Your must read recommends

[Vince W]

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 0-385-31208-3
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 0340028769
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick 0-7838-9583-6
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick 0-385-01613-1

 

[tobl]

you know.... it was a fun challenge.... so, sff only edited in Britain... ok.
Somenos already said the rivers of london series so...

christopher g nutall, speciallly the ark royal series
john ringo books
david weber books
matthew reilly books
simon r green books
mike resnick starship
peter v brett painted man
peter flannery first and only
stephen w bennett
timothy ellis hero series
steve mchugh
benedict jacka


have fun

 

[Guttersnipe]

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Momo by Michael Ende
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
White Fang by Jack London
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

 

[Jo Zebedee]

you know.... it was a fun challenge.... so, sff only edited in Britain... ok.
Somenos already said the rivers of london series so...

christopher g nutall, speciallly the ark royal series
john ringo books
david weber books
matthew reilly books
simon r green books
mike resnick starship
peter v brett painted man
peter flannery first and only
stephen w bennett
timothy ellis hero series
steve mchugh
benedict jacka


have fun

I’m glad it was fun. I hoped it would be I’ll give it another day or two and then make the list

 

[tobl]

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Momo by Michael Ende
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
White Fang by Jack London
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

Love momo

 

[BAYLOR]

The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin by Seabury Quinn De Grandin is supernatural detective . Both hen and his associate Dr Trowbridge investigate and do battle with supernatural darkness and Chicanery This series has a bit of an X Files vide to it with a little Sherlock Holmes, and Dr Watson and John Carnaki and Hammer film thrown in. In all Quinn did 93 of tases adventure including one full length novel . The series come in 5 volumes
1. The Horror on the Links
2. The Devils Rosary
3. The Dark Angel
4. A Rival From The Grave
5. Black Moon

 

[Rodders]

I always find that my recommendations lean toward modern books As the classics are nearly always covered quite well.

Iain M. Banks‘s Culture work is always my first recommendation. He is by far my favourite author and I adore his work.

Alistair Reynolds “Revelation Space“ series I also enjoyed very much. Revelation Space and Chasm City are the best of the series, but I still rated Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap.

I adored Philip K. Dick’s short stories and would always recommend them over his novels.

Greag Bear’s Forge of God and Anvil of Stars is a favourite of mine. People criticise (quite fairly) his character development, but the story is great and the ending for FoG is epic and easily one of the best endings that I have read.

Stephen King’s The Stand is excellent. Some people might consider it horror, but the post apocalyptic setting makes it quite acceptable to be listed as science fiction, IMO.

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Dogs of War is a new favourite. I read it last year and it was an impressive read. I’m really looking forward to the sequel next year. I have Children of Time and Children of Ruin on my tbr pile.

I have enjoyed Ben Bova’s Grand Tour series and need to get back into them.

Edmund Coopers books I found really enjoyable as a teenager. They’re short, pretty engaging and easy to read. The Cloud Walker and A Far Sunset are my favourites.

I would also recommend Dan Abnett’s Gaunts Ghosts

 

[nixie]

Yep, I'm only going to recommend newly discovered books as the majority of my favourites you will already have covered.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle

The Kane The Mystic Swordsman Series by Karl Edward Wagner . This is one I recommend quite a bit . It's a 5 book dark fantasy series whose main character Kane, is an immortal heroic villain/antihero . He's not a nice guy by any definition but, is an interesting protagonist and, this is a fun series to read . The books in this series.
1. Bloodstone
2. Darkness Weaves
3. Dark Crusade
4. Death Angel's Shadow
5. Nightwinds

 

[Mouse]

Anything by Neil Gaiman.

 

[BAYLOR]

All of Robert E Howards short stories, a fews back the issues large book editions off his various character, Conan, Solomon Kane , King Kull, Bran Mak Morn and others . These editions are still very much in print. He one the most important figure in Heroic Fantasy .

The Collect Fantasies of Clark Aston Smith Nightshade books 5 volumes . Clark Ashton Smith is simply one the greatest fantasy writer of all time.
1. The End of the Story
2. The Door to Saturn
3. A Vintage From Atlantis
4. The Maze of The Enchanter
5. The Last Hieroglyph

The Arabella Trilogy by David Levine
1. Arabella of Mars
2. Arabella and the Battle of Venus
3. Arabella The Traitor of Mars

Morlock Night by K W Jetter

1. Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows By James Lovegrove
2. Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities By James Lovegrove
3. Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils By James Lovegrove

Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell by Paul Kane Set in Clive Barkers Hellraiser universe
The List of Seven By Mark Frost
The Six Messiahs by Mark Frost
Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove
The Yellow Sign and Other Stories Thew Complete Weird Tales of Robert W Chambers
The Rim of the Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane
Escardy Gap by James Lovegrove and Peter Crowther

Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich

Also Fritz Leiber;s Faffherd and the Great Mouser Series

 

[hitmouse]

A list of some personal favourites. Happy to provide a short citation for each if wanted. Could have picked dozens more.

When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

• ISBN-10 : 0765313588
• ISBN-13 : 978-0765313584

Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland

• ISBN-10 : 0006551270
• ISBN-13 : 978-0006551270

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirlees

• ISBN-10 : 1473225566
• ISBN-13 : 978-1473225565

The Dancers at the End of Time Trilogy by Michael Moorcock

• ISBN-10 : 0575074760
• ISBN-13 : 978-0575074767

Brasyl by Ian McDonald
ISBN-10 : 0575082887
ISBN-13 : 978-0575082885

Hav by Jan Morris

ISBN-13 : 978-0571229840
ISBN-10 : 0571229840

Little Big by John Crowley

ISBN-10 : 1473205476
ISBN-13 : 978-1473205475

Vermilion Sands by JG Ballard
ISBN-10 : 0099273586
ISBN-13 : 978-0099273585


The Drowned World by JG Ballard

ISBN-10 : 0007221835
ISBN-13 : 978-0007221837

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
ISBN-10 : 0749394927
ISBN-13 : 978-0749394929

The Mosquito and Other Stories by Premendra Mitra
ISBN-10 : 0143430351
ISBN-13 : 978-0143430353

The Diary of a Space Traveller and Other Stories by Satyajit Ray
ISBN-10 : 9780143330905
ISBN-13 : 978-0143330905

Beginning Operations by James White
ISBN-13 : 978-0312875442
ISBN-10 : 0312875444

Vurt by Jeff Noon

• ISBN-10 : 1447229215
• ISBN-13 : 978-1447229216

 

[Toby Frost]

I'd second Titus Groan and I'd add The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. Do these recommended books have to be SFF?

 

[Randy M.]

Some I didn't think of earlier:
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (978-0-7653-8786-8)
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (978-0-06-236323-7) -- duh. Maybe my favorite read of the last decade.
The Fisherman by John Langan (978-1-939905-21-5)

In my earlier post, I suggested recent works I think are still in print. A few I'm less sure about include,
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles Finney (978-1-4732-1367-8)
The Rim of Morning by William Sloane (978-1-59017-907-9) -- contains To Walk the Night and The Edge of Running Water
Songs of a Dead Dreamer / Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti (978-0-14-310776-7)

Randy M.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell
Midnight Sun By Ramsey Campbell
Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell
Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell
Carrion Comfort by Dam Simmons
Haunted Castles the Complete Gothic Tales of Ray Russell
Perchance to Dream : Selected Stores of Charles Beaumont

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Going to start building this tomorrow to try to get it up for the launch of the site!

 

[Extollager]

Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus will be new to most people visiting your store, but it is very good, and a long way from being a tired flogging-of-the-fantasy-tropes thing; but not "experimental" in some off-putting way either.

978-1780748719

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I'd second Titus Groan and I'd add The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. Do these recommended books have to be SFF?

For this list, yes

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Thank you to everyone so far! I’ve spent the last day or two popping these up and will share on Monday, when the site goes live. Not all of them were in the wholesale, or easy to get in the UK, so if your suggestion has been left off, that’s the reason, not that I ignored it.

I now also have the TBR pile from hell.....

 

[vanye]

Maybe a bit late to the party, but here‘s three SF works I totally adore:

Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City
C.J. Cherryh, The Chanur books