I must admit that Dune was the one that came to my mind first. It’s just… so well thought out. Everything has a meaning there, the whole universe is well laid out with plenty of lore sprinkled here and there, characters are believable, etc. I have read a couple of following books and although they were good too, they simply can’t compare to the original one.
Catch 22 is another wonderful book. I highly recommend that one to everyone who likes absurd humor. If you like shows like Monty Python and Catch 22 somehow missed you, you just have to read it.
And finally Ender’s game. It’s been decades since I read it, but it’s still stuck somewhere inside. I think I finished everything Card wrote in that universe at one point, which means something, combined with my slow reading pace (like 10 books a year at max).
I’d also throw in some classics like Tolkien books, something from A.C.Clarke (at least Space odyssey or Rama if nothing else), The Witcher from A.Sapkowski (I recommend to start with his short stories before embracing whole pentalogy) and Riftwar saga by R.E.Feist.
For lovers of quite easy to read military sci-fi I can recommend books by Jerry Pournelle. And for other sci-fi fans sadly unfinished series The War Against the Chtorr by D.Gerrold. And The Stand by S.King. And plenty of others too.
What the…?! It’s basically what I would pick.
I must admit that Dune was the one that came to my mind first. It’s just… so well thought out. Everything has a meaning there, the whole universe is well laid out with plenty of lore sprinkled here and there, characters are believable, etc. I have read a couple of following books and although they were good too, they simply can’t compare to the original one.
Catch 22 is another wonderful book. I highly recommend that one to everyone who likes absurd humor. If you like shows like Monty Python and Catch 22 somehow missed you, you just have to read it.
And finally Ender’s game. It’s been decades since I read it, but it’s still stuck somewhere inside. I think I finished everything Card wrote in that universe at one point, which means something, combined with my slow reading pace (like 10 books a year at max).
I’d also throw in some classics like Tolkien books, something from A.C.Clarke (at least Space odyssey or Rama if nothing else), The Witcher from A.Sapkowski (I recommend to start with his short stories before embracing whole pentalogy) and Riftwar saga by R.E.Feist.
For lovers of quite easy to read military sci-fi I can recommend books by Jerry Pournelle. And for other sci-fi fans sadly unfinished series The War Against the Chtorr by D.Gerrold. And The Stand by S.King. And plenty of others too.