Cogito ergo sum: Give me authors.

[Mewick_Alex]

I am a fan of Terry Pratchett

Then I suggest you read them again! And again! And a fourth time!

.... then you can probably stop.

 

[Madaxeman101]

Prey and Next By Michael Crichton if you like thrilers that are based on scientific fact

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

Vladmir Nabokov's "Lolita". Everyone should read it at least once.

Fantastic recommendation right there. I'd say approach it with an open mind, but Humbert is just so seductive that you'll find your value judgements slowly warped anyway. You may not appreciate every nuance of it, but I can't imagine anybody not getting anything out of it.

 

[Jedoro]

I'd definitely recommend some Chuck Palahniuk, writer of Fight Club. Haven't gotten to read his other work, but I heard good things about it all. Each one is apparently pretty twisted.

 

[G1eet]

Prey and Next By Michael Crichton if you like thrilers that are based on scientific fact

I loved Prey, but the Andromeda Strain was fairly fun to read as well.

For pure technothriller fun, check out James Rollins or Stel Pavlou. Also, you should check out Hugo/ Nebula Award winners and nominations from recent years. For instance, I picked up Camouflage by Joe Haldeman, and I loved it.

 

[I_LIKE_CAKE]

Steven Erikson's Malazan series is damned awesome!

Jim

Listen to the man, Erikson's Malazan Books of the Fallen are simply amazing.

Also worth looking into, Sergei Lukyanenko's Nightwatch books, and Brent Weeks Night Angel Trilogy.

 

[Jerious1154]

I would recommend American Gods or Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. They're both great modern fantasy stories. You should also check out some stuff by Guy Gavriel Kay, especially Tigana.

If you want to step away from fantasy, you should read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole or Catch-22 by Joseph Heller because those are the two funniest novels that I have ever read.

 

[Marcus Attell]

Vladmir Nabokov's "Lolita". Everyone should read it at least once.

and Twilight! olololololol.

Seriously though, if you don't read anything by Knaak the Warcraft novels are okay for your fantasy fix. Knaak is...a little obsessed with his dragons and that pulls them down somewhat.

Don't forget the time travelling mages that have the ability to make Elf women fall in love with them at first sight.

[small]*Twitch*[/small]

*Twitch*

RHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONIN!

If you haven't read Good Omens, you should. It's a collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

For that matter, Neil Gaiman is good if you want some weird ass writing. Stardust, American Gods or Neverwhere. If you want to be disappointed with a movie you could read Coraline as well.

 

[skyfire_freckles]

I am a fan of the Harry Dresden novels by Jim Butcher, a fantasy about modern day wizards, but way more grown up than Harry Potter.

My favorite fantasy series of all time is Stephen King's Dark Tower series, especially books 1-3. You can argue with me that it's fantasy if you want; it's not high fantasy like Lord of the Rings, but it is fantastic. Stephen King was great until he had his accident in 1999, and then, I don't know. He sort of finished the series in a rush after that.

I hesitate to reccomend Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time to you as the author died before finishing the series, but the first couple of books are awesome. It looks like his widow has gotten someone to do the last book, but he's actually doing three books. Strange.

I loved the Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. It is six volumes, but each 'book' is two volumes long. The first book is Reality Disfunction. It's science fiction, and it has some hard bits (explanations of starship drives, that sort of thing), and he often goes into the history of a location while introducing it, but his characters are very well fleshed, they seem like real people.

 

[Marcus Attell]

So he might not be the best writer in existence but I do recommend that you check out H.P Lovecraft. His writing style may be a little dry for some but if you feel like you have a good imagination you should check out his stuff. He wrote mostly short stories so finding all of his works is pretty hard. I lucked out and found a 900 page odd book with (I think) every story he has had published, one of the best purchases I have ever made.

The Lord of The Rings is classic fantasy although you have probably read those.

At the moment I'm reading Dune and really enjoying it. I highly recommend also checking that out and if you like you can read the extended universe novels like Children of Dune.

God I've read Dune like twice a year, but I have found much to my surprise that the rest of the novels suck! I had to choke through Children of Dune, and when I finally made it to the ending, I was disappointed. The sad thing is that CoD is only around 200 pages.

 

[Marcus Attell]

Prey and Next By Michael Crichton if you like thrilers that are based on scientific fact

'sfunny, I used to be a big michael Chricton fan, then as a joke I wrote a paper on how to write a michael chricton novel, and jokingly laid out the formula required. Then I was reading "Airframe", and I realized that it, and mostof Chrichton's other novels followed the formula. I haven't been able to pick up a Michael Chricton novel since.

 

[Fire Daemon]

God I've read Dune like twice a year, but I have found much to my surprise that the rest of the novels suck! I had to choke through Children of Dune, and when I finally made it to the ending, I was disappointed. The sad thing is that CoD is only around 200 pages.

Really? Damn. I haven't gotten around to reading the other novels yet mostly because I just started reading Dune a couple of days ago. Thanks for the heads up.

To the OP: Look out for Jules Verne and H.G Wells if you don't already. Two great authors.

 

[Marcus Attell]

Neal Stephenson, if you like Math(?) in your science fiction. I'd recomend Snow Crash, and if you can get through that Cryptonomicon
Though he is a bit wordy, and does tend to revel in Scientific formula, the writing is funny and well done.

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, "Storm Front" Cause the best place to start is at the beginning.

Brian Herbert and K.J.Anderson's Dune books, for I found them much more readable than Frank Herbert's Post Dune novels

Neal Gaiman....anything from his sandman graphic novels to his literary works (you can't go wrong)

I Like William Gibson, you know, the Cyberpunk Genre? Burning Chrome would be a good place to start with him.

 

[Standby]

Whilst it's probably already been suggested, the last book i read was American psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and whilst it's probably a bit different than Terry Prachett's works (can't say i've ever read one actually) i thought it was a great book.

 

[Gaderael]

If you've ever watched an episdoe of True Blood, then I'd recommend the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris, which the show is based on. They're an entertaining read, though a little on the short side.

 

[Goldbling]

"The last book in the universe"
"The Zombie Survival Guide" "Holes"
"The Holy Bible"
"After"

The only three good ones I've read, I hated all the books I had to read in school...

 

[Marcus Attell]

Well Shoot, if we are going to mention Sookie Stackhouse, then we may as well also go with:

Kim Harrison's Witch series: Dead Witch Walking, the Good the Bad and the Undead etc. Good Books!

 

[Marcus Attell]

Then of course, there is Douglas Adams...

 

[soren7550]

Try The Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. The fat skinny is, it's a fantasy about owls. These something like 16 books in the series, but every book after #8 is pretty shitty.

Also, try Band of Brothers, Easy Company Solider, Black Hawk Down, and The Shadow Club.

will try to think of more later.

 

[jasoncyrus]

Trudi Canavan.

Her books are epicly good fantasy since you like pratchett.