I am looking to expand my book knowledge and read more. I haven’t read many books You don’t have to go into crazy detail, but it would be appreciated if you tell me why you love a certain author or title.
I’ve only read a few series/authors The Witcher, Tolkein, Game of Thrones, Joe Abercrombie, Dostoevsky, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, The Outsiders, and a bunch of YA novels
by Professor_Chaosx6r9
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If I were just naming 10 books I love off the top of my head (different authors but most of them write severa incredible novels):
Never Let Me Go
House of Leaves
Ghostwritten
Tours of the Black Clock
Watership Down
1Q84
New York Trilogy
Anathem
Fortress of Solitude
The Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas – world class, most copied plot.
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott – everything, history, Robin Hood, epic medieval trash talk, and beautiful Rebecca
The Lord of the Rings – Tolkien – more beautiful and moving than you’ve heard.
Ender’s Game – Card – this book is the perfect sci-fi book
Quo Vadis (Curtin translation) – Sienkiewicz – in my opinion the greatest novel of all time.
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler – sly, witty, atmospheric, quotable.
Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens – in my opinion the greatest novelist of all time.
The Name of The Wind – Rothfuss – modern fantasy at its most perfectly plotted best.
Shogun – James Clavell – one of the greatest novels of all time – the political maneuvers and intrigue.
Lonesome Dove – McMurtry – this book will stick with you for a long time.
10??!! I have 450.
But here’s a few. You may – or may not – agree.
SF:
Culture, series Banks, Iain M.
The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 1-35 Dozois, Gardner
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) Willis, Connie
Captive War series, James Corey
Last Year , Robert Charles Wilson
The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man Hutchinson, Dave
The Ministry of Time Bradley, Kaliane
Timescape Benford, Gregory
Misc:
Herriot, James books
Last One at the Party Clift, Bethany
Fagin the Thief Epstein, Allison
Fantasy:
McKillip, Patricia :The Sorceress and the Cygnet, The Cygnet and the Firebird
The Changeling Sea, Song for the Basilisk, Ombria in Shadow, In the Forests of Serre
The Blade Itself (and all of the The First Law, )Abercrombie, Joe
The Lions of Al-Rassan Kay, Guy Gavriel and The Sarantine Mosaic, series
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, and the rest) Martin, George R.R.
The Name of the Wind Rothfuss, Patrick
Stardust Gaiman, Neil
The Dagger and the Coin series, also Kithamar series Abraham, Daniel
The Riyria Chronicles, The Riyria Revelations, Sullivan, Michael J.
Sharps Parker, K.J.
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction Pratchett, Terry
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – The Tales of Dunk and Egg, Martin, George R.R. (3 Novellas)
The Raven Scholar Hodgson, Antonia
Crime/Mystery:
Vera Stanhope, books Cleeves, Ann
I Will Find You: (Homicide Hunter) Kenda, Joe
Crimson Lake, 3 books Fox, Candice
War:
All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria
Flanders Anthony, Patricia
In Memoriam Winn, Alice
Goshawk Squadron Robinson, Derek
Not So Quiet, Smith, Helen Zenna
Goshawk Squadron, Robinson, Derek