- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (Winner of Nebula Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)
- Blindsight by Peter Watts (Winner of Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; John W. Campbell Award)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award; Nebula Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award)
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; Nebula Award)
- R.U.R. by Karel Capek
- Lilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler
- Blood Music by Greg Bear (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award; John W. Campbell Award)
- Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan; Philip K. Dick Award
- Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (Winner of Hugo Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award; Nebula Award
- Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Winner of Hugo Award)
- The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
- Ringworld by Larry Niven (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gala… by Douglas Adams
- Synners by Pat Cadigan; Arthur C. Clarke Award (Winner of Nebula Award)
- Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
- Pavane by Keith Roberts
- The City & The City by China Mieville (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Hugo Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award; World Fantasy Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award; Nebula Award; John W. Campbell Award)
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; John W. Campbell Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award)
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
- The Rediscovery of Man: The Comple… by Cordwainer Smith
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
- The HelliconiaTrilogy by Brian Aldiss
- Cry of the Wind by Sue Harrison
- Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Winner of Hugo Award; Nebula Award)
- Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated … by David Brin
- Inverted World by Christopher Priest
- The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the … by Jules Verne
- The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer
- The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- Old Man’s War by John Scalzi; Hugo Award
- Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Winner of Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; John W. Campbell Award)
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber (Winner of Hugo Award)
- World War Z: An Oral History of th… by Max Brooks
- City by Clifford D. Simak
- Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A N… by Michael Chabon
- Modern Classics the Death of Grass… by John Christopher
- A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
- Licht — Die Trilogie: Drei Romane by M. John Harrison
- Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (Winner of Hugo Award; Nebula Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; John W. Campbell Award)
- Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
- Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling
- Last and First Men and Star Maker … by Olaf Stapledon
- Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler; Nebula Award
- Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award; Philip K. Dick Award)
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky (Winner of John W. Campbell Award)
- Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang: A… by Kate Wilhelm
- The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy (Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award)
- River of Gods by Ian McDonald (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Hugo Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award)
- Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison, ed
- Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
- Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard (Winner of Philip K. Dick Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award)
- Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
- Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys (Winner of Hugo Award)
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry A… by Claire North
- Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
- Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy… by Jeff VanderMeer
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Skylark of Space and Other Wor… by E. E. Smith