What are some of your favorite authors and books? I'd love to hear! Hey everyone! I'm a big...

Faulker--Intruder in the Dust is very accessible, but something akin to

Harper Lee's first book, To Kill a Mockingbird either of which you might have read in high school.

Knowles--A Separate Peace, again, you might have read it in high school.

Poe--any short story, some poems

Shakespeare--Esp. the Tragedies, Sonnets

Bram Stoker--Dracula, written in the way that the first novels were.

Any sci-fi short story of Isaac Asimov, or his Foundation series.

Theodore Sturgeon--any of his IMMENSE library of very original short stories.

Jonathan Swift--A Modest Proposal...

Get a good collection of poetry and see what you like, then mine the veins which speak to you; e.g.,

Tennyson--Ulysses

Frost

Robert Service

Eugene Field

Do the same with short stories.

lovingdead · 31-35, M

it depends on what sort of book I'm looking for, though Chuck Palahniuk is generally a fun choice. (at least i think so) though anything that allows me a break from reality is nice. psychology and philosophy have their place but don't allow for much escapism.

justbob · 61-69, M

Ah yes, many os your favorites are among my favorites too.

The Septimus Heap series is great.

And Starship Troopers and The Forever War for different takes on the same subject

Also Ender's Game

ElwoodBlues · M

In the fantasy area
The Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik
Also Uprooted and Spinning Silver by the same author.
The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
Witch King (The Rising World, #1) by Martha Wells
The Kingkiller Chronicle Series by Patrick Rothfuss
(warning: there's been a 14 year gap after book 2 of the series. Book 3 is rumored for this fall, but we've been disappointed by similar rumors repeatedly)

Science fiction that's near fantasy
Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
(if you liked Witch King you'll probably like Murderbot)
The Imperial Radch Trilogy by Ann Leckie

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Oh so many.

Fantasy
Piers Anthony
Anne McAfee
Terry Brooks.

Science fiction
Isaac Asimov
Robert Heinlein
Arthur Clark

Just the top three in both categories. There's so, so many more though.

caPnAhab · 26-30, M

My favorite book is All Tomorrows, by C.M. Kösemen.

It's a speculative sci fi on how it would be if humans got scattered across the galaxy and undergone their separate evolutions over a billion years.

Pfuzylogic · M

Horror Clive Barket
Weaveworld, Imajica, Galilee and if you are into gore then Books of Blood.
Fantasy Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere, the DC comic series The Sandman
Science Fiction William Gibson
Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition