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)
Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (an indigenous author)
literally anything by Octavia Butler (her last novel published in 2005, so it counts lol)
Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness (YA but you won't regret it)
short stories by Ted Chiang (one of which was the basis for Arrival)
