I can expand more or add to this list later, but here’s a quick list of books I love:
- Albert Camus - The Fall
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
- Aldous Huxley - Island
- Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
- David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
- George Orwell - 1984
- George Orwell - Animal Farm
- George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
- H.P. Lovecraft - The Colour Out of Space
- Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
- J.D. Sallinger - The Catcher in the Rye
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter series
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
- John Green - Looking For Alaska
- John Steinbeck - In Dubious Battle
- John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
- Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night
- Lewis Carrol - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
- Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
- Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Game
- Orson Scott Card - The Worthing Saga
- Oscar Wilde - The Portrait of Dorian Gray
- Philip K. Dick - Ubik