The following is a sampling of books that I and others have read and
enjoyed, some for their content(themes/message/etc), some for their style, some for both.
Negative Utopias
- 1984- George Orwell
- Brave New World- Huxley
- We- Zamyatin (spelling may differ, he is russian)
- Farenheit 451
Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Sphere- Michael Crichton
- Nueromancer- William Gibson
- The Memory of Earth (Homecoming Series)- Orson Scott Card
- Dune (plus sequels and prequel)- Frank Herbert (son and another writer on prequel)
- Jesus Incident- Frank Herbert
- Godmakers- Frank Herbert
- Toward Infinity- various (short stories)
- Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlin
- Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury
- A Wrinkle in Time (plus sequels)- L'Engle
- The Stranger- Albert Camus
- (Earthsea Cycle)
- Childhood's End- Arthur Clarke
- The Hobbit- Tolkien
General Fiction
- As I Lay Dying- Faulkner
- Absalom, Absalom- Faulkner
- Utopia- Sir Thomas Moore
- Count of Monte Cristo
- The Plague- Albert Camus
- The Stranger- Albert Camus
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Plays
- Julius Caesar- Shaekespeare
- MacBeth- Shakespeare
Non-Fiction
- Cyberia- Daniel Rushkoff
- Go Ask Alice- Anonymous
- Chaos- Gleick
- Ugly American-
- Nation of Sheep-
- A Brief History of Time- Stephen Hawking
- Liberalism and Its Challengers- Alonzo Hamby
- The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed- David Stockman
What books have you read and liked? Submit!
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