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Lots of great recommendations. I particularly agree with the David Eddings, E.E. Knight (his Vampire Earth series is really good, too) and the Chronicles of Amber recommendations.
If you like vampire stuff (not the romance version) Fledgling by Octavia Butler is one of the best books I’ve read this year. The Green Rider series by Kristen Britain is really good – AND the third book is coming out later this year. I also really like Wen Spencer’s books (all of them) but Tinker does have romance. But it is a really excellent book.
Nambroth wrote:I highly, highly recommend the Age of Fire series by E.E. Knight:
They are great books for dragon lovers, and the author is a really nice guy. 🙂
This is a great series! I also like his “Vampire Earth” series as well.
If you’re into something a bit different… Robert J. Sawyer wrote a trilogy about Dinosaurs evolved into thinking beings that I enjoyed. I can’t remember the name of the series 😕 , but it starts with “FarSeer”
How about Tad Williams? The Otherland series was cool and so was the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series.
I love these reading suggestions threads….they have already given me a nice new list of books to check out 😀
lamortefille wrote:How about Tad Williams? The Otherland series was cool and so was the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series.
I love these reading suggestions threads….they have already given me a nice new list of books to check out 😀
You beat me. I can’t remember the name but there is another really good book by Tad Williams about cats.
Oh Tailchaser’s Song.hmm I remember starting Tailchaser when I was younger and never got to finish it.. I’ll have to see if I can find it again.. maybe the library.
For Sci-fi, if you’ve never read Ender’s Game, it’s very, very good.
As for fantasy, well, a lot of my favorites have already been mentioned (ddvm, you beat me to mentioning Green Rider :)) but you might want to try the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud, which are young adult books, but very good. His Majesty’s Dragon and the two others in the trilogy by Naomi Novik are good as well. I’ll also second the Sandman comics, which is by far the best comic series I’ve read in a while.
I think my list of must-read books just doubled because of this thread… 😀
Thanks those wolf griffins are so close in color to my cat Cleo I just had to take a group photo!
She was pawing (gently) at the closest chick, I think she thinks it looks like the chipmunk that torments her by sitting about a foot away from the screen door.
boskydragon wrote:Great taste, Bardwing!! (well, Brin is not my favorite)
Have you tried The Alera Codex by Jim Butcher? Great! (4th book out in Dec!)And how about combining greats…. GOOD OMENS! Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: love it!
And Roger Zelazny’s Amber series… 🙂
(I love the book recommendation threads!)
Yes, definitely “Good Omens”! 😀 Great stuff!
A few other good authors and series: The King’s Blades, A Man of His Word, and The Seventh Sword are all excellent three- to six-book series by David Duncan. The Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh is superb. H. Beam Piper’s “Fuzzy” books are a lot of fun. And Barbara Hambly has written some really good fantasy stuff; I can recommend “Dragonsbane” and especially “Stranger at the Wedding” and “Bride of the Rat God” (freakin’ funny read, and wonderful setting in 1920s LA).
This is a great thread for discovering new books! 😀 I hadn’t The Alera Codex yet, but I’ll look for it along with all of the other books and authors being recommended here. An excuse to go book-hunting! 😀
TrottierJS wrote:Don’t need to be for the young reader.. I’m going to be thirty this year.. yipes! 😳
That doesn’t mean your not young.
I would help but I am just to tired to get out of bed today~
Engaged to a WeaselI would recommend Maximum Ride by James Patterson. It has its own thread over in the Writing Section of the forum. The books are exciting and funny, I’d advise anyone to read them.
I would also recommend Inkheart and its sequel Inkspell by Cornelia Funke. They’re fantasy young adult books, but I think they’re well written and fun to read. Inkheart is being made into a movie now too.
I’ll have to look at some of the other books mentioned, they sound good!
Barbara Hambly is awesome! Dragonsbane is the first of 4 books; she also wrote Sisters of the Raven and Circle of the moon, which are great.
Robin Hobbs comes to mind. She doesn’t seem very romance to me. Glen Cook (Annals of the Black Company, Instrumentalities of the Night) too. He also has the Garrett series, where I guess there’s some romance, but not the girlie type at all.
Try Georges R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay,
**runs upstairs to check her bookshelves…**
Lian Hearn (Tales of the Otori РJapanese historial fantasy, some romance), Timothy Zahn (Night train to Rigel РSF), Alice Borchardt (historical fantasy), China Mi̩ville (Perdido Street Station, Un Lun Dun).
Ok, when you’re done reading what everybody said, let us know!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmNambroth wrote:I highly, highly recommend the Age of Fire series by E.E. Knight:
They are great books for dragon lovers, and the author is a really nice guy. 🙂
I loved both of the books in this series. Do you know if the author is planning a third?
Also, I recomment Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff, hilarious. No dragons, but still a great read.
No romance? None at all?? Cause that rules out some very good stories…Even with the little bit of romance involved, I highly recommend the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey, “The Fire Rose” is probably the best revision of Beauty and the Beast I have yet read. Her 100 Kingdoms series “The Fairy Godmother” is also very good, with a lot of humor and the romance in the end is incidental to the story…there are dragons involved a little, especially in the second and third books of the series.
Kyrin
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