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npr: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books (2011)

1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
3. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles – Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series – George R. R. Martin
6. 1984 – George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury (tegneserien)
8. The Foundation Trilogy – Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series – Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm – George Orwell
14. Neuromancer – William Gibson
15. Watchmen – Alan Moore
16. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (film)
17. Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles – Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick (tegneserie, film)
22. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series – Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
25. The Stand – Stephen King
26. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
27. The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
28. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down – Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon – Daniel Keys
39. The War Of The Worlds – H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber – Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad – David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series – Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld – Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King – T.H. White
48. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact – Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons
52. Stardust – Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z – Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle (tegneserie)
56. The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever – Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal – Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God’s Eye – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth – Terry Goodkind
63. The Road – Cormac McCarthy (film)
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson (film)
66. The Riftwar Saga -Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy – Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series – R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy – Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings – Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth – Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series – R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel’s Legacy Series – Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked – Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series – Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series – Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave – Mary Stewart
85. Anathem – Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series – Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun – Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy – Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series – Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga – Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine – Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep – Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel – Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy – Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer’s Hammer – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station – China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series – Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy – C.S. Lewis

Time Magazine: The 100 best fantazy books of all time (2019)

  1. The Arabian nights
  2. King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table – Thomas Malory
  3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  4. Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
  5. Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
  6. Ozma of Oz – L. Frank Baum
  7. Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers
  8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  9. The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola
  10. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
  11. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
  12. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Amos Tutuola
  13. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
  14. The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
  15. A Hero Born – Jin Yong
  16. The Once & Future King – T.H. White
  17. James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
  18. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  19. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
  20. The Wandering Unicorn – Manuel Mujica Lainez
  21. Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey
  22. The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle (tegneserien)
  23. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin
  24. The Crystal Cave – Mary Stewart
  25. The Tombs of Atuan – Ursula K. Le Guin
  26. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  27. The Dark Is Rising – Susan Cooper
  28. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
  29. Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
  30. A Swiftly Tilting Planet – Madeleine L’Engle
  31. The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
  32. The BFG – Roald Dahl
  33. Alanna: The First Adventure – Tamora Pierce
  34. Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
  35. Redwall – Brian Jacques
  36. Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner
  37. The Lives of Christopher Chant – Diana Wynne Jones
  38. The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
  39. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  40. Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
  41. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
  42. Tigana – Guy Gavriel Kay
  43. The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
  44. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
  45. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
  46. The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
  47. Brown Girl in the Ring – Nalo Hopkinson
  48. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
  49. Spindle’s End – Robin McKinley
  50. A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin
  51. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  52. The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett
  53. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
  54. Mistborn: The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson
  55. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
  56. City of Glass – Cassandra Clare
  57. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin
  58. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin
  59. Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor
  60. Akata Witch – Nnedi Okorafor
  61. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
  62. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  63. Angelfall – Susan Ee
  64. A Stranger in Olondria – Sofia Samatar
  65. The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
  66. The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
  67. An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir
  68. The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
  69. Get in Trouble – Kelly Link
  70. The Grace of Kings – Ken Liu
  71. Shadowshaper – Daniel José Older
  72. Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
  73. The Wrath & the Dawn – Renée Ahdieh
  74. All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
  75. A Torch Against the Night – Sabaa Tahir
  76. The Wall of Storms – Ken Liu
  77. Beasts Made of Night – Tochi Onyebuchi
  78. The Black Tides of Heaven – Neon Yang
  79. The Changeling – Victor LaValle
  80. Jade City – Fonda Lee
  81. The Stone Sky – N.K. Jemisin
  82. Aru Shah and the End of Time – Roshani Chokshi
  83. Blanca & Roja – Anna-Marie McLemore
  84. Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
  85. Circe – Madeline Miller
  86. Empire of Sand – Tasha Suri
  87. The Poppy War – R.F. Kuang
  88. Song of Blood & Stone – L. Penelope
  89. Trail of Lightning – Rebecca Roanhorse
  90. Witchmark – C.L. Polk
  91. Black Leopard, Red Wolf – Marlon James
  92. Children of Virtue and Vengeance – Tomi Adeyemi
  93. The Dragon Republic – R.F. Kuang
  94. Gods of Jade and Shadow – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  95. Pet – Akwaeke Emezi
  96. Queen of the Conquered – Kacen Callender
  97. The Rage of Dragons – Evan Winter
  98. We Hunt the Flame – Hafsah Faizal
  99. Elatsoe – Darcie Little Badger
  100. Woven in Moonlight – Isabel Ibañez

Agatha Christie

  • 1924 The road of dreams, dikt
  • 1930 The Mysterious Mr Quin (De dødes advokat), noveller
  • 1931 The Sittaford Mystery (Sittaford-mysteriet)
  • 1933 The Hound of Death, noveller
  • 1934 Parker Pyne Investigates (Parker Pyne ordner opp), noveller
  • 1934 The Listerdale Mystery (Listerdalemysteriet), noveller
  • 1935 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (Hvorfor spurte de ikke Evans?)
  • 1939 Murder is Easy (Mord er ingen sak)
  • 1939 Regatta Mystery and Other Stories, noveller
  • 1939 Ten Little Niggers, også gitt ut som And Then There Were None, 1945 (Ti små negerunger eller Og så var det ingen)
  • 1945 Death Comes as the End (Det ender med døden)
  • 1946 Come tell me where you live, reiseskildring
  • 1948 Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories, noveller
  • 1949 Crooked House (Morder i huset)
  • 1951 They Came to Baghdad (De kom til Bagdad)
  • 1955 Destination Unknown, også utgitt som So many steps to death (Mot ukjent mål)
  • 1957 Ordeal by Innocence (Døde spor)
  • 1961 The Pale Horse (Den fjerde rytter)
  • 1965 Star over Bethlehem (Stjerne over Betlehem) Agatha Christie Mallowan, dikt/barnebok
  • 1967 Endless Night (Evig natt)
  • 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt
  • 1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories, noveller
  • 1973 Poems, dikt
  • 1977 An Autobiography, selvbiografi
  • 1991 Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (Problemer i Pollensa), noveller
  • 1997 While the Lights Last and Other Stories, noveller

Hercule Poirot

  • 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Styles-mysteriet)
  • 1923 Murder on the Links (Den åpne graven)
  • 1924 Poirot Investigates (Det egyptiske gravkammeret og andre Poirot-mysterier)
  • 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Doktoren mister en pasient)
  • 1927 The Big Four (De fire store)
  • 1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train (Mysteriet på Monte Carlo-ekspressen)
  • 1932 Peril at End House (Snikende død, også gitt ut som Nick Bucklys skjebne)
  • 1933 Lord Edgware Dies (Tretten til bords)
  • 1934 Murder on the Orient Express (Mord på Orientekspressen)
  • 1935 Death in the Clouds (Døden i flyet)
  • 1935 Three Act Tragedy (Tragedie i tre akter)
  • 1936 Cards on the Table (Kortene på bordet)
  • 1936 Murder in Mesopotamia (Hvem skrev til Louise?)
  • 1936 The A.B.C. Murders (Mord etter alfabetet)
  • 1937 Death on the Nile (Hun fulgte etter, også utgitt som Mord på Nilen)
  • 1937 Dumb Witness (Det tause vitne)
  • 1937 Murder in the Mews (Den umulige forbrytelse), noveller
  • 1938 Appointment with Death (Stevnemøte med døden)
  • 1939 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Guds kvern maler langsomt)
  • 1940 Sad Cypress (Kom til meg, død)
  • 1941 Evil under the Sun (Solen var vitne)
  • 1941 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe også ugitt som Overdose of death (Siste time hos tannlegen)
  • 1942 Five Little Pigs også utgitt som Murder in retrospect (Fem små griser)
  • 1946 The Hollow (Lunsj for Poirot)
  • 1947 The Labours of Hercules (Den nemeiske løve), noveller
  • 1948 Taken at the Flood, også utgitt som There Is a Tide (Mannen fra Cape Town)
  • 1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (Tre blinde mus og andre historier), noveller
  • 1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories, noveller
  • 1952 Mrs McGinty’s Dead (Fru McGinty er død)
  • 1953 After the Funeral (Etter begravelsen)
  • 1955 Hickory Dickory Dock (Huset i Hickory Road)
  • 1956 Dead Man’s Folly (Leken blir alvor)
  • 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons (Katt i dueslaget)
  • 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Den mystiske  plumpuddingen), noveller
  • 1963 The Clocks (Klokkene)
  • 1966 Third Girl (Den tredje piken)
  • 1969 Hallowe’en Party (Barneselskapet)
  • 1972 Elephants Can Remember (Elefanter glemmer ikke)
  • 1974 Poirot’s Early Cases (Poirot løser gåten), noveller
  • 1975 Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (Teppet faller: Poirots siste sak)

Tommy og Tuppence

  • 1922 The Secret Adversary (Den hemmelige fiende)
  • 1929 Partners in Crime (Mannen som var nr. 16), noveller
  • 1941 N or M? (N eller M?)
  • 1968 By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Gammel dame forsvinner)
  • 1973 Postern of Fate (Gamle synder ruster ikke)

Oberst Johnny Race

  • 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit (Mann i brun dress)
  • 1944 Sparkling Cyanide (Giftige krystaller)

Inspektør Battle

  • 1925 The Secret of Chimneys (Brevet som drepte)
  • 1929 The Seven Dials Mystery (Ugler i mosen)
  • 1944 Towards zero (Mot nullpunktet)

Miss Jane Marple

  • 1930 The Murder at the Vicarage (Mordet i prestegården)
  • 1933 The Thirteen Problems (Tretten mordgåter, også utgitt som Tretten mysterier), noveller
  • 1942 The Body in the Library (Liket i biblioteket)
  • 1942 The Moving Finger (Mord pr. korrespondanse)
  • 1950 A Murder Is Announced (Invitasjon til mord)
  • 1952 They Do It with Mirrors (Lek med speil)
  • 1953 A Pocket Full of Rye (Sort knekt)
  • 1957 4.50 from Paddington også utgitt som What Mrs Mc Gillicuddi saw (4.50 fra Paddington)
  • 1962 The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (Mord som medisin)
  • 1964 A Caribbean Mystery (Mysterium i Vestindia)
  • 1965 At Bertram’s Hotel (Den forsvunne domprost)
  • 1971 Nemesis (Nemesis)
  • 1976 Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple’s Last Case (Miss Marples siste sak)
  • 1979 Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Other Stories, noveller

Skuespill

  • 1930 Black Coffee: (Svart kaffe : et nytt Hercule Poirot-mysterium omarbeidet av Charles Osborne)
  • 1937 Akhnaton
  • 1943 And then there were none
  • 1945 Appointment with death
  • 1946 Death on the Nile
  • 1948 Butter in a Lordly dish
  • 1951 The Hollow
  • 1952 The Mousetrap, basert på hørespillet Three Blind Mice
  • 1953 Witness for the Prosecution, basert på novellen, filmatisert 1957
  • 1954 Spider’s Web
  • 1954 Personal call
  • 1956 Towards Zero
  • 1958 Verdict
  • 1958 The Unexpected Guest
  • 1960 Go back for murder
  • 1962 Rule of Three, tre énaktere
  • 1962 Afternoon at the seaside
  • 1962 The Patient
  • 1962 The rats (Rottene)
  • 1972 Fiddlers Three
  • 2017 The secret of Chimneys
  • 2017 A Daughters daughter (Westmacott)

Under pseudonymet Mary Westmacott

  • 1930 Giant’s Bread (Fremtidens toner)
  • 1934 Unfinished Portrait
  • 1944 Absent in the Spring (Efter vår)
  • 1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
  • 1952 A Daughter’s a Daughter (En datter er en datter)
  • 1956 The Burden (Skyld)

 Charles Dickens

  • Sketches by Boz (1836)
  • Pickwick-klubben (The Pickwick Papers) 1836–1837
  • Oliver Twist (The Adventures of Oliver Twist) 1837–1839
  • Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby) 1838–1839
  • Den gamle antikvitetsbutikken (The Old Curiosity Shop) 1840–1841
  • Barnaby Rudge (Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty) 1841
  • En julefortelling (A Christmas Carol) 1843
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit) 1843–1844
  • The Chimes (The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In) 1844
  • The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home 1845
  • Dombey og sønn (Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation) 1846–1848
  • The Haunted Man (The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-time) 1848
  • David Copperfield (The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery) 1849–1850
  • Bleak House 1852–1853
  • Hard Times (Hard Times: For These Times) 1854
  • Lille Dorrit (1855–1857)
  • To byer (A Tale of Two Cities) 1859
  • Three ghost stories (1859)
  • Store forventninger (Great Expectations) 1860–1861
  • Vår felles venn (Our Mutual Friend) 1864–1865
  • The Life of Our Lord: As written for his children 1849
  • The Signal-Man 1866
  • Mysteriet Edwin Drood (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) (uferdig) 1870

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