A Note on Book Recommendations
Alphabetical by Author’s Last Name:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Rashomon & Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Day of Empire by Amy Chua
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Armada by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
By Philip K. Dick
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Stories
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Philip K. Dick Reader
- What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden
The Magician by Raymond E. Feist
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
We Watch You by N.S. Ford
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Mythos by Stephen Fry
By Neil Gaiman
- 8 Rules for Writing
- Art Matters by Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell
- Coraline
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
- The Graveyard Book
- Norse Mythology
- The Neil Gaiman Reader
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman & Various Artists
- Stardust
- The View from the Cheap Seats
Neuromancer by William Gibson
By Malcolm Gladwell
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
How Not To Die by Michael Greger, M.D., with Gene Stone
How Not To Diet by Michael Greger, M.D.
Myths of the Norsemen by H.A. Guerber
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Dune by Frank Herbert
My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life by Eric Idle
Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Robin by Dave Itzkoff
By Diana Wynne Jones
By Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time
- New Spring
- The Eye of the World
- The Great Hunt
- The Dragon Reborn
- The Shadow Rising
- The Fires of Heaven
- Lord of Chaos
- A Crown of Swords
- The Path of Daggers
- Winter’s Heart
- Crossroads of Twilight
- Knife of Dreams
- The Gathering Storm
- Towers of Midnight
- A Memory of Light
Eat & Run by Scott Jurek with Steve Friedman
Misery by Stephen King
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Amazing Fantastic Incredible by Stan Lee
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd
Genius Foods by Max Lugavere with Paul Grewal
The Genius Life by Max Lugavere
Genius Kitchen by Max Lugavere
The Eyes of God by John Marco
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
One Day by David Nicholls
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Angel Mage by Garth Nix
A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Oima
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Anthem by Ayn Rand
By Patrick Rothfuss
By J.K. Rowling
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every Tool’s A Hammer by Adam Savage
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
And So It Goes – Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Chris J. Shields
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Knightmare Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
Orange by Ichigo Takano
The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
By J.R.R. Tolkien
- J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
- The Hobbit
- The Lord of the Rings
Star Wars – Republic Commando: Hard Contact by Karen Traviss
By Kurt Vonnegut
- 8 Rules for Writing
- 14 Novels Ranked
- And So It Goes – Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Chris J. Shields
- Bluebeard
- Cat’s Cradle
- Mother Night
- Pity the Reader by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell
- Player Piano
- Slaughterhouse Five
- The Sirens of Titan
- Welcome To The Monkey House
Yes Man by Danny Wallace
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry by Marth Wells
The Martian by Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Educated by Tara Westover
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
By Gene Wolfe
- Shadows of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe and Various Authors
- The Best of Gene Wolfe
- The Book of the New Sun
By Tobias Wolff
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