Classic SF and Fantasy Books Recommended for Male Readers

Classif SF and Fantasy Books:

Abercrombie, Joe – The Blade Itself (First Law series)
Adams, Douglas – Dirk Gently
                            – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Richard – Watership Down
Anderson, Poul – Ensign Flandry
  – Hrolf Kraki’s Saga
                          – The Broken Sword
Anderson, Poul – The Haradra trilogy
Asimov, Isaac –  Foundation trilogy
Asimov, Isaac –  I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac –  Robots-thru-Foundation Series
Banks, Iain M. –  Player of Games
Barker, Clive –  The Damnation Game
Berry, Wendell –  Jayber Crow
Boyett, Steven R. –  Ariel
Bradbury, Ray –  Martian Chronicles
Brin, David –  The Postman
Brin, David –  Startide Rising
Brin, David –  The Uplift War
Brooks, Max –  World War Z
Brown, E. William –  Perilous Waif
Brown, Pierce –  Red Rising Series
Bujold, Lois McMaster –  The Vorkosigan series
Burroughs, Edgar Rice –  A Princess of Mars
Burroughs, Edgar Rice –  Tarzan of the Apes
Butcher, Jim –  Dresden Files
Butler, D.M. –  Witchy War
Card, Orson Scott –  Ender’s Game
      –  Speaker for the Dead
      –  The Worthing Saga
Clarke, Arthur C. –  Against the Fall of Night
     –  The Songs of Distant Earth
Clarke, Susanna –  Piranesi
Cline, Ernest –  Ready Player One
Collins, Suzanne –  Hunger Games
Colfer, Eoin  –  Artemis Fowl
Cook, Glen –  Dread Empire
–  The Black Company
Corey, James S.A. –  Leviathan Wakes
Correia, Larry  –  Dead Six Series
 –  Hard Magic
–  Monster Hunter International
–  Saga of the Forgotten Warrior
Cowan, J.D. –  Grey Cat Blues
Crowley, John –  Little, Big
Dick, Philip K. –  A Scanner Darkly
                         –  Ubik
Dinniman, Matt –  Dungeon Crawler Carl
Donaldson, Stephen R. –  The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Drake, David –  Cross the Stars
Drake, David –  The Forlorn Hope
Drake, David – Hammer’s Slammers
Dunsany, Lord – Tales of Wonder
Eddison, E.R. –  The Worm Ouroboros
Eco, Umberto –  Foucault’s Pendulum
           –  The Name of the Rose
Effinger, George Alec –  The Marîd Audran Trilogy
Eisner, Will –  A Contract with God
Eriksen, Devon –  Theft of Fire
Erikson, Steven –  Malazan Book of the Fallen
  –  Reaper’s Gale
Evans, Chris –  Of Bone and Thunder
Falkner, J. Meade –  Moonfleet
Farshtey, Greg –  The Brother’s War
Flint, Eric –  The Rats, Bats & Vats duology
Flynn, Michael –  Eifelheim
Flynn, Michael –  Spiral Arm series
Frisbee, William S. Jr – Gods of War
Gemmell, David –  Legend
    –  White Wolf
    –  Wolf in Shadow
Gibson, Walter B. –  The Shadow Novels
Gibson, William –  Mona Lisa Overdrive
    –  Neuromancer
Glukhovsky, Dmitry –  Metro 2033
Haggard, H. Rider –  King Solomon’s Mines
Haldeman, Joe –  All My Sins Remembered
 –  The Forever War
Hamilton, Peter F. –  Judas Unchained
      –  Pandora’s Star
                             –  The Night’s Dawn Trilogy
Herbert, Frank –  Dune
Hernstrom, Schuyler –  Thune’s Vision
Hobb, Robin –  Assassin’s Apprentice
Hodgson, William Hope – The Night Land
Howard, Robert E. –  Bran Mak Morn
      –  Conan
Solomon Kane
Howey, Hugh –  Wool
Hughart, Barry –  The Bridge of Birds
Hughes, Fred – The Prince Awakens
Johnson, Denis – Train Dreams
Jordan, Robert –  Fallon Blood
–  The Conan books
–  The Eye of the World
–  The Wheel of Time
Kay, Guy Gavriel –  The Summer Tree
King, William –  Gotrek & Felix series
Knaak, Richard A. –  The Legend of Huma
Kratman, Tom –  Carreraverse series
Krout, Dakota –  Completionist Chronicles
                        –  Divine Dungeon series
Lamb, Harold –  Swords series
Laumer, Keith –  Galactic Odyssey
Le Guin, Ursula K. –  A Wizard of Earthsea
Lem, Stanislaw –  His Master’s Voice
  –  Solaris
Lewis, C.S. –  Abolition of Man
       –  Out of the Silent Planet
–  Perelandra
–  That Hideous Strength
–  The Chronicles of Narnia
–  The Great Divorce
–  The Pendragon Cycle
–  Till We Have Faces
Lowell, Nathan –  Quarter Share series (Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clippers)
–  The Wizard’s Butler
Lovecraft, H.P. –  At the Mountains of Madness
–  Shadow Over Innsmouth
 –  Strange Tales
 –  The Dunwich Horror
 – The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
MacDonald, George –  Lilith
         –  Phantastes
MacDonald, John D. –  The Drowner
Machen, Arthur –  The Great God Pan
Mancour, Terry –  The Spellmonger Series
Marcinko, Richard –  Rogue Warrior series
Martin, George R.R. –  A Game of Thrones
McCaffrey, Anne –  Dragonflight
McCaffrey, Anne –  Dragonsong
Merritt, A. –  The Ship of Ishtar
Miéville, China –  Kraken
  –  The City & The City
Miller Jr., Walter M. –  A Canticle for Leibowitz
Modesitt Jr., L.E. –  Imager Portfolio series
Moon, Elizabeth –  The Deed of Paksenarrion
Moorcock, Michael –  The Weird of the White Wolf
                                 – Elric of Melnibone
Morgan, Richard K. –  Altered Carbon
Niven, Larry –  Known Space
–  Ringworld (and sequels)
–  The Man-Kzin Wars
–  Footfall
–  Lucifer’s Hammer
–  The Legacy of Heorot
–  The Mote in God’s Eye

Norton, Andre –  The Time Traders
Paolini, Christopher –  The Inheritance Cycle
Peters, Ellis –  Brother Cadfael Chronicles
Piper, H. Beam –  Space Viking
Pournelle, Jerry –  Footfall
–  Lucifer’s Hammer
–  The Legacy of Heorot
–  The Mote in God’s Eye
–  The Gripping Hand
Powers, Tim –  Declare
                     –  On Stranger Tides
–  Stress of Her Regard
Pratchett, Terry –  The Colo(u)r of Magic
Rajaniemi, Hannu –  Quantum Thief
Reeve, Philip –  Mortal Engines
Ringo, John –  A Hymn Before Battle
–  Black Tide Rising series
–  Empire of Man series
–  Not That Kind of Hero
–  The Legacy of the Aldenata series
–  Troy Rising series
–  Under a Graveyard Sky
Robinson, Spider –  Callahan’s Saloon
Rosenberg, Joel –  Guardians of the Flame
–  The Sleeping Dragon
Rothfuss, Patrick –  The Name of the Wind
Rowe, Andrew –  How to Defeat a Demon King in 10 Easy Steps
Russell, Mary Doria –  The Sparrow
Sandford, John –  The Prey series
Sanderson, Brandon –  Emperor’s Soul
–  Mistborn Trilogy (original)
–  Mistborn: The Final Empire
–  Way of Kings
Sapkowski, Andrzej –  The Witcher
Scalzi, John –  Old Man’s War
Schmitz, James H. –  The Demon Breed
Siers, John E. – The Moon and Beyond
Simak, Clifford –  Cemetery World
–  City
–  Mastodonia
–  The Goblin Reservation
–  The Way Station
–  The Werewolf Principle
Simmons, Dan –  Ilium/Olympos
–  The Hyperion Cantos
–  The Terror

Smith, E.E. “Doc” –  Lensman series
–  Skylark ser
Snyder, Scott –  American Vampire
Stackpole, Michael A. –  I, Jedi
–  The Raven and the Wolf
Stephenson, Neal –  Cryptonomicon
–  Snow Crash
–  The Diamond Age

Sterling, Bruce –  Schismatrix
Steverson, Kevin – Salvage Purgatory
Stirling, S.M. –  Island in the Sea of Time trilogy
Stovall, Shami –  Time-Marked Warlock
Stross, Charles –  Neptune’s Brood
Stroud, Jonathan –  Lockwood & Bartimaeus series
Sturgeon, Theodore –  Anything by Theodore Sturgeon
Sullivan, Michael J. –  Theft of Swords
Swann, Thomas Burnett –  Weirwoods
Taylor, Dennis E. –  We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian –  Children of Time
Tchaikovsky, Adrian –  Empire in Black and Gold
Tolkien, J.R.R. –  The Hobbit
–  The Lord of the Rings trilogy
–  The Silmarillion

Toole, John Kennedy –  A Confederacy of Dunces
Torgersen, Brad R. –  A Star-Wheeled Sky
Turtledove, Harry –  Guns of the South
Vance, Jack – The Demon Princes
– Emphyrio
Vinge, Vernor –  A Fire Upon the Deep
Virdi, R.R. –  Tremaine series
Vonnegut, Kurt –  Cat’s Cradle
–  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
–  Slaughterhouse-Five
Wagner, Karl Edward –  Dark Crusade
–  The Kane books
Walley, Chris –  Lamb Among the Stars
Weber, David –  Bahzell Bahnakson series
–  In Death Ground
–  On Basilisk Station
–  Paths of the Fury

Weekes, Patrick –  Rogues of the Republic series
Weir, Andy –  The Martian
Weis, Margaret –  Dragonlance
Wellman, Manly Wade – Worse Things Waiting
Wells, H.G. –  The Time Machine
                   –  War of the Worlds
Wells, Martha –  All Systems Red
Westerfeld, Scott –  The Uglies series
White, Ted –  Secret of the Marauder Satellite
Wight, Will –  Cradle series
Williams, Tad –  Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
            –  The Last King of Osten Ard series
Williams, Walter Jon –  Dagmar Shaw trilogy
–  Days of Atonement
          –  Hardwired
          –  Voice of the Whirlwind
Williamson, Michael Z. –  Freehold series
Williamson, Ryan –  Doomsday Recon
Willocks, Tim –  The Religion
Wilson, F. Paul –  Repairman Jack series
Willis, Connie –  Doomsday Book
–  To Say Nothing of the Dog
Wolverton, Dave –  The Courtship of Princess Leia
Wojnarowski, Adrian –  Miracle of St. Anthony
Wolfe, Gene –  New Sun
–  The Book of the New Sun
Wyndham, John –  Day of the Triffids
 –  The Chrysalids
Yoshikawa, Eiji –  Musashi
Zelazny, Roger – A Night in the Lonesome October
Lord of Light
 – The Chronicles of Amber
Zahn, Timothy – Cobra series
Original Thrawn Trilogy