Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

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1. kstenerudOct 2024
   Have Space Suit Will Travel (Heinlein)

   Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)

   Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (one story in the book "Different Seasons" by Stephen King)

   Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)

   The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)

   Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky)

   Frankenstein (Shelley)

   Brave New World (Huxley)

   Farenheit 451 (Heinlein)

   Never Cry Wolf (Mowatt)

   A Whale for the Killing (Mowatt)

   The Machine Stops (Forster)

   Heart of Darkness (Conrad)

   Starship Troopers (Heinlein)

   The Jungle Book (Kipling)

   Lost in the Barrens (Mowatt)

   The Republic (Plato)

   Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke)

   Ringworld (Niven)

   The Stainless Steel Rat (Harrison)

   The Hobbit (Tolkien)

   Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson)

   The Odyssey (Homer)

   The Man who Would be King (Kipling)

   The Pearl (Steinbeck)

   Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche)

   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick)

   A Scanner Darkly (Dick)

   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)

   Dracula (Stoker)

   To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)

   The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)

   Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)

   The Wind in the Willows (Grahame)

   A Christmas Carol (Dickens)

   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll)

   Watership Down (Adams)

   Gulliver's Travels (Swift)

   Animal Farm (Orwell)

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2. bloodorangeFeb 2019
   - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

   - Through the Looking Glass

   - Lord of the Flies

   - 1984

   - Animal Farm

   - The Little Prince

   - Siddhartha

   - Narcissus and Goldmund

   - Crime and Punishment

   - Frankenstein

   - Dracula

   - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

   - The Lord of the Rings

   - Gulliver's Travels

   - Discworld "series"

   - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

   These come to my mind immediately. I'll edit and add more later if something else comes to mind.

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3. andrewlJun 2016
   This is for older children, twelve and above I'd say, but I think the Alice books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There) are great. Then they (and you) can read The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner, which opened up entirely new levels of the stories to me.

   For younger children, I'd say The Wind in the Willows.

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4. andrewlMar 2008
   D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

   Star Trek, the original series

   I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. The first science fiction story I read, which lead to all the others.

   The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner. That's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll, with wonderful annotations by Martin Gardner.

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5. taneqNov 2025
   I was trying to remember if it was "do cats eat bats" or "do rats eat bats." Turns out it was cats, and once again reality is stranger than fiction. :D

   “And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.”

   ― Lewis Carroll Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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