33/ Timescape, by Gregory Benford. A cross-time-communication thriller combined with ecothriller.
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34/ Starship Troopers, by Heinlein. The great granddaddy of mil SF, which has only been equaled once. Almost everything else that follows in its footsteps gives the adventure, without any of the introspection.
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35/ The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. A response and rebuttal to Starship Troopers, and the only mil SF novel to ever equal or perhaps even exceed it, on its own terms.
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36/ Dhalgren, by Samuel Delaney. I hated it, and I didn't finish it, but there's something going on there.
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37/ There are Doors, by Gene Wolfe. Perhaps the easiest onramp to the often challenging master. Multiple universes, doors between then, maybe a goddess.
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38/ The World Next Door, Brad Ferguson. Set in an alternate history where World War III happened in the late 1960s, the children and grandchildren of the survivors, living a relatively placid agrarian existence, start to have dreams, dreams with lyrics from our universe...
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39/ Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson. Part of a triptych of three novels, each set 30 years in the future in the same California town, but in three very different futures.
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40/ Hyperion, Dan Simmons. The Canterbury Tales, in the future, when three factions of AIs are plotting against humans, but we don't know it and are more concerned with a time travelling murder both protecting time tombs. ...but then it gets weird.
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ok, back to writing the homesteading book more later
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Replying to @MorlockP
I assumed as much. It's not phenomenal, but it's fun. The Samuel Clemens angle kept me interested.
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