I've been mindbogglingly bored for the last couple months or so. I haven't had much drive to play games, and I've read every book, manga, and comic that I own.

Whenever I go shopping for new books, I tend to ask various other customers what they like so I can get an idea of what new books/series to try since, in my opinion, that's one of the best ways to expand your library. Sometimes I'll come across a movie that I enjoy and look to see if it was based on a book. A book I ordered a couple days ago, for example, is one that I looked into simply because my niece showed me a cartoon that was based from it that I very much enjoyed.

So here I am peeps, tell me, what's something I should read? I typically stay in the Fantasy Genre, but I do enjoy straying into Science Fiction and Mystery from time to time.

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If it's not too much trouble, could I also get some recommendations for some good young readers books? My niece loves reading but I'm afraid I have very little age appropriate material.

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A Song of Fire and Ice Series.

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Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials" Northern Lights, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass.
(this is where Golden Compass comes from) excellent trilogy!

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Ender's game and Ready player One. <3 Say it to me if you finally read some of these ^^

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Series I enjoyed reading. Dragon lance series. Dark elf books from ra Salvatore also good from him is icewind dale. The night angel trilogy is pretty good.

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Best book for me is Tolkiens`s -> "Lord of the Rings".

I can recommend you also Stanislaw Lem books ("His Master's Voice" is one of his best for me).

If you`re intrested in II WW times I recommend you "Zośka i Parasol" by Aleksander Kamiński.

"The Reality Dysfunction" (s-f) is also quite fun to read.

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K-PAX

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This!

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Just read anything from H.P. Lovecraft.. ;p

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by D. Adams :)

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Erich Maria Remarque - All quiet on the Western front

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The hunger games :D

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Highly recommended!

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Anna Karenina is better - for me :)

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Hey, me too :)

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I liked the Death of Ivan Illich better.

But of those two I'd go with War and Peace

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metro 2033
hobbit
the In her name series
gaunt's ghosts series
Ciaphas Cain series
Mistborn series
hunger games series
Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
i cant think of alot of names but those few series will last you a while

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Well,in germany the book "er ist wieder da"(he is back again) was released a few months ago and is the bestselling book for at least 3 months.I am sure the book will also be released in english in a short amount of time.

In the book hitler wakes up in 2012 in Berlin and doesn't know why.after some time he lands on tv and gets his own show.this book is great.

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Of newer stuff I'd go with Patrick Rothfuss.

For more classic stuff skirting the fantasy 'borders', Nabokov's Pale Fire perhaps. Or JG Ballard.

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The Witcher by Sapkowski. Really great books.

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I'd say the Discworld series, and both Jurassic Park and The Lost World if you haven't read them yet.
Oh, and The Chinese Jars, by William C. Gordon.

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The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Its urban fantasy, but they are great. As some other people said, The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson has a unique and interesting take on magic. Elantris and The Way of Kings by Sanderson are good as well. The Otherland series by Tad Williams. The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch is great, would be better if he released them faster though.

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The Son of Hurin; Killing Me Softly (by Nicci French); Good Omens; Neverwhere

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World War Z by Max Brooks may be the closest to the genres you like, that i could recommand.

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I quite like my fantasy novels. My favourites being the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E (series). Feist, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson (series), Memory Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams (series), and The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leah Eddings (1 book).

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(''Pan Tadeusz'',''Dziady''-Adam Mickiewicz)
(''Tango''-Sławomira Mrożka)
(''Lalka'',''Kamizelka'' -Bolesław Prus)
(''Wesele''-Stanisława Wyspiańskiego)
(''Kartoteka''-Tadeusza Różewicza)
(''Ferdydurke''-Witolda Gombrowicza)
(''Pożegnanie z Marią'',''U nas w Auschwitzu'',''Ludzie, którzy szli''-Tadeusz Borowski )
You will don't understand this

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It was supposed to be a list of fantasy/sci-fi books, not the list of high school obligatory readings ! :) BTW. A guy isn't polish so those are useless anyways.

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but is classic books ;( He can try

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Dune, a great book indeed

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I recommend you Kamasutra

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You get this from his request for fantasy books?

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Sorry but i didn't read this thread so i dont know. :D

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To be honest, for many people actually putting the book to use would be considered a fantasy :P

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Sword of the Truth series, a great book I've read 2 times, and you have a TV serie too called Legend of the Seeker, based on these books.

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