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Best Books With Aliens

Description: A list of convincing fiction about extraterrestrial cultures and societies.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

18,989 members

459 reviews

4.1

6 Members: Quaisior, hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

2

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

45,544 members

1,040 reviews

4

5 Members: Quaisior, sturlington, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,299 members

779 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

44,078 members

809 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, al.vick, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Complete edition of this series is already on the list.

5

by Sheri S. Tepper

2,593 members

56 reviews

4

4 Members: Quaisior, aulsmith, sturlington, souloftherose

6

A Wind in the Door

by Madeleine L'Engle

14,267 members

135 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Quaisior, sturlington, ahef1963

7

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

10,746 members

91 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963

8

10,418 members

152 reviews

4

3 Members: Quaisior, sturlington, ahef1963

9

The Word for World Is Forest

by Ursula K. Le Guin

3,749 members

116 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide

by Douglas Adams

3,038 members

28 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963

11

by Octavia E. Butler

2,952 members

65 reviews

4.2

3 Members: Quaisior, aulsmith, sturlington

12

by Michael Flynn

1,211 members

74 reviews

3.8

3 Members: timspalding, aulsmith, sturlington

13

by Orson Scott Card

45,685 members

1,124 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, al.vick, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

by Douglas Adams

20,235 members

230 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

15

Life, the Universe, and Everything

by Douglas Adams

17,355 members

167 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

16

13,882 members

309 reviews

4.2

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

17

by Stephen King

13,568 members

488 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

18

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,177 members

180 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

19

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

11,488 members

271 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

11,439 members

180 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

21

by Michael Crichton

10,985 members

133 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

22

by Mary Doria Russell

8,546 members

438 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

23

The Mote in God's Eye

6,941 members

122 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

24

The Gods Themselves

by Isaac Asimov

6,695 members

118 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

25

A Deepness in the Sky

by Vernor Vinge

4,464 members

80 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

26

by China Miéville

3,902 members

237 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, souloftherose

27

Children of God

by Mary Doria Russell

3,268 members

137 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

28

Downbelow Station

by C. J. Cherryh

3,132 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Quaisior, aulsmith

29

The Faded Sun Trilogy: Kesrith, Shon'jir, and Kutath

by C. J. Cherryh

1,624 members

28 reviews

4

2 Members: Quaisior, souloftherose

30

by H. Beam Piper

1,325 members

46 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Quaisior, hipdeep

31

The War of the Worlds

21,633 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

32

Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

17,377 members

241 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

33

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

15,225 members

247 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

34

Project Hail Mary

13,101 members

569 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

35

The Three-Body Problem

12,574 members

531 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

10,449 members

272 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

37

Stories of Your Life and Others

6,496 members

275 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Iain M. Banks

4,714 members

100 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

39

by Nnedi Okorafor

3,602 members

294 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

40

The Reality Dysfunction

by Peter F. Hamilton

3,035 members

56 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

41

The Forge of God

2,906 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

42

Brightness Reef

2,703 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

43

The Android's Dream

2,638 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

44

by Alastair Reynolds

2,631 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

45

The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel

by Michel Faber

2,478 members

142 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

46

The Invasion (Animorphs #1)

by K. A. Applegate

2,470 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story

by Stephen R. Donaldson

2,313 members

37 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

48

by Peter F. Hamilton

2,245 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

49

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1,454 members

61 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

50

1,152 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

51

by Robert Silverberg

1,005 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

52

by Alan Dean Foster

989 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

Girl in Landscape

by Jonathan Lethem

924 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

54

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (Animorphs Chronicles #2)

by K. A. Applegate

894 members

10 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Crucible of Time

by John Brunner

823 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

56

by Chana Porter

522 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

57

419 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

58

Far from the Light of Heaven

by Tade Thompson

411 members

20 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

59

by Eleanor Arnason

319 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

60

Gameplayers of Zan

by M. A. Foster

295 members

6 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

61

by Megan Lindholm

266 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

62

by Judith Moffett

153 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

63

The Ragged World

by Judith Moffett

117 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

64

by Margaret Wander Bonanno

37 members

½ 3.3

Member: aulsmith

65

by Stephenie Meyer

20,645 members

669 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee,sturlington

66

Rendezvous with Rama

by Arthur C. Clarke

11,416 members

209 reviews

4

67

A Fire upon the Deep

by Vernor Vinge

7,196 members

165 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith,sturlington

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April 2014
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