SFWA Recommended Reading

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SFWA ( Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ) website has a section where several people list reading suggestions for people unfamiliar with classic SF. The list below includes all books and stories recommended by at least three persons, sorted by author’s name.

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  1. 2.
    The Caves of Steel (R. Daneel Olivaw, Book 1)
    by Isaac Asimov

  2. 3.
    Foundation (Foundation Novels)
    by Isaac Asimov

  3. 4.
    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester

  4. 5.
    Demolished Man (Sf Masterworks 14)
    by Alfred Bester

  5. 6.
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    Tiger! Tiger! (Also Released as Stars My Destination)
    by Alfred Bester

  6. 7.
    A Case of Conscience (Del Rey Impact)
    by James Blish

  7. 8.
    Cities in Flight
    by James Blish

  8. 9.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  9. 10.
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

  10. 11.
    The Martian Chronicles
    by Ray Bradbury

  11. 12.
    Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2)
    by David Brin

  12. 13.
    Stand on Zanzibar
    by John Brunner

  13. 14.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

  14. 15.
    Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
    by Orson Scott Card

  15. 16.
    Rendezvous with Rama
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  16. 17.
    Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact)
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  17. 18.
    The City & the Stars
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  18. 20.
    Nova
    by Samuel R. Delany

  19. 21.
    Babel-17
    by Samuel R. Delaney

  20. 22.
    Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories
    by Samuel R. Delany

  21. 23.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick

  22. 24.
    Ubik
    by Philip K. Dick

  23. 25.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

  24. 26.
    334: A Novel
    by Thomas M. Disch

  25. 27.
    Angry Candy
    by Harlan Ellison

  26. 28.
    Deathbird Stories
    by Harlan Ellison

  27. 29.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  28. 30.
    The Forever War
    by Joe Haldeman

  29. 31.
    The Door into Summer
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  30. 32.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  31. 33.
    Double Star
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  32. 34.
    Past Through Tomorrow
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  33. 35.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  34. 36.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  35. 37.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  36. 38.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

  37. 39.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  38. 40.
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  39. 41.
    The Wanderer
    by Fritz Leiber

  40. 42.
    I Am Legend
    by Richard Matheson

  41. 43.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

  42. 44.
    Bring the Jubilee (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks)
    by Ward Moore

  43. 45.
    Ringworld
    by Larry Niven

  44. 46.
    The Mote in God's Eye
    by Larry Niven

  45. 47.
    Davy
    by Edgar Pangborn

  46. 48.
    A Mirror for Observers
    by Edgar Pangborn

  47. 49.
    Gateway (Heechee Saga)
    by Frederik Pohl

  48. 50.
    Dying Inside (Sf Masterworks)
    by Robert Silverberg

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Created by frbrown on Jun 03, 2011.
 

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