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More book lists.

*edit* I misread the instructions. I would suggest most of the bolded ones. The ones with asterisks were special favorites.

Initially from http://ronin-kakuhito.livejournal.com/253410.html

Taken from
Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place, and a dash next to books you own but have not read.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1984 - George Orwell
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson *
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card *
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card *
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel - Margaret Atwood
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson **
The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick *
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven*
Dune - Frank Herbert* (too bad about everything else he ever wrote, eh?)
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes*
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' - Gene Wolfe
Foundation (Foundation Novels) - Isaac Asimov*
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I did reread it, but it stands up much less well than it did when I was in grade school.
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein* One of my two favorite late Heinleins
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein*
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven
Valis - Philip K. Dick
Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein*
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Neal Stephenson Until System of the World, this was my least favorite of his books.
A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle*
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
Neuromancer - William Gibson**
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein * I have read this an embarassingly large number of times.
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny**
Startide Rising - David Brin
The Reality Dysfunction Part I: Emergence - Peter F. Hamilton
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
The Incredible Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson
Gray Lensman - Edward E. Smith
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
Contact - Carl Sagan
The Postman - David Brin
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke
His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
Eon - Greg Bear
A Stainless Steel Trio - Harry Harrison
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Uplift War - David Brin
Burning Chrome - William Gibson **
Ilium - Dan Simmons
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
The Door into Summer - Robert A. Heinlein*
Way Station - Clifford D. Simak
Fiasco - Stanislaw Lem
The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars - Arthur C. Clarke
The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
City - Clifford D. Simak
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs (One of the very first novels I ever read)
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Citizen of the Galaxy - Robert A. Heinlein
The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel - Ursula K. Le Guin
Puppet Masters - Robert A. Heinlein
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Blood Music - Greg Bear
Have Space Suit, Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein
The Chrysalids - David Harrower

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