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Currently Reading:

 

 

Title - Catch 22

Author - Joseph Heller

 

 

 

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Have Read In 2012:

 

 

Title - I Am Legend

Author - Richard Matheson

 

Title - Dark World

Author - Zak Bagans

 

Title - Perfume: Story of a Murderer

Author - Patrick Süskind

 

Title - The Art of Racing in The Rain

Author - Garth Stein

 

Title - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Author - Philip K. Dick

 

Title - American Sniper

Author - Chris Kyle

 

Title - I Capture The Castle

Author - Dodie Smith

 

Title - The kingdom

Author(s) - Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood

 

Title - The Reapers

Author - John Connolly

 

Title - The Fifth Child

Author - Doris Lessing

 

Title - Pied piper

Author - Nevil Shute

 

Title - The Book Thief

Author - Marcus Zusak

 

Titile - The Road

Author - Cormack McCarthy

 

Title - The Raven

Author - Edger Allen Poe

 

Title - Rides A Dread Legion

Author - Raymond E. Feist

 

Title - At the Gates Of Darkness

Author - Raymond E. Feist

 

Title - Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Author - Josh Gates

 

Title - See No Evil

Author - Robert Baer

 

 

 

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Books To Be Read:

 

 

 

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Title - The Divine Comedy

Author - Dante Alighieri

 

 

 

B

 

Title - Abarat

Author - Clive Barker

 

Title - Cabal

Author - Clive Barker

 

Title - Weaveworld

Author - Clive Barker

 

Title - The Fifth Victim

Author - Beverly Barton

 

Title - The Murder Game

Author - Beverly Barton

 

Title - Running with Scissors

Author - Augusten Burroughs

 

Title - The Reapers Are The Angels

Author - Alden Bell

 

Title - My Friend The Mercenary

Author - James Brabazon

 

Title - Fahrenheit 451

Author - Ray Bradbury

 

Title - Something Wicked This Way Comes

Author - Ray Bradbury

 

Title – Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

Author – Matthew Brezinski

 

 

 

C

 

Title - The Tenth Chamber

Author - Glenn Cooper

 

Title - Gallows Thief

Author - Bernard Cornwell

 

Title - The Pale Horseman

Author - Bernard Cornwell

 

Title - Sharpe's Battle

Author - Bernard Cornwell

 

Title - Sharpe's Siege

Author - Bernard Cornwell

 

Title - Sharpe's Fortress

Author - Bernard Cornwell

 

Title - The Last Kingdom

Author - Bernard Cornwell

 

 

 

D

 

Title – Hitman: Enemy Within

Author - William C. Dietz

 

Title - The Count of Monte Cristo

Author - Alexandre Dumas

 

 

 

E

 

Title - Dead Famous

Author - Ben Elton

 

 

 

F

 

Title - The Crimson Petal and The White

Author - Michel Faber

 

 

 

G

 

Title - Metro 2033

Author - Dmitry Glukhovsky

 

Title - Memoirs of a Geisha

Author - Arthur Golden

 

Title - The Brothers Grimm: The Complete Fairytales

Author - Brothers Grimm

 

 

 

H

 

Title - Hiroshima Nagasaki

Author - Paul Ham

 

Title - The Observations

Author - Jane Harris

 

Title - Pompeii

Author - Robert Harris

 

Title - Ratcatcher

Author - Matthew Hawkwood

 

Title - The Priests of PSI

Author - Frank Herbert

 

Title - Hiroshima

Author - John Hersey

 

 

 

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J

 

 

 

K

 

Title - The Lions of Al-Rassan

Author - Guy Gavriel Kay

 

Title - The Brutal Art

Author - Jesse Kellerman

 

Title - The Stand

Author - Stephen King

 

Title - Four Past Midnght

Author - Stephen King

 

Title - Geralds Game

Author - Stephen King

 

 

 

L

 

Title - Savage

Author - Richard Laymon

 

Title - To Kill a Mockingbird

Author - Lee Harper

 

Title - Death at La Fenice

Author - Donna Leon

 

Title - The Collection

Author - Bentley Little

 

Title - Demon of the Air

Author - Simon Levack

 

Title - The Book of Human Skin

Author - Michelle Lovric

 

 

 

M

 

Title - Guns of Navarone

Author - Alistair Maclean

 

Title - Force 10 from Navarone

Author - Alistair Maclean

 

Title - The Alchemist's Secret

Author - Scott Mariani

 

Title - Ratcatcher

Author - James McGee

 

Title - Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance

Author - George R.R. Martin and many others

(full list curtesy of wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia....the_Dying_Earth)

 

Title - 1Q84

Author - Haruki Murakami

 

 

 

N

 

 

 

O

 

Title - 1984

Author - George Orwell

 

 

 

P

 

 

 

Q

 

 

 

R

 

Title - Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers

Author - Mary Roach

 

Title - Midnight In Sicily

Author - Peter Robb

 

Title - The Doomsday Key

Author - James Rollins

 

Title - The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy the Shocking Inside Story

Author - Ann Rule

 

 

 

S

 

Title - The Forger

Author - Schonhaus

 

Title - On Radji Beach

Author - Ian W. Shaw

 

Title - On The Beach

Author - Nevil Shute

 

Title - The Art of Racing in The Rain

Author - Garth Stein

 

Title - Dracula

Author - Bram Stoker

 

Title - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House

Author - Kate Summerscale

 

 

 

T

 

Title - The Coming of the King

Author - Nokolai Tolstoy

 

Title - The Gilded Seal

Author - James Twining

 

 

 

U

 

 

 

V

 

Title - Tales of the Dying Earth

Author - Jack Vance

 

Title - The Gray Prince

Author - Jack Vance

 

 

 

W

 

Title - The Boriga Ring

Author - Michael White

 

Title - A Gift Upon The Shore

Author - M.K. Wren

 

 

 

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Y

 

 

 

Z

 

Title - Elsewhere

Author - Gabrielle Zevin

 

 

 

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TBR Series Pile O' Trouble!

 

 

* Need to purchase to complete set before reading.

** Planned but not published yet.

 

 

 

Author - Frank Herbert

Series - Dune Saga

Titles:

  • Dune
  • Dune Messiah
  • Children Of Dune *
  • God Emperor of Dune *
  • Heretics of Dune *
  • Chapterhouse: Dune *

Author - Dan Simmons

Series - Hyperion Cantos

Titles:

  • Hyperion *
  • The Fall of Hyperion
  • Endymon *
  • The Rise of Endymon*

Author - Brent Weeks

Series - Night Angel

Titles:

  • The Way Of The Shadows
  • Shadows Edge
  • Beyond the Shadows

Author - Brent Weeks

Series - Lightbringer

Titles:

  • The Black Prism
  • The Blinding Knife *
  • The Blood Mirror **

Author - Suzanne Collins

Series - The Hunger Games

Titles:

  • The Hunger Games
  • Catching Fire
  • Mockingjay

Author - Raymond E. Feist

Series - The Chaoswar Saga

Titles:

  • A Kingdom Besieged
  • A Crown Imperiled **
  • Magician's End **

Author - George R.R. Martin

Series - A Song Of Fire and Ice

Titles:

  • A Game Of Thrones
  • A Clash Of Kings
  • A Storm Of Swords
  • A Feast for Crows
  • A Dance With Dragons
  • The Winds Of Winter **
  • A Dream of Spring **

Author - Stephen King

Series - The Dark Tower

Titles:

  • The Gunslinger
  • The Drawing of the Three
  • The Waste Lands
  • Wizard and Glass
  • Wolves of the Calla
  • Song of Susannah
  • The Dark Tower
  • The wind Through the Keyhole *

Author - Robin Hobb

Series - The Rain Wild Chronicles

Titles:

  • The Dragon Keeper
  • Dragon Haven
  • City Of Dragons *
  • Blood of Dragons **

Author - Bernard Cornwell

Series - The Grail Quest

Titles:


  • Harlequin
  • Vagabond
  • Heretic

Author - Robin Hobb

Series - Liveship Traders

Titles:

  • Ship of Magic
  • The Mad Ship
  • Ship of Destiny

Author - Shaun Hutson

Series - Shaun Hutson Omnibus

Titles:

  • Relics
  • Spawn
  • Shadows

Author - Shaun Hutson

Series - Shaun Hutson Omnibus

Titles:

  • Captives
  • Breeding Ground

Author - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

Series - Wheel of Time

Titles:

  • Eye of the World
  • The Great Hunt
  • Dragon Reborn
  • The Shadow Rising *
  • The Fires of Heaven *
  • Lord Of Chaos *
  • A Crown of Swords *
  • The Path of Daggers *
  • Winter's Heart *
  • Crossroads of Twilight *
  • Knife of Dreams *
  • The Gathering Storm *
  • Towers of Midnight *
  • A Memory of Light *

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Authors To Check Out:

 

 

Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

Brandon Sanderson

 

China Mieville

Cormac McCarthy

 

David Eddings

David Gemmell

 

George RR Martin

Guy Gavriel Kay

 

Jack Vance

Janny Worts

Jay Wurts

Joe Abercrombie

 

Nevil Shute

Neil Gaiman

 

Peter V Brett

 

Scott Lynch

Steven Erikson

 

Tad Williams

Tim Powers

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Books To Check Out:

 

 

 

A

 

Title - Watership Down

Author - Richard Adams

 

Title - Enclave

Author - Ann Aguirre

 

Title - Things We Didn’t See Coming

Author - Steven Amsterdam

 

Title - The Auschwitz Violin

Author - Maria Angels Anglada

 

Title - I, Robot (complete robot)

Author - Isaac Asimov

 

Title - Cowl

Author - Neal Asher

 

Title - Oryx and Crake

Author - Margaret Atwood

 

 

 

B

 

Title - The Running Man

Author - Richard Bachman

 

Title - Unsolved Disappearances in the Great Smoky Mountains

Author - Juanitta Baldwin, Esther Grubb

 

Title - The Drowned World

Author - J G Ballard

 

Title - From the City, From the Plough

Author - Alexander Baron

 

Title - The Sense of an Ending

Author - Julian Barnes

 

Title - The Bones of Avignon

Author - Jefferson Bass

 

Title - The Secret Holocaust Diaries

Author - Nonna Bannister

 

Title - Eclipse

Author - John Banville

 

Title - Beat The Reaper

Author - Josh Bazell

 

Title - The Nazi Officer's Wife

Author - Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin

 

Title - Humboldt's Gift

Author - Saul Bellow

 

Title - Day by Day Armageddon

Author - J.L. Bourne

 

Title - Kallocain

Author - Karin Boye, Gustaf Lannestock (translator), Richard B. Vowles

 

Title - World War Z

Author - Maz Brooks

 

Title - Lethal

Author - Sandra Brown

 

Title - A Clockwork Orange

Author - Anthony Burgess

 

Title - Kindred

Author - Octavia E.Butler

 

Title - The Children's Book

Author - A.S. Byatt

 

Title - Heart-Shaped Bruise

Author - Tanya Byrne

 

 

 

C

 

Title - Shades of Grey

Author - Michael Cargill

 

Title - The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

Author - Angela Carter

 

Title - In Cold Blood

Author - Truman Capote

 

Title - The Death of Grass

Author - John Christopher

 

Title - Martyr

Author - Rory Clements

 

Title - The Haunted Hotel

Author - Wilkie Collins

 

Title - Red Leaves

Author - Thomas H. Cook, Otto Penzler

 

Title - The Passage

Author - Justin Cronin

 

 

 

D

 

Title - Boy: Tales of Childhood

Author - Roald Dahl

 

Title - The Man in the High Castle

Author - Philip K Dick

 

Title - The Sacrificial Man

Author - Ruth Dugdall

 

 

 

E

 

Title - Less Than Zero

Author - Bret Easton Ellis

 

 

 

F

 

Title - Human Traces

Author - Sebastian Faulks

 

Title - A Week In December

Author - Sebastian Faulks

 

Title - Birdsong

Author - Sebastian Faulks

 

Title - The Spirit Breaker

Author - Sebastian Fitzek

 

Title - Therapy

Author - Sebastian Fitzek

 

Title - The Child

Author - Sebastian Fitzek

 

Title - Alas, Babylon

Author - Pat Frank

 

Title - Hippopotamus

Author - Stephen Fry

 

Title - The Roots of Betrayal

Author - James Forrester

 

Title - One Second After

Author - William R Forstchen

 

Title - Slave Girl

Author - Sarah Forsyth

 

 

 

G

 

Title - American Gods

Author - Neil Gaiman

 

Title - The Graveyard Book

Author - Neil Gaiman

 

Title - Neverwhere

Author - Neil Gaiman

 

Title - Sword in the Storm

Author - David Gemmell

 

Title - Legend

Author - David Gemmell

 

Title - Waylander

Author - David Gemmell

 

Title - Winter Warriors

Author - David Gemmell

 

Title - Midnight Falcon

Author - David Gemmell

 

Title - Fruits of the Earth

Author - Andre Gide

 

Title - Night Work

Author - Thomas Glavinic

 

Title - Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

Author - Julie Gregory

 

 

 

H

 

Title - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Author - Mark Haddon

 

Title - William - An Englishman

Author - Cicely Hamilton

 

Title - Trafficked

Author - Sophie Hayes

Title - The House of the Wind: A Novel

Author - Titania Hardie

 

Title - Gillespie and I

Author - Jane Harris

 

Title - Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

Author - Robert D. Hare

 

Title - Make Room! Make Room!

Author - Harry Harrison

 

Title - Enchantments

Author - Kathryn Harrison

 

Title - The Mask of Atreus

Author - A.J. Hartley

 

Title - On the Fifth Day

Author - A.J. Hartley

 

Title - The Silver Donkey

Author - Sonya Hartnett

 

Title - The Traveller

Author - John Twelve Hawkes

 

Title - The Good Father

Author - Noah Hawley

 

Title - Into the Darkest Corner

Author - Elizabeth Hayes

 

Title - A Farewell to Arms

Author - Ernest Hemingway

 

Title - The White Plague

Author - Frank Herbert

 

Title - Penal Colony

Author - Richard Herley

 

Title - The Enemy

Author - Charlie Higson

 

Title - Riddley Walker

Author - Russell Hoban

 

Title - Punishment

Author - Anne Holt

 

Title - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Author - Khaled Hosseini

 

Title - The Summer Without Men

Author - Siri Hustvedt

 

Title - Brave New World

Author - Aldous Huxley

 

Title - Island

Author - Aldous Huxley

 

 

 

I

 

Title - Quantum Of Tweed: The Man With The Nissan Micra

Author - Conn Iggulden

 

Title - A Pale View of Hills

Author - Kazuo Ishiguro

 

Title - Never Let Me Go

Author - Kazuo Ishiguro

 

 

 

J

 

Title - The Children of Men

Author - PD James

 

 

 

K

 

Title - The Boy in the Suitcase

Author - Lene Kaaberol

 

Title - A Flicker of Light

Author - Roberta Kagan

 

Title - Tigana

Author - Guy Gavriel Kay

 

Title - A Song Of Arbonne

Author - Guy Gavriel Kay

 

Title - 3,096 Days

Author - Natascha Kampusch

 

Title - The Rose Garden

Author - Susanna Kearsley

 

Title - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Author - Ken Kesey

 

Title - Cell

Author - Stephen King

 

Title - 11/22/63

Author - Stephen King

 

Title - The Dead Zone

Author - Stephen King

 

Title - Brennan

Author - Bernard Knight

 

Title - The Woman He Loved Before

Author - Dorothy Koomson

 

 

 

L

 

Title - Children Of The Dust

Author - Louise Lawrence

 

Title - You Got Nothing Coming

Author - Jimmy Lerner

 

Title - The Memoirs of a Survivor

Author - Doris Lessing

 

Title - This Perfect Day

Author - Ira Levin

 

Title - Small Island

Author - Andrea Levy

 

Title - The Long Song

Author - Andrea Levy

 

Title - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam

Author - Lauren Liebenberg

 

Title - Let the Right One In

Author - John Ajvide Lindqvist

 

Title - Apocalypse Cow

Author - Michael Logan

 

Title - Sister

Author - Rosamund Lupton

 

 

 

M

 

Title - The End Specialist

Author - Drew Magary

 

Title - The Postmortal

Author - Drew Magary

 

Title - Swan Song

Author - Robert McCammon

 

Title - A Canticle for Leibowitz

Author - Walter M Miller

 

Title - Cloud Atlas

Author - David Mitchell

 

Title - Autumn

Author - David Moody

 

Title - V for Vendetta

Author - Alan Moore

 

Title - Adventures In A Tv Nation

Author - Michael Moore

 

Title - The Forgotten Garden

Author - Kate Morton

 

 

 

N

 

Title - Suite Française

Author - Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translator)

 

Title - If You're Reading This, I'm Already Dead.

Author - Andrew Nicoll

 

 

 

O

 

Title - Down and Out in Paris and London

Author - George Orwell

 

Title - Homage To Catalonia

Author - George Orwell

 

 

 

P

 

Title - Fight Club

Author - Chuck Palahniuk

 

Title - Dark Matter

Author - Michelle Paver

 

Title - Execution Dock

Author - Anne Perry

 

Title - The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Author - Egar Allan Poe

 

Title - The Purloined Letter

Author - Egar Allan Poe

 

Title - Gates of Fire

Author - Steven Pressfield

 

 

 

Q

 

 

 

R

 

Title - House of the Lost

Author - Sarah Rayne

 

Title - All Quiet on the Western Front

Author - Erich Maria Remarque

 

Title - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Author - Ransom Riggs

 

Title - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Author - Mary Roach

 

Title - The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

Author - Ann Rule

 

Title - Green River, Running Red

Author - Ann Rule

 

 

 

S

 

Title - Dissolution

Author - C J Sansom

 

Title - Rosie's War

Author - Rosemary Say

 

Title - Last Light

Author - Alex Scarrow

 

Title - The Last Man

Author - Mary Shelley

 

 

 

T

 

Title - Resurrection

Author - Leo Tolstoy

 

Title - Boy A

Author - Jonathan Trigell

 

Title - Out of Time

Author - Deborah Truscott

 

Title - Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Author - Lynne Truss

 

 

 

U

 

 

 

V

 

Title - The Blue World

Author - Jack Vance

 

Title - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Author - Jules Verne

 

Title - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Author - Jules Verne

 

Title - Slaughterhouse-Five

Author - Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

 

W

 

Title - Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

Author - Christie Watson

 

Title - Before I Go To Sleep

Author - S J Watson

 

Title - The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Author - Alison Weir

 

Title - War of the Worlds

Author - H G Wells

 

Title - A Haunting Among Friends

Author - Terri Williams

 

Title - A River In May

Author - Edward Wilson

 

Title - Can't Be Arsed: 101 Things Not To Do Before You Die

Author - Richard Wilson

 

Title - The Chrysalids

Author - John Wyndham

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

Z

 

Title - The Angle's Game

Author - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

 

Title - Shadow Of The Wind

Author - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

 

Title - We

Author - Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Hello there!

 

Just noticed Terry Brooks on your interest list and thought I'd pop in and talk about him.

He starts out really slow and it becomes highly clichéd Tolkienesque fantasy but his later books show more promise. However, he doesn't improve much beyond a limit, I used to love his books and found them really entertaining, but once I discovered other fantasy writers I felt Brooks had a lot left to learn.

As you might already know, you can start with The Sword of Shannara. His books are mostly standalone, grouped together in threes or fours. The groups tend to become continuous towards the later parts of the story and he has a few recurring characters in all of them. His "wise old man", Allanon, is really interesting but even so his novelty wears out in time.

 

On another note, do you read much fantasy?

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Oh thank you! I had actually asked about him in another thread specifically about authors, but sadly no reply.

 

I read pretty much any genre, but fantasy would have to be my favourite. I am looking for new fantasy authors, if you have any suggestions on any! I have all of Raymond e feist and robin hobb books, r.e.f. is winding up his series this year I believe, so I will need some new books soon!

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Hi Devi

 

I must admit that I stayed away from replying to your other post about Brooks because I wouldn't have had anything good to say! ;)

 

I don't know which authors you've already tried, but if you like Feist and Hobb you might like Brandon Sanderson, Tad Williams, Peter V Brett, Tim Powers and, of course, David Eddings. I would recommend David Gemmell to anyone. If you wanted to try something with a more mature approach then there's the likes of Joe Abercrombie, China Mieville, George RR Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay. If you liked those, then I would start banging my Steven Erikson drum. This is probably something to be avoided, cos once I start I won't stop :giggle2:

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Hi Devi

 

I must admit that I stayed away from replying to your other post about Brooks because I wouldn't have had anything good to say! ;)

 

I don't know which authors you've already tried, but if you like Feist and Hobb you might like Brandon Sanderson, Tad Williams, Peter V Brett, Tim Powers and, of course, David Eddings. I would recommend David Gemmell to anyone. If you wanted to try something with a more mature approach then there's the likes of Joe Abercrombie, China Mieville, George RR Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay. If you liked those, then I would start banging my Steven Erikson drum. This is probably something to be avoided, cos once I start I won't stop :giggle2:

 

Oh no, thank you for replying! I find the best word to go by is word of mouth! I have heard people say Brooks is more targeted at a young teens rather than adults, and going via your and vinays post, it would seem like its true. I shall definitely check out those authors you mentioned, I had stopped reading for a time there while I was working, but now that I can no longer work, I have time to go back to my reading again!

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oh and on David Eddings, I have seen a few of his books around and are embarresssed to say, I never thought to pick one up :blush:

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Agree with Karsa he is definitely aimed at the younger audience but I did love his books. As for Terry Brooks I never really got into him, I did read quite a few but they seemed to skip around so much and I didn't really enjoy his style, I think one of his series which was aimed at an older audience was The Knight of the Word series which was ok.

 

Tad Williams is good though I really enjoyed The Dragon Bone Chair series. I think most of the properly defined fantasy I read though was a long time ago so I am going to have to think hard about anymore I recommend as there are bound to be newer better authors out there. Although I have read all of China Mieville's work I think certainly read a lot of them, and they are great hard work but great.

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Thanks guys for the names! I am on my second book of the current saga I am reading, so I will definitely be doing some research on the authors you have suggested as soon as I am done with this book. As you can see, I have added them to my earlier post list hehe.

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If there is no mention of Robert Jordan and the Wheel of Time on this thread, it would be blasphemy. Do read the Wheel of Time, it is the biggest Fantasy epic out there. RJ died in 2007 before he could complete it, he left the series with the 11th book and Brandon Sanderson was called on the finish the 12th book which had to be split into 3. The 12th and 13th books are by far some of the best books in that series, and although the series did lag in the middle, the wait is definitely worth it. The 14th book is due early this November so if what you say is true about Feist, then two of the biggest fantasy writers will have ended their decade spanning career simultaneously.

 

I only picked up Feist in November, reading through Magician, Prince of the Blood, The King's Buccaneer, the Conclave of Shadows series and the first book in the Darkwar trilogy. I have yet to read the Krondor series and the other series, which I forget the name of. Feist is definitely refreshing to read, I especially love Nakor, that little imp!

 

By way of suggestions, I agree with the David Eddings recommendation, if you love Feist, you will adore Eddings. The series are complete and you might find it interesting to know he wrote most of it with his wife, Leigh Eddings. Both of them have passed on sadly.

 

The Fantasy genre is headed for an entirely new generation.

 

I'd recommend you staying away from GRR Martin since he isn't likely to finish his series in the next decade. I stopped after his fourth book and won't bother returning to the series until it is finished or Martin's dead.

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I love Nakor! He is one of my favourite characters in the series. I love all his books, and all the not essentials to main story novels too. The mistress of the empire trilogy was especially fantastic in my opinion, he wrote it with Janny Wurts. I went through and wrote my own recommended reading order, which has worked rather well with the story flowing nicely.

 

I only assume Feist is winding up the series, based on what's going on in the demonwar saga. I have also heard that he wants to finish the series, but whether he will write other books or retire, who knows.

 

 

I will definitely be checking out the wheel of time.

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Have you read any of Janny Wurts's own books, Devi? Her 'Wars of Light and Shadow' is well regarded.

 

I thought of another couple the other day: Scott Lynch and Adrian Tchaikovsky. The latter wasn't to my tastes, but his books seem to be pretty popular :smile:

 

I may read the Wheel of Time at some point, too, as it's one I've steered clear of until now (for the same reasons Vinay says he'd stay away from George Martin, and also people putting me off by saying it gets very boring). I have the first two books on the shelf :smile:

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No I haven't actually, funnily enough I never really thought to look up any of janny wurts books! Silly isn't it lol. I will definitely add those two authors to the list as well!

 

I was avoiding the wheel of time series for the same reasons too, but at the same time I am still curious. I think it will definitely be a library borrow for it.

 

I love being here, I feel like I am being opened up to a whole new world of books! I felt lost in book shops until now, odd of me I know.

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I think my list will explode soon! I have found a lot more books among the threads here that I wish to read, and I haven't even added them yet hehe. Half the fun is making the list for me though, and checking off books read!

 

 

Will definitely check out at least the first book of WoT, to see if I would like to continue on with it.

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Devi, you should check out the sf/fantasy book chooser Timmo posted - your list really will explode :lol:

 

http://www.bookclubf...y-book-chooser/

 

hehe, yes I saw that! Waiting to get on the pc to take a better look. it's all blurry when I try to zoom in on it on my iPad. Which is really odd.

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One thing I will say - if it leads you to Terry Goodkind, ignore it!

 

I can't say I ever heard of him, or his books.

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Do yourself a favour - try and keep it that way :D

 

haha, ok will do! I have a lot more other authors to check out on my list anyway.

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I fixed my lists up a bit and I think it looks much nicer! I have a list of books, most from here that I have found interesting, but I am not so sure if I should paste it as its a bit large hehe.

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