Reading Recs from SG

I'm busy with The Mist from Stephen King.

Not a bad one if you like the horror genre.

I'm a very sporadic reader, sometimes I read 3 or 4 books in a row and then nothing for the next couple of years, so I wouldn't really trust my suggestions.
Last thing I read was The World Inside by Robert Silverberg about a month or two ago.

I used to read books(and by that I mean very few) until it got boring for me and took up too much dedicated time.

Book series / authors I have more or less read and can suggest

Narnia Series(only read lion witch & wardrobe but have the full series book)

charles dickens

yeah that's all I can suggest, I'm a stupid and boring person

your suggestions are alright but...

SASS

My favorite author is Vernor Vinge and although he received some Hugo awards for his books I always get the feeling that not enough people read them or even know about this amazing science fiction author. My two favorite books are A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999).

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Great book in my opinion. The author has another quite famouse book: Clould Atlas

I do not read much books, but I play adventure games called Sound Novels
The masterpiece is "STEINS; GATE" "428" "eve17" etc...

Deer Lord Gurbs,
I'd like to recommend the following books.
My Classic: Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger
My Rec: every day by David Levithan
Best Regards,
Sir Myr the 13th.

I don't know how under-rated or under-read it actually is, but House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is my favourite book ever. Definitely not a typical book, though.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Film is fantastic also.

A few favorites of mine:

Sci-fi
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Justin Cronin - The Passage
Neal Stephenson - Anathem

Historical fiction

Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle #1)
James Clavell - Shogun (Asian Saga #1)
Neal Stephenson - The Mongoliad (The Foreworld Saga #1)

i used to read percy jackson books

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The secret history by Donna tart. Itsa fun read about college, greek, murder and alcohol.

The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.

Brigitte describes it as Harry Potter on Speed. I didn't like Harry Potter but this stuff is awesome :D
I loved what a vivid picture of London he paints.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

Some dark satire set in the psychology craze of the 60's/70's. One of those books that humours you or you'll hate it.

All science fiction/fantasy:

The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrillia by Cordwainer Smith. His daughter and the New England Science Fiction Association put together a collection of his short fiction (it's one of the few books bargain hunter me has paid full price for), leaving out only his novel, Norstrillia. In his science fiction setting you'll find an immortality drug harvested from giant mutated sheep on the planet Old North Australia, uplifted animals that are more human than humans, the rabid victims of space madness who (I believe) inspired Firefly's Reavers and the movie Pandorum, and protection from the dangers of hyperspace coming in the form humans numbed of almost all senses, oyster beds and cats' instincts. His writing has a fairy tale-like romanticism while the author led an incredible life himself, having literally wrote the book on psychological warfare in 1948. Some of his stories are online, but the list leaves off The Game of Rat and Dragon, which is where I would recommend starting.

The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, edited by Terry Windling.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (1976 Nebula Award winner, so perhaps not so underrated).

Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson (avoid spoilers).

The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley (first novel in his Eight Worlds setting, but preceded by several stories in the setting, so starting with The John Varley Reader or his short story collections might be best).

The Sixth Day and Other Tales by Primo Levi (another short story collection).

Bonus free very short fairy tale vignette: Gingerbread by Hannu Rajaniemi.

After watching the film I decided to go on reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Maybe after finishing it I will like the film better.

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if you like sci-fi there's the excellent Blindsight and The Rifters Trilogy by Peter Watts which are free on his website
my current favourite author is Brandon Sanderson and I especially recommend the Mistborn trilogy
Shirley Jackson has done some great stories too, especially We Have Always Lived In The Castle and The Haunting Of Hill House

I'm gonna assume you already know about Goodreads which is like Last.FM for books. It was bought over by Amazon ( makes sense ) and they integrated it into their newer Kindles.

It's an amazing content discovery system for books. I'm terrible at keeping it updated with my reading progress because my Kindle is a stoneage version ( the Kindle Touch ) and doesn't do it automagically. But she just wont die! And I can't justify buying a new one until I have to.

Anyway! Bomb around goodreads for a bit, fill in all the books you have read that you can think of, and it'll recommend books similar to that.

But that only gives you books that are the same as what you've already read, so I'll give you a wee sampler of books that you might not have read.

Jennifer Government
I really enjoyed this book, but I read it about a billion years ago and I can't even remember what happened in it. So... I think I'll give a re-read soon.

Mistborn
Personally, as much as I want to love fantasy novels, the bulk of them are so cliche and predictable and so filled with plot-armour and wish fullfilment, the cynic in me just has trouble reading them.
BUT! Mistborn! Damn! This is like a sci-fi, in a fanasy setting! Things happen FOR ACTUAL REASONS! There's science to things...weight to the world. The magic system in this series ( of which I've admittedly only read the first book ) is easily my favourite system ever.

Junkyard Angel
I read this as a kid and it was one of the first Film Noir style novels I ever read and sparked a lifelime love of Chandler, Hammett and all those wonderful hard-boiled, grizzled "dame with a past, hero with no future" stories. Technically, it's not a classic, amazingly written book, but I loved it.

Princess Bride
Everyone loves the film. Compared to the book, the film is the runniest greenest dog poo on the street. The book is so far and away superior it's beyond words. One of the best books ever written, in my opinion ( one christmas, I bought several copies and handed them out as presents. By March, nearly everyone who received it had got back in touch to express how much they loved it )

Maybe it's well-known in the US since I've read it's considered a classic of US modern literature, but I had never heard of A Confederacy of Dunces before I stumbled upon it some time ago. Read it a few weeks ago and I had a good laugh. The story behind the book and its author is also pretty interesting.