I have divided the books into three categories: Space Travel, Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic, and Speculative Fiction for those I couldn't find a more specific category for. Many would fit into more than one category, but I didn't repeat so as not to bore you. I also didn't choose more than one book from the same author, or list a whole series instead of a single book. For the fantasy enthusiasts out there, I'll compile a separate list to be posted another day.
What would you have put on the list? How many of these have you read? Tell me in the comments!
Space Travel
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold
Dune - Frank Herbert
2001: a Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Contact - Carl Sagan
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984
- George Orwell
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Slow River - Nicola Griffith
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Dawn - Octavia Butler
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Speculative Fiction
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The House on the Strand - Daphne DuMaurier
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
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