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I’m sure there are such lists, but as is always the case with ‘best lists’, they’re always totally subjective, and often coloured by the opinions of those collating such lists.
Especially when you start from the early days of speculative fiction, when even the very definition of what constitutes SF becomes very subjective!

The first issue I have with the Clarke Award list is William Gibson is only nominated once. And for a book which isn’t his best work.

So for that reason I call BOBBINS.

😉

As said up there ^^^^ it’s probably a too subjective to find a list that anyone could agree on.

That list is pretty good, it has a few I would have suggested. It didn’t mention Wasp by Erik Frank Russell though which IS a classic.

SF – The 100 best novels, a compendium by David Pringle is good. He’s a SF critic and editor and writes an insightful piece about each pick – his list is here:

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_pringle_sf.asp

It was written a while ago, though, and covers 1949 – 1984 (appropriately). So nothing contemporary or any of the really old Victorian stuff, but for covering the golden age of the field I don’t think you’d see much argument with his picks.
He also did one for fantasy novels which was similarly good.

Some excellent stuff on this list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF_Masterworks

Let’s make our own list of

Top Three:
Dune
Neuromancer
Accelerando – Charles Stross

The first ones that came into my head – I could obviously go on (all day)

Oddly enough, that thought did occur to me, the last time I read it, and Gibson himself acknowledges that with his more recent books, the ‘Bigend’ trilogy, the speed of development in technology has meant it’s increasingly difficult to anticipate how things are going to change, so his books are becoming a bit more noir-ish, with any tech being much more things that we’re already familiar with, but with a bit of a twist to them.