Just had to do this one...

[baavgai]

The Guardian's Top Twenty Geek Novels.
Bold what you've read and liked, strike what you've read and disliked, italicize what you want to read.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick ( just because Blade Runner was fun )
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland (no interest)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson (started but got side tracked, good so far...)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks ( right, this list was put together by Brits... )
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick ( how the hell did Dick make the list twice? sorry, one's enough )
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman ( this is a must read )
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson ( didn't even know anyone else had heard of this one )
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham ( read The Day of the Triffids, thought that was his biggie...)