Telegraph, 110 best books: The perfect library
science fiction awards database
This list, presumably compiled by Telegraph editors, is grouped into categories (classics, poetry, literary fiction, etc.), but not ranked. Out of 110 titles, 16 are compiled, including those in an SF list and a few titles from children's and elsewhere.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 16
Publication: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672376/110-best-books-The-perfect-library.html, 2008
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 16
Publication: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672376/110-best-books-The-perfect-library.html, 2008
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Gnome, 1951)
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (series, 1995-2000)
- J. K. Rowling, The Harry Potter Series (Bloomsbury, 1997-2007)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Benjamin Motte, 1726)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (George Smith, 1873; France 1871)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
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