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ironanimal
ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
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So I'm on the hunt for a few new books and possibly some new authors. I only really read fantasy as I get pretty bored by most other genres, so does anyone have any suggestions besides the standard Tolkin, Pratchett etc? Also, no vampires. Recently picked up The Painted Man by Peter V Brett and The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee and I've read a lot of different authors over the years. Fire away!

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  • debeney
    debeney Posts: 27
    Have you read any Robert Anton Wilson? The Illuminatus Trilogy is really good.
  • inetgirl
    inetgirl Posts: 174 Member
    What about werewolves? If so Nicky Charles is a pretty good author. Usually free if you have the iBook app, not sure if you have a kindle.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    What about werewolves? If so Nicky Charles is a pretty good author. Usually free if you have the iBook app, not sure if you have a kindle.

    No kindle (yet - birthday coming! :D) but I do own a Kobo Android / Book reader. Werewolves are fine as they're not so overdone and oversexualised. Haven't heard of either of those Authors so I'll be looking into them. More suggestions please :D
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    So I'm on the hunt for a few new books and possibly some new authors. I only really read fantasy as I get pretty bored by most other genres, so does anyone have any suggestions besides the standard Tolkin, Pratchett etc? Also, no vampires. Recently picked up The Painted Man by Peter V Brett and The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee and I've read a lot of different authors over the years. Fire away!

    Psh what did vampires ever do to you! What? They're not sparkily enough for you in the movies? :D

    "A Child Called It" I just read it...a grade 8 could read it, but I enjoyed it...in a scary disturbing kind of way.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    So I'm on the hunt for a few new books and possibly some new authors. I only really read fantasy as I get pretty bored by most other genres, so does anyone have any suggestions besides the standard Tolkin, Pratchett etc? Also, no vampires. Recently picked up The Painted Man by Peter V Brett and The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee and I've read a lot of different authors over the years. Fire away!

    Psh what did vampires ever do to you! What? They're not sparkily enough for you in the movies? :D

    "A Child Called It" I just read it...a grade 8 could read it, but I enjoyed it...in a scary disturbing kind of way.
    Don't joke about that. My girlfriend made me watch 2 (Yes, 2!) of the Twilight films. I'm scarred.
  • jonbobfrog
    jonbobfrog Posts: 294
    Ender's Game (and those that go with it) by Orson Scott Card
    Harry Potter by JK Rowling (obviously!)
    The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
    Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code, The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
    The Host by Stephanie Meyer
    Lightning, Watchers by Dean Koontz
    The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    So I'm on the hunt for a few new books and possibly some new authors. I only really read fantasy as I get pretty bored by most other genres, so does anyone have any suggestions besides the standard Tolkin, Pratchett etc? Also, no vampires. Recently picked up The Painted Man by Peter V Brett and The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee and I've read a lot of different authors over the years. Fire away!

    Psh what did vampires ever do to you! What? They're not sparkily enough for you in the movies? :D

    "A Child Called It" I just read it...a grade 8 could read it, but I enjoyed it...in a scary disturbing kind of way.
    Don't joke about that. My girlfriend made me watch 2 (Yes, 2!) of the Twilight films. I'm scarred.

    I don't blame you! You're competing with guys who sweat diamonds! :P
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    I like Danielle Rice, she's a great author. I'm currently reading all the Nickolas Sparks books. Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause, was a good read it's a werewolf romance novel. My all time Favorite book, is "Perks of being a Wallflower", by Stephen Chbosky.
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    The Nightside series by Simon R Green:

    I PROMISE you will not get bored. Simon R Green breaks the first rule of writing fantasy/scifi by not creating a set of rules, or physics of the world. ANYTHING goes in his stories, and it gets pretty wild. It works, though, and you cannot put his books down. The Nightside series is my favorite, though. They're written to vaguely parody, like, a detective noir. They take place in an alternate reality somewhere in the "heart of London". They jump through time and space and probability and the lead character is a likeable sort of rogue. Wonderful.

    Also, try Neil Gaimen.

    Anything that guy touches is gold. He bases his stories around the classic "hero's tale" but somehow manages to re-tell it as something new and exciting every time. I'm currently re-reading American Gods out loud to my partner and it's better every time. He touches on topics of American multicultural identity, the transition from history to the future, and what it really means to be alive. Plus, it's a great adventure, full of humor and wit. It can get pretty dark. Next we'll be reading Anansi Boys, which is based in the same universe, but is much more lighthearted.
  • Chrystibel
    Chrystibel Posts: 116 Member
    Robin Hobb - The Farseer Trilogy or The Liveship Trilogy

    The Dragonlance Chronicles

    I've read nothing but fantasy for many many years, those above are my all time favorites and of course there is The Sword of Truth series, The Wheel of Time series, The Forgotten Realms books involving Drizzt, I could go on and on, if you haven't read any of the ones I've listed, you should, they are all awesome fantasy novels.

    Edited to add that also The Death Gate Cycle series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman we're very good books, anything written by them is usually very good, they also wrote the Dragonlance Chronicles - Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning.
  • lilymarie10
    lilymarie10 Posts: 14
    Jodi Picoult writes stories about controversial issues. I'd say it tends to lean more towards the female population, but I think anyone should try reading her.

    I just finished her most recent book, and it was about a man who lived with wolves, and how that all kind of played out (Lone Wolf was the title, and there is more to the story than that- his daughter and himself get into a car accident and he is put on life support. They go through the court dealings with who is going to be in control of what the father wants- the daughter who is underage, and was in the vehicle with the father at time of accident, or the son who ran away from home 6 years prior.)

    She also has stories about a school shooting, a little girl who has brittle bone disease and the mother sues her obgyn because she wasn't given to option to abort, also about a man in jail who wants to give his heart to the victims daugher (he murdered someone), and others (love stories).

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