I had a harebrained idea to keep a running ranking of the books as I read/review them, so here it is, probably with a heaping helping of recency bias.
Rank | Title | Previous Rank |
---|---|---|
1 | Speaker for the Dead | 1 |
2 | Hyperion | 2 |
3 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | 3 |
4 | Dune | 4 |
5 | The Left Hand of Darkness | 5 |
6 | Ender's Game | 6 |
7 | Fahrenheit 451 | 7 |
8 | Doomsday Book | 8 |
9 | A Deepness in the Sky | 9 |
10 | Barrayar | 10 |
11 | The Vor Game | 11 |
12 | Way Station | 12 |
13 | Dreamsnake | 13 |
14 | Blackout/All Clear | 14 |
15 | The Dispossessed | 15 |
16 | Ancillary Justice | 16 |
17 | The Calculating Stars | 17 |
18 | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | 18 |
19 | A Fire Upon the Deep | 19 |
20 | The Stone Sky | 20 |
21 | The Obelisk Gate | 21 |
22 | The Fifth Season | 22 |
23 | The Graveyard Book | 23 |
24 | The Three-Body Problem | 24 |
25 | Among Others | 25 |
26 | Lord of Light | 26 |
27 | Gateway | 27 |
28 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | 28 |
29 | Mirror Dance | 29 |
30 | Paladin of Souls | 30 |
31 | Ringworld | 31 |
32 | Spin | 32 |
33 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | 33 |
34 | Foundation's Edge | 34 |
35 | A Memory Called Empire | 35 |
36 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | 36 |
37 | The Forever War | 37 |
38 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | 38 |
39 | The Diamond Age | 39 |
40 | Stand on Zanzibar | 40 |
41 | The Man in the High Castle | 41 |
42 | Hominids | 42 |
43 | Redshirts | 43 |
44 | The Demolished Man | 44 |
45 | Double Star | 45 |
46 | Network Effect | 46 |
47 | The City and The City | 47 |
48 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | 48 |
49 | Starship Troopers | 49 |
50 | The Windup Girl | 50 |
51 | A Case of Conscience | 51 |
52 | Forever Peace | 52 |
53 | The Gods Themselves | 53 |
54 | ...And Call Me Conrad (This Immortal) | 54 |
55 | Farmer in the Sky | 55 |
56 | The Snow Queen | NEW |
57 | The Uplift War | 56 |
58 | Rainbows End | 57 |
59 | American Gods | 58 |
60 | Stranger in a Strange Land | 59 |
61 | A Desolation Called Peace | 60 |
62 | Shadow Over Mars | 61 |
63 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 62 |
64 | Slan | 63 |
65 | Cyteen | 64 |
66 | Conjure Wife | 65 |
67 | Beyond This Horizon | 66 |
68 | The Fountains of Paradise | 67 |
69 | The Big Time | 68 |
70 | Downbelow Station | 69 |
71 | Neuromancer | 70 |
72 | They'd Rather Be Right | 71 |
73 | Rendezvous With Rama | 72 |
74 | The Mule | 73 |
75 | Startide Rising | 74 |
76 | The Sword in the Stone | 75 |
77 | The Wanderer | 76 |
78 | Blue Mars | 77 |
79 | Green Mars | 78 |