Authors of the Top 100 Sci-fi and Fantasy Books (or series) selected by visitors to NPR.org Quiz

Rank	Author	Title
1.		The Lord of the Rings
2.		The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3.		Ender's Game
4.		The Dune Chronicles
5.		A Song of Ice and Fire Series
6.		1984
7.		Fahrenheit 451
8.		The Foundation Trilogy
9.		Brave New World
10.		American Gods
11.		The Princess Bride
12.		The Wheel of Time Series
13.		Animal Farm
14.		Neuromancer
15.		Watchmen
16.		I, Robot
17.		Stranger in a Strange Land
18.		The Kingkiller Chronicles
19.		Slaughterhouse-Five
20.		Frankenstein
21.		Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
22.		The Handmaid's Tale
23.		The Dark Tower Series
24.		2001: A Space Odyssey
25.		The Stand
26.		Snow Crash
27.		The Martian Chronicles
28.		Cat's Cradle
29.		The Sandman Series
30.		A Clockwork Orange
31.		Starship Troopers
32.		Watership Down
33.		Dragon Flight
34.		The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Rank	Author	Title
35.		A Canticle for Leibowitz
36.		The Time Machine
37.		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
38.		Flowers for Algernon
39.		The War of the Worlds
40.		The Chronicles of Amber
41.		The Belgariad
42.		The Mists of Avalon
43.		The Mistborn Series
44.		Ringworld
45.		The Left Hand of Darkness
46.		The Silmarillion
47.		The Once and Future King
48.		Neverwhere
49.		Childhood's End
50.		Contact
51.		The Hyperion Cantos
52.		Stardust
53.		Cryptonomicon
54.		World War Z
55.		The Last Unicorn
56.		The Forever War
57.		Small Gods
58.		The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,The Unbeliever
59.		The Vorkosigan Saga
60.		Going Postal
61.		The Mote in God's Eye
62.		The Sword of Truth
63.		The Road
64.		Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
65.		I Am Legend
66.		The Riftwar Saga
67.		The Shannara Trilogy
68.		The Conan the Barbarian Series

Rank	Author	Title
69.		The Farseer Trilogy
70.		The Time Traveler's Wife
71.		The Way of Kings
72.		A Journey to the Center of the Earth
73.		The Legend of Drizzt Series
74.		Old Man's War
75.		The Diamond Age
76.		Rendezvous with Rama
77.		The Kushiel's Legacy Series
78.		The Dispossesed
79.		Something Wicked This Way Comes
80.		Wicked
81.		The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series
82.		The Eyre Affair
83.		The Culture Series
84.		The Crystal Cave
85.		Anathem
86.		The Codex Alera Series
87.		The Book of the New Sun
88.		The Thrawn Trilogy
89.		The Outlander Series
90.		The Elric Saga
91.		The Illustrated Man
92.		Sunshine
93.		A Fire Upon the Deep
94.		The Caves of Steel
95.		The Mars Trilogy
96.		Lucifer's Hammer
97.		Doomsday Book
98.		Perdido Street Station
99.		The Xanth Series
100.		The Space Trilogy

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	starvenger:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 17:28 GMT		-4 points
	Margaret Atwood? Really?

	cmkeller:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 18:54 GMT		-1 points
	OK, how is it that the Harry Potter series is not on this quiz, but the three "You might also like these games" links are all to Harry Potter quizzes? Sure, the series is in the fantasy genre, but it's clearly not related to this quiz itself.

	DerekH:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 19:09 GMT		6 points
	I didn't do too badly on my first attempt, and would be better on a second attempt. Of course, with a TARDIS I'd be better on the first attempt... ;-)

	raggedyanne:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 19:26 GMT		3 points
	I'm just happy to see Jasper Fforde listed here. I guess more people than I thought have the same twisted taste in reading material as I do.

	goldengenius14:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 21:21 GMT		5 points
	I love Ender's Game as much as the next guy, but how is that ranked above classics by George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Mary Shelley, and Isaac Asimov? (I know this isn't the fault of the quizmaker, who did a wonderful job...)

	IOwnTheSpire:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 22:00 GMT		2 points
	I was expecting the Barsoom books by Edgar Rice Burrows.

	Andrew:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 23:05 GMT		8 points
	I think the list intentionally left out children's/young adult literature, or else Harry Potter, Narnia, and A Wrinkle in Time would have likely been included. Also note that The Hobbit is not on the list.

	oklaclarinet:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 01:01 GMT		1 point
	@Andrew I had also found it odd that Wicked appeared without anything from the original Oz books, but that would explain why.

	JamesJonathan:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 02:40 GMT		1 point
	I didn't do too well on this quiz, but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that I was in the percentile 42.

	bendo:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 08:16 GMT		4 points
	@starvenger Margaret Atwood is incredible. Shame her sci-fi, Oryx and Crake isn't on here.

	Zalx:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 11:40 GMT		1 point
	Certainly not necessarily a complaint about the quiz, but I was bought a copy of Flowers for Algernon for Christmas with the author's name spelt Keys not Keyes. It was sat in front of me, so I thought I would be fine with that, but apparently not.

	katdog42:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 11:56 GMT		4 points
	As a lover of science fiction, I was ashamed of myself for how few I managed to get right. Then I looked up and realized that I had exactly 42 correct answers and felt a little better.

	yellowdart5:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 21:44 GMT		4 points
	@Andrew: Yes, NPR intentionally left them out because it also made a list for "young adult" novels.

	Dorak:	Jan 12th, 2013 at 00:03 GMT		1 point
	Wow. Series are very over-rated on this list. Is Wheel of Time really better than any Jules Verne or H.G. Wells novel?

	dyster:	Jan 13th, 2013 at 07:10 GMT		0 points
	People read too few new books when authors like Terry Brooks, David Eddings and Gene Wolfe make it onto the list, whilst outstanding writers such as Joe Abercrombie are left out. But then again, David Gemmell and Glen Cook are missing as well, so it might just be me... Glad to see Steven Erikson and Brandon Sanderson on there tho, but how they're so far down the list is beyond me...

	achilleslauro:	Jan 20th, 2013 at 13:35 GMT		2 points
	where's Wyndham?

	Tom_Tildrum:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 22:47 GMT		1 point
	No love for Lord Valentine?

	Talmanes:	May 6th, 2013 at 20:47 GMT		1 point
	Lots of lots of complaints about the taste of NPR, but... it's NPR, guys. They're gonna like what they like. I'm sort of shocked we see zero Harlan Ellison on this list -- seriously, how is that even possible? -- but I get that I'm dealing with people whose taste runs in a certain direction, and it's not mine.