Street children in 1930s Salvador; Jorge Amado's most loved.
Earth colonises Mars in linked stories; Bradbury's melancholy frontier.
Charlie Gordon's IQ goes from 68 to 185 and back, in his own progress reports.
Deckard, the replicants and the mood organ; the book behind Blade Runner.
Everyone in town knows the twins will kill Santiago Nasar and nobody stops it.
A student and his Sensei, and the confession of a betrayal from the Meiji era; Soseki's classic.
Seven pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the Shrike; The Canterbury Tales in space.
Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.
Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.
Case, Molly and the matrix; Gibson invented cyberspace in 1984.
A fifty-kilometre cylinder enters the solar system and a crew goes inside; Clarke's purest wonder.
Moomintroll and his mother search for father in the first Moomin book; Tove Jansson's valley begins.
Bastian reads a book and ends up inside Fantastica; Ende in red and green ink.
An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.
A point that contains every other point, in a Buenos Aires cellar; Borges' second collection.
The three laws of robotics in nine stories; Susan Calvin and the machines.
A man arrives in Comala looking for his father and finds a town of the dead; the book that taught Garcia Marquez.
A woman's life in 14th-century Norway in three volumes; Undset's Nobel.
Goldman's "good parts version" of a book that never existed; Westley, Buttercup and Inigo.
The shining prince and the women of the Heian court; the first novel, written by a woman around 1010.
A dead man narrates his pointless life with digressions; Machado's 1881 modernism.
Soldiers return from each battle to an Earth centuries older; Haldeman's Vietnam in space.
A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.
Did Capitu betray Bentinho? Machado de Assis leaves the reader to decide; Brazil's classic.
Four sisters in Osaka before the war and the search for a husband for the third; Tanizaki's masterpiece.
A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.
The decline of an aristocratic Qing family through a boy and his cousins; the greatest Chinese novel.
Bjartur of Summerhouses and his sheep against everything; Laxness's Icelandic epic.
A human raised by Martians comes to Earth and starts a church; grok.
Stalkers loot an alien Zone for artefacts; the Strugatskys' novel behind Tarkovsky's film.
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