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- Leaf by Niggle, Tolkien. If you worry about your life being a disappointment, or you are often distracted / lack focus, read this :-)
- Could it be a short story? Because Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle somehow fits in that category. Or maybe is not just the story but what we know about the author.
- If you like the ending story of Minecraft you might be interested in Leaf by Niggle (Tolkien) which it reminds me of.
- Leaf by Niggle is one of my favorite Tolkien short stories.
It is a short 30 minute read about an artist's dedication to his craft.
- Young Adult
* _The Chronicles of Prydain_ (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40371-the-chronicles-of-pry...)
* _The Chronicles of Narnia_
* _The Hobbit_
* _John MacNab_ (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161001.John_MacNab / http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300621.txt)
* _The Postman_ (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889284.The_Postman)
Adult
* _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20058/20058-h/20058-h.htm) - what is the right size for things in this world? A gentle introduction to the romance of the small and distributism.
* _A Leaf, by Nigel_ (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Leaf_by_Niggle) - Tolkien's allegory.
* _The Space Trilogy_ by C. S. Lewis - the adult version of _The Chronicles of Narnia_
* _All Hallow's Eve_ (https://openroadmedia.com/ebook/All-Hallows-Eve/978150400668... / http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400061.txt)
* _The Eschaton Sequence_ (https://us.macmillan.com/series/theeschatonsequence/) - if you like Neal Stephenson's imagination of future society, if you are amazed by Iain Banks' scope, if you think that Asimov is brilliant ... you'll want to read this 6-book sequence.
Excellent, recommend by others in this thread already:
* _The Lord of the Rings_
- One that i love to put as reference, specially when dealing with time travel and the dangers of knowing the future, is PKDick's Meddler.
Maybe is not the most emotive (Tolkien's Leaf by Niggle and Ted Chiang's Story of your life are superior in that) or the most far into the future one (Asimov's The last question should be required reading), nor even the funniest one (hard pick, Asimov's The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline fits there, if even because the story behind). But not is a so bad option.
