101 Favorite Science Fiction Books

Do you love sci-fi books?

Well, you’re in luck! I’ve compiled a list of 101 Science Fiction Books to keep you reading for weeks to come.

If you like aliens, vampires, or monsters then this list is for you. I’ll feature popular authors like H.G. Wells and Michael Crichton, as well as a few newer writers like Emily St. John Mandel. You’ll be sure to find something you like.

Don’t be afraid to pick something you’ve never heard of because this list contains a few hidden gems.

Likewise, you’ll want to take note of the famous books on the list that you somehow haven’t managed to get ahold of yet.

Ready? Let’s Go!

1. 1984

George Orwell, 1949

2. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne, 1869

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke, 1968

4. 48 Hours

William R. Forstchen, 2019

5. A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine, 2019

6. All Systems Red

Martha Wells, 2017

7. Ammonite

Nicola Griffith, 1992

8. An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon, 2017

9. Annihilation

Jeff Vandermeer, 2014

10. Anthem

Any Rand, 1938

11. Artemis

Andy Weir, 2017

12. Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany, 1966

13. Blade Runner

William S. Burroughs, 1979

14. Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, 1932

15. Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2015

16. Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks, 1987

17. Day Zero

C. Robert Cargill, 2021

18. Deep Wheel Orcadia

Harry Giles, 2021

19. Divergent

Veronica Roth, 2011

20. Dune

Frank Herbert, 1965

21. Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card, 1985

22. Exhalation

Ted Chiang, 2019

23. Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury, 1953

24. Final Architecture Series

Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2021-2022

25. Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes, 1959

26. Frankenstein

Mary Shelley, 1818

27. Goliath

Tochi Onyebuchi, 2022

28. How High We Go In the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu, 2022

29. Hyperion

Dan Simmons, 1989

30. I Am Legend

Richard Matheson, 1954

31. I, Robot

Isaac Asimov, 1950

32. Ice

Anna Kavan, 1967

33. Jack Four

Neal Asher, 2021

34. Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne, 1871

35. Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton, 1991

36. Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021

37. Light Years From Home

Mike Chen, 2022

38. Maze Runner

James Dashner, 2009

39. Neuromancer

Gordon R. Dickson, 1962

40. One Second After

William R. Forstchen, 2009

41. Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood, 2003

42. Paradox Bound

Peter Clines, 2017

43. Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir, 2021

44. Ready Player One (and Two)

Ernest Cline, 2011

45. Recursion

Blake Crouch, 2019

46. Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992

47. Red Rising Series

Pierce Brown, 2014

48. Remote Control

Nnedi Okorafor, 2021

49. Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson, 2011

50. Sea of Rust

C. Robert Cargill, 2017

51. Set My Heart to Five

Simon Stephenson, 2020

52. Skyward

Brandon Sanderson, 2012

53. Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut, 1969

54. Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson, 1992

55. Solaris

Stanislaw Lem, 1961

56. State of Fear

Michael Crichton, 2004

57. Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel, 2014

58. Termination Shock

Neal Stephenson, 2021

59. The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey, 2013

60. The Actual Star

Monica Byrne, 2021

61. The Andromeda Evolution

Daniel H. Wilson (Michael Crichton), 2019

62. The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton, 1969

63. The Children of Men

P.D. James, 1992

64. The Echo Wife

Sarah Gailey, 2021

65. The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov, 1995

66. The End of Men

Christina Sweeney-Baird, 2021

67. The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin, 2015

68. The Forever War

Joe Haldeman, 1974

69. The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey, 2014

70. The Giver

Lois Lowry, 1993

71. The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood, 1985

72. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams, 1979

73. The Host

Stephenie Meyer, 2008

74. The Hunger Games Trilogy

Suzanne Collins, 2008

75. The Invisible Library

Genevieve Cogman, 2014

76. The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells, 1897

77. The Last Man

Mary Shelley, 1826

78. The Last Watch

J.S. Dewes, 2021

79. The Long Earth

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, 2012

80. The Luminous Dead

Caitlin Starling, 2019

81. The Martian

Andy Weir, 2011

82. The Midnight Library

Matt Haig, 2020

83. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein, 1966

84. The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne, 1875

85. The Passage Series

Justin Cronin, 2010

86. The Road

Cormac McCarthy, 2006

87. The Salt Line

Holly Goddard Jones, 2017

88. The Space Between Worlds

Micaiah Johnson, 2020

89. The Stand

Stephen King, 1978

90. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886

91. The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Lui, 2014

92. The Time Machine

H.G. Wells, 1895

93. The Time Traveller’s Wife

Audrey Niffenegger, 2003

94. The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells, 1898

95. This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, 2019

96. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini, 2020

97. Tuf Voyaging

George R.R. Martin, 1986

98. Wanderers

Chuck Wendig, 2019

99. World War Z

Max Brooks, 2006

100. Zone One

Colson Whitehead, 2011

101. Zoo

James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, 2012