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[Ayx]

1. Prince Of Nothing/Aspect Emperor series - Bakker
2. Commonwealth saga (2 books) - Peter F. Hamilton
3. Mote in the Gods Eye / Gripping Hand - Niven and Pournelle
4. First two books of Dune - Frank Herbert
5. Amber series - Roger Zelazny
6. Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
7. Man-Kzin wars (series) - various authors, edited by Larry Niven
8. Diamond Age - Neil Stephenson
9. Hyperion (first 2 books) - Dan Simmons
10. Revelation Space series - Alastair Renolds

[DaniSnowborn]

Right now, more or less in order...

• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoievski.
  
• Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien.
  
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami.
  
• A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin.
  
• The Brothers Karamázov, Dostoievski.
  
• The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima.
  
• The First Law trilogy, Joe Abercrombie.
  
• Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig.
  
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess.
  
• The Winners, Julio Cortázar.

It was hard to leave out Kafka on the Shore by Murakami, Kyôto by Yasunari Kawabata, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 1984 by George Orwell, Anna Karenina by Leon Tolstoi...

Edited by DaniSnowborn, 20 March 2013 - 03:05 AM.

[Rodion Felix]

1.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.Thomas Mann
4.Leo Tolstoy
5.Charles Dickens
6.Alexander Pushkin
7.Nikolai Gogol
8.Ivan Turgenev
9.Franz Kafka
10. Karel Capek

[Lady Shadow Cat]

No particular order. I chose based on level of enjoyment and number of times I've re-read them.

ASoIaF by GRRM (obvs)
Women of the Otherworld Series by Kelley Armstrong
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Abduction by Robin Cook
The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Amelia Peabody Mysteries by Elizabeth Peters
Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler
Flavour of the Month by Olivia Goldsmith
House of Night series by P.C Cast and Kristen Cast (lolz can't help myself)

[UnbentFury]

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. This woman gave me my childhood.

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Ditto.

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Oryx and Crake and The Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood.

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Both this and the ones above, changed the way I looked at sci-fi.

The Road by Cormac Mcarthy

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Watchmen by Alan Moore

World War Z by Max Brooks

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

ETA: Oh, and Holy shit, how could I forget The Child Thief by Brom?

Edited by UnbentFury, 24 March 2013 - 10:55 PM.

[OllieOwl]

ASOIAF

First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Harry Potter series

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Flowers for Algernon

Fellowship of the Ring

[YellowDogJen]

At the moment, anyway...

LOTR
ASOIAF
The First Law
Gentleman Bastards
Dresden Files
Kingkiller Chronicles
Dark Tower
Tales of the Ketty Jay
Long Price Quartet
Dagger and the Coin
Land Fit for Heroes
Broken Empire

Yeah, that's 12.

[direwolf_of_white_fangs]

only books:

1- Tolkien trilogy the lord of the rings + other tolkien books
2- GRRM ASOIAF
3- Cthulhu myth by mr. L
4-hunger games trilogy
5- Ed. allan Poe

[kingofashes]

In no order: William S Bouroughs, GRRM, Paul Auster, Thomas Harris, Michael Connelley, Douglas Coupland, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, Steven Erikson, Cormac Mcarthy, Kurt Vonnegut.

But I can probably think of another 25 authors who I could put in there. Plus I'm just thinking about "at this moment" theres alot of classic authors I've missed out.

Edited by kingofashes, 24 March 2013 - 09:45 PM.

[jmastar]

direwolf_of_white_fangs, on 24 March 2013 - 08:39 PM, said:

only books:

1- Tolkien trilogy the lord of the rings + other tolkien books
2- GRRM ASOIAF
3- Cthulhu myth by mr. L
4-hunger games trilogy
5- Ed. allan Poe

I read this series twice, because I didn't get the popularity. Still don't get it

[direwolf_of_white_fangs]

jmastar, on 25 March 2013 - 02:15 AM, said:

I read this series twice, because I didn't get the popularity. Still don't get it

To me it was an easy, pleasant and fast paced read. A lot of gore and violence in the books actually, much more than the film.
1st and second books are the best; third book a bit of a turn down...but still I think worthwhile for sci fi / fantasy fans.

[Lelouch Lamperouge]

In no particular order,

Lord Of The Rings
A Song Of Ice And Fire
The Malazan Book Of The Fallen
The First Law
Gentleman Bastard
Long Price Quartet
Under Heaven
Prince of Nothing
Shadow Of The Wind
Anathem
and, of course, Harry Potter.

[WrathOfTinyKittens]

Hmm... Not in order except for the top 3:

1- Prince of Nothing / Aspect Emperor - R. Scott Bakker
2- ASOIAF - GRRM
3- The Passage/The Twelve - Justin Cronin
- Gentlemen Bastards - Scott Lynch (I also want to throw in his short story "In the Stacks" from the "Swords and Dark Magic" anthology that was awesome)
- WWZ - Max Brooks
- Matterhorn - Karl Marlantes
- Shogun - James Clavell
- First Law trilogy + BSC + TH - Joe Abercrombie
- WOT - Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
- The Magicians / The Magician King - Lev Grossman
- The Acts of Caine - Matthew Stover

Honorable mention to "Zone One" by Colson Whitehead, "Thirteen" and "Altered Carbon" by Richard Morgan, and "The Expanse" trilogy (especially "Leviathan Wakes") by James SA Corey.

I think that's 11, but oh well...

[larrytheimp]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Annie Dillard
Cormac McCarthy
William Blake Stephen King
Don DeLillo
George R. Martin
Cynthia Voight
R Scott Bakker
William Faulkner
Edgar Allen Poe

order is random

Edited by larrytheimp, 25 March 2013 - 12:01 PM.

[Happy Ent]

larrytheimp, on 25 March 2013 - 11:58 AM, said:

order is random

war is peace. freedom is slavery. ignorance is strength.

Edited by Happy Ent, 25 March 2013 - 12:04 PM.

[Jaime's Wench]

My favourite authors are very non-fantasy (with a few notable exceptions)

1. Emily Bronte
2. Daphne du Maurier
3. GRRM
4. Anya Seton
5. Joanne Harris
6. Phillip Pullman
7. Charlotte Bronte
8. JKR
9. Elizabeth Chadwick
10.  Penelope Lively

Yea, I know, I'm such a typical woman. Maybe that's why I'm not getting along with the fantasy recs people give me. Maybe I should read the latest Philippa Gregory release next and admit defeat...

[Captain Sheepf*cker]

No order:

China Mieville
Felix Gilman
Steven Erikson
Daniel Abraham
Richard K. Morgan
Ian M. Banks
Alastair Reynolds
Joe Abercrombie
Terry Pratchett
George R.R. Martin