My parents thought Canticle was the best book ever, but I wasn't that impressed with it. It's good, but no better than anything by, say, Frederic Brown.
I recommend anything by CJ Cherryh; I'm finishing up the second Foreigner trilogy right now. Mercedes Lackey continues to branch out from Valdemar, and (other than the Bedlam's Bards and SERRAted Edge books, which are only so-so) practically everything she's written is outstanding. McCaffrey's last four or five Pern books, after they found the original ship, have been kind of tired, but the original ten or so are great.
Funny you should mention Silverwing, KGM -- someone on another board suggested I give that as a gift for a friend's daughter, which I've done.
Clarke's Rama series scared the crap out of me, they were so good. Tolkien was hard but worth it. Harry Potter is a given.
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin is another dystopian classic.
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