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In no particular order, some fiction I've loved:

  1. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
  2. Vox and The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
  3. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
  4. The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
  5. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
  6. Invisible Cities and Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
  7. The Scar by China Mieville (And Perdido Street Station, natch. I also liked his The City and the City and Embassytown, but more as metaphorical tools than as stories)
  8. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  9. Accelerando, Glasshouse, Saturn's Children, and Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross
  10. Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff
  11. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (but I don't really like any of her other stuff)
  12. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
  13. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
  14. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation (both volumes) by M.T. Anderson
  15. World War Z by Max Brooks
  16. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
  17. The Orphan's Tale (both volumes) and Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
  18. No one belongs here more than you. by Miranda July
  19. the Steerswoman books by Rosemary Kirstein
  20. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
  21. The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
  22. The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
  23. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
  24. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
  25. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
  26. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  27. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
  28. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  29. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
  30. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  31. Gravity's Angels by Michael Swanwick
  32. Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
  33. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (the Edith Grossman translation)
  34. The Princess Bride, of course.
  35. Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie (everything of his from before Fury (2001), actually)
  36. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (really, everything of his)
  37. The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (really, everything of his)
  38. The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
  39. Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell (not entirely clear whether it's journalism or fiction)
  40. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (through I prefer his non-fiction Death in the Afternoon)
  41. just about everything by Louis de Bernieres
  42. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
  43. Native Son by Richard Wright
  44. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
  45. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
  46. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
  47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  48. Santa Olivia and Saints Astray by Jacqueline Carey
  49. Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
  50. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
  51. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  52. Blindsight by Peter Watts
  53. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  54. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  55. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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