What books would you recommend?

Hi, I hope this is in the right place, I always worry which category to put a thread in heh. (Also sorry if this has been done before)

Basically, I am a ridiculous book worm, and I can't get enough books. I have a list of books that I just need to get. I like anything usually, particularly fantasy, horrors, anything a bit weird and wonderful. I've recently finished reading 'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' by Lainie Taylor and it was amazing.

Are there any books that anyone can recommend?
Or what is the best book you've read?

 

Hello Lux.

Have you read The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss? Those are books 1 and 2 of a series in progress by Rothfuss. It's fantasy with a little bit more science to it than usual. Very well written.

 

naturally, ill say anything by daniele steel (anyone who knows me knows i love her writing)

as for fantasy, i can't remember who wrote this.. but a film was made from it... bridge to terabithia

their are also things like the disk world series, darren shan, even narnia can be a nice read

 

i haven't! but I've added it to my list! Thank you

 

thanks Emily, I've added them too :]
I saw the film for Bridge to Terabithia and I liked it a lot, so I think I'm going to seek out the book too, and the Narnia chronicles are really good

 

Have you read any of the Stephen Donaldson books?
I read everything he can write.

 

I haven't, he's also added to the list haha. I love how long it's getting now. Which of his books is your favourite?

 

Mystic River- Dennis Lehane
Gone Baby Gone- Dennis Lehane
Misery- Stephen King
Blaze- Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
Winters Bone- (Dont remember the author)
Watchmen- Alan Moore (Graphic Novel)

 

Torn between the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, which is a sort of Lord of the Rings, and The Gap, which though set in space, not my favourite place, was absolutely enthralling.

His characters are flawed, like real human beings.
Thomas Covenant is quite weak in his inability to actually do something!
In the Gap, hero and anti hero kind of swop places.
In The Mirror of her Dreams, the heroine is so ordinary to start with, it's like reading about someone we've all either been, or known.

 

Ha! Terry, I have read the first Thomas Covenant book. That's certainly a fitting description for the character. :lol:

 

I've read all of them and he does get better lol

 

Are you into horror and suspense stories? If yes, then give Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft a try. And Edgar Allan Poe, too.
Outside this sphere, there's The Book Thief, The House of the Dead and Pegasus.