Speculative Fiction will be our catch-all term to use in considering works of science fiction, fantasy, and magic realism. Some of the titles here are cross-listed with our classics--I suppose one might want to put them on a high priority list if one hasn't read them.

Adams, Richard. Watership Down

Alexander, Lloyd. The Book of Three (The Prydain Chronicles)

Almond, David, Skellig

Anderson, M.T.,  Feed.

Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan

Baum, The Wizard of Oz

Bradbury Ray, Fahrenheit 451

---.Martian Chronicles

Butler, Fledgling

---. Parable of the Sower

---. Parable of the Talents

Card, Ender's Game

---. Ender’s Shadow

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Cooper, Susan. The Dark is Rising (full series optional)

Dickinson, Eva

Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars

Farmer, The Ear, The Eye and the Arm

---. The House of the Scorpion

Garner, Alan. The Owl Service

---. Red Shift

---. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Green, Roger Lancelyn, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

Haddix, Among the Hidden (series)

Halam, Dr. Franklin's Island

Hamilton, Virginia, The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl

Huxley, Brave New World

Jones, Dianna Wynne, (any)

Le Guin, The Earthsea Trilogy

L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (series)

Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

Lowry, The Giver (series/companion texts)

McKinley, The Hero and the Crown

McDonald, George. At the Back of the North Wind

---. The Princess and the Goblin

Nesbit, E. Five Children and It

Orwell, 1984

Pierce, Tamora, (any)

Pullman, His Dark Materials series

Pyle, Howard, The Story of Kind Arthur and his Knights

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter series

Ruskin, John, The King of the Golden River

Stephenson, Neal, The Diamond Age

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings

---. The Hobbit

Westerfeld, Uglies (series)

White, T. H. The Once and Future King

Yolen, Briar Rose

---.The Devil’s Arithmetic