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I need more books!
I love books! I love to read, I'm 15, so I need some more good book suggestions. I like to sci-fi and fantasy books, and I love Nicholas Sparks. So, anyone got any good suggestions? 5's for good suggestions.
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if youre into nicholas sparks i can especially reccommend Jody Picoult. she is a great romance novel writer, while not falling under the category of supermarket trash.
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I've been a guest speaker on the subject of SF genre literature at a large local convention for more then ten years running, and my personal collection is well over 10,000 books, so this is a VERY partial list. You can write and ask me for more suggestions any time.
SF/fantasy (many of these are classics):
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
- The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
- The Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
- The Foundation series (just the first three books), Isaac Asimov
- The Instrumentality of Mankind (short story collection), Cordwainer Smith
- Norstrila, Cordwainer Smith
- Ringworld, Larry Niven
- The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke
- Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
- The Amber series, Roger Zelazny
- Cities in Flight, James Blish
- The Devil's Day, James Blish
- Dune, Frank Herbert (the other Dune books are good, although all of them are terribly complicated. Avoid ANYTHING written by his son, Brian Herbet - he's done some "Dune" books, and they're beyond bad)
- anything by Fredric Brown
- The Vlad Talos series by Steven Brust (but make sure to read them in order)
- Lord Valentine's Castle, Robert Silverberg
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, volume 1 (probably the best collection of classic short stories available)
- The Dorsai series, Gordon R. Dickson
- The Dragon and the George, Gordon R. Dickson
- The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat, Harry Harrison
- Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, Harry Harrison
- Time and Again, Jack Finney
- The God Box, Barry Longyear
- Superstoe, William Borden
I also quite like almost anything by Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert Sheckley (particularly his short stories), Ron Goulart, David Brin, Lyndon Hardy, Anthony Boucher, Michael Moorcock, James White, and Lord Dunsany.
Some non-genre books you might enjoy (I do):
Kim, Ridyard Kipling
Shogun, James Clavell
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
The Catcher In the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Almost anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (you might want to start with "Welcome to the Monkey House")
I know as soon as I'm done with this I'm going to think of 20 other books and authors I should have included, and I'm going to kick myself. :D
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Wow, you sound alot like someone I know. =D
Here's an excerpt of my reading list from the past few months:
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights, by Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas
The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
Selected Writings of Edgar Allen Poe, by Edgar A. Poe
The Will of the Empress, by Tamora Pierce
The Lost Years of Merlin, by T.A. Barron
King of the Middle March, by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Phantom, by Susan Kay
Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkein
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
The Mediator Series, by Meg Cabot (under her pseudonym, Jenny Carrol)
That should keep you occupied for awhile.
If you want more suggestions, feel free to ask!
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The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The first book is called "The Eye of The World" and you can find it in the fantasy section of any bookstore. It's really popular. There are 11 books in the series now so it should keep you occupied for awhile. Good luck!
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the belgariad by eddings
the china garden
mists of avalon
ender's game etc. by card
dune by frank herbert
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