[Tweetybabies]

The results of NPR's annual summer reading survey for the favorite science and fantasy books is out. According to the article, YA and horror books have intentionally been left out.

Here's the top 10:

1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

3. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert

5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin

6. 1984, by George Orwell

7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

8. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov

9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman

What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Have you read any of these books? Any of the top 10?

[Alaska-Su]

I've only read The Lord of the Rings and Fahrenheit 451. The second one I had to read for school and would have never picked it up myself.

I don't understand why YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy books were left out. I can't really say I agree or disagree with the list, though, since I haven't read most of the books on it and one wasn't for pleasure. Fahrenheit 451 was certainly an interesting read but the only things I took from it were that Bradbury managed to call a lot of things we have now (even though there are obviously some differences) like the shells for your ears so you can listen to things, then I realized that J.K. Rowling must have taken the guy Granger and used his name for Hermione Granger's last name since Hermione has the whole photographic memory of books deal going on.