Top 100...
The results are in! Here is the second complete top 100 list for Raven's Reviews. Thanks to all the reviewers!
There is also a new page on other awards and related stuff, like the Hugo, Nebula, and Newbery.
If you're still curious, you can see last year's results and this year's nominations.
| Rank | Author | Title | Score |
| 1 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Cordelia's Honor | 607.1684423 |
| 2 | Robin McKinley | Beauty: A Retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast | 542.194933 |
| 3 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Memory | 500.9805918 |
| 4 | Neil Gaiman | The Sandman (comic) | 496.0032069 |
| 5 | Robin McKinley | The Blue Sword | 414.4295603 |
| 6 | Susan Cooper | "The Dark is Rising" (series) | 411.8342199 |
| 7 | C.S. Lewis | "The Chronicles of Narnia" (series) | 403.3014697 |
| 8 | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 399.6057957 |
| 9 | Ursula LeGuin | The Left Hand of Darkness | 382.9802963 |
| 10 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | 288.1497459 |
| 11 | Connie Willis | The Doomsday Book | 276.1612609 |
| 12 | L. Frank Baum | Ozma of Oz | 274.9315646 |
| 13 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Young Miles | 270.7836062 |
| 14 | J.R.R. Tolkien | "The Lord of the Rings" (trilogy) | 268.0585758 |
| 15 | C.J. Cherryh | Heavy Time and Hellburner | 263.4284518 |
| 16 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Firebrand | 250.7215477 |
| 17 | Robin McKinley | Rose Daughter | 238.0148087 |
| 18 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Mirror Dance | 217.0469205 |
| 19 | Joan D. Vinge | "Psion" (trilogy) | 213.5410795 |
| 20 | Ursula LeGuin | The Dispossessed | 200.6658056 |
| 21 | Robin McKinley | The Hero and the Crown | 172.6951162 |
| 22 | C.J. Cherryh | "Cyteen" (trilogy) | 167.9717836 |
| 23 | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | 159.0815078 |
| 24 | Sheri S. Tepper | Grass | 158.6384422 |
| 25 | Meredith Ann Pierce | Birth of the Firebringer | 149.1293539 |
| 26 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus | 146.9546875 |
| 27 | H.P. Lovecraft | The Dunwich Horror and Others (collection) | 146.9332656 |
| 28 | Julie E. Czerneda (tie) | A Thousand Words for Stranger | 145.9056332 |
| 29 | David Brin (tie) | Sundiver | 145.9056332 |
| 30 | Mark Twain | The Diary of Adam and Eve (story fragments) | 142.1151178 |
| 31 | Robert Heinlein | Stranger in a Strange Land | 139.4712897 |
| 32 | Judith Tarr | "The Hound and the Falcon" (trilogy) | 139.133111 |
| 33 | L. Frank Baum | The Wizard of Oz | 139.0175533 |
| 34 | Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | Good Omens | 136.6720975 |
| 35 | Robert Heinlein (tie) | I Will Fear No Evil | 133.6875622 |
| 36 | Robert Heinlein (tie) | Podkayne of Mars | 133.6875622 |
| 37 | Charles De Lint | Moonlight and Vines | 129.7408896 |
| 38 | Peter S. Beagle | The Last Unicorn | 123.3441396 |
| 39 | Traci Harding (tie) | "The Ancient Future" trilogy | 117.7398974 |
| 40 | Colleen McCulloch (tie) | The First Man in Rome | 117.7398974 |
| 41 | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass | 113.0530392 |
| 42 | Edgar Allan Poe | The Telltale Heart and Other Stories (collection) | 111.6323625 |
| 43 | Marvin Kaye, ed. | Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (anthology) | 107.1019905 |
| 44 | David Alexander Smith | In the Cube (Future Boston Project) | 102.8479018 |
| 45 | Roald Dahl | The Big Friendly Giant | 99.4652219 |
| 46 | James Clavell | Shogun | 97.1722773 |
| 47 | Ray Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles (collection) | 95.444408 |
| 48 | Roald Dahl | Matilda | 94.4580334 |
| 49 | Charles De Lint (tie) | Dreams Underfoot (collection) | 93.5638151 |
| 50 | C.J. Cherryh (tie) | Tripoint | 93.5638151 |
| 51 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Family Tree | 90.1318805 |
| 52 | H.P. Lovecraft (tie) | At the Mountains of Madness | 84.8487872 |
| 53 | Bram Stoker (tie) | Dracula | 84.8487872 |
| 54 | Edgar Allan Poe (tie) | Tales of Mystery & Imagination (collection) | 84.8487872 |
| 55 | Umberto Eco (tie) | The Name of the Rose | 84.8487872 |
| 56 | Alan Moore (tie) | Watchmen (comic) | 84.8487872 |
| 57 | C.J. Cherryh | "Foreigner" (trilogy) | 79.0558191 |
| 58 | Julie E. Czerneda (tie) | Beholder's Eye | 77.3990715 |
| 59 | Charles De Lint (tie) | Someplace to Be Flying | 77.3990715 |
| 60 | Charles De Lint (tie) | Svaha | 77.3990715 |
| 61 | Ellen Kushner (tie) | Swordspoint | 77.3990715 |
| 62 | Mickey Zucker Reichert (tie) | The Legend of Nightfall | 77.3990715 |
| 63 | Julie E. Czerneda (tie) | Ties of Power | 77.3990715 |
| 64 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Gate to Women's Country | 75.925061 |
| 65 | R.A. MacAvoy | Tea With the Black Dragon | 70.8688259 |
| 66 | Orson Scott Card | Ender's Game | 68.781701 |
| 67 | Martin H. Greenberg, ed. (tie) | After the King (anthology) | 68.5065617 |
| 68 | Katherine Kurtz (tie) | "Camber of Culdi" (trilogy) | 68.5065617 |
| 69 | Joe Haldeman (tie) | Forever Peace | 68.5065617 |
| 70 | Robert Heinlein (tie) | Have Spacesuit, Will Travel | 68.5065617 |
| 71 | Neal Stephenson (tie) | Snow Crash | 68.5065617 |
| 72 | Morgan Llewellyn (tie) | The Red Branch | 68.5065617 |
| 73 | Octavia Butler (tie) | "Xenogenesis" (trilogy) | 68.5065617 |
| 74 | Meredith Ann Pierce | "Darkangel" (trilogy) | 68.4001884 |
| 75 | Diane Duane (tie) | Deep Wizardry | 65.0746271 |
| 76 | Sheri S. Tepper (tie) | Raising the Stones | 65.0746271 |
| 77 | Peter David | Q-Squared | 61.7340395 |
| 78 | Octavia Butler | Parable of the Sower | 58.700131 |
| 79 | Ursula LeGuin | The Word for World is Forest | 41.221997 |
| 80 | Robert C. O'Brien | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | 36.4539247 |
| 81 | Ray Bradbury | The Illustrated Man (collection) | 29.1863921 |
| 82 | David Brin | Uplift War | 28.3828146 |
| 83 | Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts | Daughter of the Empire (Riftwar Saga sequel) | 26.1705248 |
| 84 | Phillip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 25.6822863 |
| 85 | Sharon Reddy (tie) | Paradox Equation | 25.5956299 |
| 86 | Sara Douglas (tie) | "The Axis" Trilogy | 25.5956299 |
| 87 | Ricardo Pinto (tie) | The Chosen | 25.5956299 |
| 88 | Martha Wells (tie) | City of Bone | 25.5956299 |
| 89 | J.K. Rowling (tie) | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 25.5956299 |
| 90 | Elizabeth Moon (tie) | Lunar Activity (collection) | 25.5956299 |
| 91 | Terry Pratchett (tie) | The Last Continent | 25.5956299 |
| 92 | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | 22.7857307 |
| 93 | Roger Zelazny (tie) | A Night in the Lonesome October | 22.7643088 |
| 94 | Frank Miller (tie) | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (comic) | 22.7643088 |
| 95 | Michael Crichton (tie) | Eaters of the Dead (a.k.a. The 13th Warrior) | 22.7643088 |
| 96 | Susan Shwartz (tie) | Silk Roads and Shadows | 22.7643088 |
| 97 | Walter Wangerin Jr. (tie) | The Book of the Dun Cow | 22.7643088 |
| 98 | Mika Waltari (tie) | The Egyptian | 22.7643088 |
| 99 | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (tie) | The Mote in God's Eye | 22.7643088 |
| 100 | Stephen King (tie) | The Stand | 22.7643088 |
| 101 | Diana L. Paxson (tie) | "Wodan's Children" trilogy | 22.7643088 |
Books that made the list but were cut because 4 books by that author had already won:
- Trader by Charles De Lint (#64)
- Deerskin by Robin McKinley (#80)
- The Little Country by Charles De Lint (#81)
- Finity's End by C.J. Cherryh (#85)
- Rimrunners by C.J. Cherryh (#86)
- "Faded Sun" (trilogy) by C.J. Cherryh (#94)
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