEL Michael Crichton
29 50 1969
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30 50 1968 False Fatherland NOVEL A. Bertram Chandler
31 50 1968 The High King NOVEL Lloyd Alexander
32 50 1968 Camp Concentration NOVEL Thomas M. Disch
33 50 1967 The Owl Service NOVEL Alan Garner
34 50 1965 Stormbringer NOVEL Michael Moorcock
35 50 1964 The Wanderer NOVEL Fritz Leiber
36 50 1964 Nordy Bank NOVEL Sheena Porter
37 50 1962 The Great Explosion NOVEL Eric Frank Russell
38 50 1962 Hothouse NOVEL Brian W. Aldiss
39 50 1962 The Twelve and the Genii NOVEL Pauline Clarke
40 50 1961 A Stranger at Green Knowe NOVEL L. M. Boston
41 46 1968 Dragonflight NOVEL Anne McCaffrey
42 43 1968 The Last Unicorn NOVEL Peter S. Beagle
43 42 1963 Witch World NOVEL Andre Norton
44 38 1964 Davy NOVEL Edgar Pangborn
45 36 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? NOVEL Philip K. Dick
46 36 1968 Past Master NOVEL R. A. Lafferty
47 36 1967 Thorns NOVEL Robert Silverberg
48 36 1962 Little Fuzzy NOVEL H. Beam Piper
49 36 1962 Memoirs of a Spacewoman NOVEL Naomi Mitchison
50 36 1961 Three Hearts and Three Lions NOVEL Poul Anderson
51 35 1969 Emphyrio NOVEL Jack Vance
52 35 1969 Les Guérillères NOVEL Monique Wittig
53 35 1968 The Ring of Ritornel NOVEL Charles L. Harness
54 35 1968 Picnic on Paradise NOVEL Joanna Russ
55 35 1968 The Masks of Time NOVEL Robert Silverberg
56 35 1968 Black Easter NOVEL James Blish
57 35 1967 The Egypt Game NOVEL Zilpha Keatley Snyder
58 35 1967 The Eskimo Invasion NOVEL Hayden Howard
59 35 1967 The Black Pearl NOVEL Scott O'Dell
60 35 1967 An Age NOVEL Brian W. Aldiss
61 35 1966 Clash of Star-Kings NOVEL Avram Davidson
62 35 1965 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch NOVEL Philip K. Dick
63 35 1965 The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream NOVEL G. C. Edmondson
64 35 1965 Rogue Dragon NOVEL Avram Davidson
65 35 1965 A Plague of Demons NOVEL Keith Laumer
66 35 1965 The Genocides NOVEL Thomas M. Disch
67 35 1965 Dr. Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb NOVEL Philip K. Dick
68 35 1965 The Clone NOVEL Theodore L. Thomas and Kate Wilhelm
69 35 1965 The Black Cauldron NOVEL Lloyd Alexander
70 35 1965 All Flesh Is Grass NOVEL Clifford D. Simak
71 35 1965 The Ballad of Beta-2 NOVEL Samuel R. Delany
72 35 1965 Der Traum der Maschine NOVEL Hans Kneifel
73 35 1964 Nova Express NOVEL William S. Burroughs
74 35 1964 Open Prison NOVEL James White
75 35 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest NOVEL Ken Kesey
76 35 1960 Vulcan's Hammer NOVEL Philip K. Dick
77 35 1960 The Cricket in Times Square NOVEL George Selden
78 30 1969 Macroscope NOVEL Piers Anthony
79 30 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea NOVEL Ursula K. Le Guin
80 30 1966 The Winged Man NOVEL E. Mayne Hull and A. E. van Vogt
81 30 1964 The Planet Buyer NOVEL Cordwainer Smith
82 29 1969 Downward to the Earth NOVEL Robert Silverberg
83 29 1964 The Whole Man NOVEL John Brunner
84 29 1964 Earth's Last Citadel NOVEL Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
85 29 1964 The Reign of Wizardry NOVEL Jack Williamson
86 29 1963 Dune World NOVEL Frank Herbert
87 28 1963 Cat's Cradle NOVEL Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
88 12 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
89 12 1962 Something Wicked This Way Comes NOVEL Ray Bradbury
90 5 1966 The Witches of Karres NOVEL James H. Schmitz
91 3 1961 A Fall of Moondust NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
92 2 1969 Ubik NOVEL Philip K. Dick
93 2 1966 The Blue World NOVEL Jack Vance
94 2 1964 Deathworld 2 NOVEL Harry Harrison
95 1 1969 Captain Future and the Space Emperor NOVEL Edmond Hamilton
96 1 1969 Satan's World NOVEL Poul Anderson
97 1 1969 The Sorcerer's Ship NOVEL Hannes Bok
98 1 1969 The Age of the Pussyfoot NOVEL Frederik Pohl
99 1 1969 Brak the Barbarian Versus the Sorceress NOVEL John Jakes
100 1 1968 Nova NOVEL Samuel R. Delany
101 1 1968 The Goblin Reservation NOVEL Clifford D. Simak
102 1 1968 The Reefs of Earth NOVEL R. A. Lafferty
103 1 1967 The Butterfly Kid NOVEL Chester Anderson
104 1 1967 The Productions of Time NOVEL John Brunner
105 1 1967 Too Many Magicians NOVEL Randall Garrett
106 1 1967 World Without Stars NOVEL Poul Anderson
107 1 1967 Agent of Chaos NOVEL Norman Spinrad
108 1 1966 The Eyes of Heisenberg NOVEL Frank Herbert
109 1 1966 Skylark DuQuesne NOVEL Edward E. Smith
110 1 1966 Make Room! Make Room! NOVEL Harry Harrison
111 1 1966 Earthblood NOVEL Rosel George Brown and Keith Laumer
112 1 1966 Day of the Minotaur NOVEL Thomas Burnett Swann
113 1 1966 Watchers of the Dark NOVEL Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
114 1 1966 Ensign Flandry NOVEL Poul Anderson
115 1 1966 World of Ptavvs NOVEL Larry Niven
116 1 1966 Fantastic Voyage NOVEL Isaac Asimov
117 1 1966 Night of Light NOVEL Philip José Farmer
118 1 1966 Danger from Vega NOVEL John T. Phillifent
119 1 1966 Tai-Pan NOVEL James Clavell
120 1 1965 The Squares of the City NOVEL John Brunner
121 1 1964 Martian Time-Slip NOVEL Philip K. Dick
122 1 1964 The Great Time Machine Hoax NOVEL Keith Laumer
123 1 1964 The Reefs of Space NOVEL Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
124 1 1964 Beyond the Barrier NOVEL Damon Knight
125 1 1964 Farnham's Freehold NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
126 1 1963 The Game-Players of Titan NOVEL Philip K. Dick
127 1 1963 Judgment on Janus NOVEL Andre Norton
128 1 1963 The Man Who Fell to Earth NOVEL Walter Tevis
129 1 1963 Junkyard Planet NOVEL H. Beam Piper
130 1 1963 Space Viking NOVEL H. Beam Piper
131 1 1963 The Dreaming Earth NOVEL John Brunner
132 1 1963 Star Surgeon NOVEL James White
133 1 1963 All the Colors of Darkness NOVEL Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
134 1 1963 The Million Cities NOVEL J. T. McIntosh
135 1 1963 Let the Spacemen Beware! NOVEL Poul Anderson
136 1 1963 The Shoes of the Fisherman NOVEL Morris West
137 1 1963 The Fury from Earth NOVEL Dean McLaughlin
138 1 1962 Brain Twister NOVEL Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer
139 1 1962 The Sword of Aldones NOVEL Marion Zimmer Bradley
140 1 1962 The Silver Eggheads NOVEL Fritz Leiber
141 1 1962 Second Ending NOVEL James White
142 1 1962 When They Come from Space NOVEL Mark Clifton
143 1 1962 The Lani People NOVEL J. F. Bone
144 1 1962 Seven Days in May NOVEL Charles W. Bailey, II and Fletcher Knebel
145 1 1962 After Doomsday NOVEL Poul Anderson
146 1 1962 Planet of the Damned NOVEL Harry Harrison
147 1 1961 Rendezvous on a Lost World NOVEL A. Bertram Chandler
148 1 1961 Sylva NOVEL Vercors
149 1 1961 The Stainless Steel Rat NOVEL Harry Harrison
150 1 1961 Dark Universe NOVEL Daniel F. Galouye
151 1 1961 This World Is Taboo NOVEL Murray Leinster
152 1 1961 Naked to the Stars NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
153 1 1961 Delusion World NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
154 1 1961 The Angry Espers NOVEL Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
155 1 1961 The Lovers NOVEL Philip José Farmer
156 1 1961 Some of Your Blood NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
157 1 1961 Pilgrimage: The Book of the People NOVEL Zenna Henderson
158 1 1961 Time Is the Simplest Thing NOVEL Clifford D. Simak
159 1 1960 Venus Plus X NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
160 1 1960 Rogue Moon NOVEL Algis Budrys
161 1 1960 The High Crusade NOVEL Poul Anderson
162 1 1960 Deathworld NOVEL Harry Harrison
163 1 1960 Facial Justice NOVEL L. P. Hartley
164 1 1960 Eight Keys to Eden NOVEL Mark Clifton
165 1 1960 The Status Civilization NOVEL Robert Sheckley
166 1 1960 The Papers of Andrew Melmoth NOVEL Hugh Sykes Davies
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