These are the books I'm thinking about buying.
whoa, how did you do that?
Printscreen?
haha oh.
grand design looks interesting.
if you're interested in sci-fi books definitely would recommend enders game
Here's a few good reads that come to mind;
- And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
- Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
- Shogun – James Clavell
- Glue – Irvine Welch
- The Big Sky - A Guthrie
- Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
- Godel Escher Bach An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- American pastoral - Philip Roth
- The Amtrak Wars – Patrick Tilley
- The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
- Cloud Street – Tim Winton
- Excession – Iain Banks
- Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
- Swan Song – Robert McCammon
- Millenium series – Steig Larsson
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
- Mein Kampf – Hitler
- Liquor – Poppy Z Brite
- Eyes of the Overworld - Jack Vance
- The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
- Creatures Of Light & Darkness – Rober Zelazny
- The Ambidextrous Universe – Martin Gardner
Isaac Asimov was a renowned sci-fi writer wrote a ton of great short stories. My personal favorite can be read here: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Harry Potter series
Hunger Games Trilogy
Mistborn Trilogy
Wheel of Time series
Artemis Fowl series
Ender's game and Ender's Shadow
Escape from Furnace
The Help
Lord of the Flies
The Witcher Series are great fantasy novels, and a good lead up for the upcoming game
The Metro series (Metro 2033, and 2034) are excellent sci-fi dystopian books.
I'm a huge fan of the newer book "The Name of The Wind", by a guy named Patrick Rothfuss.
For more classic sci-fi, a great chain to read is Isaac Asimov's "Complete Robot" then the books with R. Daneel Olivaw "Caves of Steel", "Robots of Dawn" and "The Naked Sun", which lead into the "Foundation" books, starting with "Prelude to Foundation".
Again, classic sci-fi, Snow Crash by William Stephenson is a book with a lot of influence seen in media today, and a lot of ideas that people are starting to now realize.
William Gibsons' "Sprawl Trilogy" is largely credited with aiding the concept of virtual reality as we now know it, "Neuromancer", "Count Zero", and "Mona Lisa Overdrive".
One of my favorite book series of all time is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Altered Carbon
The Reality Dysfunction
Any Culture Novels
Foundation is great
Hyperion (Read immediately)
There is tons of good stuff out there.
- Ready Player One, Cline
- Digital Fortress, Brown
I am particular to Piers Anthony. My favorite works of his are the Geo-odyssey series (Isle of Women, Shame of Man, Hope of Earth, Muse of Art) and the Incarnations of Mortality series (On a Pale Horse, Bearing the Hourglass, With a Tangled Skein, Wielding a Red Sword, Being a Green Mother, For Love of Evil, And Eternity)
Mein Kampf
I just got done with Dune and own six or seven books I need to get through. I have no problem finding fiction to read, but I need some good nonfiction to help expand my knowledge base.
I've been reading "Stories of your life and others" by Ted Chiang, it's got some really interesting stories in it, plus since its a collection of short stories you can pick it up and read bit by bit if you have a busy life (like me right now!)
Alas Babylon, by Pat Frank
Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Heinlein
The screwtape letters, by C.S. Lewis
God Bless you Dr. Kevorkian, by Kurt Vonnegut