Beare & Lowne, 501 Must-Read Books
science fiction awards database
The section on science fiction has 50 main entries (selected by Cathy Lowne); additional entries are compiled from children's fiction, classic fiction, and modern fiction sections, for a total of 90 main entry titles, listed below.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 90
Publication: Bounty Books, 2006
Compile Notes
Most entries list 'other selected titles' by the author, though these titles are often from early in their authors' careers and thus seem chosen at random; these are not compiled.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 90
Publication: Bounty Books, 2006
Compile Notes
Most entries list 'other selected titles' by the author, though these titles are often from early in their authors' careers and thus seem chosen at random; these are not compiled.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Poul Anderson, Brain Wave (Ballantine, 1954)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
- J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911)
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (George Hill , 1900)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- William Beckford, Vathek (J. Johnson, 1786)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953)
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel (University of Texas Press, 1964; Argentina 1940)
- Robert Bloch, Psycho (Simon & Schuster, 1959)
- Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes (Vanguard , 1963; France 1963)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up (Harper & Row, 1972)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Harper & Row, 1967; France 1967)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (Olympia Press , 1959)
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon, or Over the Range (Trübner and Co, 1872)
- Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics (Harcourt, Brace & World , 1968; Italy 1965)
- Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; Italy 1979)
- John W. Campbell, Jr., Who Goes There? (Shasta, 1948)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and other stories (Gollancz, 1979)
- G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (Arrowsmith, 1908)
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Knopf, 1964)
- L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall (Henry Holt , 1941)
- James De Mille, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (Harper & Bros, 1888)
- Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Doubleday, 1965)
- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story (Doubleday, 1983)
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Putnam, 1971)
- Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins , 1960)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, 1954)
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Thames Methuen, 1908)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969; Switzerland 1943)
- James Hilton, Lost Horizon (Macmillan, 1933)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Stephen King, It (Viking, 1986)
- Kurd Lasswitz, Two Planets (Elischer Nachfolger, 1897)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1962)
- Doris Lessing, Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Knopf, 1979)
- Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives (Random House , 1972)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Bodley Head, 1938)
- Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Frederick A. Stokes, 1920)
- George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (Strahan and Co, 1870)
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954)
- A. Merritt, The Dwellers in the Mirage (Liveright , 1932)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Thomas More, Utopia (unknown; in Latin, 1516)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- Andre Norton, The Time Traders (World , 1958)
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Harper & Bros., 1838)
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
- Christopher Priest, Inverted World (Faber and Faber, 1974)
- Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic, 1995)
- Herbert Read, The Green Child: A Romance (Heinemann, 1935)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury, 1997)
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (Viking, 1989)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Clifford D. Simak, City (Gnome Press, 1952)
- Curt Siodmak, Donovan's Brain (Knopf , 1943)
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
- Patrick Süskind, Perfume (Knopf, 1986)
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Benjamin Motte, 1726)
- D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel (Gollancz, 1981)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Allen & Unwin , 1954)
- A. E. van Vogt, Slan (Arkham House, 1946)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ward, Lock, 1891)
- Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia (Farrar and Rinehart, 1942)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
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