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Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, #2)

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science …

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

The Kite Runner by SparkNotes, Khaled Hosseini

Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Dover thrift editions)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It …

Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

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Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

When Bean is sent to Battle School, he is constantly compared to the great Ender Wiggin, but Bean knows things …

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect …

The Stand by Stephen King

One man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident, carrying with him the deadly virus known as Captain …

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids …

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (1st ed.)

Based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …

Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender (2))

Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this …

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the …

Footfall by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle