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100 Best Books - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Literature and More.

A List of the Best Books

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Rank	Title	Author	Type	Genre	Avg Score	# of Votes
1	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	Indiv.	Science Fiction	10.00	10
2	Fablehaven	Brandon Mull	Indiv.	Fantasy	10.00	5
3	Twilight	Stephenie Meyer	Indiv.	Thriller	10.00	4
4	Wolves in the Walls	Neil Gaiman	Indiv.	Fantasy	10.00	3
5	Cirque du Freak	Darren Shan	Series	Fantasy	10.00	3
6	Eclipse	Stephenie Meyer	Indiv.	Thriller	10.00	3
7	Elfstones of Shannara	Terry Brooks	Indiv.	Fantasy	10.00	2
8	Believing Christ	Stephen E. Robinson	Indiv.	Religion	10.00	2
9	The Dragonriders of Pern: Dragonflight	Anne McCaffrey	Indiv.	Fantasy	10.00	2
10	Maximum Ride	James Patterson	Series	Thriller	10.00	2
11	Ringworld	Larry Niven	Indiv.	Science Fiction	10.00	1
12	Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World	Louis Fischer	Indiv.	Non-fiction	10.00	1
13	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred Taylor	Indiv.	Children	10.00	1
14	Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae	Steven Pressfield	Indiv.	Historical Fiction	10.00	1
15	War of the Rats	David Robbins	Indiv.	Historical Fiction	10.00	1
16	Starship Troopers	Robert Heinlein	Indiv.	Science Fiction	10.00	1
17	The Journey From Abandonment To Healing	Susan Anderson	Indiv.	Inspirational	10.00	1
18	Flags of Our Fathers	James Bradley	Indiv.	Biography	10.00	1
19	Coraline	Neil Gaiman	Indiv.	Thriller	10.00	1
20	Self-Editing for Fiction Writers	Renni Brown	Indiv.	Non-fiction	10.00	1
21	The Cuckoo's Egg	Cliff Stoll	Indiv.	Non-fiction	10.00	1
22	Pendragon	D.J. MacHale	Series	Adventure	10.00	1
23	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J.K. Rowlings	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.75	4
24	Harry Potter	J.K. Rowling	Series	Fantasy	9.71	7
25	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.67	3
26	The Chronicles of Amber	Roger Zelazny	Series	Fantasy	9.67	3
27	Sphere	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.67	3
28	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J.K. Rowling	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.67	3
29	Chronicles of Thomas Covenant	Stephen R. Donaldson	Series	Fantasy	9.60	5
30	Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	Series	Fantasy	9.50	4
31	The Black Company	Glen Cook	Series	Fantasy	9.50	4
32	Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer	Series	Fantasy	9.50	2
33	Homebody: A Novel	Orson Card	Indiv.	Horror	9.50	2
34	Lost Boys	Orson Card	Indiv.	Horror	9.50	2
35	Armor	John Steakley	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.50	2
36	The Forever War	Joe Haldeman	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.50	2
37	The Alliance	Gerald Lund	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.50	2
38	Legend	David Gemmell	Series	Fantasy	9.50	2
39	The Princess Bride	William Goldman	Indiv.	Adventure	9.50	2
40	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Indiv.	Classic Literature	9.33	3
41	The Sword of Truth	Terry Goodkind	Series	Fantasy	9.33	3
42	Children of the Red King	Jenny Nimmo	Series	Fantasy	9.33	3
43	Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone	J.K. Rowling	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.33	3
44	Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban	J.K. Rowling	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.33	3
45	New Moon	Stephenie Meyer	Indiv.	Thriller	9.33	3
46	Eragon	Christopher Paolini	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.25	4
47	The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood	Howard Pyle	Indiv.	Classic Literature	9.20	5
48	Eldest	Christopher Paolini	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.00	4
49	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Indiv.	Classic Literature	9.00	4
50	Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus	Orson Card	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	4
51	A Wizard of Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.00	3
52	A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	3
53	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.00	3
54	The Mote in God's Eye	Larry Niven	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	2
55	I Love You Stinky Face	Lisa McCourt	Indiv.	Children	9.00	2
56	A Game of Thrones	George R.R. Martin	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.00	2
57	Perdido Street Station	China Mieville	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	2
58	Hyperion	Dan Simmons	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	2
59	The Fall of Hyperion	Dan Simmons	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	2
60	Shadow and Claw	Gene Wolfe	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	2
61	The Runaway Jury	John Grisham	Indiv.	Thriller	9.00	2
62	Alas Babylon	Pat Frank	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	2
63	Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad	William Craig	Indiv.	Non-fiction	9.00	2
64	Treasure Box	Orson Card	Indiv.	Horror	9.00	2
65	Dragon Rider	Cornelia Funke	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.00	1
66	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	Indiv.	Children	9.00	1
67	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich	William Shirer	Indiv.	Non-fiction	9.00	1
68	Mort	Terry Pratchett	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.00	1
69	I Am Legend	Richard Matheson	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	1
70	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Indiv.	Classic Literature	9.00	1
71	The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great	Steven Pressfield	Indiv.	Historical Fiction	9.00	1
72	The End of War	David Robbins	Indiv.	Historical Fiction	9.00	1
73	Red Storm Rising	Tom Clancy	Indiv.	Thriller	9.00	1
74	The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	1
75	Chasm City	Alastair Reynolds	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	1
76	The Eyes of the Dragon	Stephen King	Indiv.	Fantasy	9.00	1
77	The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham	Indiv.	Science Fiction	9.00	1
78	Dread Empire's Fall	Walter Williams	Series	Science Fiction	9.00	1
79	Cry of The Ice Mark (The Icemark chronicles)	Stuart Hill	Series	Fantasy	9.00	1
80	Candy Shop War	Brandon Mull	Indiv.	Adventure	9.00	1
81	Animal Farm	George Orwell	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.80	5
82	Dune	Frank Herbert	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.67	3
83	Timeline	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.67	3
84	The Firm	John Grisham	Indiv.	General Fiction	8.67	3
85	Dracula	Bram Stoker	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.60	5
86	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.50	2
87	The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H.P. Lovecraft	Indiv.	Horror	8.50	2
88	The Taking	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Horror	8.50	2
89	Watchmen	Alan Moore	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.50	2
90	False Memory	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Horror	8.50	2
91	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.50	2
92	The Prydain Chronicles	Lloyd Alexander	Series	Fantasy	8.50	2
93	The Lions of al Rassan	Guy Kay	Indiv.	Fantasy	8.50	2
94	Prey	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.50	2
95	Startide Rising	David Brin	Series	Science Fiction	8.50	2
96	Gateway	Frederik Pohl	Series	Science Fiction	8.50	2
97	Revelation Space	Alastair Reynolds	Series	Science Fiction	8.50	2
98	Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice	Indiv.	Horror	8.33	3
99	Odd Thomas	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Horror	8.00	3
100	Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince	J.K. Rowling	Indiv.	Fantasy	8.00	3
101	The Iliad	Homer	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.00	2
102	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.00	2
103	Foundation	Isaac Asimov	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	2
104	Congo	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	General Fiction	8.00	2
105	The Andromeda Strain	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	2
106	A Canticle for Liebowitz	Walter M. Miller Jr.	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	2
107	1984	George Orwell	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.00	1
108	The Odyssey	Homer	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.00	1
109	The Eyes of Darkness	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Horror	8.00	1
110	Forever Odd	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Horror	8.00	1
111	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.00	1
112	Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman	Indiv.	Non-fiction	8.00	1
113	The Color of Magic	Terry Pratchett	Indiv.	Fantasy	8.00	1
114	The Postman	David Brin	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	1
115	Earth Abides	George Stewart	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	1
116	The Last Citadel	David Robbins	Indiv.	Historical Fiction	8.00	1
117	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.00	1
118	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	Robert Heinlein	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	1
119	The Uplift War	David Brin	Series	Science Fiction	8.00	1
120	Phantoms	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Horror	8.00	1
121	The Brethren	John Grisham	Indiv.	General Fiction	8.00	1
122	The Gunslinger	Stephen King	Series	Fantasy	8.00	1
123	Ilium	Dan Simmons	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	1
124	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	Indiv.	Classic Literature	8.00	1
125	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom	Cory Doctorow	Indiv.	Science Fiction	8.00	1
126	Redwall	Brian Jacques	Indiv.	Fantasy	8.00	1
127	The Belgariad	David and Leigh Eddings	Series	Fantasy	8.00	1
128	I am the Cheese	Robert Cormier	Indiv.	Thriller	8.00	1
129	Lord of the Flies	William Golding	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.50	4
130	Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O'Dell	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.50	4
131	The Thief Lord	Cornelia Funke	Indiv.	Fantasy	7.50	2
132	BattleField Earth	L. Ron Hubbard	Indiv.	Science Fiction	7.50	2
133	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Vern	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.50	2
134	Neuromancer	William Gibson	Indiv.	Science Fiction	7.50	2
135	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.25	4
136	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	Indiv.	General Fiction	7.00	3
137	Eaters of the Dead	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	Historical Fiction	7.00	3
138	Pawn of Prophecy	David Eddings	Indiv.	Fantasy	7.00	2
139	Candide	Voltaire	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.00	2
140	Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus	John Gray	Indiv.	Non-fiction	7.00	2
141	The Terminal Man	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	Thriller	7.00	2
142	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.00	1
143	The Inferno	Dante Alighieri	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.00	1
144	Damnation Alley	Roger Zelazny	Indiv.	Science Fiction	7.00	1
145	Knights of Dark Renown	David Gemmell	Indiv.	Fantasy	7.00	1
146	The Wanderer	Fritz Leiber	Indiv.	Science Fiction	7.00	1
147	A Talent for War	Jack McDevitt	Indiv.	Science Fiction	7.00	1
148	Recursion	Tony Ballantyne	Series	Science Fiction	7.00	1
149	Sundiver	David Brin	Series	Science Fiction	7.00	1
150	Forever Peace	Joe Haldeman	Indiv.	Science Fiction	7.00	1
151	The Hades Factor	Robert Ludlum	Indiv.	Thriller	7.00	1
152	Shadowfires	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Horror	7.00	1
153	The Husband	Dean Koontz	Indiv.	Thriller	7.00	1
154	Wicked	Gregory Maguire	Indiv.	Fantasy	7.00	1
155	Enchantment	Orson Scott Card	Indiv.	Fantasy	7.00	1
156	The Runes of Earth	Stephen R. Donaldson	Series	Fantasy	7.00	1
157	The Bartimaeus Trilogy	Jonathan Stroud	Series	Fantasy	7.00	1
158	The Time Machine	H.G. Wells	Indiv.	Classic Literature	7.00	1
159	Inkheart	Cornelia Funke	Indiv.	Fantasy	6.50	2
160	Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire	J.K. Rowling	Indiv.	Fantasy	6.00	2
161	Rising Sun	Michael Crichton	Indiv.	Crime Fiction	6.00	1
162	Wyrms	Orson Card	Indiv.	Fantasy	6.00	1
163	Shadow	K.J. Parker	Indiv.	Fantasy	6.00	1
164	Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants	Ann Brashares	Indiv.	Adventure	6.00	1
165	Inkspell	Cornelia Funke	Indiv.	Fantasy	5.25	4
166	The Wheel of Time	Robert Jordan	Series	Fantasy	5.00	2
167	The Song of the Lark	Willa Cather	Indiv.	Classic Literature	5.00	1
168	Magic Street	Orson Card	Indiv.	Fantasy	5.00	1
169	At First Sight	Nicholas Sparks	Indiv.	Romance	5.00	1
170	Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	Indiv.	Science Fiction	5.00	1
171	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	Indiv.	Classic Literature	4.75	4
172	Honeymoon	James Patterson	Indiv.	Fantasy	2.00	1
173	The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster	Indiv.	Adventure	2.00	1

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