Books tagged 'fiction'

Finished

• Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
• Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005)
• Richard Bach, Illusions (1977)
• Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
• Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (1988)
• Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (1990)
• T.A. Barron, The Lost Years (1996)
• T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs (1997)
• T.A. Barron, The Raging Fires (1998)
• T.A. Barron, The Mirror of Fate (1999)
• T.A. Barron, A Wizard’s Wings (2000)
• T.A. Barron, The Great Tree of Avalon (2004)
• T.A. Barron, Shadows on the Stars (2005)
• T.A. Barron, The Eternal Flame (2006)
• Dennis Bock, The Ash Garden (2001)
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
• Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara (1977)
• Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (2003)
• Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (1980)
• Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
• Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game (1985)
• Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (1986)
• Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (1991)
• Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (1996)
• Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Shadow (1999)
• Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon (2000)
• Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets (2002)
• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
• Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
• Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (2020)
• James Clavell, Tai-Pan (1975)
• Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988)
• Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (2008)
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
• David Czuchlewski, The Muse Asylum (2001)
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)
• Franklin W. Dixon, The Tower Treasure (1927)
• Franklin W. Dixon, The House on the Cliff (1927)
• Franklin W. Dixon, The Secret of the Old Mill (1927)
• Franklin W. Dixon, The Missing Chums (1928)
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
• Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter (2006)
• Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2011)
• Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name (2012)
• Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2013)
• Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child (2014)
• Timothy Findley, The Butterfly Plague (1969)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
• E.M. Forster, A Room with a View (1908)
• E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops (1909)
• Neil Gaiman, Coraline (French edition) (2002)
• Neil Gaiman, Stardust (1997)
• Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)
• William Gibson & Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (1990)
• William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954)
• Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem (1983)
• Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
• Matt Haig, The Midnight Library (2020)
• Noah Hawley, Before the Fall (2016)
• Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
• Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
• Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922)
• Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (2007)
• S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1967)
• Homer, The Iliad (Fagles translation) (~800 BC)
• Homer, The Odyssey (Fagles translation) (~800 BC)
• Homer, The Odyssey (Wilson translation) (~800 BC)
• John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989)
• N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (2015)
• Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip (2006)
• Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (1990)
• Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt (1990)
• Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn (1991)
• Ismail Kadare, Broken April (1978)
• Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1915)
• Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree (1984)
• Guy Gavriel Kay, The Wandering Fire (1986)
• Guy Gavriel Kay, The Darkest Road (1986)
• Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel (2007)
• Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (1966)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
• C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
• C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
• C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (1954)
• C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (1951)
• C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
• C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (1953)
• C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (1956)
• Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams (1992)
• Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem (2008)
• George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
• Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001)
• Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)
• Larry McMurtry, Dead Man’s Walk (1995)
• Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (1997)
• Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove (1985)
• Madeline Miller, Circe (2018)
• Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (2012)
• Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler (1996)
• Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
• Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
• Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (1999)
• William Nicholson, The Wind Singer (2000)
• William Nicholson, Slaves of the Mastery (2001)
• William Nicholson, Firesong (2002)
• Jenny Nimmo, Midnight for Charlie Bone (2002)
• Jenny Nimmo, The Time Twister (2003)
• Jenny Nimmo, The Blue Boa (2004)
• Jenny Nimmo, The Castle of Mirrors (2005)
• Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (2006)
• Kenneth Oppel, Silverwing (1997)
• Kenneth Oppel, Sunwing (1999)
• George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
• George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
• Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (1996)
• Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (1999)
• Christopher Paolini, Eragon (2002)
• Christopher Paolini, Eldest (2005)
• James Patterson, Maximum Ride (2005)
• Gary Paulsen, Hatchet (1987)
• Gary Paulsen, Brian’s Winter (1986)
• Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (1995)
• Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (1997)
• Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
• Iain Reid, I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2016)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban (1999)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
• Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)
• Louis Sachar, Holes (2000)
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (1943)
• J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
• Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning (1999)
• Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room (1999)
• Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window (2000)
• Domenico Starnone, Ties (2017)
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
• John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
• Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985)
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937)
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (1954)
• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (1955)
• Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869)
• Voltaire, Candide (1759)
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle (1963)
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
• Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse (2012)
• David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
• David Foster Wallace, Oblivion (2004)
• Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (2005)
• Andy Weir, The Martian (2012)
• H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
• Elie Wiesel, Night (1956)
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
• Robert Charles Wilson, Spin (2005)
• Christa Wolf, Cassandra (1983)
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
• John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (1955)
• Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2015)

Skimmed, sampled from, or abandoned

• Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation (1988)
• Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant (2005)
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1615)
• Ted Chiang, Exhalation: Stories (2019)
• Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (2010)
• James Clavell, Shōgun (1966)
• J.M. Coetzee, Summertime (2009)
• Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl (2001)
• Dante Alighieri, Inferno (1307)
• Barbara Gowdy, Falling Angels (1989)
• Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
• Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf (2007)
• Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (2008)
• Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (1999)
• Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)