NPR's Top 100 SF&F books

[Krug]

Interesting list. A lot of classics on there, but quite a few not so classics also (The Thrawn Trilogy?...Seriously!?!). Personally I would replace the Drizzt series with the original Dragonlance Trilogy. I think the DL trilogy is much more iconic for it's genre, but the list does tend to show a preference towards more contemporary series as well as older classics. I guess the DL trilogy has faded from our contemporary shared consciousness.

I didn't even know what the Thrawn Trilogy was..

I guess when it's fan voted it'll come down to popularity. I bet if they asked ten years from now the list would be quite different. Don't think stuff like World War Z would even be on the list.

I assume they omitted YA novels (but included comics). Was expecting Harry Potter and the Hunger Games series to be in there.

 

[Dioltach]

Howard does appear on the full 237 list, but the others do not.

Surely that's him on no. 68?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Surely that's him on no. 68?

Ack! So it is- which ups my total by +1.

 

[messy]

i've only read ten from the list. please don't take my geek card!

 

[Mallus]

That list neatly illustrates the problem with letting people vote for things.

Wretched books about Drizzt and Objectivist agitprop with a smattering of BSDM rank higher than The Book of the New Sun, all the Culture novels, and Elric. Really?

Okay, so the list has got a lot of good books on it, and some inexplicable ones, but it's all out of order.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I agree that Cook's Black Company should be in the top 50 at the very least, and it's a crime that Amber is lower on the list than Dragonflight, frex.

In the past few years I tried to re-read Dragonflight. It didn't hold up for me.

Amber, however, is still mostly awesome.

 

[Jhaelen]

Well, I've read almost all of the top 20 (except #11 and #18).
I'm not sure about the order but I agree that almost all of them (that is, all except #12 Wheel of Time) should be on the list somewhere.

 

[Artur Hawkwing]

Personally, I'm a bit surprised The Lensman series didn't get up there higher. Nor did I see Saberhagen's (sp) Books of Swords up there. Dragonflight was okay, but the better Pern book would have been All The Weyrs of Pern. Anything after the rediscovery of tech doesn't exist in my mind. Then again, I spent 20 years off and on of PernMUSH.

And no Star Trek books. Wow.