Books
Here are some of my favourite books/series. You can find a list of (most) of the books I read at Goodreads.
Fantasy
"Gardens of the Moon", the first entry of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
Malazan Book of the Fallen
My favourite series, in my favourite genre, epic fantasy. Yes, I prefer this ten book masterpiece over some more popular names underneath. I've read it twice, including some other novels in the same universe, and am planning on doing another re-read very soon. Steven Erikson's plots are dense, his prose is beautiful, and the universe he created with Ian C. Esslemont is so vast and interesting that you need to read this series multiple times.
The Wheel of Time
The first epic fantasy series I read, and the books that forced me to start reading in english: a portuguese publisher picked up the rights to translate the first four books, which I read. But then something happened and the other ten books were never released in portuguese. So I started reading in english, and I never stopped.
Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive
Like the Wheel of Time (and unlike most of the other books in this website), I feel these series are more adequate for a young adult audience. Regardless of your age bracket, you should give one of these Brandon Sanderson's series a try.
More Fantasy recommendations:
- The Black Company by Glen Cook
- Drenai series by David Gemmell
- The First Law trilogy and subsequent novels and trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
- The Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence
- Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
Science Fiction
"Revelation Space"
The Classics:
- Anything by Isaac Asimov
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Ringworld by Larry Niven
- Consider Phlebas by Ian M. Banks (I really have to read the rest of the series)
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (for all you cyberpunk fans, this is where it all started)
Newer Stuff:
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Others
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Call of Cthulhu and other stories by H. P. Lovecraft
