First ones off the top of my head would be UBIK by Phillip K Dick or either Stranger in a Strange Land or JOB by Heinlein.
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You know, that's a very good question.
Thinking in this theme makes me very surprised no one's done anything with all the stuff Peter F Hamilton made - it would be very easy to port his stuff over to a TV series.
But, if it were up to me, I'd have a few favorite picks;
Elric: Song of the Black Sword. I want to have normies freak out and try to claim it's ripping off the Witcher or Warhammer or GRRM. Fuck no - this is the OG, son.
Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space. They'd never get the casting right otherwise, given all the women running around in the books.
And, for added points - I want to have the Black Legion novels in Warhammer done. It gives me comfy, drug-enhanced 1970s sword and sorcery vibes in a good way, and demonstrates what hypocritical assholes Chaos Marines are.
I need to finish the Commonwealth Saga. I was pretty tickled by the idea of an interstellar civilization that utilized trains as the primary means of transport, even if the track ran through wormholes.
Even his earlier stuff is really good. His Greg Mandel books are basically 'psychic detective goes on whacky adventures in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic Briton'.
You could easily make 'Fallen Dragon' into 'Starship Troopers meets Westworld meets Avatar'.
So much I have to read there. The Elric books are in my immediate stack to read. Nerdrotic and Razorfist were saying that if you like Ice and Fire you would like Elric. That sold me on it