What other books do you read?

[myng.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I'm newly de-lurked and was commenting on threads elsewhere when I realised that some of us here share the same tastes in similar books (quite a few of us here like the Miles books also). So I was wondering if you all would like to share favourite titles on your bookshelf? I'm always looking for good books to read and think recommendations from people who share my love for some of my fave books would turn out great most of the time.

Shall I begin? Some of my favourite titles aside from The Thief/QOA/KOA:

Sci fic/fantasy/paranormal stuff:
1. The Miles Vorkosigan series, Lois McMaster Bujold
2. The Weather Warden series, Rachel Caine
3. The Temeraire books, Naomi Novik
4. The Archangel books, Sharon Shinn
5. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay

Light/Cozy mysteries:
1. The Madeline Bean mysteries, Jerrilyn Farmer
2. Abby Cooper (Psychic eye mysteries), Victoria Laurie
3. The early Stephanie Plum books, Janet Evanovich

YA:
1. Princess Academy/Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
2. Uglies/Pretties/Specials, Scott Westerfeld
3. Summers in Castle Auburn, Sharon Shinn
4. Silver Metal Lover, Tanith Lee
5. Many Heinlein juveniles
6. Some of Meg Cabot's non-princess books
7. The Harry Potters

Currently starting: The Decoy Princess, Dawn Cook (hope this is good!)

That's all from the top of my head...hope this thread hasn't been too out of topic for the Community.

Comments

[avian-xj.livejournal.com]

wow... my reading list gets longer and longer every day(which is not necessarily a bad thing). :)

Some of my favorite books:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Books by Gerald Morris(mostly King Arthur stuff)
Shades of Simon Gray - Joyce McDonald
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Tithe & Valiant - Holly Black
Some of these are from when I was younger and some I've just finished, but they're the ones I remember off the top of my head right now :)

[allthingevil123.livejournal.com]

i started on the weather warden series and got as far as the first book, they were good i prefer the dresden files, simon r greens nightside and hawk and fisher series and catherine webb....

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Well, everyone always knows what I'm currently reading, right? :)

I LOVED Goose Girl and Enna Burning by Shannon Hale. Enna is the sequel--have you read it?

Some things I've read recently that I've liked. The Bujold books, of course, lots of DWJ, Criss Cross (Perkins), Rosemary Sutcliff, Elizabeth Wein, A Town Like Alice (Shute), Stardust (Gaiman), the Pagan books (Jinks), Morris' Arthur books, Crossley-Holland's Seeing Stone books, Twilight (Meyer), House of the Scorpion (Farmer). Some of my favorite authors are McKinley, Le Guin, McKillip, Bradbury. Lots more.

MWT posted a list of older favorites of hers. You can see it here, scroll toward the bottom.

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/32025.html

[dh684.livejournal.com]

I love Sharon Shinn's books, Archangel being my favorite. I also loved GGK's Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan. I read Novik's His Majesty's Dragon, enjoyed it and I have the other two subsequent books TBR. You might also enjoy Patricia Briggs. My favorite of hers is Dragon Blood. I'm currently reading and enjoying Michelle Sagara's Cast in Courtlight, sequel to Cast in Shadow.

Mysterywise, I've liked Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott series. Elizabeth Peters' Vicky Bliss series (when will she write another book in this series?) and if you can find it, Ellen Emerson White's ALL EMERGENCIES RING SUPER is a really fun read. (I also enjoy Jan Burke's Irene Kelly series but these books are definitely not cozies).

I don't generally read a lot of YA but I've liked Libba Bray's books (picked up the first based on the cover) and I recently enjoyed Sarah Dessen's Just Listen (contemporary, not fantasy setting).

Everything

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Madeleine L'Engle, L. M. Mongtomery, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell (I've only read North and South so far but it was very good), Dorothy Gilman (she writes the Mrs. Pollifax series, which is light spy fluff, as well as some other books. Incident at Badamya was very good). I've just started the Vorkosigan series and gotten through the first two; I have three and a half shelves full of Star Wars books, the best being Zahn's Thrawn trilogy and the X-wing squadron series. Anne McCaffrey's earlier Pern stuff is good, as well as some of the later stuff if you don't read it for the original characters. Robin McKinley, Sherwood Smith and Tolkien, of course, are also good for fantasy. I have some Tamora Pierce which I reread occasionally, especially the Kel and Daine books, and Orson Scott Card's Battle School books. He also wrote Enchantment, which was a retelling of Sleeping Beauty that I liked.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Just off the top of my head, a few things I'd rec (or have already recced) to people here...

George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series (Beware, only 4 of the planned 7 books are out so far)
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series and the Curse of Chalion-world books
Tinker by Wen Spencer
The Flambards trilogy (which is actually 4 books) by K.M. Peyton
Sarah, Plain and Tall and the 4 sequels (woo-hoo!) by Patricia MacLachlan
The "Tales of the Otori" trilogy by Lian Hearn (Book 4 is coming this fall and a prequel next year - fake Medieval Japan, with magic and a trickster hero)
The "Crown of Stars" series by Kate Elliott (7 books, but at least they're all out, unlike Martin)
Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Some mysteries:
Charles Todd's post WW I mysteries
Phillip Kerr's Bernie Gunther books
Dick Francis
Dennis Lehane
Francis Fyfield
Minette Walters
Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko books
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Johnny Under Ground by Patricia Moyes

OK, shutting up now.

[adjrun.livejournal.com]

For YA fantasy, I really like Tamora Pierce and Patricia Wrede. Chris Wooding is a little trickier to find, but good. I adore Neil Gaiman. And I have to echo the recs for George R. R. Martin -- his A Song of Ice and Fire series is absolutely brilliant.