Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. There's a reason she won so many awards; Miles is an awesome character. And her Chalion series makes me cry every time I read them. She writes lovely, human, flawed characters in space operas.

Sheri S. Tepper's Grass and Raising the Stones. Such awesome world building and philosophy.

David Brin's Uplift series, oh yeah. +1 to those, as well as Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (always great for thought-provoking laughs) and Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series (just straight up fun shape shifting fantasy). Ilona Andrews' Magic series is also fun, and with a sexy were lion in an alternate universe. How can you go wrong with that?

Chronicles of Nick - by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Demon's Lexicon - by Sarah Rees Brennan
Artemis Fowl - by Eoin Colfer
Vicious Deep - by Zoraida Cordova
Paradise War - by Stephen Lawhead
Dune - by Frank Herbert

I love the Riftwar books from Raymond E Feist, but specifically the books of the Serpentwar Saga; I could read them over and over.

marieamethyst wrote: »

mangrothian wrote: »

I love the Riftwar books from Raymond E Feist, but specifically the books of the Serpentwar Saga; I could read them over and over.

Same here (except Riftwar > Serpentwar, no matter how much I adore Calis)! I just can't get into the later stuff that doesn't feature the original characters.

I liked the later books, but as they continued you could see that Feist was just over writing the books and couldn't wait to finish. The amount of editing errors I had in my copy of the last book was horrible.

I love the original Riftwar books, but I think I've actually read the Mistress of the Empire trilogy the most, probably because I loved seeing the story through the eyes of the Tsurani. Maybe it's also because I'm a sucker for a strong female character

mangrothian wrote: »

marieamethyst wrote: »

mangrothian wrote: »

I love the Riftwar books from Raymond E Feist, but specifically the books of the Serpentwar Saga; I could read them over and over.

Same here (except Riftwar > Serpentwar, no matter how much I adore Calis)! I just can't get into the later stuff that doesn't feature the original characters.

I liked the later books, but as they continued you could see that Feist was just over writing the books and couldn't wait to finish. The amount of editing errors I had in my copy of the last book was horrible.

I love the original Riftwar books, but I think I've actually read the Mistress of the Empire trilogy the most, probably because I loved seeing the story through the eyes of the Tsurani. Maybe it's also because I'm a sucker for a strong female character

I confess that I am a bit biased... the first "later" book I read had a couple called Caleb/Marie that was introduced pretty quickly. My ex is named Caleb, and I'm Marie, so it was almost like salt in old wounds. I did read one of the later books involving a prison breakout that was kind of interesting... but just not the same. I loved Arutha, and Jimmy, and Krondor, and once those two were dead it was kind of game over for me. I did notice what you meant about Feist writing like he was done too. One day I hope to finish them all just because, so I can read the last "Magician" novel and find closure. But it's hard to top Riftwar and Serpentwar. (I've never found the Mistress trilogy in stores or in a library... one of these days I'll get around to reading it too)

Other favorite series:

-Anything Thrawn related by Timothy Zahn for Star Wars
-Most of David Eddings stuff
-Most of Terry Brooks stuff
-I have a love/hate relationship with GRR Martin
-Harry Potter, of course (even if Book 7 still confuses the heck out of me)
-Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey
-Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman

I'm always on the lookout for new recs though, so I'm going to have to go through the previous lists and see if I can find some spring reading!