The Essential SF Library

This is a complete list of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning novels in chronological order from 1946 to the present day.

Space precludes putting the year in each case, but many of these are reviewed on Suite101, and the review will carry the year of publication or for the award.

• Isaac Asimov Foundation *
• Isaac Asimov Foundation and Empire *
• Isaac Asimov Second Foundation *
• George Orwell Animal Farm
• Robert A. Heinlein Farmer in the Sky
• George R. Stewart Earth Abides
• John Collier Fancies & Goodnights
• Clifford D. Simak City
• Alfred Bester The Demolished Man
• Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human
• Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
• Edgar Pangborn A Mirror For Observers
• Mark Clifton & Frank Riley They'd Rather Be Right
• Frank Herbert The Dragon in the Sea
• J.R.R Tolkein Lord of the Rings
• William Golding Lord of the Flies
• Robert A. Heinlein Double Star
• Fritz Leiber The Big Time
• James Blish A Case of Conscience
• Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers
• Walter M. Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
• Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle
• Clifford D. Simak Way Station
• Fritz Leiber The Wanderer
• Frank Herbert Dune
• Roger Zelazny --And Call Me Conrad
• Samuel R. Delany Babel-17
• Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
• Robert A. Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Samuel R. Delany The Einstein Intersection
• Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
• Alexei Panshin Rite Of Passage
• John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar
• Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
• Larry Niven Ringworld
• Robert Silverberg A Time of Changes
• Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go
• Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves
• Arthur C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama
• Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
• Joe Haldeman The Forever War
• Frederick Pohl Man Plus
• Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
• Frederick Pohl Gateway
• Vonda N. McIntyre Dreamsnake
• Arthur C. Clarke The Fountains of Paradise
• Gregory Benford Timescape
• Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen
• Gene Wolfe The Claw of the Conciliator
• C. J. Cherryh Downbelow Station
• Michael Bishop No Enemy But Time
• Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
• David Brin Startide Rising
• Willaim Gibson Neuromancer
• Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
• Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead
• Pat Murphy The Falling Woman
• David Brin The Uplift War
• Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free
• C. J. Cherryh Cyteen
• Elizabeth Anne Scarborogh The Healer's War
• Dan Simmons Hyperion
• Ursula K. Le Guin Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
• Lois McMaster Bujold The Vor Game
• Michael Swanwick Stations of the Tide
• Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar
• Connie Willis Doomsday Book
• Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep
• Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars
• Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars
• Greg Bear Moving Mars
• Lois McMaster Bujold Mirror Dance
• Robert J. Sawyer Hobson's Choice
• Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
• Nicola Griffiths Slow River
• Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Mars
• Vonda N. McIntyre The Sun and the Moon
• Joe Haldeman Forever Peace
• Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
• Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Talents
• Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky
• Greg Bear Darwin's Radio
• J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Catharine Asaro The Quantum Rose
• Neil Gaiman American Gods
• Robert J. Sawyer Hominids
• Elizabeth Moon Speed of Dark
• Susannah Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• Lois McMaster Bujold Paladin of Souls
• Joe Haldeman Camouflage
• Robert Charles Wilson Spin
• Jack McDevitt Seeker

* Winner of the 1967 Hugo for Best All-Time Series, the only time such an award has been given.

Where the title is in bold, there is a review on Suite 101. Where the title is underlined, click on the link to read the review.

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