Especially incomplete.
Authors
Orson Scott Card
The Ender Saga changed me as a kid. He’s on here just for that.
qntm
I’ve only read There is No Antimemetics Division (the original SCP version) and Fine Structure. I need to read the others.
Check out the SCP Foundation if you haven’t already. I can recommend the Pitch Haven and In Memoria, Adytum canons.
Kurt Vonnegut
The best black comedy. Particularly Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five.
Books
Prioritising books whose authors I haven’t mentioned above.
Normal People, Sally Rooney
Cried more than once with this one.
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
An excellent collection of short stories. Not quite science fiction, not quite fantasy, and a little past magic realism. Good stuff.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I love this book. I was a little upset when I realised it was magic realism and not just realism. The ascension of one character to heaven felt perfectly sensible when I was reading it, and that about sums up the feeling of this book. A favourite of mine.
Diaspora, Greg Egan
Digital minds taken seriously. Wonderful ideas. Really communicates the love for mathematics.
I Robot, Isaac Asimov
This book made me, in the same way as [[Novels#orson-scott-card|the Ender Saga]] above.
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Neither of my parents have read this because they couldn’t parse the Scots dialect.
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The best description of being an audiophile that I’ve seen in art. Shame that the character experiencing it had to be a violence-loving sociopath.
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
This one got under my skin.
“Where the devil did you get her?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"I said: the weather is getting better."
"Seems so."
"Who’s the lassie?"
"My daughter."
"You lie - she’s not."
"I beg your pardon?"
"I said: July was hot.”
Gives me shivers. (source)