The editors at Amazon have chosen their favorite science fiction and fantasy books of all time.
The editors formed a committee to choose their 100 favorites in the genre looking at elements such as “vision, character creation, world building, and storytelling style.”
We’ve got the entire list after the jump.
Amazon’s 100 Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
| First Pub | Title | Author |
| 1949 | 1984 (Signet Classics) | George Orwell |
| 2001: a Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 1960 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr. |
| 1996 | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) | George R. R. Martin |
| 1968 | A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle) | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1962 | A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) | Madeleine L’Engle |
| 2003 | Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) | Richard K. Morgan |
| 2001 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman |
| 2011 | Among Others (Hugo Award Winner – Best Novel) | Jo Walton |
| 2013 | Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) | Ann Leckie |
| 2014 | Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy) | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) | Robin Hobb | |
| 1985 | Blood Music | Greg Bear |
| 1932 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 1953 | Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 2004 | Cloud Atlas: A Novel | David Mitchell |
| 1998 | Daughter of the Blood (Black Jewels, Book 1) | Anne Bishop |
| 1975 | Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany |
| 1968 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick |
| 1992 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis |
| 1968 | Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern – Volume 1) | Anne McCaffrey |
| 1965 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 1985 | Ender’s Game (The Ender Quintet) | Orson Scott Card |
| 1953 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| 1994 | Foreigner: (10th Anniversary Edition) | C. J. Cherryh |
| 1818 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| 1990 | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Neil Gaiman |
| 2008 | Graceling | Kristin Cashore |
| 1989 | Grass | Sheri S. Tepper |
| 2002 | Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1) | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| 2005* | H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America) | H. P. Lovecraft |
| 1997 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling |
| 2010 | How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel | Charles Yu |
| 1986 | Howl’s Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones |
| 1989 | Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) | Dan Simmons |
| 1954 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson |
| 1950 | I, Robot | Isaac Asimov |
| 1976 | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice |
| 2004 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel | Susanna Clarke |
| 2003 | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler |
| 2001 | Kushiel’s Dart (Kushiel’s Legacy) | Jacqueline Carey |
| 1977 | Lord Foul’s Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1) | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| 1984 | Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| 1984 | Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter |
| 2005 | Old Man’s War | John Scalzi |
| 1991 | Outlander | Diana Gabaldon |
| 1982 | Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad) | David Eddings |
| 2000 | Perdido Street Station | China Miéville |
| 2011 | Ready Player One: A Novel | Ernest Cline |
| 1993 | Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 2014 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown |
| 1976 | Riddle-Master | Patricia A. McKillip |
| 1970 | Ringworld (A Del Rey book) | Larry Niven |
| 1995 | Sabriel (Old Kingdom) | Garth Nix |
| 2009 | Sandman Slim: A Novel | Richard Kadrey |
| 1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1992 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| 1961 | Solaris | Stanislaw Lem |
| 1959 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 2010 | Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
| 1961 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1983 | The Color of Magic (Discworld) | Terry Pratchett |
| 2001 | The Curse of Chalion (Chalion series) | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 1984 | The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence) | Susan Cooper |
| 1974 | The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle) | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1988 | The Dragonbone Chair: Book One of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn | Tad Williams |
| 1990 | The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) | Robert Jordan |
| 1974 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman |
| 1995 | The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman |
| 2013 | The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel (P.S.) | Helene Wecker |
| 1982 | The Gunslinger: (The Dark Tower #1)(Revised Edition) | Stephen King |
| 1990 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| 1979 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 1937 | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 2008 | The Hunger Games (Book 1) | Suzanne Collins |
| 1968 | The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle |
| 1969 | The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Science Fiction) | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1984 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) | C. S. Lewis |
| 1954 | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 2009 | The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) | Lev Grossman |
| 2014 | The Martian | Andy Weir |
| 1950 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
| 1983 | The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| 2007 | The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle) | Patrick Rothfuss |
| 1987 | The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure | William Goldman |
| 2009 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
| 2012 | The Rook: A Novel | Daniel O’Malley |
| 1996 | The Sparrow: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) | Mary Doria Russell |
| 2003 | The Speed of Dark (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) | Elizabeth Moon |
| 1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
| 1977 | The Sword of Shannara | Terry Brooks |
| 1895 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells |
| 2003 | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| 2010 | The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive, The) | Brandon Sanderson |
| 2009 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 1870 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| 2005 | Uglies | Scott Westerfeld |
| 2015 | Uprooted | Naomi Novik |
| 2011 | Wool | Hugh Howey |
| 2006 | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks |
