Rules
Just one rule: One and only one book per author. With fantasy and their stupid trilogy addiction, it might be a series or cycle of books.
Some authors being so prolific, might have an entry in both sci-fi and fantasy for different books.
Science fiction
- Alfred Bester: The Stars, My Destination.
- Arthur C. Clark: 2001, A Space Odyssey.
- Charles Stross: Glasshouse.
- Connie Willis: Bellweather.
- David Brim: The Postman.
- David Zindell: Neverness.
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher.
- Frank Herbert: Dune.
- George Orwell: 1984.
- H. G. Wells: The War Of The Worlds.
- Howard Philip Lovecraft: At The Mountains of Madness.
- Iain M. Banks: Use of Weapon.
- Isaac Asimov: Caves of Steel.
- James S. E. Corey: The Expanse.
- Joe Haldeman: Forever War.
- John Scalzi: Old Man War.
- John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids.
- Jules Vern: 20 000 lieues sous les mer.
- Micheal Marshall Smith: Only Forward
- Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash.
- Niel Asher: The Skinner.
- Peter Watts: Blindsight.
- Philip K. Dick: Ubik.
- Richard Morgan: The Takeshi Kovacs Novels.
- Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land.
- Sergei Lukyanenko: The Night Watch.
- Stanisław Herman Lem: Solaris.
- Walter M. Miller: A Canticle for Leibowitz.
- William Gibson: Neuromancer.
- Dan Simons: Hyperion.
- Richard Matherson: I Am Legend.
- Larry Niven: Ring World.
- Scott Orson Card: Ender's Game.
- Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles.
- David Wong: John Dies At The End.
- Mark Z. Danielewski: House Of Leaves.
Fantasy
- Andrzej Sapkowski: The Last Wish.
- Carrie Vaughn: Kitty's House of Horrors.
- Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany: Time and the Gods.
- Fritz Leiber: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord Of The Rings
- Joe Abercrombie: The First Law Trilogy.
- Mark Lawrence: The Broken Empire.
- Neil Gaiman: Stardust.
- Patrick Ruthfuss : The Kingkiller Chronicle.<\li>
- Richard Morgan: A Land Fit for Heroes.
- Robert E. Howard: Conan The Barbarian.
- Terry Pratchett: Night Watch.
Horror
- Joe Hill: Heart Shaped Box
- Howard Philip Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror