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Ok, 33 years of reading SciFi and over 2000 books have led me to this (gulp!):
1. The Broken God (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens)-David Zindell
2. Neverness-David Zindell
3. Hyperion (The Hyperion Cantos)-Dan Simmons
4. Shadow of the Torturer (Book of the New Sun)-Gene Wolfe
5. Startide Rising (Uplift series)-David Brin
6. Aristoi-Walter Jon Williams
7. Dune-Frank Herbert
8. Metaplanetary/Superluminal-Tony Daniel
9. Nueromancer-William Gibson
10. The Inverted World-Christopher Priest
11. Green Eyes-Lucious Shepard
12. More Than Human-Theodore Sturgeon
13. The Left Hand of Darkness-Ursula K. LeGuin
14. The Heart of the Comet-David Brin and Gregory Benford
15. A Canticle for Liebowitz-Walter M. Miller Jr.
16. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld series)-Phillip Jose Farmer
17. Second Foundation (Foundation series)-Issac Asimov
18. A Dark and Hungry God Arises (The Gap Sequence)-Stephen R. Donaldson
19. Jem-Fredrick Pohl
20. Whipping Star-Frank Herbert
21. Days of Atonement-Walter Jon Williams
22. The Stars, My Destination-Alfred Bester
23. Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert Heinlien
24. Snowcrash-Neal Stephenson
25. Triton-Samuel R. Delany
26. Islands in the Net-Bruce Sterling
27. Childhood's End-Arthur C. Clarke
28. Solaris-Stanislav Lem
29. Lord of Light-Roger Zelazny
30. Silence in Solitude-(Silence Leigh series)-Melissa Scott
31. The Wanderer-Fritz Lieber
32. Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
33. Dragon's Egg-Robert L. Forward
34. Contact-Carl Sagan
35. Metropolitian/City on Fire-Walter Jon Williams
36. The Wild (A Requiem For Homo Sapiens)-David Zindell
37. Stand on Zanzibar-John Brunner
38. The Man in the High Castle-Philip K. Dick
39. Hardwired-Walter Jon Williams
40. This Day All Gods Die (The Gap Sequence)-Stephen R. Donaldson
41. Glory Season-David Brin
42. War in Heaven (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens)-David Zindell
43. Indoctrinaire-Christopher Priest
44. A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (HGTTG series)-Douglas Adams
45. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon-Frederick Pohl
46. Titan-John Varley
47. War of the Worlds-H. G. Wells
48. Babel-17-Samuel R. Delany
49. Earth Abides-George R. Stewart
50. City of Golden Shadow (Otherland series)-Tad Williams
51. Star Maker-Olaf Stapledon
52. 2001, A Space Odessy/2010-Arthur C. Clarke
53. The Broken Land-Ian MacDonald
54. The Fountians of Paradise-Arthur C. Clarke
55. The Postman-David Brin
56. The Sheep Look Up-John Brunner
57. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea-Jules Verne
58. The Mote in God's Eye-Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell
59. What Entropy Means to Me-George Alec Effinger
60. The Lathe of Heaven-Ursula K. LeGuin
(except for Zindell, Brin, Asimov and Donaldson if I listed a book from a series I'm paying tribute to the entire series. There may very well be a "better" book in that series)
this was originally posted at Kevin's Watch and Fantasybookspot.com in '05--since then I can easily add Consider Phebas and The Algebraist by Ian M. Banks and The Fall of Hyperion and The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons.
Need to read Gaiman, Cryptonomicon, Bakker, Hal Duncan, May and a few others to catch up with the modern world...
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