3 books in Jim's library, sorted by rating.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Young Ged, a goatherd on the island of Gont, discovers he has an extraordinary gift for magic. Sent to the school of wizardry on Roke, his arrogance unleashes a terrible shadow upon the world — one he must face alone across the vast archipelago of Earthsea.
A lone human envoy is sent to the ice-bound planet of Gethen to convince its inhabitants to join a galactic confederation. But on Gethen, the people are ambisexual — shifting between male and female — and the envoy must navigate a world where gender as he knows it doesn't exist.
Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon of Anarres, travels to its sister planet Urras in hopes of sharing his revolutionary theory. But both worlds have walls — some visible, some not — and Shevek must confront the true cost of freedom and the meaning of home.
