I don’t think it’s a best of SF you haven’t heard of, but a list that simply consisted of the really well known established names wouldn’t really be useful either.

Tastes will differ, and I doubt anybody will like everything on a list like this, but it’s certainly a good representation of books that people have been talking about. It would be interesting to hear which books really resonated with you, not just which on the list you didn’t think much of.