Recommended
Science Fiction & Fantasy
(It's not a genre; it's a feeling.)
Brian W. Aldiss
J.G. Ballard
Ray Bradbury
- The Illustrated Man
- The Martian Chronicles
Orson Scott Card
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Terry Carr
Ted Chiang
- Stories of Your Life and Others
Arthur C. Clarke
- Rendezvous with Rama
- Childhood's End
Phillip K Dick
- The Man in the High Tower
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Michel Faber
Ge Fei
William Gibson
- Bridge Trilogy
- Sprawl Trilogy
Lars Gustafsson
- The Strange Beast from the North
M. John Harrison
- Kefahuchi Tract trilogy
- Signs of Life
- You Should Come With Me Now
Michel Houellebecq
Harry Martinson
Tom McCarthy
China Mieville
- The City & The City
- Embassytown
Larry Niven
Frederik Pohl
Christopher Priest
William Sloane
Neal Stephenson
Strugatsky Brothers
- Roadside Picnic
- Hard to be a God
Yoko Tawada
- The Last Children of Tokyo
- Scattered All Over the Earth
Vernor Vinge
Gene Wolfe
- The Fifth Head of Cerberus
J.G. Ballard
Jorge Luis Borges
Italo Calvino
- The Baron in the Trees
- Invisible Cities
John Gardner
Kenneth Grahame
Knut Hamsun
M. John Harrison
- In Viriconium
- "Egnaro"
- The Course of the Heart
Herman Hesse
Kazuo Ishiguro
Brian Jacques
Henry James
Diana Wynne Jones
Heinrich von Kleist
- "On the Marionette Theatre"
Pär Lagerkvist
Madeline L’Engle
Yukio Mishima
Jan Morris
H.H. Munro
Vladimir Nabokov
Mervyn Peake
- Gormenghast novels
- "Boy in Darkness"
Christopher Priest
- The Dream Archipelago
- The Affirmation
Bruno Schulz
Muriel Spark
- The Hothouse by the East River
Tom Waits
Gene Wolfe
W.B. Yeats
- The Tower
- The Wanderings of Oisin
Roger Zelazny