Good Books:
These books are given in no particular order. Some are in multiple categories.
When only some of an author's books are listed this does not mean that the others
are not worth reading, simply that those are a sample of the good books the author
has written. All recommendations are welcome.
Funny:
- Pratchett: Interesting Times, Guards! Guards!, Wyrd
Sisters
- Willis: Doomsday Book, Bellwether
- Adams: The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Hornby: High Fidelity, About a Boy
- Stoppard: Rozencratz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real
Thing, Arcadia
- Gaiman, Pratchett: Good Omens
Science Fiction and Fantasy:
- Card: Ender's Game
- Niven: The Mote in God's Eye
- Rowling: Harry Potter series
- Adams: The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Pratchett: Interesting Times, Guards! Guards!, Wyrd
Sisters
- Kay: Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan
- Bujold: Cordelia's Honor, The Warrior's Apprentice
- Barnes: One for the Morning Glory
- Tepper: Grass
- Gaiman: The Sandman series
- Martin: Song of Ice and Fire series
- Butler: Lilith's Brood (entire Xenogenesis series)
- Stewart: Nobody's Son, Perfect Circle
- Link: Stranger Things Happen
- McKinley: Sunshine, The Hero and the Crown
Classic:
- Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
- Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (Hooker translation)
- Ellison: Invisible Man
- Thackeray: Vanity Fair
- Tolstoy: War and Peace
Other:
- de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
- Irving: The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany,
The Cider House Rules
- Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase
- Fowler: The Jane Austen Book Club
- Horn: In the Image
- Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Non-Fiction:
- Franken: Lies, and the Lying Liars who Tell Them
- Greene: The Elegant Universe
- Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Snow: The Two Cultures
- Park: Voodoo Science