The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

Old Man's War

John Scalzi

Bridge of Birds (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #1)

Barry Hughart

Downbelow Station

C.J. Cherryh

Dragonflight

Anne McCaffrey

Wool

Hugh Howey

Among Others

Jo Walton

Redshirts

John Scalzi

Ringworld

Larry Niven

The Curse of Chalion

Lois McMaster Bujold

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

Boneshaker

Cherie Priest

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

Ann Leckie

A Natural History of Dragons

Marie Brennan

His Majesty's Dragon

Naomi Novik

The Einstein Intersection

Samuel R. Delany

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

Richard K. Morgan

The Brand (Order of Luminan, Tenet #1)

Bryan Alexander Benson

A Dance of Cloaks (Shadowdance, #1)

David Dalglish

The Martian

Andy Weir

Promise of Blood

Brian McClellan

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Alif the Unseen

G. Willow Wilson

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner)

Philip K. Dick

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

The Sparrow

Mary Doria Russell

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer