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
#1
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.58
623 reads
#2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.27
1,447 reads
#3
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
4.25
1,120 reads
#4
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.29
1,573 reads
#5
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
4.41
1,352 reads
#6
1984
George Orwell
4.21
2,051 reads
#7
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.94
1,363 reads
#8
The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov
4.21
102 reads
#9
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.91
1,051 reads
#10
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
4.03
960 reads
#11
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
4.21
431 reads
#12
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
3.97
736 reads
#13
Animal Farm
George Orwell
4.07
1,651 reads
#14
Neuromancer
William Gibson
3.87
518 reads
#15
Watchmen
Alan Moore
4.46
580 reads
#16
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
4.04
356 reads
#17
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
3.67
225 reads
#18
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
4.4
949 reads
#19
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
4.08
827 reads
#20
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Michael Burgan
3.83
908 reads
#21
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
3.93
551 reads
#22
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.11
938 reads
#23
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
3.67
619 reads
#24
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
3.98
341 reads
#25
The Stand
Stephen King
4.2
489 reads
#26
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
3.95
486 reads
#27
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
3.95
301 reads
#28
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
4.13
373 reads
#29
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
4.78
45 reads
#30
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
3.91
338 reads
#31
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.74
248 reads
#32
Watership Down
Richard Adams
4.12
260 reads
#33
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
3.84
131 reads
#34
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
3.72
157 reads
#35
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.94
194 reads
#36
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
3.69
423 reads
#37
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Anthony Bonner (Translator)
Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)
3.65
189 reads
#38
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
4.26
574 reads
#39
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
3.76
246 reads
#40
Nine Princes in Amber
Roger Zelazny
3.69
103 reads
#41
Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings
3.85
140 reads
#42
The Mists Of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
3.81
132 reads
#43
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
4.45
1,252 reads
#44
Ringworld
Larry Niven
3.56
196 reads
#45
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.02
352 reads
#46
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
4
296 reads
#47
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
3.78
113 reads
#48
Neverwhere
4.15
539 reads
#49
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
3.99
225 reads
#50
Contact
Carl Sagan
4.09
184 reads
#51
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.24
468 reads
#52
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
3.99
456 reads
#53
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
4.26
214 reads
#54
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks
3.88
503 reads
#55
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
3.91
116 reads
#56
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
3.9
274 reads
#57
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
4.29
215 reads
#58
Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen R. Donaldson
3.01
88 reads
#59
Shards of Honour
Lois McMaster Bujold
3.88
81 reads
#60
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
4.42
191 reads
#61
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
3.83
107 reads
#62
Wizard's First Rule
Terry Goodkind
3.67
203 reads
#63
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
4.04
635 reads
#64
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
3.99
326 reads
#65
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
3.96
209 reads
#66
Magician: Apprentice
Raymond E. Feist
3.96
210 reads
#67
The Sword of Shannara
Terry Brooks
3.17
132 reads
#68
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
Robert E. Howard
3.75
22 reads
#69
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
4.09
351 reads
#70
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
William Hope
Laurel Lefkow
3.91
370 reads
#71
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
937 reads
#72
Voyage Au Centre de La Terre
Elyette Roussel
3.69
106 reads
#73
Homeland
R. A. Salvatore
3.9
101 reads
#74
Old Man’s War
John Scalzi
4.19
418 reads
#75
The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer