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Apr 29, 2019, 7:27 AM EDT (Updated)

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Amazon.com wants you to read 100 books before you die. Specifically, the Internet's biggest bookstore has collated a list of 100 books that they believe you should read. And it seems that 21 of these books have sci-fi elements.
Obviously, the list includes few sci-fi classics, like Dune and The Lord of the Rings. Then there are the YA novels, like A Wrinkle in Time and The Hunger Games. There's speculative fiction, such as The Handmaid's Tale and Beloved. But there are also a few geek-centric books, like The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao and The Right Stuff.We're calling this "the 21 sci-fi/geeky books Amazon wants you to read in a lifetime" list.
It's not our list (because our list would include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Watchmen). But it's list worth bringing on your next shopping trip.

1984 by George Orwell In this double plus good dystopian novel, Winston Smith secretly doesn't...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Alice falls down a rabbit hole and finds a...

Beloved by Toni Morrison A former slave lives in a house haunted by the ghost of her dead child,...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Charlie Bucket finds one of five coveted golden...

Dune by Frank HerbertSet 21,000 years into the future, Dune is about a boy who learns he's...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Firemen in Fahrenheit 451 don't save books: They burn them....

The Giver by Lois Lowry The state determines which job you'll have for the rest of your life,...

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Young Lyra Belacqua's goes in search of...

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to compete in an...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael ChabonWikipedia calls it "historical fiction...

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanAlthough Percy Jackson is a 12-year-old boy with a human mother...

The Little Prince by Antoine du Saint-ExuperyA downed pilot meets the titular character after he...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienIf you're a reader of Blastr, you'll know this already: In...

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazThis non-sci-fi novel has a geek protagonist and...

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster A bored young boy assembles a tollbooth and drives into...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling "You're a wizard, Harry."...

The Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThis non-fiction book, The Right Stuff, is an in-your-face look at the...

The Road by Cormac McCarthyA father and son struggle to survive a post-apocalyptic world filled...

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time, much like the alien...

The Shining by Stephen KingWinter in the Overlook Hotel might have been simple for the Torrence...

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Meg Murray's scientist father was working on a fifth-...
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