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Check Out NPR Poll: Best SF Books

Submitted by Beth Krippel [1] on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:22am

National Public Radio (NPR) is running a poll over the next few weeks in order to create a list of the top 100 SF/F titles ever written.  Go to their post here [2] to read their guidelines and add your top five!

My top five?

  1. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
  2. The Lord of the Rings [3] by J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. The Mistborn Trilogy [4] by Brandon Sanderson
  4. Ender's Game [5] by Orson Scott Card
  5. The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

What's your top five SF/F books of all time?


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[1] http://hcpl.net/users/beth-krippel
[2] http://www.npr.org/2011/06/20/137249678/best-science-fiction-fantasy-books-you-tell-us
[3] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?limitbox_1=CO01+%3D+co_afsf&go_sort_limit.x=5&go_sort_limit.y=5&npp=60&ipp=325&spp=60&profile=webcat&aspect=subtab13&term=lord+of+the+rings+tolkien&index=.GH&uindex=&oper=&session=130867W4UK351.18589&menu=search&aspect=subtab13&npp=60&ipp=325&spp=60&profile=webcat&ri=1&source=~!library&sort=3100015
[4] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=mistborn%20sanderson&index=.GH
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[6] http://hcpl.net/taxonomy/term/39
[7] http://hcpl.net/taxonomy/term/38