What are some good books you've read?

I really like fantasy and Sci-fi. I've read all the Harry Potter books back in high school, and the first three of the Inheretance Cycle (Eragon series), and they were both great. I've also read LOTR series and that was epic. What are some good ones you've read? I need a new book, otherwise I get really bored and end up mindlessly reading everything on this bloody forum....

-Tony

Some of my favorites:

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (or Slaughterhouse-Five)
Frank Herbert - Dune
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall (short story)
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Gods of Mars
Some will argue against this one, but:
Daniel Quinn - Ishmael

Have you read anything from Dan Brown. Also try "Shades Children".

Not sci-fi, but really good: The Goal.

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Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
The 2001: A Space Odyssey series - Arthur C. Clarke (Best sci-fi ever written, IMHO)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
Dune - Frank Herbert (There's a reason this is mentioned twice, it's that good)
Inferno - Dante Alighieri
Not Sci-Fi:
Call of The Wild and White Fange - Jack London
My Side of The Mountain - Jean Craighead George (Three book series)

There's more, I think, but I can't really remember any of them, I just woke up :tired:

Edit: Haven't read these but I plan on it:
Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri
Paradiso - Dante Alighieri
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven
The Ringworld Throne - Larry Niven
Ringworld's Children - Larry Niven
Dragon's Egg - Robert Forward
The Known Space books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDominium <-I'm serious...I have way too much free time

if you like fantasy I strongly recommend the series: "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin... a masterpiece

If your into Star Wars, Timothy Zahn and Kevin J. Anderson wrote good books. You may not like them but being a Star Wars fan I liked them. I didn't read many of the books set after the movies, but these authors were my favourites.

Some of my favorite books are..

brave new world - aldous huxley
1984 - george orwell
the giver - lous lowry

Arayan said:

if you like fantasy I strongly recommend the series: "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin... a masterpiece

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I've heard it's good too, I'll check it out.

-Tony

I only have completed maybe 5 books in my life, not much of a reader. My favorite book has to be fight club, the book is better then the movie, I'm sad to say that.

Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time series.

Stuff I think you may enjoy:

"Mistborn" trilogy, by Brandon Sanderson
"The Black Magician" trilogy, by Trudi Canavan
"Age of the Five" trilogy, by Trudi Canavan (not related to the above trilogy)
"Bartimaeus trilogy", by Jonathan Stroud (I only recommend the first two)
"Abhorsen" trilogy, by Garth Nix

Other good books, but ones I doubt you'd appreciate judging by your lack of contempt for Eragon:

"His Dark Materials" trilogy, by Philip Pullman
"The Farseer trilogy", by Robin Hobb
"The Tawny Man" trilogy, by Robin Hobb (continues the story of the protagonist of the above trilogy, collectively both trilogies constitute my favourite story)
"American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (a personal favourite)
"Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell", by Susanna Clarke (#1 favourite stand-alone novel)

Honorable mention:

"Sword of Truth" series, by Terry Goodkind, which is just fucking awful in its plagiarism, cliché and SOCIALISM BAD, GRRR SOCIALISM author-avatar soapboxing, but also a paragon of "so bad it's good".

In addition to those I suggested above as being perhaps out of your comfort zone, I recommend against "A Song of Fire and Ice" and "The Wheel of Time". While you only listed three series you enjoyed, the fact that two of them were Harry Potter and Eragon puts me in doubt that you'd enjoy the far, FAR heavier tone of some of the highly respected fantasy doorstops.

Hobbit- Tolkien( i read half of it but it's awesome if you are a fan of lotr)
The Silmarillion - Tolkien ( i will start reading it as soon as I finish Hobbit, but I heard it's really interetest. basically, it explains how all started, regarding lotr. how elves came to earth etc.)

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Simms Taback
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LOL J/K

I did enjoy the Deltora quest books back in high school... not sure if your into that kinda fantasy stuff.

The, "Gunslinger", or, "Dark Tower", series of books by Stephen King. 7 books, couldn't put them down. Took a while to read but I loved them...

Stephen King even appears in the books! Parallel universe type stuff where his characters enter the real world and drive him to write the book that he appears in. Bit weird and paradoxical but good.

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The Catcher in the Rye
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Marine Sniper
J.R.R. Tolkien:
The Hobbit
The fellowship of the ring
The two towers
The return of the king
just a few of my favs