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

I enjoyed these 2 series:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Riverworld by Philip José Farmer

Robert Low

I'd recommend any of Peter F Hamilton's books, especially the commonwealth saga

I have seen Asimov's Foundation saga mentioned, and am currently reading the final book by Asimov himself after reading the entire saga in chronological order. I cannot vouch for the ones written by others and added in, but the ones by Asimov I highly recommend.

One series I didn't see mentioned is George R R Martin's other big project where he was editor of all and author of some: Wildcards

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

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Preacher, huh? I suggest you check out The Boys and Punisher MAX.

Warhammer 40k Gaunt's Ghosts Series and other Dan Abnett 40k books :)

I would reccomed Pratchett's works. City of Ember is also quite enjoyable (don't be fooled by that sub-par movie, the book is pretty decent).
You might also want to give War And Peace a try (if you're open to non-scifi)

I've really enjoyed a lot of the books you listed. To save your time and mine, I'll try to keep it short and avoid books that have already been posted.

Ender's Game - I could post a whole page on sci-fi, space opera, exploration stuff but...
Check out Zones of THought trilogy by Vernor Vinge, starting with A Fire Upon the Deep.
Dan Simmons - Hyperion - First book of one of my fav. series
China Meiville - Perdido Street Station
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination

A Song of Ice and Fire
Try the Empire Trilogy by Raymond Feist & Janny Wurts, starting with Daughter of the Empire. Has a lot of the political intrigue and backstabbing that makes ASOIAF so great.

Oryx and Crake
Day of the Triffids
Alas Babylon

Some other good post-apocalyptic books have already been mentioned in this thread. I highly recommend The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin, some of the best written novels in recent times imo. Also I am Legend by Richard Matheson, it's fantastic and nothing like the movie.

For classic post-apoc like Day of the Triffids, John Christopher's The Death of Grass was really good, and also Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven

Thread's already too long to see if these have already been suggested:

• Everything by Neil Gaiman. Not just because he's my favorite author, but also because that has a wide variety of stuff.

• Good Omens. Falls under previous, worth mentioning alone because it's co-written with Terry Pratchett. It's the most hilarious story about the Apocalypse ever written.

• The Long Earth series. Probably Terry Pratchett's last published works. Again a co-written work, this time together with Stephen Baxter. When a man who wraps strong social criticisms in silly wit teams up with a hard sci-fi author, the result is a sometimes funny, sometimes weird and sometimes outright scary exploration of parallel universes, and how humankind adapts to big events.

• The Deathgate Cycle by Weiss & Hickman is another fantasy series well worth reading. What starts off as a tale of exploration across various realms, gradually evolves into something much bigger than that, with the underlying theme that there's always 2 sides to a coin.

• Charles Stross' Laundry FIles series. Magic is real, and based in mathematics. Which means that any technology that has sufficiently strong ties to math can be used to cast spells of mass destruction (think guitar riffs that literally melt people's faces), or to rip portals into other dimensions and bring forth various Lovecraftian horrors. Fun times ensue.
  And by the same author: Palimpsest. A short novella about time travel and warfare, seemingly written for the purpose of establishing the biggest mindfuck ever.

I suggest checking out Robin Hobb.

wheel of time series

has lots of books in the series

also, op picked many of my other favs

The ones I've read:

Ender's Game
A Song of Ice and Fire
Tigana
LOTR
Dune

And I want to recommend you The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan or Geralt de Rivia saga by Andrzej Sapkowski.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did :)

Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire trilogy

Ray Bradbury: martian chronicles
H.P Lovecraft: mountains of madness (and all the the other short stories ans novels)
isaac asimov: Foundation and I,Robot

anything from Ursula Le Guin maybe?

I read pretty much and it has this downside that i don't remember author and books i read later :D
I see nobody recommended Philip K. Dick, his books are quite hard to read but are really good. I recommend author from mine country too - Jacek Dukaj, his books are translated to a quite a few languages

The Illuminatus Trilogy. Surprise surprise, with my screen name ;)

Catch 22
Crime & Punishment
Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep
Dune (the first 6, skip the ones written by his son)
War of the Worlds
Jurassic Park (yes, it's better than the move. And quite different to it as well)
Rendezvous with Rama
The Forever War

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if you liked armada and haven't read "ready player one" by same author, i can recommend going for that one :)

similar theme and equally good you have "for the win" by cory doctorow, or his other well known book "little brother"

graphic novels i can highly recommend you saga, walking dead and deadly class. all 3 are excellent.

started doing some book reviews on youtube a couple months ago, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjxyPjW-DeNXK9kNfSnJk8uKBGv4-Rsl6