Reccomend me a book

[retyopy]

So, Escapists, heres the deal: I NEED NEW BOOKS. It's gotten to the point where I'm not even deciding which bokk to read, I'm deciding which book to REread. I'll read... pretty much anything, I suppose, although I do stay mainly within the realm of fiction. I don't mind historical fiction, but I find myself bored by most non-fiction books. But, y'know, whatever floats your boat. Or flies your plane. Or autopilots your UFO. Or types in the coordinates for a teleport. Whatever.

EDIT: Here's a list of all of my books.

The Harry Potter series. The Bartimaeus trilogy. Roar. The House of the Scorpion. Wringer. The boy who couldn't die. Pleasing the Ghost. Birth of a Killer. The cirque du freak series. A Child of Hitler. (That's not litterally about hitler's child, it's written by someone who was in the Nazi youth. Just so you know.) The golden udder. The series of unfortaunate events series. The Spook's Apprentice series. The absolutely true diary of a part time indian. The secrets of the immortal Nicolas flamel series. His Dark Materials series. The chickens are restless. The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. The Looking Glass Ears series. Nation. Pump ix. Mortal Negines, book 1. The Glister. Merlin's Dragon. For the Win. The H.I.V.E. books. Darkwood. The Throne of Fire. Incarceron and Sapphique. The Pit Dragon Trilogy. Mogworld. Winter's End. Hidden Talents and True Talents. The Secret Country. Game of Thrones. Larklight series. The Thin Executioner. The Road. Dinotopia Lost. The Chronicles of Prydain. Alice in Quantum Land. Little Brother. The Airborn Trilogy. The Hundred Thousand KIngdoms. The Artemis Fowl series. No Pretty Pictures. The Cronus Chronicles. The Robe of Skulls. Fablehaven series. The Faerie Wars series. Graceling. A Short History of Nearly Everything. Triskellion. The Crispin Series. The Edge Chronicles. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. Discordia. Lord of the Flies. Search. The Demonata. Inkheart series. Havoc. Malice. Nomansland. Dark Life. Savvy and Scumble. AND! The Skulduggery Pleasant series.

I reccomend each and every one of these books.

 

[Skorpyo]

I always recommend the three "Myst" books, based on the old puzzle game. Those are pretty good. Other than that, the Dark Tower series by Stephen King ought to please you.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

Check out the Warhammer books, Time of Legends, there are 9 of them in total (or will be when the series is finished), they come in the form of 3 trilogies. Started em last year and now I am hooked.

The Sigmar and Nagash ones are the best in my opinion.

 

[Blunderboy]

I could recommend you a search bar.

But yeah, The Dark Tower series is very much worth a read.

 

[Daggedawg]

Look up Terry Pratchett. Almost any book by him is good.

 

[MrGseff]

Now That its a TV show it will be recommended alot, but none the less I recommend the Song of Ice and fire Series by George R R Martin

 

[Arina Love]

This is my most loved book but i'm guessing you already read that. if not is really worth the read.

and my reaction first time i read it

 

[ABLb0y]

Full Dark, No stars by Stephen King. Really good book.

 

[Harlief]

Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Trilogy: The secular answer to The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. It does kind of pull the fingers at organised religion, but it is an incredibly well imagined multiverse.
Or the classic Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy Trilogy (5 Books) by Douglas Adams: Brilliantly insane writing with what can only be described as literary optical illusions and pretty much taking the piss the whole time.

 

[Togs]

Im gonna sound like a broken record but American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

I try my hardest to not fanboy about stuff but that book is definately one of the few things I cant stop myself from doing so with.

 

[Angry Camel]

The Piemakers. It's an interesting read and it's about a giant pie. What more do you want?

 

[Sp3ratus]

Well, my recommendations will be some of my favourite books and series:
Forgotten Realms, especially the Drizzt series. I think the FR realm is awesome, because it's so vast and even though there are a lot of material, both in terms of books, RP'ing and games, there are still a lot of stories to be told in that universe. I've read different books in the setting, but I've always come back to Salvatore, I just really like his writing style and the characters in his books.

Right now, I'm reading the series A Song of Fire and Ice and more specially A Clash of Kings. It's different from other fantasy books I've read in the past and I really like it. It's very well fleshed-out and even though there are some magical elements, the approach in the book seems very realistic. I like that a lot.

The Dragonlance books, more specifically Chronicles and Legends. While The DL franchise seems to be dead right now, those six books engaged me like nothing else, when I first read them. It was some of the first fantasy books I read and I've been hooked since then. None of the other books set in the universe comes close to Chronicles and Legends, but those two series are well worth the read.

I also recently read Metro 2033, the book. It can be a bit long and drawn-out at times, but having played the game and loved every bit of that, reading the book is really fascinating, because it gives a much better insight into that world, the different factions and what it's like living down there. If you've played the game, I definitely recommend giving the book a chance.

 

[Turigamot]

Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erikson. And then, after that, the series it is a part of. Malazan Book of the Fallen. Complexity incarnate, it is.

 

[Ravison]

Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erikson. And then, after that, the series it is a part of. Malazan Book of the Fallen. Complexity incarnate, it is.

Came here to say this. That series is amazing.

 

[CrashBang]

My favourite books are Pratchett's Discworld books and Pullman's His Dark Materials. Check them out, they're almost too awesome.

 

[retyopy]

Umm... I didn't count on anybody actaully seeing this thread before I was done...

LOOK OVER THERE!

 

[Hungry Donner]

James Alan Gardner's Science Fiction series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Peoples]; I'm finishing up book four at the moment and they're excellent. Number two seems a bit outside of the others: the protagonist of the first book is a supporting character in the third and forth, and #2 is set entirely on Earth, which has collapsed into something resembling ninteenth or twentieth century Earth even though it's the twenty fifth century.

It's a bit heavy, but A Canticle for Leibowitz is an excellent novel about society reemerging after a nuclear war.

Moving away from science fiction, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a great book. It is a bit on the short side if you're looking to really lose yourself in something.

The Cadfael novels are also a little short, but there are twenty of them. They're mystery novels about a medieval monk who was formerly a crusader.

 

[Ti0k0]

Im gonna sound like a broken record but American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

I try my hardest to not fanboy about stuff but that book is definately one of the few things I cant stop myself from doing so with.

That's good to hear, I ordered it 2 days ago
Have you read Life of Pi by Yann Martel?

 

[Dusty Fred]

For science fiction I reccommend Iain M. Banks, for adventur-y Indiana-Jones-meets-James-Bond stories check out of Clive Cussler (his earlier works are the best) and one cannot do better than Tom Clancy if one is seeking a good slice of plausible technothriller.

Robert Harris' books are literally unputdownable and Steven Chbosky's "The Perks of being a Wallflower" is a compelling right-of-passage tale. For old-school WWII fiction I'd direct your attention to Douglas Reeman and Alisdair Maclean.

 

[retyopy]

The Piemakers. It's an interesting read and it's about a giant pie. What more do you want?

Ummmmm.... I don't even know how to respond to that.

Oh, wait, yes I do.

ITS A GIANT PIE.