One of my majors in college was literature, but I also grew up devouring science fiction and still love
reading children's literature. So I appreciate good writing and a fair amount of invention.
Here's a list of fiction that I highly recommend--I've read most of these stories
multiple times, and many of these works have had an emotional impact.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
The Homecoming Series by Orson Scott Card
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
