More than 60,000 ballots were cast in NPR's annual summer reader's survey. These are the top 100 winners - ordered by the number of votes they received.
Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#1
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.53
1,153 reads
#2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.24
2,726 reads
#3
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
4.25
2,017 reads
#4
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.28
2,992 reads
#5
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
4.37
2,567 reads
#6
1984
George Orwell
4.21
4,223 reads
#7
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.92
2,567 reads
#8
The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire
Isaac Asimov
4.16
197 reads
#9
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.88
2,026 reads
#10
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
4.02
1,703 reads
#11
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
4.19
743 reads
#12
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
4.02
1,204 reads
#13
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Boris Grabnar (Translator)
Celâl Üster (Translator)
Celâl Üstüner (Translator)
4.04
3,336 reads
#14
Neuromancer
William Gibson
3.83
946 reads
#15
Watchmen
Alan Moore
4.44
992 reads
#16
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
4.05
704 reads
#17
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
3.69
446 reads
#18
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
4.4
1,679 reads
#19
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
4.09
1,511 reads
#20
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
3.84
1,733 reads
#21
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
3.94
989 reads
#22
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.09
1,847 reads
#23
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
3.62
1,084 reads
#24
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Stanley Kubrick
4.05
610 reads
#25
The Stand
Stephen King
4.17
891 reads
#26
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
3.94
838 reads
#27
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
4
541 reads
#28
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
4.09
696 reads
#29
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
4.7
72 reads
#30
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
3.9
700 reads
#31
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.7
449 reads
#32
Watership Down
Richard Adams
4.09
469 reads
#33
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
3.78
225 reads
#34
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
3.82
308 reads
#35
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.93
315 reads
#36
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
3.69
750 reads
#37
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Anthony Bonner (Translator)
Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)
3.58
387 reads
#38
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
4.27
1,101 reads
#39
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
3.74
448 reads
#40
Nine Princes in Amber
Roger Zelazny
3.62
176 reads
#41
Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings
3.87
251 reads
#42
The Mists Of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
3.91
203 reads
#43
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
4.44
2,357 reads
#44
Ringworld
Larry Niven
3.67
338 reads
#45
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.05
659 reads
#46
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
3.94
544 reads
#47
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
3.8
164 reads
#48
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
4.11
930 reads
#49
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
3.98
385 reads
#50
Contact
Carl Sagan
4.08
300 reads
#51
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.26
836 reads
#52
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
3.99
790 reads
#53
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
4.23
391 reads
#54
World War Z
Max Brooks
3.9
873 reads
#55
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
3.88
180 reads
#56
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
3.96
488 reads
#57
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
4.28
364 reads
#58
Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen R. Donaldson
3.19
134 reads
#59
Shards of Honour
Lois McMaster Bujold
3.87
131 reads
#60
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
4.37
359 reads
#61
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
3.77
178 reads
#62
Wizard's First Rule
Terry Goodkind
3.7
369 reads
#63
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
4.03
1,226 reads
#64
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
3.98
562 reads
#65
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
3.92
488 reads
#66
Magician: Apprentice
Raymond E. Feist
4.02
338 reads
#67
The Sword of Shannara
Terry Brooks
3.28
210 reads
#68
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
Robert E. Howard
3.93
35 reads
#69
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
4.1
649 reads
#70
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
3.94
701 reads
#71
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
1,759 reads
#72
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
3.67
215 reads
#73
Homeland
R. A. Salvatore
3.97
192 reads
#74
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
4.14
766 reads
#75
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
4.04
271 reads
#76
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
3.92
476 reads
#77
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey
3.89
168 reads
#78
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.17
393 reads
#79
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
3.86
307 reads
#80
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West