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
#1
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.57
#2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.28
#3
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
4.24
#4
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.29
#5
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
4.41
#6
1984
George Orwell
4.21
#7
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.94
#8
The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov
4.21
#9
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.9
#10
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
4.03
#11
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
4.21
#12
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
3.96
#13
Animal Farm
George Orwell
4.06
#14
Neuromancer
William Gibson
3.86
#15
Watchmen
Alan Moore
4.46
#16
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
4.04
#17
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
3.68
#18
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
4.41
#19
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
4.08
#20
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Michael Burgan
3.82
#21
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
3.93
#22
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.1
#23
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
3.67
#24
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
3.97
#25
The Stand
Stephen King
4.19
#26
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
3.95
#27
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
3.93
#28
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
4.13
#29
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
4.76
#30
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
3.91
#31
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.74
#32
Watership Down
Richard Adams
4.12
#33
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
3.84
#34
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
3.72
#35
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.94
#36
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
3.67
#37
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Anthony Bonner (Translator)
Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)
3.64
#38
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
4.25
#39
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
3.77
#40
Nine Princes in Amber
Roger Zelazny
3.71
#41
Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings
3.84
#42
The Mists Of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
3.81
#43
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
4.44
#44
Ringworld
Larry Niven
3.57
#45
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.02
#46
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
4
#47
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
3.75
#48
Neverwhere
4.14
#49
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
3.98
#50
Contact
Carl Sagan
4.09
#51
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.24
#52
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
4
#53
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
4.25
#54
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks
3.88
#55
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
3.91
#56
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
3.89
#57
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
4.27
#58
Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen R. Donaldson
2.99
#59
Shards of Honour
Lois McMaster Bujold
3.88
#60
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
4.41
#61
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
3.84
#62
Wizard's First Rule
Terry Goodkind
3.68
#63
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
4.05
#64
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
3.99
#65
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
3.95
#66
Magician: Apprentice
Raymond E. Feist
3.97
#67
The Sword of Shannara
Terry Brooks
3.17
#68
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
Robert E. Howard
3.75
#69
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
4.09
#70
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
William Hope
Laurel Lefkow
3.92
#71
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
#72
Voyage Au Centre de La Terre
Elyette Roussel
3.71
#73
Homeland
R. A. Salvatore
3.88
#74
Old Man’s War
John Scalzi
4.19
#75
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