Abbreviated list so far:
Early 1900s:
'Last and First Men' – Olaf Stapledon. One of the great 'future histories' of humanity.
Also its spiritual sequel 'Star Maker', and 'Sirius' (also by Stapledon).
'The Machine Stops' – EM Forster…
1940 – 1949:
Kallocain by Karin Boye,
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers, AJ Cronin: the Keys of the Kingdom, The Berlin Stories, Rendezvous in Black and other novels by Cornell Woolrich…
1950 – 1959:
The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Price of Salt, Player Piano (Vonnegut), Miss Macintosh, My Darling by Margarete Young, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe…
1960 – 1969:
Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham, The Chrysalids and The Day of the Triffids, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Louis Chu (1961), Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, The novels of Rex Stout…
1970 – 1979:
The Ebony Tower by John Fowles, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee, Woman On The Edge Of Time by Marge Piercy, Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, Heinrich Boell: Group Portrait with a Lady…
1980 – 1989:
Creation (Gore Vidal)
Rich man, Poor Man (Irwin Shaw)
1990 – 1999:
Fatherland by Robert Harris, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow/Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg, Cebu by Peter Bacho (1991); Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes (1995); Gold by the Inch by Lawrence Chua (1998)…
2000 – 2009:
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall (2001), Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009), Hell by Robert Owen Butler (2009), The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (2002)…
2010 – 2019:
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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (2011)
Galileo’s Middle Finger by Alice Dreger. It grants a fascinating look into the world of gender activism and all I’ll say is: it has aged better than the author could have possibly anticipated. I’d argue the book is more relevant today than 10 years ago.