Blatantly ripped off from gbsteve. Thanks, mate. :)

Perusing the list, there are some books here that, to be honest, I suspect one might not want to read, and others that one probably shouldn't read. And,of course, some that one should definitely read. That aside, here's the link to the Science Fiction and Fantasy novels that sneak into the Guardian's list.

I'm rather annoyed that some of my favourite authors, such as Randall Garrett, Gregory Maguire, Charles Stross, Kage Baker, Jeff VanderMeer and Jack Vance, among others, aren't listed here, but such is the way of life.

While the Guardian ordered their list by author, I've adopted gbsteve's method, and have listed the books by Date of Publication. I've also added some books here from their Side Lists as well. The books in bold are ones that I've read.


1532 - François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
1764 - Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
1786 - William Beckford: Vathek
1794 - Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
1796 - MG Lewis: The Monk
1798 - Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland
1818 - Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
1818 - Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare Abbey
1820 - Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer
1824 - James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
1851 - Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables
1864 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Uncle Silas
1865 - Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1871 - Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
1871 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race
1872 - Samuel Butler: Erewhon
1885 - Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England
1889 - Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
1890 - William Morris: News From Nowhere
1895 - HG Wells: The Time Machine
1897 - Bram Stoker: Dracula
1898 - HG Wells: The War of the Worlds
1898 - Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
1908 - GK Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday
1909 - Robert Walser: Institute Benjamenta
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
1915 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland
1920 - David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus
1924 - Yevgeny Zamyatin: We
1925 - Franz Kafka: The Trial
1926 - Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
1932 - Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
1932 - John Cowper Powys: A Glastonbury Romance
1937 - Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
1938 - TH White: The Sword in the Stone
1943 - Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
1943 - Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry: The Little Prince
1946 - Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan
1949 - George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
1950 - C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
1951 - Isaac Asimov: Foundation
1951 - John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids
1953 - Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
1953 - Arthur C Clarke: Childhood's End
1953 - Marghanita Laski: The Victorian Chaise-longue
1953 - Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth: The Space Merchants
1954 - William Golding: Lord of the Flies
1954 - Richard Matheson: I Am Legend
1954 - J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
1956 - Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination
1957 - John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos
1957 - Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees
1958 - Brian W Aldiss: Non-Stop
1959 - Kurt Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan
1959 - William Burroughs: Naked Lunch
1959 - Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
1960 - Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz
1960 - Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon
1960 - Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
1961 - Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
1961 - Robert A Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
1961 - Angus Wilson: The Old Men at the Zoo
1962 - Philip K Dick: The Man in the High Castle
1965 - Frank Herbert: Dune
1966 - Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
1966 - John Fowles: The Magus
1966 - Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
1967 - Samuel R Delaney: The Einstein Intersection
1967 - Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman
1968 - Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1968 - Thomas M Disch: Camp Concentration
1968 - Ursula K Le Guin: The Earthsea series
1969 - Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor
1970 - Larry Niven: Ringworld
1973 - Alan Garner: Red Shift
1974 - Doris Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor
1974 - Joe Haldeman: The Forever War
1975 - Michael G Coney: Hello Summer, Goodbye
1975 - Joanna Russ: The Female Man
1977 - Stephen King: The Shining
1979 - Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 - Octavia Butler: Kindred
1980 - Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun
1980 - Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
1982 - Anthony Burgess: The End of the World News
1983 - Terry Pratchett: The Discworld series
1984 - William Gibson: Neuromancer
1984 - Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
1984 - Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus
1985 - Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
1987 - Clive Barker: Weaveworld
1987 - Toni Morrison: Beloved
1987 - Paul Auster: In the Country of Last Things
1987 - Iain M Banks: Consider Phlebas
1988 - Ramsey Campbell: The Influence
1988 - Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
1988 - Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
1988 - Michael Moorcock: Mother London
1989 - Dan Simmons: Hyperion
1991 - Ben Okri: The Famished Road
1992 - Poppy Z Brite: Lost Souls
1992 - Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy
1992 - PD James: The Children of Men
1992 - Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
1993 - Jeff Noon: Vurt
1994 - Michael Marshall Smith: Only Forward
1995 - Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled
1995 - Christopher Priest: The Prestige
1995 - Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials
1995 - José Saramago: Blindness
1995 - Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
1995 - Stephen Baxter: The Time Ships
1996 - Rupert Thomson: The Insult
1996 - Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales
1996 - Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
1997 - JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1997 - Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain
1998 - Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a Coma
1998 - Michel Houellebecq: Atomised
1999 - Greg Bear: Darwin's Radio
1999 - Sarah Waters: Affinity
2000 - Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
2000 - Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space
2000 - Mark Danielewski: House of Leaves
2000 - Will Self: How the Dead Live
2000 - Michel Faber: Under the Skin
2000 - Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
2001 - Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love
2001 - Neil Gaiman: American Gods
2002 - China Miéville: The Scar
2002 - M John Harrison: Light
2002 - Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt
2003 - Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
2004 - David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
2004 - Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
2005 - Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black
2006 - Cormac McCarthy: The Road
2007 - Jed Mercurio: Ascent
2007 - Nicola Barker: Darkmans
2008 - Ken MacLeod: The Night Sessions


I've read... 90 out of 141 books. My Goddess! I'm actually somewhat surprised at how many of these books I've read. Quite. :)