Top 5 Book Recommendations

[Lady Absinthia]

Okay, we all write here, that much is obvious. Much of the time a love of writing starts from a love of reading. So give me your top 5 book recommendations that you would give to a fellow lover of the written word.

I'll start.

1. Ballad Of The Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
2. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. The Crystal Singer Series by Anne McCaffery
4. Eaters Of The Dead by Michael Crichton
5. The Beautiful And The Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Engel]

1. The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
2. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
3. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
5. Dragon Age series

[Rhymer]

1. China Mountain Zhang, Maureen F. McHugh {especially if your a world builder}
2. Red Rising, Pierce Brown
3. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
4. Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson
5. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlen (anything by Heinlen really..)

Alternately:
1. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
2. The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King
3. Sphere, Michael Crichton
4. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
5. Gateway, Frederik Pohl

[NuttsnBolts]

Don't read much but I do have a few... and by few it's very little.

- Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
- Seven Ancient Wonders (Matthew Reilly)
- Six Sacred Stones (Matthew Reilly)
- Five Greatest Warriors (Matthew Reilly)
- Starcraft Ghost Nova

Actually gonna look for Neuromancer soon as I heard it is a good cyberpunk book.

[Rhymer]

So nobody else on these forums reads?

[Nemaisare]

Absolutely no one. No one at all. Haha... That would be sad.

1. Johnathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
2. Steven Erikson's Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series
3. Kathleen Winter's Annabel
4. Flight volumes
5. Jack London's The Sea Wolf or any of his stories involving actual wolves >.>

[Eklispe]

1. The Wheel Of Time(also a series), Robert Jordan
2. I Am Not A Serial Killer(and the rest of the series) John Cleaver
2. Hachet,(kind of a series) Gary Paulsen
3. Redwall(the series), Brian Jacques
4. Paper Towns John Green

[Phaesaris]

1.) Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

2.) Egg and Spoon by Gregory Macguire (Feels like a Russian Fairytale)

3.) The Diviners by Libba Bray (Prohibition Era with supernatural mystery)

4.) Leviathan Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (AU WWI with really good illustrations)

5.) Maze Runner Trilogy by James Dashner

[Rhymer]

@Nemaisare Tales of the Malezan is on my 'to-read' list...Picked up Gardens of the Moon on a whim. What can I look forward to?

[Nemaisare]

@Rhymer Haha, well done! You can look forward to nine more books of roughly similar length, and a great deal of confusion. But I assure you, all the words are worth it for the world and the history of a completely new universe. There are some descriptions you can skim, I'll give you that for free, ;) :P He does lay the exposition on a little thick sometimes. It's the characterization and the exploration of human and inhuman thinking that I really like. But apart from that, there's magic, gods, dragons, wizards, and epic adventures. A great deal of fun and shenanigans. Also of death, destruction, horror and depravity, but it is a story about a vast war, so you get your mix of heroes and villains and people caught in the middle. They all get their chance to win the reader over though, so it's quite interesting to know who people wind up liking and who they don't.

[MelonHead]

1. Broken Empire Trilogy (Mark Lawrence)
2. Farseer Trilogy (Robin Hobb)
3. I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
4. The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
5. The Sisters Brothers (Patrick De Witt)

[HaleyTheRandom]

Well, I love YA, so here xD

1. The Hunger Games Trilogy~ Susan Collins
2. The Harry Potter Series~ J.K. Rowling (See where this was already mentioned, but heck with it.)
3.The Mortal Instrument Series~ Cassandra Clare
4. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series/The Hero's of Olympus Series~ Rick Riordan (The second series is a follow up with the first.)
5. The Divergent Series~ Veronica Roth

[Orynae]

1. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
2. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
3. Le Pacte des Marchombres (series) by Pierre Bottero (doesn't exist in English though :/)
4. The Name of the Wind (and sequels; the series is called The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss
5. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (the first book that made me cry ;) )

[Phaesaris]

2. The Harry Potter Series~ J.K. Rowling (See where this was already mentioned, but heck with it.)

@HaleyTheRandom

Harry Potter is too good to not mention twice lol.