Book List

[Kenneth]

I will pull over the list from our facebook later today, unless someone beats me to it.

[Carolyn]

Here is a compiled list of the authors/books mentioned by backers in either the Kickstarter comments or the Facebook group comments (so far):

(Listed by authors mentioned, then specific books if they were called out in the comments)

Aaronovitch, Ben: Rivers of London series

Abercrombie, Joe: The First Law trilogy

Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

Adams, Richard: Watership Down

Alexander, Lloyd: The Book of Three - The Chronicles of Prydain

Anderson, Kevin: Saga of the Seven Suns series, A Knight's Tale, The Last Days of Krypton

Andrews, Julie and her daughter: Dragon

Anthony, Piers: Xanth series, Incarnations of Immortality

Auel, Jean: The Clan of the Cave Bear

Avi: The Good Dog

Bishop, Anne: Written in Red

Briggs, Patricia: Raven's Shadow and Raven's Strike/ The Mercy Thompson Series

Britain, Kristen: Green Rider series

Brooks, Terry: Magic Kingdom of Landover Series, Shannara

Butcher, Jim: Dresden Files – Storm Front

Canavan, Trudi: The Magicians Guild, The High Magicians, Dark Mage trilogy, The Traitor Spy trilogy, The Age of the Five trilogy

Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game (The Ender Quartet: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), Ender’s Shadow, The Lost Gate, The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Worthing Saga, and the Homecoming Saga, Songmaster, Wyrms

Carriger, Gail: Soulness (and the rest of the Parasol Protectorate books)

Chambers, Aiden: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordielia KentCherryh, C. J.: The Faded Sun Trilogy (The Faded Sun, #1-3), The Morgaine Saga (Morgaine Saga, #1-3), Fortress in the Eye of Time (Fortress series, #1)

Chima, Cinda Williams: Seven Realms series

Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Cline, Ernest: Ready Player One

Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl series

Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games trilogy, Gregor the Overlander (YA)

Connolly, Harry: Child of FireConnolly, John: The Charlie Parker books, The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

Cook, Glen: The Chronicles of the Black Company

Cornell, Paul: London Falling

Correia, Larry: Monster Hunter International

Cowell, Cressida: How to Train Your Dragon books (High elementary)

Croggon, Alisin: Pellinor series

David, Peter: Tigerheart

Doucette, Gene: Immortal

Duncan, Dave: Seventh Sword trilogy

Eddings, David: The Belgariad and The Malloreon

Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton: Dragon

Erikson, Stephen: Malazan -- Book of the Fallen

Feist, Raymond E.

Fforde, Jasper: Thursday Next series, Nursery Crime series, The Last Dragonslayer series, Shades of Grey

Flanagan, John" The Ranger's Apprentice series and The Brotherband Chronicles series

Foglio, Phil and Kaja Foglio: Girl Genius series

Gabaldon, Diana: Outlander series

Gaiman, Neil: “everything”….including American Gods, Neverwhere, Coraline, Sandman, and Good Omens

Gibson, William: Neuromancer

Goodkind, Terry: Sword of Truth series, The Law of Nines

Goudge, Elizabeth: The Little White Horse

Grossman, Lev: The Magicians

Harkness, Deborah: All Souls Trilogy

Harrison, Harry: Bill the Galactic Hero and Stainless Steel Rat series

Hearne, Kevin: Iron Druid Chronicles

Helprin, Mark: Winter's Tale

Hendee, Barb: The Saga of the Noble Dead

Herbert, Frank: Dune

Hines, Jim: Libriomancer

Hobb, Robin: Farseer trilogy and Soldier’s Son

Hoffman, Alice: The Foretelling

Hoffman, Paul: The Left Hand of God

Holdstack, Robert: Mythago Wood

Howard, Robert E.

Jemisin, N.K.: Inheritance trilogy

Jordan, Robert: Wheel of Time Series

Kay, Guy Gavriel: The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy

Kraft, Jim: The Vampire Hound

Kurtz, Katherine: Deryni series

Lackey, Mercedes: Valdemar series

Landy, Derek: Skulduggery Pleasant series (YA)

Lawrence, Mark: Prince of Thorns

L'engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, A
Swiftly Tilting Planet, An Acceptable Time

Lindskold, Jane: Through Wolf’s Eyes. Wolf’s Head, Wolf’s Heart. The Dragon of Despair. Wolf Captured. Wolf Hunting. Wolf’s blood.

Lowry, Lois: The Giver

Lumley, Brian: Titus Crow series and Hero of Dreams

Lynch, Scott: The Lies of Locke Lamora and Gentlemen Bastards Sequence series

Maberry, Jonathan: Patient Zero

Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas

Moore, Christopher: Fool, Bite Me, You Suck!, Lamb

Moning, Karen Marie: Fever series

Nix, Garth: Abhorsen trilogy

Paolini, Christopher: Eragon series

Paulman, Phillip: His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra's Oxford

Powers, Tim: The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides

Pratchett, Terry

Priest, Cherie: Dreadnaught

Richardson, Kat: Greywalker

Riddell, Chris and Paul Stewart: The Edge Chronicles

Rothfuss, Patrick: obviously…

Rowling, JK: Harry Potter series

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: The Fey

Ryan, Anthony: Blood Song

Sanderson, Brandon: “everything”… including Mistborn trilogy, Warbreaker, The Emperor's Soul, The Rithmatist, Legion, Elantris, and The Way of the Kings

Shelly, Mary: Frankenstein

Skye, Obert: Leven Thumps series, Beyond Foo series

Snicket, Lemony: All the things. (It's mostly High Elementary novels, but amazing)

Staveley, Brian: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne

Sullivan, Michael: The Riyria Revelations series

Steward, Paul and Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles

Tolkien, J.R.R.: Lord of the Rings

Verne, Jules: Mysterious Islands and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Weeks, Brent: Night Angel trilogy and Lightbringer Series

Weiss, Margaret and Tracy Hickman: Dragonlance Chronicles, including The Dragons of Autumn Twilight/ Winter Night/Spring Dawning, Elven Nations trilogy, War of the Twins and Chronicles
Prelude to Dragonlance series: Kendermore by Mary Kirchoff

Westerfeld, Scott: Uglies series and Leviathan series (with Keith Thompson)

Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Grey

Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn; The War of the Flowers;

Yarbo, Chelsea Quinn

Also recommended: http://bestfantasybooks.com/top25-fan...


Suggestions from a thread dedicated to non-fantasy books (both fiction and nonfiction, note: may include some fantasy-like suggestions!):

Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid's Tale

Berdoll, Linda: Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife and Darcy & Elizabeth

Berendt, John: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Binchy, Maeve: Scarlett Feather and Quentins

Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Princess of Mars

Castner, Brian: The Long Walk

Clancy, Tom: The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of the Kremlin

Cussler, Clive

Faulkner, William: Light in August

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby

Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geshia

Grandin, Greg: Fordlandia

Grann, David: The Lost City of Z

Green, John: The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska

Hearn, Lian: Tales of the Ortori trilogy

Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World

James, P.D.: The Children of Men

Krakauer, Jon: Into Thin Air and Into the Wild

Larson, Erik: The Devil in the White City and Thunderstruck

Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird

Lindbergh, Judith: The Thrall's Tale

Millard, Candice: The River of Doubt

Min, Anchee: Becoming Madame Mao

Morris, Edmund: Theodore Roosevelt biographies (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt)

Orwell, George: 1984

Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and Anthem

Rankin, Ian (also writes as Iain M. Banks)

Roberts, Jason: A Sense of the World

Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye

Schusterman, Neal: Unwind

Setterfield, Diane: The Thirteenth Tale

Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle

Sloan, Robin: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Standage, Tom: The Victorian Internet

Stewart, Edward: Ballerina

Stockett, Kathryn: The Help

Swade, Doron: The Cogwheel Brain

Vachss, Andrew

Winchester, Simon: Krakatoa and The Professor & The Madman

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz: The Shadow of the Wind

Zusack, Markus: The Book Thief

Tad Williams

[List pulled from the editable version; updated Feb 27]

[C]

Robin McKinley

[Kenneth]

I'm starting Joe Abercrombie, The First Law trilogy today!

[Mscout]

Awesome, Abercrombie's on my list, but haven't read anything. Let me know how you like it.

[C]

I really liked that one. I can't remember why I haven't continued the series, but it's been long enough now that I'll have to reread the first book.

[Lars]

I really feel like starting on a series or book from this list - but a couple of the entries sorta scare me from trying. :-)

I mean, there's good stuff on the list, but then there's also a number of series which I sorta feel must be added due to nostalgia or the like.

The Clan of the Cave Bear, Artemis Fowl and even Dragonlance? I tried re-reading a few of my old Dragonlance books the other day - turns out, there's a limit to what nostalgia can do. :-)

Hmmm...let's see - Aiden Chambers and Piers Anthony are unknown to me - anybody read any of the series mentioned here who can recommend either?