Excession by Iain M. Banks

Brilliant space opera adventure in the post-scarcity, artificial intelligence driven world of The Culture.

Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak

Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, Pierre: A Cautionary Tale &
Chicken Soup With Rice by the brilliant Maurice Sendak.
I told you once
I told you twice
all seasons
of the year
are nice
for eating
chicken soup
with rice!

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

“The first time I went to Croatia, the first question I was asked from the floor (with a UN interpreter beside me) was, 'When you wrote Tigana, were you writing about us?' I get that in Poland, and I get that in Quebec." (locusmag.com) Tigana is a brilliant and moving exploration of personal and cultural identity.

Home by Witold Rybczynski

Rybczynski combines awesome research with wonderful writing to illuminate the evolution of the ideas of home, comfort, privacy, and style.

fragile things by Neil Gaiman

An eclectic, diverse, hits-and-misses collection from the astonishingly prolific and multi-talented Mr. Gaiman.

Clay’s Ark by Octavia Butler

Butler’s brilliant novel combines intriguing characters facing terrifying and believable challenges (biological, political) and evolving to survive them.

Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger

Weinberger describes the ways we order things: first order (say, a collection of books), second order (information about those books, say, a catalogue) and champions a third order (digital) that removes the limitations of the others; I think.

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

A thriller in the Gibsonverse of contemporary London and Moscow filled with engaging characters and great explorations of media, information, community and trust.