Hi guys. I wanna read good books, but it seems I’ve run out. I like books that are not too heavy, but decently long. Im talking about 200-500 pages. So tell me if you know of any good books and I’ll tell you if i read it already(if i made a list it would be too long) and if it looks interesting. Thanks for your help
I suppose you have read EWLD by Stephen LaBerge. I just started reading it.
Any specific category you are looking for?
Why not visit an online book vending site. Input some good books you have read already and see what they say is also recommended for you.
Also there is a sticky ‘What book are you reading’ at the top of this forum.
@WASD yea i was looking more for fiction/fantasy/adventure
@moogle Ive done both, and read all the books suggested
I like adventure fantasy books like the airborn trilogy by kenneth oppel, the artemis fowl series by oein colfer, harry potter series, silverwing trilogy by kenneth oppel,etc.
Black Cross by Greg Iles is a very good book. It’s a ton darker than the stuff you noted (most of the book takes place in a Nazi death camp, after all), but it’s probably one of the best things I’ve ever read. The book details a fictional secret mission undertaken in the name of Britain by a pacifist American doctor and a hyperviolent Jewish terrorist to scare Hitler away from using the lethal (and real) nerve gas Soman during WWII. Otherwise, I mostly read more mature high fantasy that generally falls in the 700-800 page range.[/u][/i]
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Urban fantasy, so it’s a little dark-- like, literally dark because most of it takes place in the magical land of… the sewers and slums of London, underground, at night. In Gaiman’s hands, that setting becomes a lot more imaginative and colorful than I made it sound.
For some reason I can’t get myself to like Gaiman’s opus American Gods though its quasi-sequel Anansi Boys I found very entertaining.
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Comedic fantasy. Any Discworld novel after Mort is a gem, but this is a personal favorite of mine. The adventuring team includes Kung Fu -ing monks and a terrifying kindergarten teacher who is genetically part Grim Reaper, and they adventure to save the very fabric of spacetime (in the fantasy world.)
Prachett’s writing can take some getting used to: the plot points jump around and there are no chapters; there are too many footnotes; there are no chapters; and the style would be unbearably prosaic if every other sentence weren’t a punchline… maybe not even then, if puns and spoofs aren’t your kind of humour-- but for the slivers of insight, I think it’s well worth it!
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
I don’t think you’ll miss much if you skip the middle parts of The Sea of Monsters and The Battle of the Labyrinth, but the plot is generally well-paced and full of twists. The setting and style is a little campy, and not just literally, but it scans. The characterization really shines here, I think, and not just for the title characters.
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
If you ever get bored of the medieval Pan-Celtic fantasies, I recommend this for getting bored of Hindu-Buddhist based fantasy. It’s dry, it’s heavy-handedly philosophical, it has at least as many fake-outs as the Return of the King movie (is it done yet? is it done…yet? is it done now? how about now?) but I know that last bit because somehow I could not stop reading. The setting just seemed so fresh, after stewing my mind in fantasies based on mainly Occidental mythology for so long.