A collection of books that impacted the future of their own genre. ✨️please make recommendations✨️ (Picking emojis for this was hard)
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last updated May, 2026
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
Patricia Highsmith
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Ulysses
James Joyce
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
William Gibson
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
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