Dragons & Jetpacks discussion

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I can't seem to resist book lists.

I just ran across the Esquire Magazine Top 50 Sci Fi list, so I thought I'd inflict it on share with y'all. I'm going to include both the link and the actual list.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment...

1. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
2. Dune Frank Herbert
3. Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
4. The Fifth Season NK Jemisiin
5. Kindred Octavia Butler
6. The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K LeGuin
7. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Exhalation Ted Chiang
9. Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K Dick
11. The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu
12. 1984 George Orwell
13. The Employees Olga Ravn
14. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
15. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu
16. The Complete Robot Isaac Asimov
17. Childhood’s End Arthur C Clarke
18. The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
19. Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer
20. An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon
21. Shikasta Doris Lessing
22. The Resisters Gish Jen
23. Orxy and Crake Margaret Atwood
24. Ammonite Nicola Griffith
25. Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdich
26. 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
27. Zone One Colson Whitehead
28. The Body Scout Lincoln Michel
29. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Beck Chambers
30. Dhalgren Samuel L Delany
31. Hyperion Dan Simmons
32. The City & The City China Mieville
33. Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
34. Radiance Catherynne M Valentine
35. The Children of Men PD James
36. The Stand Stephen King
37. Rosewaater Tade Thompson
38. The Time Machine HG Wells
39. A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L’Engle
40. The Moon is A Harsh Mistress Robert A Heinlein
41. This is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mothar & Max Gladstone
42. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
43. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgress
44. The Book of Phoenix Nnedi Okorafor
45. Neuromancer William Gibson
46. Solaris Stanislaw Lem
47. A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller
48. Contact Carl Sagan
49. Snow Crash Neil Stephenson
50. The Echo Wife Sarah Gailey

I have only read 20 of these so far, but it's an interesting list! I'm curious to check out a number of them, and others are already on my to-read list.

I've only read 5 and not even heard of most of these, but then I've always been more into fantasy than Sci fi.

I wondered if there was a fantasy equivalent and there is but I've still only read 11 on there. Interestingly the fifth season is on both lists. I think alot of the choices on the fantasy list are questionable at best.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment...

I love book list, thank you to you both.

I read 19 of the SF and 12 of the fantasy list. Two books are on both list, seems like they can't agree. :)

I read 14 on the fantasy list, but I agree with you Hayley. Although there are some great books on the list, some of them are a bit of a stretch to be included in the fantasy category. I've never heard of some others.

There are some on both lists that I'm curious to check out though! Thanks for posting the lists!

12 of the sci fi. Many are on my TBR.

I've read 25 of the SF, some of the rest are on my to read while others I'm not interested. I've only read 11 on the fantasy list with some definitely high on my to read while others I've never heard of and have no interest. Hayley, right, questionable at best! lol

Thanks for sharing the lists! Lists are always fun.

Embarrassed to say, I've only read 10 of them. I own a few & plan to read a bunch more, but maybe not all.

Not too impressed with the fantasy list -- of the ones I've read, many are not great or outright suck.

I did love the ones I've read for the most part (with one or two exceptions), but since I've only read 14, who knows what I'd think about the majority. I do think the lists are slanted toward a certain kind of fantasy or sci-fi book and doesn't capture what all (or even most) fantasy/sci-fi readers are looking for.

I think I've read around 20 on each list, loads on there I've never even heard of though!