Title Author

The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien

A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
A Song of Ice and Fire George R. R. Martin
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
1984
George Orwell
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Dark Tower Stephen King
The Stand
Stephen King
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Dune
Frank Herbert
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The Fault in Our Stars John Green
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man And The Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Good Omens
N. Gaiman
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Ulysses
James Joyce
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Hobbit
Tolkien
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
Alive Piers Paul Read
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Dresden Files
Jim Butcher
The Shining
Stephen King

The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
John Dies at the End
David Wong
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
The Martian
Andy Weir
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
The Gunslinger Stephen King
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
Fifty Shades of Grey
E L James
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M Miller
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
His Dark Materials Trilogy
Philip Pullman
11/22/63
Stephen King
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Looking for Alaska
John Green
The Giver
Lois Lowry
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
'Salem's Lot
Stephen King
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wanted Patricia Potter
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin
Hamlet William Shakespeare
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
The Night Angel Trilogy
Brent Weeks
Night Elie Wiesel
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Under the Dome Stephen King
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Old Man's War John Scalzi
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
The Trial
Franz Kafka

Mark Haddon

Best Standalone SciFI

A couple months ago someone here asked for the best stand-alone science fiction
book written in the past 25 years.
There were over 2,000 comments, and I've collated the top recommendations here.
Top Title: Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Top Authors (4 books each)
Iain M. Banks
John Scalzi
Larry Niven (3 books co-authored with Jerry Pournelle)
Neal Stephenson
The Whole List
House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds
The Martian - Andy Weir
Soon I Will Be Invicible - Austin Grossman

Contact - Carl Sagan

The Mount - Carol Emshwiler
The Killing Star - Charles R. Pellegrino & George Zebrowski
Glasshouse - Charles Stross
Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
Accelerando - Charles Stross
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
The City & The City - China Mieville
The Scar - China Mieville
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
Blackout - Connie Willis
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
Makers - Cory Doctorow
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Influx - Daniel Suarez
Daemon - Daniel Suarez
Earth - David Brin
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Postmortal - Drew Magary
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Air - Geoff Ryman
Queen of Angels - Greg Bear
Diaspora - Greg Egan
Permutation City - Greg Egan
Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks

Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks

Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
River of Gods - Ian MacDonald
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
Redshirts - John Scalzi
The Android's Dream - John Scalzi
Agent to the Stars - John Scalzi
Armor - John Steakley
Steel Beach - John Varley
The Golden Globe - John Varley
Never Let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Galileo's Dream - Kim Stanley Robinson
Gravity Dreams - L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
A World Out of Time - Larry Niven
The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Fallen Angels - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Footfall - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Light - M. John Harrison
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
Radio Freefall - Matthew Jarpe
World War Z - Max Brooks
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Prey - Michael Crichton
Under the Skin - Michael Faber
Beggars in Spain - Nancy Kress
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

Anathem - Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
Treason - Orson Scott Card
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Fallen Dragon - Peter F. Hamilton
Great North Road - Peter F. Hamilton
Blindsight - Peter Watts
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
Calculating God - Robert J. Sawyer
Grass - Sheri S. Tepper
Manifold: Time - Stephen Baxter
11/22/63 - Stephen King
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr
Bloom - Wil McCarthy
Neuromancer - William Gibson