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For the first phase of this project we need to identify 500 adult fiction titles which together are indicative of a healthy adult fiction collection. This is not a shopping list of titles, but an indicative list. There will be a very broad range of titles in this list from the very popular to the very literacy. Find out more about the project here.

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• Isacc Asimov - Foundation; I Robot
• Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomican; Anathem
  
• Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed
• Alaistair Reynolds (title suggestions needed) - Pushing Ice?
• Arthur C Clarke - Rama ; 2011 A Space Odyssey
• Eric Flint - 1632
• Harry Turtledove (title suggestions needed)
• Connie Willis - The Doomsday book, Blackout/All Clear
• Ben Bova (title suggestions needed)
• William Gibson - Neuromancer
• Gregory Benford (title suggestions needed)
• China Mieville - Perdido Street Station
• Douglas Adams - The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
• J G Ballard (title suggestions needed)
• Kim Stanley Robertson - Red Mars
• Frank Herbert - Dune
• Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
• Stanislav Lev - Solaris
• William Shatner - Tek
• Anne McCaffery - The Dragons of Pern (Fantasy??)
• Alan Dean Foster (title suggestions needed)
• Jo Haldeman - The Forever War
• Robert Heinlen - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Cory Doctorow (title suggestions needed) Little brother (though could be YA)
• Orson Scott Card - Enders Game
• Sean Williams (title suggestions needed)
• Richard Hatch (title suggestions needed)
• C J Cherryh (title suggestions needed)
• John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids
• Bernard Beckett - Genesis
• Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
• George Orwell - 1984
• H G Wells - Time Machine; War of the Worlds
• Lois McMaster - Bujold (title suggestions needed)
• Verner Vinge - A Fire upon the Deep
• Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio
• Larry Niven - Ringworld
• Dan Simmons - Hyperion
• Mary Doria Russel The Sparrow
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• C S Lewis - Cosmic Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength)
• Frederik Pohl - Space Merchants
• Fritz Leiber, - The Big Time
• Philip Jose Farmer, - Riverworld series (To Your Scattered Bodies Go etc)
• Kurt Vonnegut, - Slaughterhouse 5
• Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Rat
• Poul Anderson, ???
• HG Wells - War of the Worlds
• David Weber - Out of the Dark
• Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
• Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
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• William Gibson - Neuromance
• Arthur C Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Margaret Attwood - The Handmaids Tale
• Carl Sagan - Contact
• JG Ballard - Empire of the Sun
• John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids
• Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park T
• Alduous Huxley - Brave New World
• Jon Scalzi - Old man's war
• Peter F. Hamilton - The dreaming void
• Greg Egan (title suggestion needed)
• Ursla Le Guin - The left hand of darkness
• Ursla Le GUin - Earthsea Quartet
• David Weber - On Basilisk Station
• Lois Mcmaster Bujold - Borders of infinity
• Terry Dowling - Rynosseros
• Cormac McCarthy - The road
• P.D.James - Children of men
• Paolo Bacigalupi - The wind-up girl
• Thomas Disch - Wings of song
• William Gibson - Zero History (Gibson's Latest)
• Halo series (as in Halo xbox game-based series of fiction titles by various authors)
• Frank Herbert - Dune
• H.G. Wells - War of the worlds
• Jules Verne - Time machine
• Sherri Tepper - Grass