Arthur H. Manners

Award-winning author of speculative fiction

Book Log

Here I maintain a list of the books I’ve been reading. I got the idea from Matt Bell. These aren’t recommendations (those you can find in my newsletter or blog), just a list of what I’ve been picking up.

I do include things I didn’t finish, provided I’ve read an appreciable fraction of the material. I think it gives a good impression of shifts in my interests.

The list isn’t complete, especially pre-2014. You can also see a noticeable dip between 2017-2020, when I was working on my PhD.

Last updated: 27th September

2024

  1. Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer
  2. The Fran Leibowitz Reader by Fran Leibowitz
  3. Drown by Junot Dîaz
  4. Payback by Margaret Atwood
  5. Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry like Christmas by Maya Angelou
  6. Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
  7. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  8. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  9. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
  10. Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
  11. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  12. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
  13. Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton
  14. Two Cures for Love by Wendy Cope
  15. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  16. And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
  17. The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
  18. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
  19. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  20. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  21. The Fire of Joy by Clive James
  22. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
  23. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
  24. Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
  25. When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
  26. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
  27. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho
  28. All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
  29. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  30. Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
  31. Upstream by Mary Oliver
  32. Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
  33. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  34. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
  35. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  36. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  37. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
  38. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
  39. Oathbringer, Part 1 by Brandon Sanderson
  40. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  41. The Time Hunter by Italo Calvino
  42. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
  43. Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
  44. Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
  45. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
  46. One Day by David Nicholls
  47. Howard’s End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
  48. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
  49. Selected Poems by W. H. Auden
  50. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
  51. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  52. Quiet by Susan Cain
  53. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  54. Collected Poems by Simon Armitage

2023

  1. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
  2. Money: The True Story of a Made Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
  3. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
  4. Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
  5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
  6. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  7. The White Album by Joan Didion
  8. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
  9. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
  10. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  11. My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
  12. The Outsider by Albert Camus
  13. Temeraire by Naomi Novik
  14. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematorium by Caitlin Doughty
  15. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
  16. Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
  17. Toast by Nigel Slater
  18. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  19. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
  20. Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
  21. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  22. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
  23. Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
  24. Introducing Quantum Theory by J.P. McEvoy
  25. Educated by Tara Westover
  26. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
  27. Words of Radiance, Part 2 by Brandon Sanderson
  28. The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  29. The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Arik Kershenbaum
  30. The Alchemy of Architecture by Ken Tate
  31. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
  32. Chaos by James Gleick
  33. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
  34. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  35. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
  36. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
  37. Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
  38. World War Z by Max Brooks
  39. Heligoland by Carlo Rovelli
  40. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
  41. Gotta Read It! by Libbie Hawker
  42. On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
  43. The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss
  44. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
  45. The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
  46. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (re-read)
  47. At Home by Bill Bryson (re-read)
  48. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  49. One Summer by Bill Bryson (re-read)
  50. Redshirts by John Scalzi
  51. A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
  52. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

2022

  1. The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
  2. Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
  3. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
  4. Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
  5. It Happened in ‘Loontown by Lavie Tidhar
  6. The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
  7. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
  8. The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley
  9. Siege & Storm by Leigh Bardugo
  10. This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
  11. Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
  12. Appropriate by Paisley Rekdal
  13. Why I Write by George Orwell
  14. The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers
  15. The Fisherman by John Langan
  16. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  17. The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
  18. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
  19. The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
  20. Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
  21. Odyssey by Jack McDevitt
  22. Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
  23. Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  24. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
  25. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
  26. Art Matters by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
  27. 1Q84: Book Three by Haruki Murakami
  28. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
  29. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
  30. Permission to Screw Up by Kristen Hadeed
  31. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
  32. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
  33. What It Is by Lynda Barry
  34. The Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  35. Acceptance by Jeff VenderMeer
  36. Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
  37. Mistborn: Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
  38. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  39. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
  40. Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell
  41. Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  42. Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight
  43. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  44. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
  45. The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu
  46. Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey
  47. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
  48. Ringworld by Larry Niven
  49. Cauldron by Jack McDevitt
  50. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2021

  1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  2. It’s Been a Pleasure by Billy Connolly
  3. Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
  4. The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (audiobook production)
  5. The Planets by Brian Cox
  6. Omega by Jack McDevitt
  7. Circe by Madeline Miller
  8. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombich
  9. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
  10. Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
  11. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  12. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Edo-Lodge
  13. Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
  14. Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
  15. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  16. Fame by Andy Warhol
  17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  18. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
  19. Effortless by Greg McKeown
  20. Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
  21. Bill Bryson’s Appliance of Science by Bill Bryson
  22. Mistorn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
  23. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
  24. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  25. Keep Going by Austin Kleon
  26. The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
  27. 101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
  28. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  29. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  30. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  31. Dune by Frank Herbert (re-read)
  32. The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
  33. Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
  34. The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
  35. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
  36. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
  37. Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
  38. Upstream by Mary Oliver
  39. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
  40. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
  41. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
  42. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
  43. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
  44. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  45. Novacene by James Lovelock
  46. Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
  47. How to Be Idle by Tom Hodginson
  48. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  49. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
  50. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  51. Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

2020

  1. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (re-read)
  2. The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (re-read)
  3. Sandman Volume 5 by Nail Gaiman
  4. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  5. Sleeping Giants by Sylvian Neuvel
  6. To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
  7. N-W by Zadie Smith
  8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  9. Sandman Volume 6 by Neil Gaiman
  10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  11. The Book of Nothing by John D. Barrow
  12. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
  13. The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson
  14. Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
  15. Barbarous by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota
  16. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
  17. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
  18. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  19. Becoming by Michelle Obama
  20. The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Francis-White
  21. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
  22. Nimona by Nate Stevenson
  23. Sandman Volume 7 by Neil Gaiman
  24. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez
  25. Annhililation by Jeff VanDermeer
  26. T’was the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

2019

  1. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. Chindi by Jack McDevitt
  4. The Sandman Volume 3 by Neil Gaiman
  5. The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells
  6. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
  7. Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
  8. All That Remains by Sue Black
  9. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
  10. Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman
  11. Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
  12. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
  13. Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
  14. Death of a Salesman by Norman Mailer
  15. Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt
  16. The Sandman Volume 4 by Neil Gaiman
  17. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  18. Odyssey by Jack McDevitt
  19. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
  20. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  21. The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
  22. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  23. Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas
  24. Down Under by Bill Bryson
  25. On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
  26. The Sandman Volume 5 by Neil Gaiman
  27. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  28. The Quantum Universe by Brian Cox and Jeff Forrshaw 
  29. Women & Power by Mary Beard
  30. Factfulness by Hans Rosling
  31. The Silence of Girls by Pat Barker
  32. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  33. Eon by Greg Bear

2018

  1. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
  2. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
  3. The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker
  4. A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
  5. This is Going to Hurt: Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
  6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
  7. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
  8. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
  9. Into the Woods by John Yorke
  10. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
  11. Sandman Volume 2 by Neil Gaiman
  12. A Confederacy of Dunces by Kennedy Toole
  13. Trust Me, I’m a (Junior) Doctor by Max Pemberton
  14. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  15. The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
  16. 1Q84: Books 1 & 2 by Haruki Murakami
  17. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
  18. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
  19. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
  20. The Power by Naomi Alderman
  21. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  22. Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
  23. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
  24. The Highly Sensitive Person in Love by Elaine N. Aron
  25. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  26. Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
  27. Deepsix by Jack McDevitt
  28. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

2017

  1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  2. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
  3. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
  4. Carrie by Stephen King (re-read)
  5. Bonk by Mary Roach
  6. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  7. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
  8. The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
  9. Sandman Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman
  10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  11. The Passage by Justin Cronin
  12. The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
  13. One Summer by Bill Bryson
  14. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  15. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  16. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaardner
  17. Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
  18. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
  19. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
  20. Masters of Doom by David Kushner
  21. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  22. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
  23. Notes on Directing by Russell Reich
  24. Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby
  25. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  26. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
  27. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
  28. The Twelve by Justin Cronin
  29. Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
  30. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
  31. Admissions by Henry Marsh
  32. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
  33. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  34. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
  35. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  36. Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
  37. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
  38. A History of the World by Andrew Marr
  39. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  40. Stiff by Mary Roach
  41. The Dark Tower Volume 7: The Dark Tower by Stephen King

2016

  1. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
  2. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  3. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  4. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  5. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin (re-read)
  6. At Home by Bill Bryson
  7. So You’ve Been Publicly Shames by Jon Ronson
  8. River of Gods by Ian McDonald
  9. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
  10. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
  11. Dune by Frank Herbert
  12. Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
  13. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  14. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  15. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
  16. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  18. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
  19. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  20. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
  21. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  22. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  23. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
  24. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  25. The Arabian Nights by Nameless
  26. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
  27. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  28. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  29. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  30. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
  31. You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren’t You? by Karl Wiggins
  32. Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
  33. Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
  34. A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  35. Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  36. Trigger Warning: Short Fiction by Neil Gaiman
  37. Six Not So Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
  38. Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression by Sally Brompton
  39. The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
  40. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  41. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  42. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
  43. The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
  44. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  45. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  46. The Dark Tower Volume 6: Song of Susannah by Stephen King

2015

  1. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
  2. The Rats by James Herbert
  3. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
  4. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
  5. Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
  6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  7. Station Eleven by Emily Mandel
  8. Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
  9. Foe by J.M. Coetzee
  10. Metamorphosis byFranz Kafka
  11. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonngeut
  12. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
  13. I Think You’ll Find it’s a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
  14. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  15. Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane
  16. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  17. The Shortness of Life by Séneca
  18. An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
  19. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  20. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  21. Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
  22. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
  23. This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
  24. The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs
  25. Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  26. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
  27. The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
  28. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  29. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
  30. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  31. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  32. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  33. 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
  34. 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
  35. 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  36. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  37. Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker
  38. 5,000 Words per Hour by Chris Fox
  39. Let’s Get Visible by David Gaughran
  40. The Establishment: And how they get away with it by Owen Jones
  41. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
  42. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  43. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
  44. The Dark Tower Volume 5: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
  45. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
  46. The Psychology of Price by Leigh Caldwell
  47. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
  48. The City of God by Paulo Lins
  49. Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
  50. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  51. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
  52. The Martian by Andy Weir
  53. The Magus by John Fowles

2014

  1. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  3. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  4. The Outsider by Albert Camus
  5. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  6. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  8. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  9. The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
  10. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  11. Carrie by Stephen King
  12. The Analects by Confucius
  13. The Inheritors by William Golding
  14. Island by Aldous Huxley
  15. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  16. The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
  17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  18. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  19. The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
  20. Sucker’s Portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut
  21. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
  22. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
  23. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  24. The Left Hand of Darkness by Urlusa LeGuin
  25. The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
  26. The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
  27. Endurance by Alfred Lansing
  28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  29. The Son by Philipp Meyer
  30. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  31. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
  32. Minority Report by Isaac Asimov
  33. The Seagull by Anton Chekov
  34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  35. Ringworld by Larry Niven
  36. The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
  37. The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
  38. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
  39. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
  40. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  41. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  42. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
  43. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  44. The Rest of the Robots by Isaac Asimov
  45. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  46. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  47. Revival by Stephen King
  48. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  49. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
  50. Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
  51. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

2013

  1. Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
  2. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  3. The Outsider by Albert Camus
  4. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
  5. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  6. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  7. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  8. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  9. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
  10. The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
  11. The Dark Tower Volume 4: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

2012

  1. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
  2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
  4. The Epic of Gilgamesh by Nameless
  5. Misery by Stephen King
  6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  7. The Dark Tower Volume 3: The Waste Lands by Stephen King
  8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  9. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  11. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  12. The Postman by David Brin
  13. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Pre-2012 (notable)

  1. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  2. 1984 by George Orwell
  3. A Town Like Alice by Neville Chute
  4. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  5. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  6. IT by Stephen King
  7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  8. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  9. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  14. Gateway by Friedrich Pohl
  15. Tau Zero by Paul Anderson
  16. Sphere by Michael Crichton
  17. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  18. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  19. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  20. The Beach by Alex Garland
  21. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  22. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  23. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  24. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  25. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  26. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  27. The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
  28. The Dark Tower Volumes 1-3 by Stephen King