The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
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Same. Its the book series that most shaped my younger years and love of world building and fantasy fiction.
Neuromancer is still a solid favorite.
EDIT: Forgot to add, now that I wandered over to my little bookshelf, I have quite a bit of Raymond Benson's work. Along with the Metal Gear Solid novel adaptations.
I have a few favorites, but if I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I’d take with me would be Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The book is so layered, and the world is so unusual. It’s one of the few books I kept trying to put off finishing because I didn’t want it to end.
The Lies of Locke Lamora was so good I had to take a break from reading afterwards cause nothing could compare.
World War Z
I’m a huge fan of a natural history of dragons by Marie Brennan and the rest of books in the series. Also been obsessed with Kim Harrison’s The Hollows series since my partner introduced it to me lol
The Percy Jackson series is probably my favorite, still even as an adult. It's my comfort book series.
The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager is my absolute favorite.
honorable mentions:
- Slumberland by Pauly Beatty
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Cider House Rules by John Irving-
Right now only these come to my mind:
- The Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin - I am on part two and can't stop reading, it is already joining my favourite books, whole-heartedly recommended. They are sci-fi books. :)
- "Rumo" and "The 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers (read in German but available in English), wonderful fantasy books, extremely creative and well written.
Well, not sure if Light Novels are accepted, but Mushoku Tensei by Rifujin na Magonote is unquestionably my favourite. Whilst it's understandably critiqued for it's choice of unsavoury topics, it's the only book I've ever read that tells the story of a person genuinely learning from, and reflecting upon the mistakes they've made in the past.
Also Holes by Louis Sacher is pretty neato.
- The Alchemist
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Gone With the Wind