Recommend me some books!...Please.

The Box Man by Kōbō Abe!
Fantastic book, makes you think, what connects with what!
Box Man A, B, ...?

• Percy Jackson
• Hunger Games
• Vampire Diaries (yes, its really good)
• Harry Potter
• Game of Thrones
• Damné (wrote in Québec, really an awesome books serie)
• Eragon

The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock

Anything by Neal Stephenson especially Anathem.

Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson

Not the greatest author, but Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz is great. The sequels, not so much, but the original is great.

The Secrets of the Inmortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Not fantasy; not science-fiction; but an excellent book. I like fantasy and sci-fi, but it's good to try something a little different sometimes.

Bugger, so many recommendations. I'm looking them all over and making a list of what sounds interesting to me and good god, I don't think I've made it off of the first page yet ^_^

I'd recommend (though it's not fantasy or sci-fi) a personal favorite of mine, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold..."

anne mccaffrey- dragonriders of pern (one of my favorites)
Edgar Rice Burroughs- barsoom series
douglas adams, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Frank Schätzing's The Swarm is good book in case you haven't read it.Also for you niece something from Enid Blyton. I liked The Secret Seven series but almost anything I ve read of hers was great. Also His Dark Materials is a nice trilogy.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Words cannot explain the awesomeness of this book.

And if you like it then i suggest you read the sequel after :)

Dmitri Gluhovski - Metro 2033 and Metro 2034, he is currently even writing a Metro 2035. Big fan of em :3 I recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, intense combat and mystery. 2034 has even got a little bit of bitter love, but if you get to that, you will understand that i am just writing this to get your attention to read it :p

Dan abnett: Warhammer 40k Horus heresy series! Or some classic Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: The Roadside Picnic or Walter M. Miller, Jr:A Canticle for Leibowitz

Diary of a zombie survivor, apocalipse z (not really good but still interesting), The Passage, Everlost saga, if you're are a persistent one try with a game of thrones, elder's scroll themed books are nice, HYPERVERSUM (fantastic), and many others i don't remeber...

Jules Verne books and the Bourbon Kid series: The Book With No Name, The Eye of the Moon, The Devil's Graveyard, The Book of Death.

Divergent/Insurgent and The Secret Texts series by Holly Lisle is what I'd recomend you. For your niece maybe Alice in Wonderland/Trough the Looking Glass, Holes, The Hobbit and The Giver (also some you might enjoy)?

Well well well, I'm a huge fan of reading, so here goes my recommendations:

• Millenium Saga -> Stieg Larsson
• Malazan Book of Fallen -> Steven Erikson
• The Magician saga -> Raymond E. Feist
• Any novel from Alberto Vázquez Figueroa, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Ildefonso Cortés, Matilde Asensi and Isabel Allende.
• Discworld Saga -> Terry Pratchett
• Julio Vernes' Books
• The Witcher Saga -> Andrzej Sapkowski
  And some classics, like:
• The divine comedy -> Dante Alighieri
• The Oddissey, The Eneid, The Ilyad, and the Metamorphosis (not the kafca one, the ovidio's one).

I have many more, but it's up to you. ;)

dno if it has been suggested yet, but Th Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is definitely worth reading, as fun as the movie if not funnier, and has loads more informartion in it

I thought I responded to this before. Apparently, not.

Christopher Pike's Starlight Crystal. It's a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Philsophical piece. It's amazing. I read it as a kid and had to re-read it. <3

I second The Hunger Games (although stop at the second book), don't second the Fire & Ice (that's a bit adult for your niece, if you're looking for something to read together), and suggest Stephen Lawhead. For both of you. He's a great fantasy author and his books are a bit long (not very young-adult, but aren't overly sexual/romantically driven), but are absolutely amazing and very heavily influenced on existing fantasy/legend. He's basically done a revamp of Robin Hood (King Raven trilogy), King Arthur (Pendragon Cycle) and, one of my favorites, is the Songs of Albion series. <3 There were more, but I forgot them. -.-

If you don't mind a bit of urban fantasy mixed with romance, the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon is wonderful. Her other books are good as well, but those are definitely my favorites.

Margaret Weis is also a great author for fantasy, the Dragonlance books are indeed good, but also her other books are great as well.

Not as sure for your niece, since it does depend on her age, but even now I still read books by Lurlene McDaniel who is a young adult writer, but those are more written for teens, though even adults can enjoy the books as well.

Instead of specific books, here's amazing fantasy/scifi authors - Piers Anthony (the xanth series is amazing light-hearted fantasy, my favorite series), Anne McCaffrey (the pern series is half fantasy half scifi and is pretty damn amazing), Terry Brooks (the shannara series is SUPER epic but a bit slow), Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman (they have some separate serieses, but the Dragonlance series is what you want here - D&D inspired fantasy to die for).