Top 10 Sci-Fi Titles

I know LT already has a feature to show the most popular books by title and author, but those lists represent the most common titles or authors, whereas the purpose of this group is to create lists of our favorites. Hopefully, the LT programming wizards will later find a way to mine the data and compile a single list for each category.

Mr./Ms. Hog.

I have not read enough SciFi or fantasy to make a seperate list for each. With your permission, I'd like to post a combined list in both threads.

Also, are anthologies allowed?

As it turns out, I have read enough SF. I even eliminated some that I really like from this list:

The Left Hand of Darkness
The Color of Distance
Paris in the Twentieth Century
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Chrysalids
The Gate to Women's Country
Brave New World
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fahrenheit 451
The White Plague

If you told me to pick ten of each for a one-way trip to a remote asteroid, I'd pick:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Becoming Human by Jean Vanier
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
The Birthday of the World by Ursula LeGuin
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Thirteen Crimes of Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov
Larry Niven's Long Arm SF-mysteries.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Islandia by August Tappan Wright
The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia McKillip
Harpist in the Wind by Patricia McKillip
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula LeGuin
After the King by Various
Saint Camber by Katherine Kurtz
Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce

I don't mean these are all the best books; but they are the ones I'd want to read at some point or another (usually because they remind me of being on vacation in one place or another: I used to read Dragonsong at a certain lake, now I can go back there by re-reading Dragonsong.)

Science Fiction:

The Book of the New Sun and The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

Fantasy:

The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
The Earthsea books by LeGuin
The Wizard Knight and Castleview by Gene Wolfe
Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Kay
The Riddle Master of Hed, etc., by Patricia McKillip
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison