Accelerando by Charles StrossA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeDiaspora by Greg EganPermutation City by Greg EganAltered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Transhuman Science Fiction
153 books — 186 voters
Mistborn by Brandon SandersonThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Most Interesting Magic System
2,650 books — 8,770 voters

Dune by Frank HerbertFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Foundation Trilogy by Isaac AsimovDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Golden Age & New Wave SF
270 books — 207 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Best of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
Best of the Pulps
381 books — 203 voters