This is a hard one for me. I'd have to go with either China Mieville's Iron Council, or George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Terry Pratchett's Night Watch comes pretty close. Next up on my list is: Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Got the hard cover a few days ago. Here's what I've read, or own but haven't gotten around to reading yet: George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Series (4 books) China Mieville's The Scar China Mieville's Iron Council Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (1-3) Neil Gaiman's American Gods Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere Tad Williams's Otherland (4 books) Robin Hobb's The Farseer Trilogy (3 books) Robin Hobb's The Tawny Man Trilogy (3 books) Terry Pratchett's Discworld (28 books) Jennifer Fallon's Demon Child Trilogy Raymond E. Feist's Empire Trilogy (3 books) Raymond E. Feist's Covenant of Shadows Trilogy (3 books) Raymond E. Feist's Prince of the Blood Thomas Asbridge's The First Crusade Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3 books) Douglas Adams' The Salmon of Doubt Frank Herbert's Dune (6 books) Glen Cook's The Black Company (10 books) Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (3 books) Stephen R. Donaldson's The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (3 books) Legends Volume II - a compilation of short stories (Books 1 and 2) Tom Clancy's Without Remorse Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor Tom Clancy's Teeth of the Tiger Tom Clancy's Cardinal of the Kremlin Clive Barker's Abareat Troy Denning's Pages of Pain (Planescape/D&D) Michael Crichton's State of Fear Michael Crichton's Prey Michael Crichton's Timeline James Randi's The Supernatural A-Z (This guy kicks ass, he debunks supernatural claims) Terry Brooks's Voyage of the Jerle Shannara (2 books, I couldn't bother to read the 3rd) Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey George Orwell's 1984 Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander Alvin Toffler's Future Shock Paul Andrews's Gates (it's about Bill GateS) Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? David Kahn's The Code Breakers Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts Victor Klemperer's I Will Bear Witness - 2 books (it's a first person experience of the Holocaust) Gavin Menzies's 1421 (Alternate history stuff in which the Chinese discovered and influenced South America in 1421. Hard to tell if it's real or not. There are supporting facts but the mainstream historians don't like it.) Lothar Machtan's The Hidden Hitler (Weird stuff you never knew about Adolf) A ton of books about the Knights Templar, including The Temple and the Lodge, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, The Second Messiah, The Hiram Key, The Templar Revelation, The Messianic Legacy, The Tomb of God. Frederick Copleston S.J.'s A History of Philosophy (2 volumes) Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time The Soong Dynasty Karl Marx's Das Kapital George Fuller's The Negotiator's Handbook Machiavelli's The Prince Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy Oxford Unabridged English Dictionary Oxford Dictionary of Economics Sun Tzu's The Art of War Other stuff: A bunch of D&D and Planescape books A ton of garbage by Graham Han---- who although is a good writer, makes pseudoscience claims as facts.
holy Crap thats a big list are you intending to read all of the wheel of time series or just those three cos if u arnt then ur missing out
I'm getting into books by a writer called terry goodkind. And another one called Terry Prattchet. (conicidence)
I've only read those three, but I don't intend to read any more Wheel of Time because even though I don't mind the 'investment' in reading 10+ books of the WoT series, it's my understanding that the books really start to bog down past Book 6, up until the latest book (which only received 3/5 stars at Amazon ratings). My friends who have read them say that they seem to consist more of clothing descriptions for unimportant characters that only appear in 1-2 scenes and braiding instructions (haha) than actual storyline. I should probably read 4-6, since they're considered the best, but that will probably have to wait. I need to finish my other books first. For what it's worth, I enjoyed 1-3.
Harry Potter Lord of the Rings Tom Clancy: NetForce/ NetForce Explorers Matthew Reily ( Ice Station, Area 7, Temple, Scarecrow ) Arendsoog (Dutch books, you probably wont know them) Tom Clancy: The teeth of the tiger Michael DiMercurio: Submarine Thrillers (Voyage of the Devilfish, Attack Of the Seawolf, Phoenix Sub Zero, Barracuda Final Bearing, Piranha: Firing Point, Threat Vector, Terminal Run)
