Books I recommend to friends.
- Thomas Pynchon's 'Bleeding Edge.' I enjoyed this more than any of his other works, probably because it's so funny, though Gravity's Rainbow is his masterpiece.
- Sergio De La Pava, 'A Naked Singularity.' Words fail me how good this is.
- Bruce Sterling: 'Distractions', 'Holy Fire' and 'Heavy Weather' are all excellent. I know he's world famous, but I still think he's underrated.
- Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road' is superb and deserved the Booker Prize it won.
- Iris Murdoch's 'The Sea, The Sea' is magnificent.
- Hillary Mantell's 'Wolf Hall' is fantastic.
- W.G. Sebald's 'The RIngs of Saturn' (not at all sci-fi) is so mind-bogglingly good it is guaranteed to make you weep with envy.
- Philip K Dick's 'A Scanner Darkly' is exceptional.
- John Barth's 'The Sot-Weed Factor' is the funniest work of genius I've ever read.
- Flann O'Brien. 'The Dalkey Archive' and 'The Third Policeman' are wonderful. 'At Swim-Two-Birds' is beautiful.