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Re:Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impa... by svieira on Sunday March 29, 2020 @04:52PM (#22722620)
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_

Re:Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impa... by wwweston on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:01PM (#22723173)
> _The Chronicles of Prydain_

Always happy to see Lloyd Alexander get a mention these days -- somehow it seems in the recent YA explosion he's gotten almost criminally neglected.

Re:Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impa... by bob818 on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:00AM (#22725383)
Yeah, his books were my favorite in junior high. It's so rare for him to get mentioned anymore.