http://io9.com/5626861/a-syllabus-and-book-list-for-novice-students-of-science-fiction-literature

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
• A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

• Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• 1984, George Orwell
• The Man In the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• The Female Man, Joanna Russ

• I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
• Neuromancer, by William Gibson
• Saturn's Children, by Charles Stross

• Who Goes There, John W. Campbell
• Lilith's Brood, by Octavia Butler
• The Secret City, by Carol Emschwiller

• Triplanetary, E.E. “Doc” Smith
• Downbelow Station, C.J. Cherryh
• The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
• Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks

• Orlando, Virgina Woolf
• Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
• Dhalgren, Samuel Delaney
• The Dispossessed, Ursula LeGuin
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson