Book recommendation thread (w/ a wee train and *new LV4* flash gib!)

light novels, i know they aren't the best but i love them, things like mushoku tensei and Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria are really enjoyable

Based on your favorite books I will suggest:
The Kingkiller Chronicles
Malazan Book of the Fallen
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I'll echo the previous recommendations for the seriously spectacular Kingkiller & Mistborn series. Really, wonderful writing. I'll also repeat a recommendation for the Gentleman Bastards series, which although I don't rate it quite so highly as those first two is still a great read.

Now, a couple of titles which I insist that you (and pretty much everybody I meet) simply must read are "Flowers for Algernon" and "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell". The former is short enough that it's excellent for a break between reading lengthier novels or a series, and is an insightfully written and deeply moving story; the latter is a remarkable, unique book which evokes a palpable, earthy reality in all its descriptions of faeries and magic that I can't quite compare with anything else.

I'd recommend those to more-or-less anyone, but as you're a fan of sci-fi you positively HAVE TO READ "The Stars My Destination" and "The Demolished Man", both by Alfred Bester. Apart from saying that they're written with an intense, captivating focus which makes them absolutely dominate your thoughts and force you to return to them at every opportunity until you reach the climax, I don't really want to tell you anything about them. Coming to them completely fresh is by far the best way to experience them. Just trust me! They're awesome :)

Well, my two favorite books are Contact by Carl Sagan and We Children of Bahnhof Zoo.

Contact is the story of a girl who becomes an astronomer(?), it's a sci fi. The way Sagan writes is so good, keeps you into the story.

It was probably the book I read the fastest untill I started reading the story of Christiane F. last year. It's so much better than the movie, so deep, so detailed. By the way it's the story of a girl in Germany who got addicted to heroin, so it's not a beautiful story at all. She tells all that happened, all she felt and thought.

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I quite enjoyed The Unsuspecting Mage.

https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Unsuspecting_Mage.html?id=7QjBQQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en

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A Clockwork Orange
the book is absolutely a masterpiece - it is so fun and interesting trying to piece together the language;
imo, that's the whole point of the book (aside from the commentary on human nature)
i mean it when i say fuck the movie, it took the most broad strokes from the book and (literally) perverted them - fuck Kubrick for that pos pardon language - that's how much i like the book and despise him for souring so many people on the story when it is one everyone should try to read
and to be sure, the acts shown in the movie are present in the book, but they're of course presented in a different (can't say better, considering subject) way

You could try the Inheritance Cycle books by Christopher Paolini. They are my favorite fantasy books :)

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It's my favorite book: The kingkiller chronicle

The Sprawl Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive

Pretty much the definitive cyberpunk text.

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Blue Adept

Swords of Good Men is the beginning of a pretty damn good low fantasy trilogy. Bought it for 10 bucks at barnes & noble on a whim a year or two ago.

Currently reading Promise of Blood. It's really, really good.

Maybe try David Eddings Belgariad Saga. Only the first saga, the second one (the Malloreon) is not as good.

Anyrhing from Edgar Allan Poe. The guy is a genius!

Flight: An 8 book series of sci-fi and fantasy stories that are in graphic novel format. Quite interesting.:)

Amulet: I've only got the first 7 books in the series, but they are graphic novels as well.

The Walking Dead: It's kind of slow now, but there are some really good storylines to be read!

Blankets: Very good book. A little bit of melancholy with it.

The Rat Queens. A highly entertaining comic book series (which can also be had in TPB format).

Just a small sampling.;)

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Blindsight by Peter Watts.

have you read the entire ender's series? if not give This a look, i seriously advice giving it a shot, i also recommend Elantris, let me know if you like these, i know alot more of the same genere.

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Aside from what was mentioned before I'd add. Fantasy:
MYTH series by Asprin -- light and fun fantasy
Sword of truth by Goodkind -- blood and gore and all you like in SoIaF
Sci-Fi:
Heinlein's "Door into summer" is a must.
Paul Di Filippo has nice sci-fi/cyberpunkish style.

Also: Kinky Friedman, all of it.