The Alternative Top 25 Best Science Fiction List

This is the Alternative Top 25 Best Science Fiction list (AKA the OLD Top 25 Science Fiction List before we created a brand new one and released it in January 2016).

The new, completely updated / revised version is our current Top 25 Best Fantasy Books List, which I suggest you do check out FIRST before drawing recommendations from this Alternative Top 25 list of book picks.

Why Do We Have The Alternative Top 25 List?

The short answer is that I put so much effort into writing the damn thing, with so many detailed recommendations that I couldn't bear to get rid of it.

The long answer is that while the newer (current) Top 25 list is a better, more encompassing. more comprehensive list than this older version of it, there's still a lot of goodness to this Alternative / Older list and ALL the recommendations are still completely valid. For some of you, you may prefer this version to the newer list we created. The Alternative List includes a lot more 'recent' books than the newer version. 

Either list offers great recommendations, so use them both!

So, look at the Top 25 Best Science Fiction list, then come back to this Alternative Best List. Between both lists, I guarantee you'll find a selection of the best works to read.

And if you need even MORE recommendations, look at the Top 100 Best Science Fiction Books list, which picks up where the (new) Top 25 leave off, from #26 and concludes at #100.

You can view the crowd-ranked version of this list and vote on the entries at the bottom of this page. This crowd version is the ORIGINAL crowd list that's tied to the Alternative Best List (formerly the old Top 25 Best List).