If you like science fiction, these are very well written books you might like - some of them SF, some not.
- Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness or Dispossessed
- Faber, Under the Skin
- Robinson, Years of Rice and Salt
- De Abaitua, The Red Men
- Mitchell, Number9Dream or Cloud Atlas
- Ballard, High Rise or Supercannes
- Calvino, Cosmicomics or anything he did really
- Ings, Weight of Numbers
- Borges, all of it
- Bester, Tiger Tiger (The Stars My Destination)
- Nabokov, Ada or Ardor
- Gloss, Dazzle of Day
- Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
- M John Harrison, Light
- Zamyatin, We
- Disch, Camp Concentration
- Delany, Babel-17 or Dhalgren
I would also add Lanark by Alasdair Gray to that list and probably Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Oh, and Shikasta by Doris Lessing.
Posted by: Struan | October 18, 2011 at 08:34 PM
Gray I have always found hard to digest, and never got past the first couple of chapters of Lanark (don't tell my wife). Gravity's Rainbow I haven't read. Lessing's Canopus in Argos books, yes, though I find Le Guin better on people/politics.
Posted by: Rod McLaren | October 18, 2011 at 10:29 PM