Good Books to Read?

FlashBash64

FlashBash64

The High Roller
I want to start reading more books.

I like Sci-fi, Survival, Fantasy, Alternate Timeline, and just plain fiction. Anybody have any good books?

I'm 16, so teen or young adult books are very welcome.

Edit: Thanks everybody for all the suggestions!
 
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Well, for Survival and Sci-Fi you could read the FEED trilogy. It's a post-post-apocalyptic (Romero-esque) zombie series that has some soft sci-fi sprinkled into it. It's about a rag-tag group of bloggers (in the world of FEED, bloggers actually mean something) who are contracted to follow a presidential campaign and stuff happens and then things (and I don't want to spoil too much).
 
Sounds like books I'd like, Mr. Fishy.

Yeah, I think I have the first Dark Tower lying around somewhere, I should read it.

Thanks :)
 
I can recommend the following authors, books and genres:
  • Action/Techno thriller, by people like Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy
  • If you like the great outdoors, Dave Canterbury's Bushcraft 101 and Advanced Bushcraft are good.
  • Warhammer 40K
  • Ian Fleming's James Bond
  • Indiana Jones
 
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SciFi you say?
Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought books (A Fire Upon The Deep, A Deepness In the Sky, and Children Of The Sky) are great science fiction books.
Frank Herbert's Dune is also a must-read.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is definitely recommended, 2312 on the other hand... I want to like it because it's just brilliant in its world building and technical aspects, but he kinda forgets that he's also supposed to tell a story sometimes. His other books like The Years Of Rice And Salt are also great.
The classics of science fiction like Philip K. Dick or Isaac Asimov or Stanley Kubrick are obviously necessary (Dick is a bit hit and miss, sometimes. Sometimes the drugs got the better of him :D).
Other highly recommended scifi books:
Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
Larry Niven - Ringworld
Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos
Stephen Baxter - Xeelee Sequence
William Gibson - Neuromancer

And that's just the beginning :D
 
Did Stanley Kubrick write? I know that he was somewhat involved in the 2001 novel adaption but I didn't know he actually authored anything.
 
I have no idea why I wrote Kubrick. I meant Arthur C. Clarke, of course.
 
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I'm 16, so teen [...] books are very welcome.
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The Adolescent of Dostoyevsky. I'm half joking, half serious, but it may be better to start with The Gambler.

The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger is a good read too.

Gulliver's Travel of Jonathan Swift.

Desert of the Tartars, and the K by Dino Buzzati.

Hunter S. Thompson is hilarious, if you like his style and humor. Among American, Bukowski is good too.

For medieval stuff, I'd recommend the Roman de Renart, or Reynard. It's several fable about a mischievous fox in the animal realm. Chrétien de Troyes's quest for the Grail is good to.

If you're interested in French stuff :

I'd recommend Alphonse Daudet. Especially "Le petit chose", the Adventure of Tartarin de Tarascon, and in general his short story.

Everything written by Maupassant.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Death on Credit.

Jules Vallès triology, L'enfant, Le Bachelier, and L'insurgé.

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand is great, but you might want to learn French since it's a play written in verse.

As for crazy Russians.

For Gogol, you can start with the Nevsky Prospekt.

The Queen of Spades by Pushkin.

The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.

Tolstoi's Kreutzer Sonata.

The Steppe by Anton Chekov.
 
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Charles Sheffield, The Spheres of Heaven was a very good read in my opinion. Bear in mind you have to be familiar with a lot of sciencey terms and actually understand physics and junk.
 
I'm 16, so teen or young adult books are very welcome.
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American Psycho.

Seriously though, Stephen King's Under the dome is a survival story and isn't nearly as heavy as his other 1000 page concrete bricks - like The Stand (great brick, by the way). It's also nothing like the TV series about it.
 
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Stunning read. Couldn't put it down. I particularly liked its interpretation of psychosexual analysis and its representation of consumerist society.

Nice illustrations as well.





In all seriousness. For teens? Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World are both works definitely worth reading, but chances are you've read them.

For sci-fi, I was always a big fan of Philip K. Dick. Man in his High Castle was his best, but his short stories are worth reading, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? goes without saying. Then of course there's H.G. Welles. I particularly like The Invisible Man.

Franz Kafka, E.L. Doctorow, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath and Herman Melville are all worth checking out.

They're not really "books", but I recommend the plays of Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare.
 
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These are good for some laughs

-The time machine did it
by john swartzwelder

The exploding detective
Also by john swartzwelder

Just google john swartzwelder;)
 
"The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek. It's the only book that made me laugh and smile many times.
 
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