Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Matter
Iain M. Banks
Blood and Gold
Anne Rice
Les misérables
Victor Hugo
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Douglas Adams
Consider Phlebas
Look to Windward
The Algebraist
The Player of Games
Transition
Use of Weapons
The demolished man
Alfred Bester
Childhood's end
Arthur C. Clarke
Magician, apprentice
Raymond E. Feist
Burning Chrome
William Gibson
Dune
Frank Herbert
Contact
Carl Sagan
Flashforward
Robert J. Sawyer
Hyperion
Dan Simmons