@CainOnGames
That’s a great list. I’m so glad you included A Canticle For Leibowitz. It was a huge influence on my game Fallout, and I’m always encouraging people to read it.
@susantownsend8397
I love lists like this and yours in particular. I’m 73 and have been reading/listening to sci-fi since I was around 10. I particularly like that you included the CS Lewis Space Trilogy.
@bobaloo2012
I'm in the middle of my annual re-read of Anathem. I've been reading scifi for 60 years and it's in my top 3 of all time. Every time I read it I'm absolutely amazed at what Stephenson was able to do with this book, it boggles my mind that anyone could write so well with such creativity. I did start it and quit the first time after reading about 50 pages, I couldn't stand it. My daughter said "stick with it for 100 pages", I did and was hooked.
@jamesdrynan
Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is a good read, too.
@tomlabooks3263
SO GREAT to see Gene Wolfe in this Top 10 list. He deserves it. And the 5th book (Urth) is quite possibly the very best one of them.
@ronaldcobb1633
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by R.A.Heinlein is my favorite. I read it back in the 80's the first time and just recently re-read it.
@feanor7080
Glad to see you mention Wolfe. Book of the New Sun was life changing literature, my best literary discovery of the past 10 years of life as a reader. I’m soon to jump into his Book of the Long Sun series.
@alexjack6626
The Book of the New Sun changed my life. It is a spiritual experience going through it.
@DUFMAN123
Your videos have inspired into reading Le Guin for the first time. Both Left Hand and Dispossessed were exceptionally good. She's now counted among my favourite authors.
@fartissimo
I'm surprised you didn't include the 4 book Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons. I just finished the series and it left me spellbound and enthralled like very few works of literature have. I would put it up there with Lord of the Rings in originality, scope and vision. I absolutely agree with your assessment on Remembrance of Earth's past, however. I LOVED that series and wonder if it could ever be made into a movie
@DannySabraArt
Fully agree about The Dark Forest, it inexorably changed how I view all other science fiction, especially first contact type stories, and even more wildly the series impacted my worldview generally. Maybe it’s time for a reread!
@luizflaviogiordano5365
I’ve read “The illustrated Man” by Bradbury back in my teen years and boy, I was impressed.
@martinstent5339
The Dispossessed: We have a lot to learn from Odo. “The Creation of Pseudo-Species”, “Excess is excrement” Odo wrote in the Analogy. Isn’t that also in a way what we should be talking about in all this debate about anti-gay, gender inequality and the ecological damage of consumerism? If you know an author looking for a good project (someone who studied political science for example) give them all the Odo quotes from The Dispossessed and ask him/her to try and reproduce Odo’s works. I’m sure they would sell well. One thing Tolkien and LeGuin had in common is written on Odo’s grave “True voyage is return”.
@Gladtobemom
All good picks, I'd put the Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn above a couple of those you've picked.
@AdamSamuel-o5z
I absolutely love the Remembrance of Earth's Past series, which is why I was shocked when I saw it placed only at the 9th spot. I am very excited to read some of your recommendations!
@RexfelisLXIX
Where's the Heinlein?
@LennethValkyrie
As soon as you started talking I subscribed, and I looooved that you mentioned Cixin Liu's trilogy. Geez, those books blew my mind! Also, I'm definitely reading all the other books you mention. Thank you so much for sharing, I'll be checking out your other videos 😸🛸
@Liberty_the_Baron
You’re probably the first booktuber I’ve watched that places Dispossessed above Left Hand of Darkness. I’ve never read Le Guin, but recently bought The Dispossessed and am very excited to read it! Cheers!
@mikehigbee2320
I loved "The Faded Sun Trilogy" by C. J. Cherryh. It was the first science fiction I ever read. I was totally immersed in a fascinating alien culture. I read it about 40 years ago and have never forgotten it.
@_jared