# The best books by Stanisław Lem

Lem's novels and story collections that readers and critics rate highest, from Solaris to The Cyberiad.

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- Sep 5, 2026 · gdanskbookworm
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## Top 16

1. **Solaris** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1961. An ocean that thinks, and humans who can't understand it.
2. **The Cyberiad** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1965. Fables about two robot constructors, Trurl and Klapaucius.
3. **Return from the Stars** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1961. An astronaut returns to an Earth he no longer recognises.
4. **The Star Diaries** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1957. The absurd voyages of Ijon Tichy.
5. **Tales of Pirx the Pilot** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1968. An ordinary pilot in extraordinary situations in space.
6. **The Invincible** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1964. A ship's crew against a swarm of tiny machines.
7. **Fables for Robots** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1964. Fairy tales whose heroes are machines.
8. **His Master's Voice** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1968. Scientists try to decode a signal from space.
9. **Fiasco** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1986. His last novel: a failed first contact.
10. **The Futurological Congress** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1971. Ijon Tichy in a world of hallucinogens.
11. **Eden** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1959. Castaways on a planet with an alien civilisation.
12. **Hospital of the Transfiguration** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1955. A realist novel about a psychiatric hospital during the occupation.
13. **Memoirs Found in a Bathtub** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1961. A Kafkaesque satire on bureaucracy.
14. **Summa Technologiae** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1964. An essay that foresaw virtual reality and AI.
15. **A Perfect Vacuum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1971. Reviews of books that do not exist.
16. **The Chain of Chance** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1976. A detective novel about a series of strange deaths in Naples.

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