I spend too much time on ENWorld, a site to talk about Dungeons and Dragons, other RPGs, and other nerdy stuff. There were recently three threads about the best SF and Fantasy books. So, I spent too much time compiling the list into a spreadsheet. Here is that list (displays 25 rows at a time, and yes, you can change which column it sorts by):
Note: There are duplicates here, as I am not familiar with all of the books and the series, apologies if that bothers you.
| Book or Series | Author | I've Read it |
|---|---|---|
| Akira | Burroughs, William | No |
| Architects series | Tchaikovsky, Adrian | No |
| Second the Imperial Radch series | Leckie, Anne | No |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Verne, Jules | Yes |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Miller, Walter | Yes |
| A Clockwork Orange | Burgess, Anthony | No |
| A Game of Thrones | GRRM | Yes |
| A Princess of Mars. | Burroughs, Edgar Rice | Yes |
| A Song for Arbonne | Kay, GG | Yes |
| A Storm of Swords | GRRM | Yes |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | LeGuin, Ursula | Yes |
| American Gods | Gaiman | Yes |
| Ancillary books | Leckie, Anne | No |
| Assassin trilogy | Hobb, Robin | No |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf | James, Marlon | No |
| Blindsight | Watts, Peter | No |
| Brave New World | Huxley, Aldous | Yes |
| Broken Earth Trilogy | Jemison | Yes |
| Cat's Cradle | Vonnegut, Kurt | No |
| Changes | Butcher | No |
| Childhood's End | Clark, Arthur C | No |
| Children of Time | Tchaikovsky, Adrian | No |
| Cloud Atlas | Mitchell, David | No |
| Cold Days | Butcher | No |
| Colour of Magic | Pratchett., Terry | Yes |
| Consider Phlebas | Banks, Iain | Yes |
| Cyrion | Lee, Tanith | No |
| Darkness series | Turtledove, Harry | No |
| Dead Beat | Butcher., Jim | No |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Dick, Philip K | No |
| Downbelow Station | Cherryh, CJ | No |
| Drachenfels | Newman, Kim | No |
| Dragondoom: A Novel of Mithgar | McKiernan, Dennis | Yes |
| Dragonlance trilogy | Hickman, Weiss | Yes |
| Dragons of Autumn Twilight | Hickman, Weiss | Yes |
| Dresden Files | Butcher | No |
| Drizzt, any Drizzt. | Salvatore | Yes |
| Dune | Herbert | Yes |
| Expendable | Gardner, Alan | No |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury, Ray | Yes |
| Fallen Cloud saga | Giambastiani, Kurt | No |
| Fiona Staples' Saga | Vaughn Brian | No |
| Fire Upon the Deep | Vinge, Vernor | No |
| First Law books | Abercrombie | No |
| Flowers for Algernon | Keyes, Daniel | No |
| Footfall | Pournelle and Niven | No |
| Forever War | Haldeman | Yes |
| Foundation Trilogy | Asimov, Isaac | Yes |
| Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary | No |
| Gateway | Pohl, Frederik | No |
| Gentleman Bastards series | Lynch | Yes |
| Golden Compass | Pullman, Phillip | Yes |
| Grand Tour series | Bova, Ben | No |
| Harry Potter | Rowling JK | No |
| Her Majesty's Dragon | Novik, Naomi | No |
| Hiero's Journey | Lanier, Sterling | No |
| Hogfather | Pratchett., Terry | No |
| House of Leaves | Danielewski, Mark | No |
| Hunger Games | Collins, Suzanne | Yes |
| Hyperion | Simmons, Dan | No |
| I, Robot | Asimov, Isaac | Yes |
| Imajica | barker, clive | No |
| Imperial Radch | Leckie's, Ann | No |
| Jhereg | Brust | Yes |
| John Dies at the End | Pargin, Jason | No |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Clarke, Susana | No |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Verne, Jules | Yes |
| Kingdoms of Thorne and Bone | Keyes, Greg | No |
| Kingkiller Chronicle | Rotfhus | Yes |
| Knights of Dark Renown | Gemmell | No |
| Left Hand of Darkness | Darkness | Yes |
| Legend | Gemmell | No |
| Lord of Light | Zelazny, Roger | Some |
| Lyonesse trilogy | Vance, Jack | No |
| Magician | Feist | Yes |
| Magicians | Grossman | Yes |
| Man in the High Castle | Dick, Philip K | No |
| Ministry For the Future | Robinson, Kim Stanley | No |
| Mistborn | Sanderson | Yes |
| Mortal Engines | Reeve, Phillip | No |
| Murderbot series | Wells, Martha | No |
| Network Effect | Wells, Martha | No |
| Neuromancer | Gibson | No |
| Nine Prince in Amber | Zelazny, Roger | Some |
| Oath of Fealty | Pournelle, | No |
| Oathbringer | Sanderson | No |
| Old Man’s War | Scalzi | No |
| One Thousand and One Nights, aka The Arabian Nights. | Various | No |
| Operation Chaos | Anderson., Poul | No |
| Otherland | Willams, Tad | No |
| Pandora's Star, | Hamillton, Peter | No |
| Parable of the Sower | Butler , Octavia | No |
| Passage at Arms | Cook, Glen | No |
| Percy Jackson and the Olympians series | riordan, rick | No |
| Perdido Street Station | Mieville, China | Yes |
| Prayer for the Crown-shy | Chambers, Becky | No |
| Pride & Prejudice & Zombies | Grahame-Smith, Seth | No |
| Pride of Chanur | Cherryh, CJ | No |
| Ready Player One. | Cline, Ernest | No |
| Red Country | Abercrombie | No |
| Red Rising | brown, Pierce | Yes |
| Redshirts | Scalzi | Yes |
| Rendezvous with Rama | Clark, Arthur C | No |
| Retrieval Artist series | Rausch, KK | No |
| Revelation Space | Reynolds, Alastair | No |
| Roadside Picnic | Strugatsky | No |
| Rogues in the House | Howard, Robert | No |
| Sailing to Sarantium | Kay, GG | Yes |
| Sandman | Gaiman | Yes |
| Seveneves | Stephenson | No |
| Shards of Honor | Bujold, Luis McMaster | No |
| Silmarilion | Tolkien | Yes |
| Silverlock | Myers Myers, John | No |
| Singularity Sky | Stross, Charles | No |
| Six of Crows | Bardugo, Leigh | No |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut, Kurt | Yes |
| Small Gods | Pratchett., Terry | Yes |
| So You Want to be a Wizard | Duane's, Diane | No |
| Soldier, Ask Not | Dickson, Gordon R | No |
| Southern Reach trilogy | Vandermeer, Jeff | No |
| Space Cadet | Heinlein | No |
| Speaker for the Dead | Card, Orson Scott | Yes |
| Stardust, | Gaiman | Yes |
| Stars My Destination | Bester., Alfred | No |
| Starship Troopers | Heinlein | No |
| Station Eleven | St. John Mandel, Emily | No |
| Stormbringer | Moorcock, Michael | Yes |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Heinlein | No |
| Taran Wanderer | Alexander, Lloyd | No |
| The (Marvelous) Land of Oz | Baum, Frank | No |
| The Black Company Trilogy | Cook, Glen | Yes |
| The Blade Itself | Abercrombie | No |
| The Bonehunters | Erickson, Steven | No |
| The Book of the New Sun | Wolfe, Gene | Yes |
| The Craft Sequence | Gladstone, Max | No |
| The Curse of Chalion | Chalion | No |
| The Dark is Rising | Cooper | No |
| The Demon Crown | Vardeman, Robert E | No |
| The Dispossessed | LeGuin, Ursula | Yes |
| The Elfstones of Shannara | Brooks | Yes |
| The Expanse | Corey, James | No |
| The Great Hunt | Jordan., Robert | Yes |
| The Gunslinger | King, Stephen | No |
| The Heroes. | Abercrombie | No |
| The High King | Alexander, Lloyd | No |
| The Hobbit | Tolkien | Yes |
| The Inheritance Trilogy | Jemison | Yes |
| The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy | Harrison, M John | No |
| The King Beyond the Gate | Gemmell | No |
| The King of Elfland's Daughter | Lord, Dunsany | No |
| The Ladies of Mandrigyn | Hambly, Barbara | No |
| The Last unicorn | Beagle, Peter | No |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | LeGuin, Ursula | Yes |
| The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | Lewis, CS | Yes |
| The Locked Tomb series | Muir, Tamsyn | Some |
| The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet | Chambers:, Becky | No |
| The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien | Yes |
| The Machinery of Empire trilogy | Lee., Yoon Ha | No |
| The Magician's Nephew | Lewis, CS | Yes |
| The Malazan Books of the Fallen | Erickson, Steven | Some |
| The Martian | Weir, Andy | No |
| The Martian Chronicles | Bradbury, Ray | Yes |
| The Mote in God's Eye | Pournelle and Niven | No |
| The Night Circus | Morgenstern, Erin | No |
| The Once and Future King | White, TH | Yes |
| The Road | McCarthy, Cormac | No |
| The Shadow of the Torturer | Wolfe, Gene | Yes |
| The SIlver Spike | Cook, Glen | Yes |
| The Stainless Steel Rat | Harrison, Harry | No |
| The Stormlight Archive | Sanderson, Brandon | No |
| The Technicolor Time Machine | Harrison, Harry | No |
| The Three Body Problem | Cixin, Liu | Yes |
| The Time Machine | Wells, HG | Yes |
| The Time Ships | Baxter, Stephen | No |
| The Tom Rynosseros saga | Dowling, Terry | No |
| The Tombs of Atuan | LeGuin, Ursula | No |
| The Traitor Baru Cormorant | Dickinson, Seth | No |
| The Uplift War | Brin, David | No |
| The War of the Worlds | Wells, HG | No |
| The Warrior who Carried Life | Ryman., Geoff | No |
| The Windup Girl | Bacigalupi, Paolo | Yes |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Eddison, ER | No |
| Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Dick, Philip K | No |
| Tigana | Kay, GG | Yes |
| Titus Groan | Peake, Mervyn | No |
| To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Farmer, Philip José | No |
| Tower of the Elephant | Howard, Robert | No |
| Tunnel in the Sky | Heinlein | No |
| Ubik | Dick, Philip K | No |
| Use of Weapons | Banks, Iain | Yes |
| Wayfarers series | Chambers, Becky | No |
| Who Fears Death | Okorafor, Nnedi | No |