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Classics: 19th - early 20th Century Edgar Rice Burroughs Karel Čapek Edgar Allen Poe Mary Shelley Frankenstein Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Bram Stoker Dracula ( 447 p.) H.G. Wells Jules Verne
Sci-Fi – Classic (Most work before 1980’s) Brian Aldiss Issac Assimov Alfred Bester Ray Bradbury Something Wicked This Way Comes**; The Martian Chronicles Arthur C Clarke Samuel R Delany Philip K Dick Man in the High Castle Harlan Ellison Dangerous Visions**; I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream** Robert Heinlein Ursula Le Guin The Dispossesed** Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon Stanislaw Lem Solaris**; The Cyberiad** Richard Matheson I am Legend** Walter M Miller Jr A Canticle for Leibowitz** Larry Niven Ringworld** Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time ** Body of Glass (also titled He, She and It.)** Frederik Pohl Theodore Sturgeon Carl Sagan Contact (580 pages!) ** Cordwainer Smith Olaf Stapledon James Tiptree Jr Up the Walls of the World** Kurt Vonnegut John Wyndam Day of the Triffids**; The Crysalids**
Sci-Fi – Recent (1980’s/90’s and now) Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Margaret Atwood J.G. Ballard Iain M. Banks The Algebraist Stephen Baxter The Massacre of Mankind David Brin Startide Rising (Uplift Saga #2) (p. 458)** Octavia Butler Wild Seed** Greg Egan William S Gibson The Difference Engine Gwyneth Jones White Queen Kim Stanley Robinson Melissa Scott Shadow Man Dan Simmons Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1) (482 p.)** Neil Stephenson Vernor Vinge Connie Willis Robert Anton Wilson
Sci-Fi – New (most works after 2000) Naomi Alderman The Power Jake Arnott *The House of Rumour Paolo Bacigalupi *The Windup Gir M.R. Carey The Girl with All the Gifts Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1*) Peter Clines Cory Doctorow Walkaway Dave Eggers Karen Joy Fowler Hugh Howey Wool Omnibus (Silo #1) Nancy Kress Victor La Valle Yoon Ha Lee Ninefox Gambit* Nathan Lowell Quarter Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper #1) May be self-pub, not in catalog. Scott Meyer Off to be the Wizard** (Amazon published) Sylvain Neuvel Nnedi Okorafor Ada Palmer Hannu Rajaniemi The QuantumThief** Alastair Reynolds Matt Ruff Lovecraft Country (9 copies) John Scalzi Rivers Solomon An Unkindness of Ghosts* R.E. Stearns Barbary Station* Daniel Suarez Daemon** Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Time Jeff Vandermeer Martha Wells All Systems Red
Other (List Genre) Robert Aickman (Classic Weird/Horror) Mira Grant (New Horror/Zombie) Feed** Into the Drowning Deep Ruthanna Emrys (Lovecraftian Horror) Winter Tide** Shirley Jackson (Classic Horror) The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House Non-fiction: Any interest in topics: space, AI, bioengineering, science and ethics?
Fantasy – Classic Isabel Allende House of the Spirits Peter S Beagle The Last Unicorn (YA?)* Angela Carter Michael Ende The Neverending Story (YA?) Robin Hobb Fool's Assassin (688 pages) Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Robert Jordan The Eye of the World (814 pages) Tanith Lee The Silver Metal Lover (Silver Metal Lover #1) * (not in catalog!); Biting the Sun* (not in catalog!); Red as blood: or tales from the Sisters Grimmer * Anne McCaffrey Michael Moorcock Terry Pratchett Jack Vance T. H. White Gene Wolfe Robert Zelazny The Chronicles of Amber*; Lord of Light*
Fantasy- New Saladin Ahmed Throne of the Crescent Moon Katherine Arden The Bear and the Nightingale Jake Arnott *The House of Rumour Robert Jackson Bennett *City of Stairs Octavia Butler Zen Cho *Sorcerer to the Crown Tananarive Due Nicholas Eames Kings of the Wyld Nalo Hopkinson Katherine Howe The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane N.K. Jemisin Neil Gaiman Ruth Emmie Lang Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora R.A. MacAvoy *Tea with the Black Dragon Seanan McGuire *Every Heart a Doorway China Mieville *Un Lun Dun; Scar; Nnedi Okorafor Patrick Rothfuss Name of the Wind (662 pages!) Brandon Sanderson Doyce Testerman *Hidden Things Tad Williams Jeanette Winterson *The Daylight Gate Helene Wrecker The Golem and the Jinni (486 p.) J.Y. Yang *The Black Tides of Heaven
If you have more, please add titles and authors you'd like to add to this list. We're always up for more ideas of things to read.
Classics: 19th - early 20th Century
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Karel Čapek
Edgar Allen Poe
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker Dracula ( 447 p.)
H.G. Wells
Jules Verne
Sci-Fi – Classic (Most work before 1980’s)
Brian Aldiss
Issac Assimov
Alfred Bester
Ray Bradbury Something Wicked This Way Comes**; The Martian Chronicles
Arthur C Clarke
Samuel R Delany
Philip K Dick Man in the High Castle
Harlan Ellison Dangerous Visions**; I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream**
Robert Heinlein
Ursula Le Guin The Dispossesed**
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
Stanislaw Lem Solaris**; The Cyberiad**
Richard Matheson I am Legend**
Walter M Miller Jr A Canticle for Leibowitz**
Larry Niven Ringworld**
Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time **
Body of Glass (also titled He, She and It.)**
Frederik Pohl
Theodore Sturgeon
Carl Sagan Contact (580 pages!) **
Cordwainer Smith
Olaf Stapledon
James Tiptree Jr Up the Walls of the World**
Kurt Vonnegut
John Wyndam Day of the Triffids**; The Crysalids**
Sci-Fi – Recent (1980’s/90’s and now)
Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Margaret Atwood
J.G. Ballard
Iain M. Banks The Algebraist
Stephen Baxter The Massacre of Mankind
David Brin Startide Rising (Uplift Saga #2) (p. 458)**
Octavia Butler Wild Seed**
Greg Egan
William S Gibson The Difference Engine
Gwyneth Jones White Queen
Kim Stanley Robinson
Melissa Scott Shadow Man
Dan Simmons Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1) (482 p.)**
Neil Stephenson
Vernor Vinge
Connie Willis
Robert Anton Wilson
Sci-Fi – New (most works after 2000)
Naomi Alderman The Power
Jake Arnott *The House of Rumour
Paolo Bacigalupi *The Windup Gir
M.R. Carey The Girl with All the Gifts
Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1*)
Peter Clines
Cory Doctorow Walkaway
Dave Eggers
Karen Joy Fowler
Hugh Howey Wool Omnibus (Silo #1)
Nancy Kress
Victor La Valle
Yoon Ha Lee Ninefox Gambit*
Nathan Lowell Quarter Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper #1) May be self-pub, not in catalog.
Scott Meyer Off to be the Wizard** (Amazon published)
Sylvain Neuvel
Nnedi Okorafor
Ada Palmer
Hannu Rajaniemi The QuantumThief**
Alastair Reynolds
Matt Ruff Lovecraft Country (9 copies)
John Scalzi
Rivers Solomon An Unkindness of Ghosts*
R.E. Stearns Barbary Station*
Daniel Suarez Daemon**
Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Time
Jeff Vandermeer
Martha Wells All Systems Red
Other (List Genre)
Robert Aickman (Classic Weird/Horror)
Mira Grant (New Horror/Zombie) Feed**
Into the Drowning Deep
Ruthanna Emrys (Lovecraftian Horror) Winter Tide**
Shirley Jackson (Classic Horror) The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House
Non-fiction: Any interest in topics: space, AI, bioengineering, science and ethics?
Fantasy – Classic
Isabel Allende House of the Spirits
Peter S Beagle The Last Unicorn (YA?)*
Angela Carter
Michael Ende The Neverending Story (YA?)
Robin Hobb Fool's Assassin (688 pages)
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
Robert Jordan The Eye of the World (814 pages)
Tanith Lee The Silver Metal Lover (Silver Metal Lover #1) * (not in catalog!);
Biting the Sun* (not in catalog!); Red as blood: or tales from the Sisters Grimmer *
Anne McCaffrey
Michael Moorcock
Terry Pratchett
Jack Vance
T. H. White
Gene Wolfe
Robert Zelazny The Chronicles of Amber*; Lord of Light*
Fantasy- New
Saladin Ahmed Throne of the Crescent Moon
Katherine Arden The Bear and the Nightingale
Jake Arnott *The House of Rumour
Robert Jackson Bennett *City of Stairs
Octavia Butler
Zen Cho *Sorcerer to the Crown
Tananarive Due
Nicholas Eames Kings of the Wyld
Nalo Hopkinson
Katherine Howe The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
N.K. Jemisin
Neil Gaiman
Ruth Emmie Lang Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
R.A. MacAvoy *Tea with the Black Dragon
Seanan McGuire *Every Heart a Doorway
China Mieville *Un Lun Dun; Scar;
Nnedi Okorafor
Patrick Rothfuss Name of the Wind (662 pages!)
Brandon Sanderson
Doyce Testerman *Hidden Things
Tad Williams
Jeanette Winterson *The Daylight Gate
Helene Wrecker The Golem and the Jinni (486 p.)
J.Y. Yang *The Black Tides of Heaven