Non-Harry Potter Book Recommendations

[Charis]

one of my favorite authors is a guy named Stephen R. Lawhead. he's written some incredible books, i especially like his series called the Pendragon Cycle. (they're kind of about King Arthur, though more focused on Merlin, too. they're the books that got me started on K.A...which has become sort of an obsession with me )

i also like C.S Lewis- the narnia chronicles
T.A Barron- the Lost Years of Merlin series
J.R.R. Tolkein- LOTR trilogy (DUH!)
Jane Austen- all of her bookks (especially Pride and Prejudice)
L.M. Montgomery- ANNE OF GREEN GABLES!!


there are more, but i can't think of them right now

[Lizzy Bennet]

one of my favorite authors is a guy named Stephen R. Lawhead. he's written some incredible books, i especially like his series called the Pendragon Cycle. (they're kind of about King Arthur, though more focused on Merlin, too. they're the books that got me started on K.A...which has become sort of an obsession with me )

i also like C.S Lewis- the narnia chronicles
T.A Barron- the Lost Years of Merlin series
J.R.R. Tolkein- LOTR trilogy (DUH!)
Jane Austen- all of her bookks (especially Pride and Prejudice)
L.M. Montgomery- ANNE OF GREEN GABLES!!


there are more, but i can't think of them right now

I *love* Pride and Prejudice the book, and adore P & P the miniseries with the hunky Colin Firth and talented Jennifer Ehle! I think Austen is simply brill, and I love that book and miniseries (particularly the book) a great deal...my boyfriend would tell you I'm obsessed!


~ Lizzy

[Charis]

i can see you love them... lizzy bennet haha

[Lizzy Bennet]

i can see you love them... lizzy bennet haha

Oh yeah. I forget that there are the rare few, like you, Charis, who actually know whom my name refers to! Well, you can't say it isn't a smashing and clever book!


~ Lizzy Bee

[Voldemort]

My favorite books of all time (excluding the Harry Potter) are Lord of the Rings. I think that it has ties to HP, and some of the characters in HP remind me of LOTR

[azn wizard]

hp and lotr also remind me of star wars too...i think itz that whole "another world" thing, and something about prophecies and the "chosen" one

[June]

I *love* Pride and Prejudice the book, and adore P & P the miniseries with the hunky Colin Firth and talented Jennifer Ehle! I think Austen is simply brill, and I love that book and miniseries (particularly the book) a great deal...my boyfriend would tell you I'm obsessed!

I love "Pride and Prejudice" as well. It's my favourite out of the Jane Austen series, though "Persuasion" is a close second. I bought the miniseries (love Colin Firth ^_~ ) and yep, I'm one of the few who recognised what your name stands for too. =P

I love reading, and especially in the genre of classics and fantasy. Here're some of my favourites.


Fantasy

- All of the books by David Eddings
- Wild Magic series and Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce
- Dragons of Pern series and Crystal Singer series by Anne MacCaffrey
- Heralds of Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey

and probably plenty more which I can't think of off the top of my head for now. ^_^


Classics

- All of the books by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Little Women series and Eight Cousins series by Lousia May Alcott
- Anne of Green Gables series by L.M Montgomery
- Most of Shakespeare's plays especially A Midsummer Night's Dream

And probably many more I don't remember right now too... ^_^

And oh, I used to love Enid Blyton books... still do, in fact, though I should have outgrown them by now. =P What can I say... I'm a child at heart.

[Blaise Zabini]

Anything by Tolkein.
Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker for the Dead, and the rest. All by Orson Scott Card.
Anything by Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Oh, and CS Lewis.

Faulkner rocks my socks. Hemingway does when he's at his best. Dickens is the man. Milton writes like none other. Shakespeare is superfluous to mention. Vonnegut, whom I've just started reading. And Ionesco.

Oh, and Lemony Snicket. C'mon, with a name like Lemony Snicket, it's gotta be good.

[Hedwig@TheOwlery.Com]

Ender's Game is an incredible book. I thought I had gotten bored of Science Fiction, until I read this. Don't feel obiglated to read the entire series, Ender's Game is the best.

Also the Robot Series by Asimov is a great Collection.

Hedwig@TheOwlery.Com

[HuffleDuck]

[quote="June"]
Classics

A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


Oh i love Little Princess and secret garden, even though i have never read the book. But the movies are so good. It's one of the best classic movie ever.

[bobafett_12]

from wat ive collected, lotr, redwall, and the eye of the world.

[highsorcerer]

Well, if you want a series that spans multiple genres from westerns to fantasy to science fiction, try Stephen King's Dark Tower series (five are released; the final two will be released next year). To get the full understanding, you'd have to read several of his other works which provide peripheral information about Dark Tower books. The top ones would be:

Salem's Lot. One of the characters from this book joins the Gunslingers in Book V (Wolves of Calla).

Insomnia. The "doctors" in the book provide something of a description of the Tower. The entire focus of the book is to save the life of a certain person. This person is supposed to provide critical aid to the Gunslingers. It's also the first mention of the Crimson King.

The Stand. Randall Flagg is a different guises appear throughout the Dark Tower books. Also the world of The Stand is visited by the Gunslingers in Book IV (Wizard and Glass).

Low Men in Yellow Coats (featured in the book Hearts In Atlantis). It introduces the Beam-Breakers and the Low Men, agents of the Crimson King.

Black House. The book is strongly tied to the Dark Tower.

On a final note, Harry Potter is mentioned toward the end of book V (Wolves of Calla) on a piece of technology (the device is named Harry Potter, and the model number is HPJKR). None of the Gunslingers are familar with the name though; Roland isn't from Earth, Susannha is from the mid 1960s, Jake from 1977, Eddie from 1987, and Callahan from 1983 or so.

[Stargazer]

Oh I do love book threads ...

My favorite fantasy authors are (JKR excluded) Tolkien, Pratchett, Pullman and Eddings. I still haven't managed to read anything by Douglas Adams but it's on my list (which gecko will tell you is quite never-ending, thoguh ). Pratchett's Discworld series just crack me up on end, they're great if you want just something light to take your mind off of things and have a good laugh. Plus there are so many of them you are very unlikely to run out of reading!

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is possibly the very best fantasy I've ever read. Possibly. It's complex enough to hold one's imagination and the imagination of the guy is amazing! And the endling ... *sigh* I won't say anything in case you want to read hte books yourself but it's very touching, I almost cried.

David (and Leigh) Eddings write very good basic fantasy with lovable characters and a great sense of humor. Upto a certain point. I've read all of their published fantasy books (many several times) and it does tend to get slightly repetetive. For example the Redemption of Althalus I forced myself to finish, but it didn't offer anything new ot me. All the jokes, the events and almost the characters were just recycled material from their previous books. But anyway, my favorites are the Belgariad and everything related (i.e. The Mallorean, Belgarath, Polgara, the Rivan Codex). The Tamuli and the Elenium I never really liked and Althalus, like I said, was nothing new. If you're only starting to read Eddings I'm sure it's a good book, but for someone who's been reading him for almost ten years it's just boring.

Other authors and books I really are Austen, the Brontës, Burnett, Montgomery, Alcott and the sort; Dances with Wolves by Blake, Wilde, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carrol, Seven Years in Tibet by Harrer, Woolf, Hawking, and others.

[Mistress Siana]

gecko, you have a great taste in books!

Umberto Eco: The name of the rose
Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
Lois Lowry: The Giver
Michael Ende: Momo

And everything by Henning Mankell, a swedish author

[Devinci]

I love the giver! *high five*