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[unixronin]

From radarrider and others.

At listofbests.com is this list of the 100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have to Read, reproduced below.  I've divided them four ways, not three.  Those I know I've read are bold, those I'm fairly sure I've read (but I'm not 100% certain) are bold italic, those I know I haven't read are struck out, and the few left plain I'm not sure about.  Several errors by listofbests.com have been corrected.

1. Childhood's End -- Arthur C. Clarke
2. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
3. Dune -- Frank Herbert
4. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K. Dick
5. Starship Troopers -- Robert A. Heinlein
6. Valis -- Philip K. Dick
7. Frankenstein -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8. Gateway -- Frederik Pohl
9. Space Merchants -- Frederik Pohl
10. Earth Abides -- George R. Stewart
11. Cuckoo's Egg -- C.J. Cherryh
12. Star Surgeon -- James White
13. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch -- Philip K. Dick
14. Radix -- A. A. Attanasio
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Arthur C. Clarke
16. Ringworld -- Larry Niven
17. A Case of Conscience -- James Blish
18. Last and First Men -- Olaf Stapledon
19. The Day of the Triffids -- John Wyndham
20. Way Station -- Clifford D. Simak
21. More Than Human -- Theodore Sturgeon
22. Gray Lensman -- E.E. "Doc" Smith
23. The Gods Themselves -- Isaac Asimov
24. The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula K. Le Guin
25. Behold the Man -- Michael Moorcock
26. Star Maker -- Olaf Stapledon
27. The War of the Worlds -- H. G. Wells
28. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -- Jules Verne
29. Heritage of Hastur -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
30. The Time Machine -- H. G. Wells
31. The Stars My Destination -- Alfred Bester
32. Slan -- A. E. Van Vogt
33. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
34. Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
35. In Conquest Born -- C. S. Friedman
36. Lord of Light -- Roger Zelazny
37. Eon -- Greg Bear
38. Dragonflight -- Anne McCaffrey
39. Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Jules Verne
40. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert A. Heinlein
41. Cosm -- Gregory Benford
42. The Voyage of the Space Beagle -- A. E. Van Vogt
43. Blood Music -- Greg Bear
44. Beggars in Spain -- Nancy Kress
45. Omnivore -- Piers Anthony
46. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
47. Mission of Gravity -- Hal Clement
48. To Your Scattered Bodies Go -- Philip Jose Farmer
49. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
50. The Man Who Folded Himself -- David Gerrold
51. 1984 -- George Orwell
52. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde -- Robert Louis Stevenson
53. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
54. Flesh -- Philip Jose Farmer
55. Cities in Flight -- James Blish
56. Shadow of the Torturer -- Gene Wolfe
57. Startide Rising -- David Brin
58. Triton -- Samuel R. Delany
59. Stand on Zanzibar -- John Brunner
60. A Clockwork Orange -- Anthony Burgess
61. Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
62. A Canticle for Leibowitz -- Walter M. Miller Jr.
63. Flowers for Algernon -- Daniel Keyes
64. No Blade of Grass -- John Christopher
65. The Postman -- David Brin
66. Dhalgren -- Samuel R. Delany
67. Berserker -- Fred Saberhagen
68. Flatland -- Edwin Abbott
69. Planiverse -- A. K. Dewdney
70. Dragon's Egg -- Robert L. Forward
71. Downbelow Station -- C. J. Cherryh
72. Dawn -- Octavia E. Butler
73. The Puppet Masters -- Robert A. Heinlein
74. The Doomsday Book -- Connie Willis
75. The Forever War -- Joe Haldeman
76. Deathbird Stories -- Harlan Ellison
77. Roadside Picnic -- Arkady Strugatsky
78. The Snow Queen -- Joan D. Vinge
79. The Martian Chronicles -- Ray Bradbury
80. Drowned World -- J.G. Ballard
81. Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut
82. Red Mars -- Kim Stanley Robinson
83. Upanishads -- Various
84. Alice in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll
85. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
86. The Lathe of Heaven -- Ursula K. Le Guin
87. The Midwich Cuckoos -- John Wyndham
88. Mutant -- Henry Kuttner
89. Solaris -- Stanislaw Lem
90. Ralph 124C41+ -- Hugo Gernsback
91. I Am Legend -- Richard Matheson
92. Timescape -- Gregory Benford
93. The Demolished Man -- Alfred Bester
94. War with the Newts -- Karl Kapek
95. Mars -- Ben Bova
96. Brain Wave -- Poul Anderson
97. Hyperion -- Dan Simmons
98. The Andromeda Strain -- Michael Crichton
99. Camp Concentration -- Thomas M. Disch
100. A Princess of Mars -- Edgar Rice Burroughs

And if you're thinking, "Damn, there's not very many titles struck out in that list, are there?"   ...Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

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Speaking of books that shouldn't be on this list at all....

84. Alice in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll

Whiskey tango foxtrot, over?