Recommend me a new book/author Escapist

[Hawkmoon269]

The Name of the Wind, and its sequel The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss. Two of the best books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

 

[NoDamnNames]

Well, your choice of books and authors has thus far been staying close to what I would call 'mainstream' or 'classic'. If you want to continue that trend, Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" is a good read, and related books.

Enders Game is one of my favorite standalone novels, a real gem

Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian was a correspondent of Lovecrafts, and they influenced each other quite a bit.

Conan (the original) is in my opinion one of the best movies ever made, so I may have to check this one out.

Just copy-pasted a recommendation I gave the other day.

I assume that you've already read some of Tolkien's work, but if not, you should read that too.

I did read Tolkein's The hobbit and lord of the rings. Unfortunately I found the hobbit the superior, LOTR for me was a bit dry and stretched out, I know many will disagree but It just wasn't for me. The Hobbit on the other hand is one of my favorite books.

I recommend the Prince of Nothing series, by R. Scott Bakker. If you enjoyed Dune, you will really enjoy this.

I enjoyed Most of the dune series, but my taste in Dune somewhat differs from most fans (except on the Abominations that were the prequels and Book 7/8 by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, Though I didn't mind the Butlarian Jihad series and was at least able to stomach it)

Most fans it seems enjoyed Chapterhouse as the best in the series, while i found it was mostly bantering around characters and scenarios I just plainly didnt care about. Strangely, most people blame book 4 "God Emporer of Dune" for being the worst in the series, though it is my favorite , mostly since the plot revolves around Duncan Idaho and Leto II, two of my favorite characters in the series (Miles Teg is still #1 for me though).

So in essence, if the series you are describing is more like dune 1,3,4 and 5 I will enjoy it, if it is more like 2 and 6 i likely will not.

 

[Hosker]

Seeing as I know very little of your taste, I will recommend the book series I am really enjoying right now: A Song of Ice and Fire.

 

[Reaper195]

All the Halo books by Eric Nylund are good, even if you aren't a fan of both Halo or video games. They are wicked sci-fi reads. And anything else by him.

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[Superior Mind]

Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is very good so if you haven't read it I highly recommend that you do.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I've been engrossed in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin recently. I'd definitely recommend them.

 

[AoGenius]

I'd like to contribute an addendum to Gottesstrafe's suggestions, they're all awesome books. I've really been into historical fiction lately, and I recommend Steven Saylor and his Roma books

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or Lustrum and Imperium by Robert Harris

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Also, your favorites don't have a lot of heavy fantasy in them, which is why I'd also recommend Neil Gaiman. Guy's a genius. If you haven't tried anything of his I'd recommend starting with Neverwhere

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or American Gods, even though it's a bit long

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[8M1ke8]

Most books by John Le Carre are pretty good too

 

[8M1ke8]

Most books by John Le Carre are pretty good too

 

[8M1ke8]

Dammit doublepost, my apologies

 

[Shakomaru]

I'd recommend the Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy. I think that's his name, anyway...
I'm not a big reader, so I'm not sure how they stack up to the books you've already read, but I enjoyed 'em. You might too.

Great series. Personally, I'd recommend the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series, and Any book By Kenneth Oppel, about Bats. Also, DISCWORLD. Terry Pratchett is one of the greatest comedy writers ever. I SWEAR.

 

[synobal]

My favorite authors are H.P Lovecraft, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Frank Herbert, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Max Brooks, and Dean Koontz

My Favorite Series are Dune, The Dark Tower, Cthulu Mythos, and Odd Thomas

So my fellow readers, for those of you who enjoy the same general genres and stories as me, what else would you recommend?

Here you go these are the Books I've read [http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4550816?shelf=read] on Goodreads.com. It is a total of 294 book and quite a few series should keep you occupied for a while. I can pretty much recommend any of them save for the odd one star book on there.

 

[Trololo Punk]

I'd recommend Scott Sigler's Infected and contagious. Incredible 2 book series.

 

[DatCracker]

Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and David Foster Wallace are all amazing writers that I would highly recommend

From O'Connor, I would suggest her compilation of short stories.
From Wallace, Infinite Jest is great, if a bit dark.
And from Morrison, Song of Solomon is fantastic, but it's also very disturbing.

 

[Maleval]

Add in Butcher's Codex Alera.

Seconded. Awesome epic fantasy in a nonstandard (non-Tolkien-inspired) fantasy setting, with some political intrigue and Pokemans thrown in for good measure.

Spoiler: To quote the first paragraph of the respective page on TV Tropes

Magical Roman Legionnaires straight out of Avatar: The Last Airbender versus the Zerg. And wolfmen with Blood Magic. And telepathic yetis. And white-haired neanderthal-elves. Riding ground sloths and terror birds. And, sometimes, they fight each other too. Source [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CodexAlera]

Also Jim Butcher's other series, The Dresden Files. It's a very interesting blend of contamporary fantasy and detective fiction. Sort of.

 

[The_Decoy]

I'm surprised that no one has put forward the Culture series by Iain M Banks. Excellent books, very imaginative with well done characters and plots. Go read Excession, or the Algebraist, or Matter...

Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. All offbeat sci-fi/fantasy authors. All worldwide critically acclaimed writers.

All these are seconded, though I'm guessing everyone on the Escapist will have read at least 2 of the 3

 

[Zorpheus]

In addition to what I already wrote, if you're looking for something really thought-provoking, see if you can track down a translated-to-English copy of "Battle Royale" by Japanese author Koushun Takami. It was brought stateside back in 2003, and is an excellent read when it comes to psychological thrillers, easily the superior of the formats it has been released in.

 

[Emurlahn]

Just copy-pasted a recommendation I gave the other day.

I assume that you've already read some of Tolkien's work, but if not, you should read that too.

I did read Tolkein's The hobbit and lord of the rings. Unfortunately I found the hobbit the superior, LOTR for me was a bit dry and stretched out, I know many will disagree but It just wasn't for me. The Hobbit on the other hand is one of my favorite books.

I agree, The Hobbit and Silmarilion is WAAAY better than the main trilogy.