Recommendations
Dune series - Dune
By Frank Herbert
Genre: Sci Fi
Keywords: Religion, mysticism, feudalism, war, spice, aboriginals, Hamlet
Further reading: The rest of the series,
“Review – coming soon”
Ender series - Ender's Game
By Orson Scott Card
Genre: Sci Fi
Keywords: Psychology, xenofobia, politics, children, brainwashing, breaking/bending rules
Further reading: The rest of the series, Ringworld series,
“Review – coming soon”
Fionavar Tapestry
By Guy Gavriel Kay
Genre: Fantasy
Keywords: Folk tales, mythology, romance, alternate worlds
Further reading: Last Light of the Sun,
“Review – coming soon”
Foundation series
By Isaac Asimov
Genre: Sci Fi
Keywords: Psychology, history, social commentary, robots and AI
Further reading: Asimov's Robot series,
“Review – coming soon”
The Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy series
By Douglas Adams
Genre: Sci Fi – comic science fiction
Keywords: Political & social satire, Monty Python, 42, surrealism/absurdism
Further reading:
“Review – coming soon”
The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss
Genre: Fantasy
Keywords:
Further reading:
“Review – coming soon”
The Wheel of Time series
By Robert Jordan
Genre: Fantasy
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Keywords:
Further reading:
“Review – coming soon”
Authors and Their Works
Edwin Abbot
Flatland
Joe Abercrombie
The First Law trilogy
The Blade Itself
Douglas Adams
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy Series
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Dirk Gently – Series
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Long, Dark Tea Time of the Soul
The Salmon of Doubt
The (Deeper) Meaning of Liff
Kevin J. Anderson
Saga of Seven Suns series
Hidden Empire
Asbjørnsen & Moe
Norske Folkeeventyr
Neal Asher
Agent Cormac series
Gridlinked
Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
The Robot Series
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
The Foundation Series
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Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
The Gods Themsel ves
Nightfall
Jane Austen (Seth Grahame-Smith)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
John Barrow
Impossibility: Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
Terry Brooks
Shannara series
The Sword of Shannara
B. Andreas Bull-Hansen
Horngudens Tale
Dragens tårer
Brans reise
Han som søker
Chris Bunch
Shadow Warrior series
The Wind After Time
Hunt the Heavens
Darkness of God
William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch
Orson Scott Card
The Ender saga
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
A War of Gifts
The Shadow saga
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
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Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Legacy
Kushiel's Dart
Kushiel's Chosen
Kushiel's Avatar
Ol' Chumbucket & Cap'n Slappy
Well Blow Me Down
So You Wanna Be a Pirate?
Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous with Rama
Rama II (w/ Gentry Lee)
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
The Manual of the Warrior of Light
The Devil and Miss Prym
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Rick Cook
The Wiz Biz I
The Wiz Biz II
Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle
The Penultimate Truth
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ubik
Galactic Pot-Healer
VALIS trilogy
VALIS
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Stephen R. Donaldson
The Chronicles of Thoman Covenant, the Unbeliever
Lord Foul's Bane
Fjodor Dostojevskij
The Village of Stepanchikovo
David Eddings
The Belgariad series
Pawn of Prophecy
4
Queen of Sorvery
Magician's Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanter's End Game
The Mallorean series
Guardians of the West
King of the Murgos
Demon Lord of Karanda
The Redemption of Althalus
Steven Erikson
Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Gardens of the Moon
Deadhouse Gates
Memories of Ice
House of Chains
Raymond E. Feist
The Riftwar Saga
Magician
Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon
Terry Goodkind
The Sword of Truth series
Wizard's First Rule
Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe
Peter F. Hamilton
The Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Reality Dysfunction
The Neutronium Alchemist
The Naked God
Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein)
Tales of the Otori
Across the Nightingale Floor
Grass for His Pillow
Brilliance of the Moon
The Harsh Cry of the Heron
Heaven's Net is Wide
Frank Herbert
Dune series
Dune
Dune Messiah
5
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
WorShip series
The Jesus Incident (w/ Bill Ransom)
ConSentient series
The Dosadi Experiment
Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great
Robin Hobb (Margaret Ogden)
The Farseer Trilogy
Assassin's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
Tom Holt
Flying Dutch
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Robert E. Howard
The Conan Chronicles Vol. I
The Conan Chronicles Vol. II
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Henrik Ibsen
Et dukkehjem
Vildanden
Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time series
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 World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time
New Spring
The Conan Chronicles
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The Further Chronicles of Conan
Franz Kafka
Prosessen
Michio Kaku
Hyperspace
Beyond Einstein
Parallell Worlds
Guy Gavriel Kay
The Fionavar Tapestry series
The Summer Tree
The Wandering Fire
The Darkest Road
Tigana
A Song for Arbonne
The Sarantine Mosaic
Sailing to Sarantium
The Last Light of the Sun
Ysabel
Katharine Kerr
The Deverry series
Daggerspell
Darkspell
The Bristling Wood
The Dragon Revenant
A Time of Exile
A Time of Omens
Days of Blood and Fire
Stephen King
Pet Sematary
Arlene Judith Klotzko
A Clone of Your Own
Dean Koontz
Darkfall
Kaoru Kurimoto
The Guin Saga
The Leopard Mask
Stephen R. Lawhead
The Pendragon Cycle
Taliesin
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Merlin
Arthur
Pendragon
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hainish Cycle
The Dispossessed
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Scott Lynch
The Gentleman Bastard Sequence
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Red Seas Under Red Skies
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire series
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
Anne McCaffrey
The Crystal Singer series
Crystal Singer
Patricia A. McKillip
The Riddle-Master trilogy
The Riddle-Master of Hed
Heir of Sea and Fire
Harpist in the Wind
The Changeling Sea
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China Miéville
Perdido Street Station
Karen Miller
Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series
The Innocent Mage
Innocence Lost
Richard Morgan
Takeshi Kovacs series
Altered Carbon
Broken Angels
Woken Furies
A Land Fit For Heroes
The Steel Remains
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Kate Mosse
Labyrinth
Larry Niven
Ringworld series
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
The Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
1984
Miss S
Confessions of a Working Girl
Terry Pratchett
Discworld
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Faust/Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
Hogfather
Jingo
The Last Continent
Carpe Jugulum
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Thief of Time
The Last Hero
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Night Watch
The Wee Free Men
Monstrous Regiment
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Strata
Only You Can Save Mankind
Good Omens (w/ Neil Gaiman)
200
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials trilogy
Northern Lights / The Golden Compass
Alastair Reynolds
Revelation Space series
Revelation Space
Anne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles
The Queen of the Damned
Patrick Rothfuss
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Name of the Wind
Brandon Sanderson
Elantris
Mistborn series
The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last Wish
Blood of Elves
Charles Stross
Halting State
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Silmarillion
Tarjei Vesaas
Kimen
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Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
Tad Williams
Otherland series
City of Golden Shadow
River of Blue Fire
Robert Anton Wilson
The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
The Universe Next Door
The Trick Top Hat
The Homing Pigeons
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Index
Recommendations...............................................................................................................................1
Dune series - Dune...........................................................................................................................1
Ender series - Ender's Game............................................................................................................1
Fionavar Tapestry.............................................................................................................................1
Foundation series.............................................................................................................................1
The Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy series....................................................................................1
The Name of the Wind.....................................................................................................................1
The Wheel of Time series................................................................................................................1
Authors and Their Works..................................................................................................................2
Edwin Abbot....................................................................................................................................2
Joe Abercrombie..............................................................................................................................2
Douglas Adams................................................................................................................................2
Kevin J. Anderson............................................................................................................................2
Asbjørnsen & Moe...........................................................................................................................2
Neal Asher........................................................................................................................................2
Isaac Asimov....................................................................................................................................2
Jane Austen (Seth Grahame-Smith).................................................................................................3
John Barrow.....................................................................................................................................3
Terry Brooks....................................................................................................................................3
B. Andreas Bull-Hansen..................................................................................................................3
Chris Bunch.....................................................................................................................................3
William S. Burroughs......................................................................................................................3
Orson Scott Card..............................................................................................................................3
Jacqueline Carey..............................................................................................................................4
Ol' Chumbucket & Cap'n Slappy.....................................................................................................4
Arthur C. Clarke..............................................................................................................................4
Paulo Coelho....................................................................................................................................4
Rick Cook........................................................................................................................................4
Philip K. Dick..................................................................................................................................4
Charles Dickens...............................................................................................................................4
Stephen R. Donaldson......................................................................................................................4
Fjodor Dostojevskij..........................................................................................................................4
David Eddings..................................................................................................................................4
Steven Erikson.................................................................................................................................5
Raymond E. Feist.............................................................................................................................5
Terry Goodkind................................................................................................................................5
Brian Greene....................................................................................................................................5
Peter F. Hamilton.............................................................................................................................5
Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein)......................................................................................................5
Frank Herbert...................................................................................................................................5
Christopher Hitchens.......................................................................................................................6
Robin Hobb (Margaret Ogden)........................................................................................................6
Tom Holt..........................................................................................................................................6
Robert E. Howard............................................................................................................................6
Aldous Huxley.................................................................................................................................6
Henrik Ibsen.....................................................................................................................................6
Robert Jordan...................................................................................................................................6
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Franz Kafka......................................................................................................................................7
Michio Kaku....................................................................................................................................7
Guy Gavriel Kay..............................................................................................................................7
Katharine Kerr.................................................................................................................................7
Stephen King....................................................................................................................................7
Arlene Judith Klotzko
A Clone of Your Own .....................................................................................................................7
Dean Koontz....................................................................................................................................7
Kaoru Kurimoto...............................................................................................................................7
Stephen R. Lawhead........................................................................................................................7
Ursula K. Le Guin............................................................................................................................8
C. S. Lewis.......................................................................................................................................8
Scott Lynch......................................................................................................................................8
George R. R. Martin........................................................................................................................8
Anne McCaffrey..............................................................................................................................8
Patricia A. McKillip.........................................................................................................................8
China Miéville.................................................................................................................................8
Karen Miller.....................................................................................................................................8
Richard Morgan...............................................................................................................................8
Kate Mosse......................................................................................................................................9
Larry Niven......................................................................................................................................9
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)...................................................................................................9
Miss S..............................................................................................................................................9
Terry Pratchett..................................................................................................................................9
Philip Pullman................................................................................................................................10
Alastair Reynolds...........................................................................................................................10
Anne Rice......................................................................................................................................10
Patrick Rothfuss.............................................................................................................................10
Brandon Sanderson........................................................................................................................10
Andrzej Sapkowski........................................................................................................................10
Charles Stross................................................................................................................................10
Hunter S. Thompson......................................................................................................................10
J. R. R. Tolkien..............................................................................................................................10
Tarjei Vesaas..................................................................................................................................10
Vernor Vinge..................................................................................................................................11
Tad Williams..................................................................................................................................11
Robert Anton Wilson......................................................................................................................11
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