I know this post is months old now, but I gotta comment that as much as I enjoyed Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead (the actual starting point of the writing about Ender) literally changed me. I was just at the book store the other day and picked up a copy of SftD and almost brought it home for my favorites shelf (I had read a library copy originally). Some books just sit with you for the rest of your life and that is one of them.
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I was at the library last week and they had their cancelled books, $1 per book, or $5 to fill a bag. I paid $5, to fill a bag - one of the books I grabbed was Ender's Game :)
I have the other books in the series on hold at the library, so looking forward to reading them when I get up to them. I will never run out of books at the rate I am spider-webbing my author interests out :D
For me, the book that is like Ender's story for you - is probably Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by my GOD EMPEROR of sci-fi - PKD (even though its the only book of his I've read! - so far - that will change, I have two on the hallway table!) everytime I pick up that book, I end up reading it in one sitting.
BRO! PKD is my absolute favorite author. While I LOVE "Androids", there are SO many other books at least as good (if not better). Some get a little whacky (especially stuff written around or after his "religious experience") but they are all still important to read if you enjoyed "Androids".
For a real mindfuck, read Dick's short story "Waterspider" before you read any more of his stuff (or any sci-fi, really). It puts all science fiction on a whole other plane of existence. THEN go back and read old speculative Sci-Fi ("The Sleeper Awakes" by H. G. Wells, "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster, and "The Master Key" by L. Frank Baum to name a short list).
I have Ubik and Valis, to be precise, sitting on that hallway table of mine. I'll get to them eventually. :D
I will add your suggestions to my list :) Always looking to make my list less achievable :D