Bold titles are books I have read (I also own most of these)
A single asterisk denotes books on my personal reading lists
Double asterisks denote books I own, and obviously plan to read
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert**
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin**
1984 by George Orwell
Farenhiet 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov*
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Neuromancer by William Gibson*
Watchmen by Alan Moore**
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov*
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfus
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick*
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King*
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Stand by Stephen King*
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury*
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut*
The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman**
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess*
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Watership Down by Richard Adams*
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne*
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
The Belgariad by David Eddings
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley*
Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson**
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin*
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien**
The Once and Future King by T.H. White**
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stehenson
World War Z by Max Brooks**
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle*
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett*
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett*
The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke**
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks*
The Conan the Barbarian series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger**
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson*
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne*
The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi*
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
The Kushiel’s Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Malayan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Culture series by Ian Banks
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher*
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury*
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis*
