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So there's this "100 best science fiction/fantasy novels" meme going around, but mostly I'm not super thrilled with NPR's list, especially everything that's not on that list.   So I thought I'd make my own list of my personal favorites (with attempts not to duplicate authors without good reason).  Some of these are fairly predictable, but these are all books I'll happily recommend - some of these I'll even proselytize for, because there are a bunch here I consider severely underappreciated (or at least unjustly unkown).  All of these books mean something to me and are the source of many happy memories from childhood and beyond. **  means unknown or underrated titles that other scifi/fantasy lovers might have missed, but that I think really deserve a closer look (and a nice long read! )( Cut ) In no particular order,      (currently under construction, please excuse the mess) 
  1. Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
  2. The Neverending Story by Michael Enge
  3. Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  4. Chrestomanci novels by Diana Wynne Jones **
  5. Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
  6. So You Want To Be a Wizard series by Diane Duane **
  7. Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper 
  8. Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
  9. Dragonsinger, Dragonsong, Dragondrums : Pern books by Anne McCaffrey
  10. Liaden Universe : Agent of Change, Carpe diem, all by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller **
  11. When the Tripods Came & Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher
  12. His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
  13. True Game series by Sheri S. Tepper **
  14. God Stalk by P.C. Hodgell
  15. Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
  16. Conan by Robert Howard
  17. Fanuilh series by Daniel Hood
  18. Jhereg and sequels by Steven Brust
  19. Five Hundred Years After by Steven Brust (completely different style of writing)
  20. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
  21. Martian Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  22. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  23. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  24. Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
  25. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  26. Hitchhiker's series by Douglas Adams
  27. Dirk Gently : Holistic Detective by Douglas Adams
  28. Pip and Flinx adventures (For Love of Mother-Not, etc.) by Alan Daen Foster
  29. Spellsinger chronicles by Alan Dean Foster
  30. Glory Lane by Alan Dean Foster **
  31. Wyrm by Mark Fabi
  32. Barabara Hamilton
  33. Wrack and Roll by Bradley Denton (see also Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede)
  34. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
  35. Valdemar chronicles by Mercedes Lackey
  36. Children of the Night and other Diana Tregarde books by Mercedes Lackey
  37. Blood Ties series by Tanya Huff
  38. Wraethu by Storm Constantine
  39. Smoke and Shadow trilogy by Tanya Huff **
  40. Cal and Niko Leandros series by Rob Thurman
  41. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  42. Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  43. Cold Iron and Sister to the Rain by Melissa Michaels
  44. Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco
  45. Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher
  46. Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton
  47. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  48. Ecolitan books by L.E. Modesitt
  49. Changeling by Roger Zelazny
  50. Black Company books by Glen Cooper
  51. Sunset Warrior trilogy by Eric VanLustbader
  52. Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
  53. Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
  54. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
  55. Cobra by Timothy Zahn
  56. Deathworld by Harry Harrison
  57. Lucky Starr, Space Ranger by Isaac Asimov
  58. Darkangel trilogy by Mredith Ann Pierce **
  59. The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
  60. Dragon Knight by Gordon R. Dickson
  61. Beastmaster by Andre Norton
  62. Elvenblood by Andre Norton and Rosemary Edghill
  63. Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
  64. War for the Oaks by Emma Bull **
  65. Han Solo trilogy by Brian Daley
  66. True Blood series by Charlaine Harris
  67. Lensman series by E.E. "Doc" Smith
  68. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  69. Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
  70. Every Witch Way But Dead series by Kim Harrison
  71. Warlock Unlocked by Christopher Stasheff
  72. Keeper of the Isis Light
  73. Murray Leinster
  74. Theodore Sturgeon
  75. Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
  76. Princes of Earth by Michael Kurland
  77. Kellory the Warlock by Lin Carter
  78. Vampires by John Steakley
  79. Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh
  80. Stardoc by S.L. Viehl
  81. Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
  82. Ariel by Stephen Boyett **
  83. Valor series by Tanya Huff
  84. Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
  85. Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
  86. Alice in Wonder;and by Lewis Carroll
  87. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  88. Robert Newman


 really, anything by any of these authors is gonna be good  ^_^

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