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Conceptual Fiction: A Reading List (with links to reviews)
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Abbott, Edwin A. Flatland
Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Allende, Isabel The House of the Spirits
Amado, Jorge Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Amis, Martin Time's Arrow
Apuleius The Golden Ass
Asimov, Isaac The Foundation Trilogy
Asimov, Isaac I, Robot
Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid's Tale
Banks, Iain M. The State of the Art
Ballard, J.G. The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G. Crash
Ballard, J.G. The Crystal World
Bester, Alfred The Demolished Man
Borges, Jorge Luis Ficciones
Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray The Illustrated Man
Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles
Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brockmeier, Kevin The View from the Seventh Layer
Bulgakov, Mikhail The Master and Margarita
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game
Carpentier, Alejo The Kingdom of This World
Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chabon, Michael The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Chiang, Ted Stories of Your Life and Others
Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End
Clarke, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Susanna Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Crowley, John Little, Big
Danielewski, Mark Z. The Fifty Year Sword
Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves
Davies, Robertson Fifth Business
Delany, Samuel R. Babel-17
Delany, Samuel R. Dhalgren
Delany, Samuel R. The Einstein Intersection
Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle
Dick, Philip K. Ubik
Dick, Philip K. VALIS
Doctorow, Cory Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Donoso, José The Obscene Bird of Night
Esquivel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate
Fuentes, Carlos Aura
Gaiman, Neil American Gods
Gaiman, Neil Neverwhere
Gibson, William Burning Chrome
Gibson, William Neuromancer
Grass, Günter The Tin Drum
Greene, Graham The End of the Affair
Grossman, Lev The Magicians
Haldeman, Joe The Forever War
Hall, Steven The Raw Shark Texts
Harrison, M. John Light
Heinlein, Robert The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Heinlein, Robert: Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert Time Enough for Love
Helprin, Mark Winter's Tale
Herbert, Frank Dune
Hoffman, Alice Practical Magic
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Keret, Etgar Suddenly, A Knock at the Door
Kundera, Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kunzru, Hari Gods Without Men
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness
Leiber, Fritz The Big Time
Leiber, Fritz Conjure Wife
Leiber, Fritz Swords & Deviltry
Leiber, Fritz The Wanderer
Lem, Stanislaw His Master's Voice
Lem, Stanislaw Solaris
Lethem, Jonathan The Fortress of Solitude
Lewis, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia
Link, Kelly Magic for Beginners
Mann, Thomas Doctor Faustus
Márquez, Gabriel García 100 Years of Solitude
Markson, David Wittgenstein's Mistress
Matheson, Richard Hell House
Matheson, Richard What Dreams May Come
McCarthy, Cormac The Road
Miéville, China Perdido Street Station
Miller, Jr., Walter M. A Canticle for Leibowitz
Millhauser, Steven Dangerous Laughter
Mitchell, David Cloud Atlas
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Murakami, Haruki 1Q84
Murakami, Haruki Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Niffenegger, Audrey The Time Traveler's Wife
Niven, Larry Ringworld
Noon, Jeff Vurt
Obreht, Téa The Tiger's Wife
O'Brien, Flann At Swim-Two-Birds
Okri, Ben The Famished Road
Pohl, Frederik Gateway
Pratchett, Terry The Color of Magic
Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow
Rabelais, François Gargantua and Pantagruel
Robinson, Kim Stanley Red Mars
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
Rushdie, Salman Midnight's Children
Saramago, José Blindness
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Silverberg, Robert Dying Inside
Silverberg, Robert Nightwings
Simak, Clifford City
Simak, Clifford The Trouble with Tycho
Smith, Cordwainer Norstrilia
Smith, Cordwainer The Rediscovery of Man
Stephenson, Neal Snow Crash
Stross, Charles Glasshouse
Sturgeon, Theodore More Than Human
Sturgeon, Theodore Some of Your Blood
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Thomas, D.M. The White Hotel
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
Updike, John The Witches of Eastwick
Van Vogt, A.E. The Mixed Men
Van Vogt, A.E. Slan
Van Vogt, A.E. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Van Vogt, A.E. The World of Null A
Verne, Jules Around the Moon
Verne, Jules From the Earth to the Moon
Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat's Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt The Sirens of Titan
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five
Wallace, David Foster Infinite Jest
Walpole, Horace Hieroglyphic Tales
Wells, H.G. The First Men in the Moon
Wells, H.G. The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine
Winton, Tim Cloudstreet
Woolf, Virginia Orlando
Zabor, Rafi The Bear Comes Home
Zelazny, Roger Lord of Light
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