Start with Left Hand of Darkness with Le Guin, then move on to Tales of the Earthsea. Martel's masterpiece is the Life of Pi. Anything by Moorcock is awesome, but start with the Elric series. Nabokov - start with Lolita, go to his short stories, then the rest of his novels. Doyle is Holmes. Gaiman - American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, Stardust. Lian Hearn's Tale of the Otori.
Pratchett is, of course, Discworld. But Good Omens is bloody awesome too.
There's also Arthur C. Clark - anything by him is glorious. Douglas Adams for Hitchhiker's because it's hilarious.
Oh Edgar Allen Poe too. Short stories - get an anthology. And Margaret Atwood - check out her Handmaid's Tale to BEGIN with, and work your way through the collection.
Scott Lynch "The Lies of Locke Lamora" IT IS A SERIES AND IT IS AWESOME AND IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT SHAAAAAAAAME
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Lev Grossman "The Magicians"
T.H. White "The Once and Future King"
Gregory Maguire, Salman Rushdie, Amy Bender (although her short stories are a lot better than her novel so you should just read those, IMO), Kurt Vonnegut
...I just have a bunch of random novels and this is irritating me. I'LL THINK OF MORE LATER.
Um if you're not looking for strictly fantasy stuff I'm really fond of some of Margaret Atwood like "Oryx and Crake" or "The Blind Assassin." David Benioff's "City of Thieves" is one of the best books I've ever read, along with "Time's Arrow" by Martin Amis (really depressing, though). I'm also a really big fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez but all his work is actually originally in Spanish, though I don't think there's anything NOT translated into English. "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Suzanna Clarke. Also possibly A Song of Ice and Fire, which is a good series but HUGE and also again kind of dark.
I am going to recommend What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges, just in time for summer. It's way better than the movie, despite no Johnny Depp - in fact i read it before I saw the movie having picked it up on a whim knowing shag all about it. It remains one of the few '80s/'90s novels I still like.
Also any of the Leaphorn/Chee detective novels by Tony Hillerman, though for best effect, start at the beginning of the cycle if you can. The Blessing Way is the first. Basically they are detective novels set on the Navajo Reservation in the US, and the main characters are themselves Navajo (Navajo pilicemen in fact), as is the way they go about solving crimes. These novels are nice little time fillers and surprisingly educational about the cultures and landscape of the area without being less than entertaining.
And lastly, lemme seeeeeee. Oh yes! Vive La Revolution! by Mark Steel. A non-fiction book about the French Revolution by a left wing British comedian. But don't be put off by that description - it's excellent. Steel takes
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Thank you for taking the time to write these down here too Mawb, the descriptions will surely help me out a lot! Actually I was thinking I can maaaaybe try to order these at the bookstore near home and see if they do me this favour /writes down list mmm :|a
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NP! I would also have recommended you some graphic novels by Molly Kiely because I think you would appreciate her stuff, attitude and artwise. But because she writes/draws in the porn genre, IDK how hard/easy it would be to get her books in Italy.
I have only ever bought her stuff from the "Yellow Tent O' Porn" (Eros Comix booth) at San Diego, but her home on the web is Here. She's a free spirit and her books are great fun.
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Fuck I'm forgetting people.
YANN MARTEL. URSULA LE GUIN. Yes I just have a shitton of fantasy recs nnngh. TERRY PRATCHETT.
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any book in particular of these authors or just anything I can find?
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Start with Left Hand of Darkness with Le Guin, then move on to Tales of the Earthsea. Martel's masterpiece is the Life of Pi. Anything by Moorcock is awesome, but start with the Elric series. Nabokov - start with Lolita, go to his short stories, then the rest of his novels. Doyle is Holmes. Gaiman - American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, Stardust. Lian Hearn's Tale of the Otori.
Pratchett is, of course, Discworld. But Good Omens is bloody awesome too.
There's also Arthur C. Clark - anything by him is glorious. Douglas Adams for Hitchhiker's because it's hilarious.
Oh Edgar Allen Poe too. Short stories - get an anthology. And Margaret Atwood - check out her Handmaid's Tale to BEGIN with, and work your way through the collection.
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NOTHING ELSE I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW IT'S MIDNIGHT-- oh. OH!
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. BUT I THINK YOU KNOW THIS ONE. HE'S ITALIAN.
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Lev Grossman "The Magicians"
T.H. White "The Once and Future King"
Gregory Maguire, Salman Rushdie, Amy Bender (although her short stories are a lot better than her novel so you should just read those, IMO), Kurt Vonnegut
...I just have a bunch of random novels and this is irritating me. I'LL THINK OF MORE LATER.
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and thanks!! if you remember more come dump them on me but this are already great :D
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Um if you're not looking for strictly fantasy stuff I'm really fond of some of Margaret Atwood like "Oryx and Crake" or "The Blind Assassin." David Benioff's "City of Thieves" is one of the best books I've ever read, along with "Time's Arrow" by Martin Amis (really depressing, though). I'm also a really big fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez but all his work is actually originally in Spanish, though I don't think there's anything NOT translated into English. "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Suzanna Clarke. Also possibly A Song of Ice and Fire, which is a good series but HUGE and also again kind of dark.
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Also any of the Leaphorn/Chee detective novels by Tony Hillerman, though for best effect, start at the beginning of the cycle if you can. The Blessing Way is the first. Basically they are detective novels set on the Navajo Reservation in the US, and the main characters are themselves Navajo (Navajo pilicemen in fact), as is the way they go about solving crimes. These novels are nice little time fillers and surprisingly educational about the cultures and landscape of the area without being less than entertaining.
And lastly, lemme seeeeeee. Oh yes! Vive La Revolution! by Mark Steel. A non-fiction book about the French Revolution by a left wing British comedian. But don't be put off by that description - it's excellent. Steel takes ( ... )
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I have only ever bought her stuff from the "Yellow Tent O' Porn" (Eros Comix booth) at San Diego, but her home on the web is Here. She's a free spirit and her books are great fun.
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