Atlas Shrugged
1957 novel by Ayn Rand
science fiction
The Long Walk
Dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
Gravity’s Rainbow
1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon
Ringworld
1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself
The Cyberiad
Series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisaw Lem, originally published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the “constructors”.The vast majority of characters are either robots or intelligent machines
11/22/63
Novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 . It is the 60th book published by Stephen King, his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name
A Wrinkle in Time
Young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L’Engle
The Trial
Novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and ’15 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader
Brave New World
Dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story’s protagonist