Yet Another Braggy, Listy, Skiffy Meme

I got this meme from James Nicoll, and it's the usual thing -- a long list of books, which you set in bold if you've read them and set in italics if you own a copy. This particular list is from the UK publisher Gollancz, and is their self-declared fifty best science fiction and fantasy novels.

As usual, the real point is to do one of two things: either to show off how many books one has read, or to declare that these grapes are oh so very sour. I'll see how well I do before I decide which path I'll take.

SF:

• A Case of Conscience by James Blish
• Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
• Brasyl by Ian McDonald
• The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Fairyland by Paul McAuley
• The Female Man by Joanna Russ
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• Flood by Stephen Baxter
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Gateway by Frederik Pohl
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
• More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
• Pavane by Keith Roberts
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
• Ringworld by Larry Niven
• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
• Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• The Separation by Christopher Priest
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
• Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

Fantasy:

• Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
• Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
• Book of the New Sun (Vol 1&2) (Vol 3&4) by Gene Wolfe
• The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
• Conan Volume One by Robert E. Howard
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• Elric by Michael Moorcock
• Eric by Terry Pratchett
• Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
• The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• Little, Big by John Crowley
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
• Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney
• Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson
• Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
• Viriconium by M. John Harrison
• Wolfsangel by M. D. Lachlan

Some of those titles -- and I'm looking at Flood and Yellow Blue Tibia in particular -- are perhaps less essential than others, and they're also among a set of books I'd call "current authors Gollancz wants to flatter." I also greatly doubt that the essential Stephen Donaldson book is The Runes of the Earth. Still, given the requirements of the list -- these are all books that Gollancz publishes, and has available right now -- it's a pretty good list of the best of a certain British-focused view of SFF.