werewolfv2 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 ***big thanks to the Mod that made this a sticky*** Please do NOT discuss the books! Please list up to 10 books+/- that you recommend. Feel free to add a little blurb about "people might like this book if they like such-n-such book". (lets see if this works instead of having the 10,000 "what should I read" threads) **************************************** **************************************** The Malazan Book of the Fallen (1st book: Gardens of the Moon) by Steven Erikson A Song of Ice and Fire (1st book: a Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin The Prince of Nothing (1st book: The Darkenss that Comes Before) by Scott Bakker Perdido Street Station by China Mieville The Mithgar series (starting with Dragondoom and the Iron Tower Trilogy) by Dennis L. McKiernan (very tolkienesque) Black Jewels Trilogy(1st book: Daughter of the Blood) by Anne Bishop The Belgariad (1st book: Pawn of Prophecy)by David Eddings (great entry level fantasy) Renshai Trilogy (1st book: The Last of the Renshai) by Mickey Zucker Reichert Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover The Twins by Gary Alan Wassner (newer author that shows promise) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stranger Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Pity The Nation--Robert Fisk The Gift--Hafiz The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge--Carlos Castaneda Journey to the End of the Night--Celine (first name?) The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts--Louis De Bernieres The Mantle of the Prophet--Roy Mottahedeh Dune--Frank Herbert The Silmarillion--Tolkien Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad The Biggest Secret--David Icke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingslayer Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 The Secret History by Donna Tartt American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester Watership Down by Richard Adams Song of Kali by Dan Simmons Books of Blood by Clive Barker The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Black Seas of Infinity edited by Andrew Wheeler* *The best single-volume collection of H.P. Lovecraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 The Anubis Gates Tim Powers Lord of Light Roger Zelazny The Snow Queen Joan Vinge King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard Canticle for Liebowitz Walter Miller Jr. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Hyperion Dan Simmons Wizards First Rule Terry Goodkind . . . . . . I joke! I joke about that last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caladanbrood Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 American Gods - Neil Gaiman Braided Path series (1st book "Weavers of Saramyr") - Chris Wooding The Scar - China Mieville Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan Culture series (1st "Consider Phlebas") - Iain M. Banks Night's Dawn Trilogy (1st "Reality Dysfunction") - Peter F. Hamilton House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski Gridlocked - Ben Elton Stone - Adam Roberts Night of Knives - Iain Cameron Esselmont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultraman7k Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Shogun - James Clavell The Sky Stone et al - Jack Whyte Deer and the Cauldron Trilogy - Louis Cha Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa Dragon Bone Chair et al - Tad Williams Assassin's Apprentice et al - Robin Hobb 1984 - George Orwell Happiness - Will Ferguson Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonseeker Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 10 series: A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Dark Tower by Stephen King The Kingdom of Thorn and Bone by Greg Keyes Myst by Rand and Robyn Miller The Sega of Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien Sucession by Scott Westerfeld Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 10 Fantasy/Sci Fi Series A Song of Ice & Fire - George RR Martin The Saga of the Exiles - Julian May The Prince of Nothing - R Scott Bakker The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson Memory Sorrow & Thorn - Tad Williams The Rigante Cycle - David Gemmell The Novels of the Discworld - Terry Pratchett The Tales of Einarin - Juliet E Mckenna Magician (& The Riftwar Saga) - Raymond E Feist The Ashuak Chronicles - Tony Shillitoe Will add some more in different genres later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taemlyn Blackfyre Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 The Neverending Story by Michael Ende The Princess Bride by S. Mortgenstern, abridged by William Goldman Daggerspell by Katharin Kerr Magician by Raymond E. Feist Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley King's Dragon by Kate Elliott Eye of the World by Robert Jordan Dragonclaw by Kate Forsyth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactus Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 No order: American Gods (Neil Gaiman) A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin) Firebrand (Marion Zimmer-Bradley) Deverry Cycle (Katherine Kerr) Perdido Street Station (China Mieville) Empire triology (Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurtz) Farseer (Robin Hobb) The Baburnama (Babur, translated, edited & annotated by Wheeler M. Thackston) Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) Foundation (Isaac Asimov) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multaniette Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Ten Epic Fantasy Series 1. The Black Company Chronicles - Glen Cook 2. Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien 3. Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien 4. Unfinished Tales - J. R. R. Tolkien 5. The Kushiel Trilogy - Jaqueline Carey 6. The Riftwar Trilogy - Raymond Feist 7. Tales of the Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin 8. Tales of the Otori - Lian Hearn 9. The Lyonesse Trilogy - Jake Vance 10. The Sevenwater Trilogy - Juliet Marillier Ten Urban Fantasies 1. Tamsin - Peter Beagle 2. The Light Ages - Ian R. MacLeod 3. Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin 4. Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny 5. The Dark Tower Sequence - Stephen King 6. The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers 7. Sunshine - Robin McKinley 8. Finder - Emma Bull 9. The Borrible Trilogy - Michael D. Larrabieti 10. Red Shift - Alan Garner Ten Miscellaneous Fantasies 1. Maia - Richard Adams 2. Fire and Dust - James Alan Gardener 3. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman 4. The Tales of Alvin Maker - Orson Scott Card 5. The Nightland - William Hope Hodgson 6. Illusion - Paula Volsky 7. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman 8. Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Kay 9. Coldfire Trilogy - C. S. Friedman 10. Six Moon Dance - Sherri S. Tepper Ten mainstream books for teenagers (NOT young-adult fiction) 1. Boys & Girls Together - William Goldman 2. A Secret History - Donna Tartt 3. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer 4. A Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy 5. Snow Falling on Cedars - David Gutterson 6. Girl 20 - Kingsley Amis 7. Sloppy Firsts - Megan McCaffery 8. Bloodtide - Melvin Burgess 9. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb 10. Durable Goods - Elizabeth Berg 10. Maggie: A Girl of Streets - Stephen Crane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobodymN Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 [b 10 b Sequences/Series (alphabetical): -New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room -Culture sequence by Iaan M. Bankers (Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, The State of the Art, Use of Weapons, Excession, Inversions, and Look to Windward) -Aeygpt tetraology by John Crowley ( Aegygpt, Love and Sleep, Daemonomania), fourth book forthcoming) -Sandman by Neil Gaiman -Viriconium by M. John Harrison (The Pastel City, A Storm Of Wings, In Viriconium, and Viriconium Nights) -Between the Wars (aka Pyat quartet) (Byzantium Endures, The Laughter of Carthage, Jerusalem Commands and forthcoming,The Vengeance of Rome) -Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake ( Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone) - The Jerusalem Quartet by Edward Whitemore (Sinai Tapestry, Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic ) -Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, and The Urth of the New Sun) -The Sea of Fertility tetraology by Mishima Yukio (Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel. 10 Stand-alones I like: Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Dhalgren by Samuel Delany Portrait of Ms Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen Occasional Gun with Music by Jonathan Lethem Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Mother London by Michael Moorcock 10 Collections I like: The Complete Short Stories by JG Ballard Stories of Your Life: And Others by Ted Chiang Fantasy Writer's Assistant by Jeffrey Ford No Where Near Milkwood by Rhys Hughes Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link Trujillo by Lucius Shepard The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson A Periodic Table of Science Fiction by Michael Swanwick Secret Life by Jeff VanderMeer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needle Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Ten old-Skool Sci-fi Authors (no particular order) Cordwainer Smith (dated, but my all time favourite) Larry Niven (and Jerry Pournelle, his co-writer on many occasions) Robert Heinlein ( I complain about him as often as I recc him, but still one of the greats) Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood's End is the must read by him, IMO) Philip K Dick Anne McAffrey (The Ship Who Sang, Crystal singers and the earlier Pern stuff. Nothing from the last 20 years!) Zenna Henderson (Obscure, a little sickly-sweet, but never the less wondeful stories of aliens on earth) Frederick Pohl (the High crusade - mediaevil nights abducted by lalines - great stuff) Aasimov - robots! Frank Herbert (Dune) Hard to do lists of ten! there's so many more for that list. Ten Modern Sci-fi Writers Iain M. Banks Peter Hamilton Dan Simmons Orson Scott Card David Brin Verner Vinge David Zindell Alaistair Reynolds Kim Stanley Robinson Richard Morgan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brys Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 In no order, other than Gormenghast being 1. 1.Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake Viriconium by M John Harrison Emperor of Dreams by Clark Ashton Smith (or any collection of his short stories) Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber Heroes Die by Matthew Stover Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson The Darkness that Comes Before by R Scott Bakker Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny Riddlemaster's Game by Patricia McKillip City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer In Science Fiction, a shorter list: Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller Jr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 While others have named many of the epic/urban fantasies I would have named, here are a few that slip between the cracks: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciónes (English translation available) José Saramago, Blindness Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Miguel Cervantes, Don Quijote Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial Horacio Quiroga, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories Aldofo Bioy Cesares, The Invention of Morel Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Those, and many, many more that I'm not listing at this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arwen Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Doomsday Book – Connie Willis Bellweather – Connie Willis Hotel Paradise – Martha Grimes The Long Goodby – Raymond Chandler Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maughm The Razors Edge – W. Somerset Maughm End of Days – Dennis Danvers The Promise – Donna Boyd Coal Run - Tawni O’Dell Judas Child - Carol O’connell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maester Cressan Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 My list of Top Ten (Fiction) Books to Read (Not complete, there are too many good books, I guess you can tell that my favorites lean towards the darkside- except for The Mouse which is great satire, so it has a darkside too): A Wizard of Earthsea By Ursla Le Guin Curse of Chalion by Lois BuJold Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Perzifal by Wolfram von Eschenbach Lays of Beleriand by Tolkien The Black Cauldron by Loyd Alexander Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Dune by Frank Herbert The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberley Watership Down by Robert Adams As a special tip to Tyrion lovers- check out The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois BuJold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebenstone Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 From the resident HS English Teacher: Fiction: 1. To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee 2. Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck 3. Farenheit 451-Ray Bradbury 4. The Jungle-Upton Sinclair 5. Old Man And The Sea- Hemingway 6. Rebellion's Chose-Lannister (Plug for the BWG) 7. The Prince of Crows-Brady (Plug for the BWG) 8. The Briar King-Greg Keyes 9. Zorro-Isabele Allende 10. Animal Farm-George Orwell Nonfiction: 1. Maus-Art Speigelman 2. Guns, Germs and Steel-Jared Diamond 3. Fast Food Nation-Eric Schlosser 4. The Devil's Broker-Frances Stonor Saunders 5. Black Boy-Richard Wright 6. The Savage Wars of Peace-Max Boot 7. Killer Angels-Jeff Shaara 8. Angela's Ashes- 9. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings-Maya Angelou 10. Band of Brothers-Steven Ambrose Children's Lit 1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl 2. Gregor the Overlander-Suzanne Collins 3. Whale Talk-Chris Crutcher 4. Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes-Chris Crutcher 5. Summerland-Michael Chabon 6. One Fat Summer-Robert Lypsyte 7. The Hobbit-Tolkien 8. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe-Lewis 9. Dragon Rider-Corneila Funke 10. Artemis Fowl-Eion Colfer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddler's Green Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Top Ten Personal Favorites The Killer Angels - Shaara (it is a historical fiction book, not non-fic, btw) I, Claudius - Graves Thank You for Smoking - C. Buckley Speaker for the Dead - Card A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving The Idiot - Dostoevsky Snow Crash - Stephenson The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein The Right Stuff - T. Wolfe Gates of Fire - Pressfield Top Ten Series (of all types) Masters of Rome - McCullough A Song of Ice and Fire - Martin (incomplete) Dance to the Music of Time - Powell The Prydain Chronicles - Alexander Sandman(graphic novels) - Gaiman Empire Trilogy - Feist and Wurts The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams Foundation Trilogy - Asimov His Dark Materials - Pullman Hyperion Cantos - Simmons Top Ten Graphic Novels Box Office Poison - Robinson Watchmen - A. Moore Squadron Supreme - Gruenwald Marvels - Busiek Astro City: Life in the Big City - Busiek Fortune and Glory - Bendis The Waiting Place - McKeever Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius - Winick League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Vol 1 - A. Moore Fables: Legends in Exile - Willingham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade1066 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Fantasy and Science Fiction: Ender's Game, by Card O-Zone, by Theroux Boat of a Million Years, by Anderson Way of the Pilgrim, by Dickson Starship Troopers, by Heinlein The Forever War, by Haldeman A Book of Dragons, by Manning-Sanders A Song of Ice and Fire, by Martin The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, by Keyes The Farseer Trilogy, by Hobb Fiction and Literature: Heart of Darkness, by Conrad A Farewell to Arms, by Hemmingway In Our Time, by Hemmingway Without Remorse, by Clancy Red Storm Rising, by Clancy Congo, by Crichton The Gold Coast, by DeMille Lord of the Flies, by Golding The Lovely Bones, by Sebold Sons and Lovers, by Lawrence Military Theory, History, Psychology, and Culture: On War, by von Clausewitz Warfighting, by Gray On Guerilla Warfare, by Mao Tse-tung Achtung-Panzer!, by Guderian The Future of War, by Friedman and Friedman The Savage Wars of Peace, by Boot Panzer Battles, by von Mellenthin Dungeon, Fire, and Sword, by Robinson On Killing, by Grossman Carnage and Culture, by Hanson Philosophy and Political Science: Meditations, by Aurelius Enchiridion, by Epictetus The Code of the Warrior, by French Stoic Warriors, by Sherman Warrior Politics, by Kaplan The Paradox of American Power, by Nye Leviathan, by Hobbes The Prince, by Machiavelli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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