Recommend me some books!...Please.

for some reason i didn't read manga in your OP so have a few Recommendations

• 20th Century Boys
• Monster
• Berserk
• Tower of God (Manwha)

Dinocalypse Now. It's a first of a trilogy that's not out yet, though. Style is pulp (fantasy/sf action).

I'm currently reading another book in the series, Khan of Mars, but it won't be out for quite a few months. So far it's even more enjoyable. (I was on the Kickstarter, that's why I have access to it.)

I haven't read Zelazny's Amber Chronicles in a while. That's something I can always re-read.

But if you like science fiction I recommend you the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov and the rest of the Foundation series

The Trilogy of Bartimaeus.

i don't read fantasy book myself so i'll just put there Fahrenheit 451 (dystopian novel) that's my favourite book ever and the L.A Quartet series by Ellroy (crime fiction) which i'm going through right now and i'm loving

Sci-Fi:
Hyperion Omnibus - Dan Simmons
Endymion Omnibus - Dan Simmons

If you are into Sci-Fi even a little bit, then you won't regret it.

1984

Go read Winnie The Pooh! You can think this sounds childish, but the storys are just great!

What about some cyberpunk. William Gibson - Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer) or some of his short stories like "Burning Chrome" (invented term "cyberspace").

How young are you nieces? And what passes for appropriate?

Fantasy:
Sword of Truth (series) - Terry Goodkind
Wheel of Time (series) - Robert Jordan
The Kingkiller Chronicle (series) - Patrick Rothfuss
The Tales of Alvin Maker (series) - Orson Scott Card

Sci-Fi
[Cyberpunk]
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Synners - Pat Cardigan
True Names - Vernor Vinge

[Classic]
Nemesis - Isaac Asimov
The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
The Foundation Novels (series) - Isaac Asimov
The Robot Novels (series) - Isaac Asimov
The Empire Series (series) - Isaac Asimov
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov
Ringworld (+the series) - Larry Niven
Dream Park - Larry Niven
Oath Of Fealty - Larry Niven
Stranger In a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
The Time Machine - Robert A. Heinlein
The Past Through Tomorrow - Robert A. Heinlein
Gateway - Frederick Pohl
The Cold War - Frederick Pohl
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

[New]
Ender's Game (+series) - Orson Scott Card
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

I probably forgot a lot. I may come back and update this

The Ring trilogy novels

My favorite books series:

1. The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
2. Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (except Tiffany Aching books)
3. Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

in fantasy i would recommend Shannara Series and Weis-Hickman Dragonlance Series as well. in sci-fi i liked a lot The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. you probably already read Neuromancer. of course Lovecraft and Poe are necessary too, as other suggested. if you like listening to music while reading fantasy, let me recommend you The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd (Syd Barret leading the lineup).

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Brandbury - nice science fiction book cantaining deep look into society;
1984 by George Orwell - just kind of must read position

I would recommend either:
the Wheel of Time series,
or the Lord of the Rings trilogy if you haven't already read them.

Crime and Punishment

"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, it's a great Sci-Fi book to read. Also you MUST read "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Steaphenson, another MUST BE is the Earthsea saga written by Ursula K. LeGuin composed by three books ("A wizard from Earthsea", "Tombs of Atuan" and "The Farthest shore"), there are two more books, but the original saga are these three. In the same genere you can find "The Saga of the Confines" by the argentinian writer Liliana Bodoc, a collection of three great fantasy novels.
Terry Patchett, Neil Gaiman, Philip Dick, William Gibson, Aldous Huxley there are just a few of the great writers that you must read.

Enjoy!

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Bookmarked this thread.

The bible.

I'm disappoint, no one recommended "50 shades of grey"?

It falls totally in the fantasy genre

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