I’m trying to be helpful and listing fiction books recommended by others that had the biggest impact on them, sort them into categories and link to them. 🙂
Inspired by Mckay Wrigley’s tweet. “Which fiction book had the biggest impact on you?”
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- How Much Land Does a Man Need? By Leo Tolstoy
- Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
- Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Ninja (series) by Eric Van Lustbader
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Tron by Brian Daley
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck and David Wyatt
- The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Airframe by Michael Crichton
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Excession by Iain M. Banks
- H.I.V.E by Mark Walden
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- Wind Catcher by Jeff Altabef & Erynn Altabef
- The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
- Stoner by John Williams
- Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
- The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert Heinlein and Mark Van Name
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