- ...And Call Me Conrad (aka This Immortal) — Roger Zelazny
- 2001: A Space Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
- 2312 — Kim Stanley Robinson
- A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller Jr.
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (note: companion firsts) — Walter M. Miller Jr.
- A Case of Conscience — James Blish
- A Deepness in the Sky — Vernor Vinge
- A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine
- A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge
- A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark
- A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine
- A Scanner Darkly — Philip K. Dick
- A Song for a New Day — Sarah Pinsker
- A Time of Changes — Robert Silverberg
- All the Birds in the Sky — Charlie Jane Anders
- American Gods — Neil Gaiman
- Among Others — Jo Walton
- Ancillary Justice — Ann Leckie
- Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer
- Babel-17 — Samuel R. Delany
- Barrayar — Lois McMaster Bujold
- Blackout/All Clear — Connie Willis
- Blood Music — Greg Bear
- Blue Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson
- Camouflage — Joe Haldeman
- Chasm City — Alastair Reynolds
- Childhood's End — Arthur C. Clarke
- Children of Dune — Frank Herbert
- Citizen of the Galaxy — Robert A. Heinlein
- Consider Phlebas — Iain M. Banks
- Count Zero — William Gibson
- Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
- Cyteen — C. J. Cherryh
- Darwin's Radio — Greg Bear
- Dawn — Octavia E. Butler
- Death's End — Cixin Liu
- Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
- Doomsday Book — Connie Willis
- Downbelow Station — C. J. Cherryh
- Dreamsnake — Vonda N. McIntyre
- Dune — Frank Herbert
- Dune Messiah — Frank Herbert
- Dying Inside — Robert Silverberg
- Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card
- Eon — Greg Bear
- Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
- Falling Free — Lois McMaster Bujold
- Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
- Forever Peace — Joe Haldeman
- Foundation — Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Empire — Isaac Asimov
- Foundation's Edge — Isaac Asimov
- Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
- Gateway — Frederik Pohl
- Gateway (note: Pohl 1977 trilogy first) — Frederik Pohl
- Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson
- Guards! Guards! — Terry Pratchett
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — J. K. Rowling
- Have Space Suit—Will Travel — Robert A. Heinlein
- Hominids — Robert J. Sawyer
- Hyperion — Dan Simmons
- I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
- Imperial Earth — Arthur C. Clarke
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke
- Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton
- Kindred — Octavia E. Butler
- Lord of Light — Roger Zelazny
- Lord Valentine's Castle — Robert Silverberg
- Man Plus — Frederik Pohl
- Mirror Dance — Lois McMaster Bujold
- Mona Lisa Overdrive — William Gibson
- More Than Human — Theodore Sturgeon
- Moving Mars — Greg Bear
- Nettle & Bone — T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)
- Network Effect — Martha Wells
- Neuromancer — William Gibson
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) — George Orwell
- No Enemy But Time — Michael Bishop
- Nova — Samuel R. Delany
- Out of the Silent Planet — C.S. Lewis
- Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold
- Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Talents — Octavia E. Butler
- Perdido Street Station — China Miéville
- Powers — Ursula K. Le Guin
- Rainbows End — Vernor Vinge
- Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson
- Redshirts — John Scalzi
- Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke
- Revelation Space — Alastair Reynolds
- Ringworld — Larry Niven
- Rite of Passage — Alexei Panshin
- Second Foundation — Isaac Asimov
- Seeker — Jack McDevitt
- Slow River — Nicola Griffith
- Small Gods — Terry Pratchett
- Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
- Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card
- Spin — Robert Charles Wilson
- Stand on Zanzibar — John Brunner
- Stardust — Neil Gaiman
- Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein
- Startide Rising — David Brin
- Stations of the Tide — Michael Swanwick
- Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein
- Tehanu — Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Big Time — Fritz Leiber
- The Book of Skulls — Robert Silverberg
- The Calculating Stars — Mary Robinette Kowal
- The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov
- The City & the City — China Miéville
- The Claw of the Conciliator — Gene Wolfe
- The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett
- The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu
- The Demolished Man — Alfred Bester
- The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson
- The Difference Engine — William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Door into Summer — Robert A. Heinlein
- The Dragon Waiting — John M. Ford
- The Einstein Intersection — Samuel R. Delany
- The End of Eternity — Isaac Asimov
- The Falling Woman — Pat Murphy
- The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Fifth Season — N. K. Jemisin
- The Forbidden Tower — Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Forever War — Joe Haldeman
- The Fountains of Paradise — Arthur C. Clarke
- The Gods Themselves — Isaac Asimov
- The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman
- The Hands of the Emperor — Victoria Goddard
- The Healer's War — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again — J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Illustrated Man — Ray Bradbury
- The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Light Fantastic — Terry Pratchett
- The Man in the High Castle — Philip K. Dick
- The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury
- The Moon and the Sun — Vonda N. McIntyre
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein
- The Obelisk Gate — N. K. Jemisin
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane — Neil Gaiman
- The Player of Games — Iain M. Banks
- The Quantum Rose — Catherine Asaro
- The Quiet Pools — Michael P. Kube-McDowell
- The Return of the King — J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera
- The Scar — China Miéville
- The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis
- The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien)
- The Snow Queen — Joan D. Vinge
- The Speed of Dark — Elizabeth Moon
- The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester
- The Stone Sky — N. K. Jemisin
- The Tainted Cup — Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Terminal Experiment — Robert J. Sawyer
- The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin (trans. Ken Liu)
- The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
- The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Uplift War — David Brin
- The Vor Game — Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Wanderer — Fritz Leiber
- The Wild Shore — Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Years of Rice and Salt — Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union — Michael Chabon
- They'd Rather Be Right (aka The Forever Machine) — Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
- Timescape — Gregory Benford
- To Say Nothing of the Dog — Connie Willis
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go — Philip José Farmer
- Translation State — Ann Leckie
- Ubik — Philip K. Dick
- Uprooted — Naomi Novik
- Use of Weapons — Iain M. Banks
- Way Station — Clifford D. Simak
- Wild Seed — Octavia E. Butler
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