Most popular science fiction novels - how many have you read?

[biodroid]

7 for me

 

[BAYLOR]

Ive read 28 on that list.

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

36 read, 10 started (a couple almost to the end) but not finished. Sometimes you persist with a book, only to realise it's actually not going to get any better, and oh no, it seems that it's actually just the first in a trilogy!

 

[Ori Vandewalle]

To answer my own question, looks like 15 read, 14 DNF. Most that I did not finish were because life got in the way rather than me deciding the book was bad. Alas.

 

[Astro Pen]

31
Though in my defence I have tried to broaden my reading outside sci-fi. because life is short and there are so many exotic fruits to try. So, Doris Lessing, Primo Levy, John Updike and (admire my courage in the face of 800 pages) David Halberstam are among many flavours on the shelves.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

A disappointing 17, but there may be a couple more because while I can't remember reading them, I feel as though I must have, but I could be confusing them with the film e.g. Slaughterhouse 5

The highest ranked I've not read is Brave New World at 4.

The lowest ranked I've read is The Long Earth at 93.

 

[Rodders]

i have read 27 books on that list. There are a smattering of books that I have on my TBR pile and a few more which I haven’t read, but have seen the movie.

 

[Ogma]

I've read 47. I wonder what order of magnitude separates position 1 from position 100 for example.

 

[.matthew.]

A meagre 9 from the list, mostly because I've seen the movies for a bunch of others I'd actually want to read and that makes me put them on the ever-growing backburner. A few I'm waiting for the series finish too.

 

[tinkerdan]

A little more than half and now I'm interested in about twenty more.
There goes my free time.

 

[Narkalui]

14. Interesting about Heir To The Empire since McDisney have retconned it out of canonicity...

 

[Randy M.]

30 read, 10 in Mount TBR.

Highest not read, #1, 1984; lowest read, Out of the Silent Planet.


Randy M.

 

[Paul_C]

I've read 45 and own 19 more.

My list is spread between old and new, but most of what I read these days has been released in the last few years.

 

[MikeAnderson]

64 of these. Still have't read Never Let Me Go, yet. Next reading project.

 

[AE35Unit]

According to my Goodreads page I've read 23/100. Not all were finished (Dune, Left Hand of Darkness) and at least one I've read but is not listed as read on GR (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)

 

[kythe]

I've read 31 of these. Some of these books I have heard of and would like to read, some I had never heard of.

The highest ranking that I haven't read is Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. I'm not sure how I feel about that one because it sounds like a standard dystopian story, and would probably leave me frustrated.

I would like to read Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut because I like his other books. I hadn't thought about him for a while.

 

[Daysman]

I count 38 I've read, more than half more than once, but not in this century.

A further handful sit waiting in ebook readers, and a few I've marked, awaiting reductions and offers, Oryx and Crake among them.

There's so much good stuff out there.

 

[Danny McG]

It's interesting how many of us casually put DNF for books in that list.
I think the tendency at one time, when you had to physically go to the library or book store, was to plod on with a dull story because the alternative was nothing to read.
Nowadays a lot of us have a large number of ebooks/audio books, all clamouring for our attention, so we can happily walk away from a book without any regret at not finishing it

 

[Paul_C]

I have a number of paperbacks which I gave up on*, and one or two that I plowed through to the end of, that I wish I hadn't bothered to**

for example:

*Gravity's Rainbow, The Reality Dysfunction

**The Hyperion Cantos

but I would agree that it's easier to bale out when you have plenty more to choose from.

 

[.matthew.]

I generally try to read to the end of the book if I've started it, regardless of format.

I'm more likely to continue reading even if hating it (eg: Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb) if I've enjoyed other titles by the author. That said, there have been a few real stinkers I've given up on.

I tend to read reviews before I start on a new series or standalone though, so mostly I end up picking books I'll enjoy.