Hi folks! I maintain a list of "landmark books" that I really love. Here it is:
• Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
• Deception Point – Dan Brown
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
• Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
• Player Piano – Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
• Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
• No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
• Travels with Charlie – John Steinbeck
• All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers – Larry McMurtry
• Gravity's Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
• I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
• The Taking – Dean Koontz
• The Southern Reach Trilogy – Jeff VanderMeer
• Tinkers – Paul Harding
• The Night Lands – William Hope Hodgson
• If On A Winter's Night A Traveler – Italo Calvino
• Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino
• Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
• Stormy Weather – Carl Hiaasen
• Station 11 – Emily St. John Mandel
• Ubik – Philip K. Dick
• Valis – Philip K. Dick
• A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
• Less – Andrew Sean Greer
• Spill Simmer Falter Wither – Sara Baume
• My Life With The Wave – Octavio Paz
• Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets – Jack Finney
• The Garden of Forking Paths – Jorge Luis Borges
• Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Journey To The Center Of The Earth – Jules Verne
• Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
• War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
• The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
• The Foundation series – Isaac Asimov
• The Robots of Dawn – Isaac Asimov
• The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
• The Naked Sun – Isaac Asimov
• Dune – Frank Herbert
• TransAtlantic – Colum McCann
• The North Water – Ian McGuire
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
• Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
• I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
• Sailing to Byzantium – Robert Silverberg
• Born With The Dead – Robert Silverberg
• Homefaring – Robert Silverberg
• Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys
• Revenge of the Sith Star Wars Episode 3 – Matthew Stover
• The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Beautiful and the Damned – F Scott Fitzgerald
• This Side of Paradise – F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
• Hyperion – Dan Simmons
• Filth – Irving Welsh
• Animorphs series
• After Dark – Haruki Murakami
• Kafka On The Shore – Haruki Murakami
• The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K Le Guin
• The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
• On The Road – Jack Kerouac
• The Twenty-One Balloons – William Pène du Bois
• The Devils – Joe Abercrombie
• 3 Body Problem – Liu Cixin
• Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
• Pilgrim At Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
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6 Comments
For *The Phantom Tollbooth*, *The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making*
In general, maybe: *Washington Black*, *The Famished Road* and/or *The Third Policeman.*
The Windup Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
I’ve read a few on your list so hopefully I can introduce you to another author. Mark Helprin is a great writer and has some very good book to read. A Winters Tale, Soldier of the Great War and Refiners Fire are three that I really liked. Mark Helprin.
The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvin
The Dragon Can’t Dance by Earl Lovelace
Passing by Nella Larson
I’d be happy to give you recommendations if the formatting wasn’t crazy (at least it looks that way on my end).