• Several that others have already mentioned, and:

    • The Golden Age Oecumene, by John C Wright
    • The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, by Barry Hughart
    • Any and all of The Culture novels
    • The Hobbit, and TLotR trilogy. Used to read them every summer, for about twenty years.
    • Armor, by John Steakley. Sadly, the only sci-fi novel he ever wrote, and one of only two books he ever authored, IIRC.
    • The Jean le Flambeur trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi, which is on my list to read again this year.
    • A Wizard of Earthsea trilogy, which I’m about to read again as soon as my wife finished them.
    • The Chronicles of Narnia, which I used to read frequently when younger. I’m almost afraid to pick them up again now, for fear that they won’t be as good (for an adult) as I remember.
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      Love the culture series! Communism… In space!!! Though I’d say to anyone who hasn’t read them yet to skip the first and come back to it. It’s a great novel, but it smells like the 80’s. Was my first read in the series and it turned me off to the rest of them until years later when I have the series another chance

      • IMHO, post-scarcity is really the only way communism works. And it’s not true communism in the Culture; people still own things - artifacts, art, themselves. And it’s also not communism in the Marxist sense, where the workers own the means of production, because there isn’t a working class and production is largely automated. It’s some sort of post-Communism thing we don’t have a name for. Or, maybe we do, and I just don’t know it?

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      John Steakley was a full time ghost writer so he wrote a lot of other books but not under his name.

      He was working on a draft of Armor 2 when he died. I think I still have a copy of his first draft of chapter 1 somewhere. It’s to bad it will probably never be finished or published.