Novels / Novellas

Recommended Reading List - B

An alphabetical list of all books in the recommended reading list. Links go to the full reviews, capsule reviews can be found under the relevant theme.

R. Scott Bakker

• The Darkness That Comes Before
• The Warrior-Prophet

themes: machiavellian

J.G. Ballard

• The Atrocity Exhibition

themes: decadence & decay

Iain M. Banks

• Consider Phlebas
• Feersum Endjinn
• Inversions
• The Bridge
• The Crow Road
• The Player of Games
• The Wasp Factory
• Use of Weapons
• Walking on Glass
• Whit

themes: alienation, exploration and discovery, machiavellian, nightmare reality

Clive Barker

• Coldheart Canyon
• Everville
• Galilee
• Sacrament
• The Great and Secret Show
• The Thief of Always

themes: decadence & decay, parallel worlds, touching divinity

Alfred Bester

• Tiger! Tiger!

themes: alienation

Ray Bradbury

• Fahrenheit 451

themes: dystopian

Edgar Rice Burroughs

• A Princess of Mars
• Gods of Mars
• The Lost Continent

themes: phantasmagorical irony, post apocalypse

William S. Burroughs

• Naked Lunch

themes: decadence & decay

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