The poet
Michael Connelly
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
The system of the world
Neal Stephenson
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
Use of Weapons
Foundation
Isaac Asimov