This list doesn’t begin to complete nearly half of them. This is mainly a small list of the sci-fi ones I have read. There are many more. I can’t think of all of them at the moment. 🙂
I have no idea how many books I have read in my life time. This doesn’t include the the classics, romance novel, horror, or even grade school books and many others including Indie authors books that I have read.
Asimov, Isaac I, Robot
Blackwood, Algernon The Wendigo
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Burroughs, Edgar Rice The Moon’s Maid
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey
H.G. Wells Time Machine
Harbou, Thea Metropolis
Heinlein, Robert A. Red Planet
Heinlein, Robert A. Starship Troopers
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous Point Counter Point
Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jackson, Shirley The Lottery
Lovecraft, HP At the Mountains of Madness
Lovecraft, HP The Call of Cthulhu
Lovecraft, HP Herbert West—Reanimator
Lovecraft, HP The Colour out of Space
Matheson, Richard I Am Legend
Matheson, Richard The Shrinking Man
Orwell, George 1984
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Van Vogt, A.E. Slan
Van Vogt, A.E. The Weapon Shop of Isher
Van Vogt, A.E. The War Against the Rull
Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth
Russell, Eric Frank …And Then There Were None
Scheckley, Robert Pilgrimage to Earth
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Wells, HG The War of the Worlds
(Ye Are Gods) I can’t remember who wrote it
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
This explains why you write more like classic writers rather than modern ones. 🙂
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