“I’ll give you the sun” by Jandy Nelson, “This is how you lose the time war” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, and “The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue” by V.E. Schwab
Story of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
The Word for World is Forrest & The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Redwall (Brian Jacques, specifically Mossflower, Martin the Warrior, and Legend of Luke)
- His Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pullman)
- The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
- Perelandra (C.S. Lewis)
- Till We Have Faces (C.S. mf Lewis again)
- Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- Stories of Your Life and Others & Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)
- Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
- Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
- Alas, Babylon (Pat Frank)
- Sabriel (Garth Nix)