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I loved One Second After. Also liked Cronin's Passage - not your typical vampire novel in the least, and definitely dystopian.
The original Dune books by Frank Herbert were all good - but I'd skip the ones written by his son.
I never read anything by Heinlein that I wasn't glad afterwards that I'd read.
If you haven't read Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End, I'd put that at the top of any list. It's the book that got me hooked on science fiction many, many years ago.
Davy by Edgar Pangborn is another 'oldie but goodie'.
The Handmaid's Tale is also a favorite, as is MK Wren's A Gift Upon the Shore (although that one isn't available for Kindle).
A couple of 'doorstop' sized books - The Stand by Stephen King, if you've not read it - and The Rift by Walter Jon Williams, a fictionalized account of the catastrophe that happened the last time the New Madrid fault slipped in the early 1800s. It's not science fiction, but reads like it might be - and since the fault could slip again any time, in my mind it's a glimpse of things that might yet be.
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