Best First Contact Books — Community Picks

Discover the top First Contact books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 24 books in this genre.

• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
• Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven
• Way station by Clifford D. Simak
• Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
• Blindsight by Peter Watts
• The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt
• Voyagers by Ben Bova