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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

15,946 members

385 reviews

4

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

2

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,439 members

958 reviews

4

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

3

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,990 members

704 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

38,765 members

719 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

2,379 members

48 reviews

4

4 Members: Quaisior, aulsmith, sturlington, souloftherose

6

A Wind in the Door

by Madeleine L'Engle

12,684 members

123 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Quaisior, sturlington, ahef1963

7

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

9,286 members

81 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963

8

9,206 members

137 reviews

4

3 Members: Quaisior, sturlington, ahef1963

9

The Word for World is Forest

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,901 members

94 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide

by Douglas Adams

2,758 members

26 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963

11

by Octavia E. Butler

2,581 members

59 reviews

4.2

3 Members: Quaisior, aulsmith, sturlington

12

by Michael Flynn

1,108 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: timspalding, aulsmith, sturlington

13

by Orson Scott Card

41,098 members

1,046 reviews

½ 4.3

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

14

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

by Douglas Adams

18,284 members

190 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

15

Life, the Universe, and Everything

by Douglas Adams

15,674 members

140 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

16

11,719 members

273 reviews

4.2

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

17

by Stephen King

11,718 members

452 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

18

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,970 members

157 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

19

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,195 members

230 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

10,165 members

150 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

21

by Michael Crichton

9,828 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

22

by Mary Doria Russell

7,709 members

406 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

23

The Mote in God's Eye

6,338 members

108 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

24

The Gods Themselves

by Isaac Asimov

5,936 members

102 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

25

A Deepness in the Sky

by Vernor Vinge

4,026 members

70 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington

26

by China Miéville

3,408 members

214 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, souloftherose

27

Children of God

by Mary Doria Russell

2,997 members

125 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

28

Downbelow Station

by C. J. Cherryh

2,818 members

68 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Quaisior, aulsmith

29

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

by C. J. Cherryh

1,488 members

25 reviews

4

2 Members: Quaisior, souloftherose

30

by H. Beam Piper

1,187 members

40 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Quaisior, hipdeep

31

The War of the Worlds

18,378 members

308 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

32

Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

15,785 members

211 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

33

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

13,359 members

209 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

34

The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

9,415 members

251 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

35

The Three-Body Problem

8,652 members

405 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

Project Hail Mary

5,926 members

337 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: al.vick

37

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,090 members

232 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Iain M. Banks

4,284 members

95 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

39

by Nnedi Okorafor

2,868 members

242 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

40

The Reality Dysfunction

by Peter F. Hamilton

2,744 members

52 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

41

The Forge of God

2,654 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

42

Brightness Reef

2,491 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

43

The Android's Dream

2,358 members

103 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

44

The Book of Strange New Things

by Michel Faber

2,200 members

134 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

45

by Alastair Reynolds

2,198 members

55 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

46

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story

by Stephen R. Donaldson

2,124 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

47

by Peter F. Hamilton

2,063 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee

48

by K. A. Applegate

2,017 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1,273 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

50

by Alan Dean Foster

899 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

893 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

52

by Robert Silverberg

884 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

53

Girl in Landscape

by Jonathan Lethem

865 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

54

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles

by K. A. Applegate

759 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Crucible of Time

by John Brunner

736 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

56

376 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

57

by Chana Porter

352 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

58

Far from the Light of Heaven

by Tade Thompson

324 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

59

by Eleanor Arnason

294 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

60

Gameplayers of Zan

by M. A. Foster

264 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith

61

by Megan Lindholm

233 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

62

by Judith Moffett

140 members

3 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

63

The Ragged World

by Judith Moffett

102 members

1 review

4

Member: aulsmith

64

by Margaret Wander Bonanno

34 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: aulsmith

65

by Stephenie Meyer

18,322 members

654 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee,sturlington

66

Rendezvous With Rama

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,131 members

178 reviews

4

67

A Fire upon the Deep

by Vernor Vinge

6,370 members

141 reviews

4.1

Member: aulsmith,sturlington

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April 2014
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