ahhh space opera OKAY so my tastes don't really match yours so I'm just grasping at the fringes. Unfortunately I do not read much sci-fi or fantasy, so I'm just recommending you stuff based on what people have recommended me, I may not have read all of these. You might have read some of these! That's okay. You probably have read most of these! For that, I am sad.
1. Pendragon series - it's written for children, but overall very gung-ho, adventurous, and deals with sci-fi Arturian legend. Think City of Ember with world-hopping. Boys in my class said they liked it and it was the first time I realized that boys read, too. 2. Life of Pi - You probably have already read this, but in case you haven't, philosophy on a canoe with a tiger. 3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - Historic setting, wry and funny writing, serious subject matters, may actually contain a busful of nuns in proximity to explosions if I'm thinking of the right book. 4. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - I have been wanting to read this book for years now and I will be hopping mad for any spoilers but! It deals with Marco Polo describing the collapse of cities and from all the snippets I have read, it is awesome in a book. 5. Vonnegut. Duh. 6. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 7. The Maltese Falcon. 8. If you have any interest in mystery at all, Christie's The Orient Express and And Then There Were None are pretty much what I consider staples. 9. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson - I want to read this. 10. Isaac Asimov. Duh. Though ngl, most of the Foundation series's endings had me very, very impressed. 11. Dune by Frank Herbert. I could not make it past the first volume, but very highly-acclaimed. Go forth without me. 12. Arthur Clarke?? From what I heard, staple of sci-fi community. 13. Chronicles of Narnia?? Or even any Tolkien outside of the Trilogy, it tends to be less heavy. 14. Silverwing?? Totally grasping. 15. Orson Scott Card, Ursula le Guin... 16. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE by George R. R. Martin - read it read it read it 17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - might not be for you since it's Austenesque and Dickensque in both using it and wryly subverting it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 18. Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley Zimmer - really long, Arturian legend from the women's point of view, awwww yeah. 19. Neil Gaiman?? 20. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - ... really... long... but maybe you'll like it? As long as you're not too confused. 21. Watership Down??
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1. Pendragon series - it's written for children, but overall very gung-ho, adventurous, and deals with sci-fi Arturian legend. Think City of Ember with world-hopping. Boys in my class said they liked it and it was the first time I realized that boys read, too.
2. Life of Pi - You probably have already read this, but in case you haven't, philosophy on a canoe with a tiger.
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - Historic setting, wry and funny writing, serious subject matters, may actually contain a busful of nuns in proximity to explosions if I'm thinking of the right book.
4. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - I have been wanting to read this book for years now and I will be hopping mad for any spoilers but! It deals with Marco Polo describing the collapse of cities and from all the snippets I have read, it is awesome in a book.
5. Vonnegut. Duh.
6. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
7. The Maltese Falcon.
8. If you have any interest in mystery at all, Christie's The Orient Express and And Then There Were None are pretty much what I consider staples.
9. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson - I want to read this.
10. Isaac Asimov. Duh. Though ngl, most of the Foundation series's endings had me very, very impressed.
11. Dune by Frank Herbert. I could not make it past the first volume, but very highly-acclaimed. Go forth without me.
12. Arthur Clarke?? From what I heard, staple of sci-fi community.
13. Chronicles of Narnia?? Or even any Tolkien outside of the Trilogy, it tends to be less heavy.
14. Silverwing?? Totally grasping.
15. Orson Scott Card, Ursula le Guin...
16. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE by George R. R. Martin - read it read it read it
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - might not be for you since it's Austenesque and Dickensque in both using it and wryly subverting it. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
18. Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley Zimmer - really long, Arturian legend from the women's point of view, awwww yeah.
19. Neil Gaiman??
20. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - ... really... long... but maybe you'll like it? As long as you're not too confused.
21. Watership Down??