Ideas for something to read

[Nicodemus]

Hi all

 

I've just cashed in some points from another club I'm in and I've got £45 of Amazon Tokens, anyone read anything really good recently(new), that they would recommend,almost any genre SF, fantasy,crime, general fiction or historical(excepting Diana Gabaldon).

 

Cheers JimmyD.

[Karsa Orlong]

Pretty wide-ranging, then

 

I can only do what I always do, and recommend some of my favourites - you've probably read lots of them already. Some of these aren't new, but I'll put them forward anyway!

 

SF:

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton (starting with The Reality Dysfunction)

The Player of Games or Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks

The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi

 

Fantasy:

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (easier to point you to this thread rather than explain it here )

Tigana or The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (brilliant, but comes with the caveat that the series is not yet complete)

Chronicles of The Black Company by Glen Cook

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

 

Crime/thrillers:

The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo (first in a series)

The Enemy by Lee Child (one of about a kazillion Jack Reacher novels)

LA Confidential by James Ellroy

American Tabloid by James Ellroy

 

General fiction:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

 

Historical:

Dissolution by C J Sansom (first in a series)

Roman Blood by Steven Saylor (first in a series)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell

Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

Imperium and Lustrum by Robert Harris (third book in trilogy yet to be published)

 

Phew! Hope some of those might interest/intrigue you. Happy reading whatever you choose

[LittleW]

for crime I could recommend Elizabeth George, everything she wrote is good. It's a serie but you don't have to read it as one.

For historical fiction it would be New York from Edward Rutherford.

[Samsiren]

I saw someone put Shadow of the Wind - I would also recommend this book. I was just telling my boyf about it and trying to get him to read it, it has it all - romance, mystery, crime, adventure and action!