Some books which haven't been mentioned yet:
- Vernor Vinge _True Names and Other Dangers_ --- titular story is an early examination of the nature of the net and privacy
- Susan Cooper _The Dark is Rising_ pentalogy (first book _Over Sea and Under Stone_ is optional)
- H. Beam Piper's _Little Fuzzy_ (available in HarryT's nifty Terro-Human Future Omnibus here)
- Barry Hughart's _Bridge of Birds_ --- LOL funny, witty and w/ something to say about the nature of love
- Jack Vance _Lyonesse_ trilogy - masterwork of high fantasy
- Poul Anderson _The Broken Sword and _The Merman's Children_ --- historical fantasy
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