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Aug 11 2011 3:50pm
14 Titles from Tor Books Featured in NPR’s SFF Top 100

Some congratulations are in order to our affiliated publisher Tor Books! Out of the  top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Book List from NPR, 14 of them were published by Tor!

The Tor Books titles, along with their placement in the NPR poll, are listed below the cut. For some lively conversation about the list itself, jump into our post from earlier today.

3. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
12. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
34. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein [1]
43. The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
62. The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke [2]
65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson [3]
71. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
74. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
77. The Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey [4]
81. The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
87. The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe [5]
93. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
99. The Xanth series by Piers Anthony [6]

[1] Originally published by Putnam in 1966; in print from Tor since 1997.
[2] Originally published in hardcover and trade paperback by Bloomsbury, whose handsome trade paperback edition is still in print; a mass-market paperback edition is in print from Tor.
[3] Originally published by Fawcett in 1954; in print from Tor since 1995.
[4] First three books in print from Tor; subsequent volumes in print from Grand Central.
[5] Originally published by Timescape/S&S in 1980-83; in print from Tor since 1994.
[6] Earlier volumes still in print from Del Rey; more recent volumes in print from Tor.

8 comments
wingracer
1. wingracer
Man that's a pretty solid reading list right there all be itself. Too bad I have already read most of them, haha.
wingracer
3. Petar Belic
I've read most of them. Quite a few of them don't belong on the list in my opinion. HOWEVER, it's a decent list.

Congratulation to TOR for nurturing some of those great authors. I look forwards to more TOR books appearing on similar lists in the future!
wingracer
5. ClintACK
What an excellent list -- it came out much better than I'd expected.

My only surprises:
- that Tor doesn't publish either the Song of Fire and Ice or the Kingkiller Chronicles, despite the excellent rereads here
- that Jim Butcher made the list for the Codex Alera, but not for the much superior Dresden Files (Was Urban Fantasy explicitly excluded?)
- that C. S. Lewis made the list for the space trilogy, but not for the Chronicles of Narnia?!?!
- that Brin's Uplift Saga, Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy, and the abovementioned Dresden Files and Chronicles of Narnia didn't make the list
Ronald Manley
6. manleyr
Great list I have read them all and liked most.
wingracer
7. Vauric
@5 - ClintACK

I believe NPR said something about excluding certain genres because there were going to have polls later for them. I remember YA and horror being two that were mentioned.
Maria Alexander
8. MariaAlexander
No surprise. TOR has published some of the greatest authors of the last century!
wingracer
9. Spelaea
I disagree with the inclusion of sci-fi and fantasy in the same list. While the genres sometimes blur, I feel like it would be easy to make a seperate list, and that comparing books like, say, Ender's Game or 1984, to the Wheel of Time or Lord of the Ring, for example...

While all are good books, it's a bit of an apples and oranges thing, for me.

And why wasn't the Hobbit included? Unless it's going on the YA list? And, agreed, urban fantasy kind of got left out, which is partially why I think there should have been a seperate list for fantasy.
wingracer
10. seegre
when is the second book of the ways of kings coming out ,i have read the first 3 times and i can not get enough ????

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