Top 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books

NPR did a survey to find the top 100 Sci-fi and Fantasy books. I took the list, and checked off the ones I’ve read.

It’s a very good list, but here are a few that didn’t make the list:

Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem.  Although his Solaris did make the list, I feel Cyberiad is both a more creative and more accessable book.

Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis.  True, this is a graphic novel series, but Watchman made the list, so why not Transmet?

The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper.  I loved this as a kid, it’s an amazing story of classic good vs. evil

Wrinkle in Time Series by Madeline L’Engle.  Time- and space-bending adventures.  I remember them, like C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, getting somewhat Christian-y at times, but they were still fantastic stories.  Plus it introduced young Tev to the concept of a tesseract!

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.  The first book, Black Cauldron, was adapted into a movie by Disney – one of the darker Disney flicks, and one that’s not a musical.  The full series is much more epic.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien.  Sure, it’s a kid’s book, but it could almost be a parallel book to Flowers for Algernon, if Algernon had escaped along with other test animals.