some_fiction_i_love.md

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