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[[>]] [[module Rate]] [[/>]] __SCPs__: [[module ListPages created_by="Bennings" separate="no" limit="250" perPage="250" tags="scp, -joke" order="title"]] * %%title_linked%% [[/module]] Yeah, I kinda only have tales at the moment. Bit awkward. __SCP-J__: [[module ListPages created_by="Bennings" separate="no" limit="250" perPage="250" tags="joke, -tale" order="title"]] * %%title_linked%% [[/module]] __Adopted Pages/Collaborations__: __Foundation Tales__: [[module ListPages created_by="Bennings" separate="no" limit="250" perPage="250" tags="tale" order="title"]] * %%title_linked%% [[/module]] [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box]] [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box-end]] Anyway, I haven't used this page for years and I presume literally nobody has ever looked at it, so I'm going to post a big list of recommended reading here. Is there any kind of consistent theme or quality? No! Does the list include stuff that objectively has zero literary value like Halo or Warhammer novels? Yes! Is it very inconsistent on whether or not novellas are included? Also yes! Let's face it, the only two things I wrote that people even halfway liked got deleted with the crossover purge, so this is pretty much the best I can offer. The more pluses, the higher the recommendation. **Literary** The Lessons by Naomi Alderman (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen] (+) The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (+) The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett (+) The Aleph and The Maker by Jorge Luis Borges (++) Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (++) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte] (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/768 Heights by Emily Bronte] (+++) Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens] (++) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/98 A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens] (++) Room by Emma Donohue (+++) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/550 Silas Marner, Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot] (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald] (+) The Collector by John Fowles (+++) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (++) The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon (+) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (+++) Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes (++) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo] (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200 The Metamorphosis by Frans Kafka] (+) A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701) Dick by Herman Melville] (++) The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (++) The Damned United by David Peace (++) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque (++) The Catcher in the Rye by S. D. Salinger (+) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (+) The Tenth of December by George Saunders (+) Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini (+++) Pulcinellopaedia by Luigi Serafini (+) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (+) The Secret History by Donna Tartt (++) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/174 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde] (+++) **Non-fiction** Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen (++) The Indifferent Stars Above by James Brown (+) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (++) Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (+++) The King of the North Wind by Claudia Gold (++) Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (++) The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X (++) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (++) Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (++) Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish (+) Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (+++) Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (+) Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick (++) In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (++) Mayflower: Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick (+) The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money by Alison Rattle and Allison Vale (+) Alive by Paul Piers Read (+++) The Dreyfus Affair by Piers Paul Read (+) The Five by Hallie Rubenhold (++) Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny (+++) The Borgias by Paul Strathern (++) The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern (++) A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard (++) **Historical fiction:** The Liar's Gospel by Naomi Alderman (+) Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker (++) HHhH by Laurence Binet (+++) The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell (++) The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon (+) I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves (++) Roots by Alex Haley (+++) Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (+) The Terror by Dan Simmons (+) **Thriller/Crime/Adventure** No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (++) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John le Carre (+) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (+++) The White Road by John Connolly (+) The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle] (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/108 The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle] (+) The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson (++) The Sanza Affair by Brian Evenson (+) Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall (++) The Appeal by Janice Hallet (+) The Curious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallet (++) Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (++) The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (++) Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (++) Call of the Wild by Jack London (+) The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin (+) Ice Station by Matthew Reilly (++) Temple by Matthew Reilly (+) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson](++) Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (+) The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (+) **Horror** Nocturnes by John Connolly (+) Noctures 2: Night Music by John Connolly (++) The Breach by Nick Cutter (++) The Deep by Nick Cutter (+++) Little Heaven by Nick Cutter (+) The Troop by Nick Cutter (++) House of Leaves by Mark L. Danielewski (++) A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson (+++) None of You Shall be Spared by Brian Evenson (+) Song for the Unravelling of the World by Brian Evenson (+++) 1408 by Stephen King (++) The Jaunt by Stephen King (+) Misery by Stephen King (++) Night Shift by Stephen King (+) Equoid by Charles Stross (++) Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (++) **Science Fiction/Fantasy** The Power by Naomi Alderman (+) Foundation by Isaac Asimov (+) Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (+) Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (+) Halo: Envoy by Tobias Buckell (+) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (+) The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin (+) The Raw Shark Texts by Stephen Hall (+) XX by Rian Hughes (+) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (+) The Children of Men by P. D. James (++) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (novella) (+++) The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin (++) Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (++) The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (+) Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (+) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin (++) A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin (++) The City and the City by China Mieville (++) Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (+) The Scar by China Mieville (+) 1984 by George Orwell (+++) A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck (+) Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (++) Unto Leviathan by Richard Paul Russo (++) The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons (++) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Ed. Robert Silverberg (+++) Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten (+) The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (+) The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (++) Radiance by Cathrynne M. Valente (+) [https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm Blindsight by Peter Watts] (++) The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts (++) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23731 A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum](++)