Suggest me a good book!

[Zacharine]

The Three Musketers By Alexander Dumas is a good classic worth of reading.

Then on sci-fi front I personally have fallen in love with the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. Consider Phlebas and Use Of Weapons are good ones to begin with from there.

On Fantasy, Discworld books by Pratchett are nice. For a bit younger audience there is always the Belgariad by Eddings.

Also, by Raymond E. Feist, the Riftwar series beginning with the Magician is nice one.

On action/suspense, I'd mention Higgings as a good writer and MacLean as excellent. The Ice Station Zebra by MacLean is a book I shall always treasure.

Then we have Turms the Immortal (also goes by the name The Etruscan) by Mika Waltari. A true classic, historic fantasy novel about a guy named Turms travelling all over the Mediterranean around 500 BC. It's fantasy in the sensa that for example Venus, the goddess of love has actual power and other myths and legens of the era are considered true.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Lord of the Rings
Dune
Fight Club
Starship Troopers
Casino Royale
Catch-22
The Iliad
Beowulf
The Killer Angels

 

[Kris015]

If you like sci-fi then the hitchhikers guide series is awesome. Also anything by Terry Pratchett (he has a lot). If you're looking for one book, I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road a few weeks ago; amazing wasteland apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to get to the south of America after an unnamed disaster. Amazing stuff! It's also very addictive and never out stays its welcome.

Yeah that sounds awesome... Love Post-apocalyptic

 

[historybuff]

A Song of Fire Ice series

Terry Pratchett Discworld series

Sabriel

Battle Royale

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Golden Compass

Memoirs of a Geisha

Lord of the Flies

House of Leaves

The Shining

The Stand (if you like post-apocalyptic, that one is about a virus that wipes out 99% of the population)

 

[_Janny_]

Sci Fi: Asimov's Foundation or Bradbury's Martian Chronicles
Fantasy: Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Seconded. The Foundation series ate up all my summer holiday a few years ago, it's incredibly fun and addicting.

Also try the 'Dexter' novels by Jeff Lindsay if you're into detective stuff.

 

[trelloskilos]

I'm a big fan of Christopher Brookmyre. If you like crime novels, Brookmyre is the lovechild of Ian Rankin & Carl Hiassen, but with funnier one-liners.

If you enjoy good cyberpunk, Jeff Noon's books should give your brain a headfuck. Vurt is a modern classic, and Pixel Juice is an awesome series of short stories.

Finally, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman have been mentioned on this thread already - Why not kill two birds with one stone & go for "Good Omens" - A brilliant read, in the vein of 'Dogma'

Other nominees for good novels: Douglas Coupland, Chuck Phalaniuk, Scarlett Thomas, Early Clive Barker (don't bother with the later stuff...it's crap), or Phillip Pullman.

 

[HerrBobo]

If you like sci-fi then the hitchhikers guide series is awesome. Also anything by Terry Pratchett (he has a lot). If you're looking for one book, I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road a few weeks ago; amazing wasteland apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to get to the south of America after an unnamed disaster. Amazing stuff! It's also very addictive and never out stays its welcome.

Yeah that sounds awesome... Love Post-apocalyptic

I also vote the Road; it is class.

Other the that:

The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Fiest. 3 books about a war bettween 2 diffrent worlds with all sorts of ancient evil going on. Fastsy writing at its best.

The Beach by Alex Garland. Forget the shit film. This is one of the best books I have ever read. I have finished 5 times now and I'm still not sure what it is about.

Shogun by James Clavell. An English man is shipwrecked on Japan in 1600, its all about his life there and how he survives. Epic.

Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor. 6 people on a ship escaping the Irish famine. All of them have secrets and all are connected in some way. The best book I have read in the last 12 months.

Persian Fire by Tom Holland. Charts the rise and fall of the worls fist superpower; the Persian Empire. A fantastic narrative history.

The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar. Come on! It was written by Caesar what else do you need to know?! Ok, its an acount of his, illegal, war in Gaul. He wrote it to get the plebs on his side, it reads like a novel, kinda. Plus its 2000(ish) years old!

 

[Darth_Normandy]

Do androids dream of electric sheep
The discworld series.

 

[CrazyJ24]

The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. Its pretty much fantasy in a modern day setting, about a wizard in New York, working as a helping hand to people and the police.

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

If you like the warhammer or WH 40k lores I would go with;
Gaunts Ghosts
Gotrek and Felix
Horus Heresy series.

Otherwise I recommend:
Battle Royal
Darkley Dreaming Dexter (the whole series actually)
Henning Mankell novels (wallander)
Simon Kernick novels (writes a series of crime novels).

 

[Jozephz]

I would recommend:

1984
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
Catch-22
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Popcorn
Dead Famous

 

[Lullabye]

ill say the obligatory:
Enders Game
Dune

easily the best books ive read so far, and ive seen some of the posts, these in my opinion top them all. but they are sci fi psychological so unless you know what cognitive means, dont read these.

 

[Zani]

Oh you're from Denmark? Awesome, I suggest you read "1,2,3 nu!"

 

[Sgt. Dante]

The count of Monte Cristo
Inferno
The wasp factory
Mystery Man

 

[nolongerhere]

Go for I Am Legend, it is a classic, and something I would recommend to anyone.

 

[Kris015]

Oh you're from Denmark? Awesome, I suggest you read "1,2,3 nu!"

We already read that in school last year It was a good book though

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Fight Club
No Country for Old Men
The Road

 

[Kris015]

Go for I Am Legend, it is a classic, and something I would recommend to anyone.

I Am Legend, the book? Hmm.. Never heard of that.

 

[GoldenRaz]

"Darkly Dreaming Dexter" and it's sequels by Jeff Lindsay.
The "Tales of the Otori"-series by Lian Hearn.