Independence Day Reading List

Oh, you thought we meant the Fourth of July? Gotcha! We weren’t inspired by the holiday, we were inspired by the movie. Given the state of things, this seemed somehow more appropriate. Enjoy our favorite first-contact alien reads!

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

Carl Sagan, Contact: A Novel

Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madnesss

Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

John W. Campbell, Jr., The Mightiest Machine

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye

M. John Harrison, Light

Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

Michael Flynn, Eifelheim

Octavia E. Butler, Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy

Peter Watts, Blindsight

Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

Stanislaw Lem, His Master’s Voice

Tade Thompson, Rosewater

Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Did we leave your favorite off of the list? Let us know!