The best books by Stanisław Lem
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Solaris · The Cyberiad · Return from the Stars. (Updated Sep 5, 2026.)
Lem's novels and story collections that readers and critics rate highest, from Solaris to The Cyberiad.
Automatically translated (original in Polski). See the original
Top 16
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Solaris
1961. An ocean that thinks, and humans who can't understand it.
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The Cyberiad
1965. Fables about two robot constructors, Trurl and Klapaucius.
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Return from the Stars
1961. An astronaut returns to an Earth he no longer recognises.
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The Star Diaries
1957. The absurd voyages of Ijon Tichy.
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Tales of Pirx the Pilot
1968. An ordinary pilot in extraordinary situations in space.
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The Invincible
1964. A ship's crew against a swarm of tiny machines.
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Fables for Robots
1964. Fairy tales whose heroes are machines.
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His Master's Voice
1968. Scientists try to decode a signal from space.
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Fiasco
1986. His last novel: a failed first contact.
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The Futurological Congress
1971. Ijon Tichy in a world of hallucinogens.
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Eden
1959. Castaways on a planet with an alien civilisation.
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
1955. A realist novel about a psychiatric hospital during the occupation.
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
1961. A Kafkaesque satire on bureaucracy.
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Summa Technologiae
1964. An essay that foresaw virtual reality and AI.
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A Perfect Vacuum
1971. Reviews of books that do not exist.
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The Chain of Chance
1976. A detective novel about a series of strange deaths in Naples.
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