Top 20 Geek Novels since 1932 !!!great must read

The best geek novels written in English since 1932. The top 20 is as follows, with the numbers in brackets showing the number of votes.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)

4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

The following five books attracted the most votes against.

Dune -- Frank Herbert 17% (17)
Neuromancer -- William Gibson 13% (15)
I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 12% (13)
Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 13% (13)
The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 12% (12)

Finally, in the Not read it/Don't care category, as follows.

Stand on Zanzibar -- John Brunner 85% (77)
The Shockwave Rider -- John Brunner 88% (80)

Also read...

A compilation of authors/titles

Douglas Adams:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Trilogy)

George Orwell:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Aldous Huxley:
Brave New World
Island

Philip K Dick:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Man in the High Castle

William Gibson:
Neuromancer
Pattern Recognition
The Difference Engine (w/Bruce
Sterling)

Frank Herbert:
Dune

Isaac Asimov:
I, Robot
Foundation Trilogy
The Gods Themselves
Nightfall (w/Robert Silverberg)

Terry Pratchett:
Discworld (Series)
The Colo(u)r of Magic
Going Postal

Douglas Coupland:
Microserfs

Neal Stephenson:
Snow Crash
Cryptonomicon
The Diamond Age
In the Beginning...Was the Command
Line
Quicksilver

Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons:
Watchmen

Iain M Banks:
Consider Phlebas
Excession
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The Algebraist

Robert A Heinlein:
Stranger in a Strange Land
Farnham’s Freehold
Time Enough for Love
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
Starship Troopers
Citizen of the Galaxy

Neil Gaiman:
American Gods

Robert Shea/Robert Anton Wilson:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Eye in the Pyramid

John Wyndham:
Trouble with Lichen
Day of the Triffids

John Brunner:
The Days of March
Club of Rome Quartet
Stand on Zanzibar
Shockwave Rider
The Sheep Look Up
The Squares of the City
Polymath
Quicksand
The Crucible of Time

Alfred Bester:
The Stars, My Destination (aka Tiger,
Tiger)
The Demolished Man

Ursula K le Guin:
The Dispossessed
The Left Hand of Darkness

Margaret Atwood:
The Handmaid’s Tale

Octavia E Butler:
Xenogenesis Trilogy
Parable of the Sower

Unknown Authors :
Idiot
Crime and Punishment
The Devils
The Legacy of Heorot
Catch-22 (Joseph Hellerman?)
After the Fire Trilogy
The Crying of Lot 49
Baroque (Trilogy)
Battlefield Earth
Andromeda Strain
Tau Zero
Soilent Green
Silent Running

? Niven:
Ringworld

David Foster Wallace:
Infinite Jest

Elizabeth Moon:
The Deed of Paksenarrion

Steven Levy:
Hackers
Henry Kuttner:
Chessboard Planet

Vernor Vinge:
True Names
Fire Upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
Realtime Trilogy
Peace War

Tad Williams:
Otherland (Series)

Fredrik Pohl:
Gateway
Heechee Saga

John Kramer:
Einstein’s Bridge

Ray Bradbury:
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles

Greg Bear:
Blood Music
Eon
Darwin's Radio

Richard K Morgan:
Altered Carbon
Broken Angels

Orson Scott Card:
Ender’s Game (Series?)
Dan Simmons:
Hyperion Cantos (4-book series)

David Brin:
Uplift (Series)
Earth
Heart of the Comet (w/Gregory
Benford)
Kil'n People

Olaf Stapledon:
Starmaker
The Last and First Man (?)
Sirius

Greg Egan:
Permutation City
Peter F Hamilton:
The Night’s Dawn (Trilogy)
C
arl Sagan:
Contact
Nick Sagan:
Idlewild

Kim Stanley Robinson:
Mars Trilogy
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
The Years of Rice and Salt

Arthur C Clarke:
Rama (Series)
Rendezvous with Rama
2001
2010
2065
3001
3010 (Was this a typo?)
Collected Stories

Stephen Baxter:
Time Ships
Evolution
Coalescent

C.J. Cherryh:
Cyteen Trilogy
40,000 in Gehenna

Roger MacBride Allen:
The Ring of Charon

Charles Stross:
Accelerando
Z Henderson:
Pilgrimage
A E Van Vogt:
Slan

Joe Haldeman:
The Forever War
Thomas Pynchon:
Gravity’s Rainbow

Robert Sheckley/Heinlein:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Alexis Gilliland:
Revolution from Rosinante

Cliff Stoll:
The Cuckoo’s Egg
Samuel R. Delaney:
Nova

Bruce Sterling:
Schismatrix Plus
Distraction

Marge Piercy:
Woman on the Edge of Time
Gene Wolfe:
The Shadow of the Torturer (Series)

Harry Harrison:
The Stainless Steel Rat (Series)
Jeff Noon:
Vurt (Virt?)

Matt Ruff:
Sewer, Gas & Electric (Trilogy)
Walter Miller:
A Canticle for Leibowitz

Christopher Priest:
The Prestige

Stanislaw Lem:
Star Diaries
Solaris

Alistair Reynolds:
Chasm City
Pushing Ice

Sheri S Tepper:
Gate to Women's Country
Grass

Suzette Haden Elgin:
Native Tongue
Ben Bova:
The Asteroid Wars (Trilogy)

M. John Harrison:
Light

Hal Clement:
Mission of Gravity

Rick Cook:
Wizardry (Series)
Clifford Simak:
City

A Square:
Flatland
Nancy Kress:
Beggars in Spain

Yvgeny Zamayatin:
We
Connie Willis:
To Say Nothing of the Dog

Tracy Kidder:
The Soul of A New Machine
John Varley:
Titan (Trilogy)

Damon Knight:
A for Anything
Philip Jose Farmer:
Riverworld (Series)

David Langford:
The Space Eater
Clifford D. Simak:
Way Station

Martin Caidin:
The God Machine
Robert Sawyer:
Calculating God

Julian May:
Galactic Milieu (Series)
Madeleine L'Engle:
A Wrinkle in Time

Don DeLillo:
Ratner's Star
Sean McMullen:
Calculor (Trilogy)

Doris Lessing:
Canopus in Argos: Archives (5-book
series)