I love to read, anyone have any books they really liked?

Question

I love to read sci-fi fantasy books if there are any books like Twilight I would love to read them.

Answer 1

In the same vein as Laurell Hamilton, try Sherrilyn Kenyon. She wrote the Dark Hunter series - about immortal individuals without a soul that protect humans from Daimons (vampires). I have enjoyed the three I've read so far. Also, really liked the Anita Blake series the first 1-8 books or so.

I saw someone mention Piers Anthony. The Xanth series is fun - set in a magical land that looks like Florida. Many interesting and colorful characters, and the stories are full of puns. I also enjoyed his Adept series, about technology and magic.

Another favorite is Katherine Kurtz and her Deryni series. The Deryni are a race capable of magic, but they've all either been killed or disappeared. This is how they come to "be" again.

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern is another excellent series. This was way before Eragon. People crash land on a planet and must find ways to survive. Some of them "impress" dragons, native to the land. They have to fight "thread" as it falls from the sky, or it destroys everything and everyone in its path.

Another is her science fiction series Crystal Singer. It's about a woman with some musical talent that doesn't pass her exam. As an alternative, she mines crystal - which is dangerous work. It is affecting her physically, but the payoffs are huge.

Answer 2

Sci-fi:

Methuselah's Children, Time Enough For Love, The Door Into Summer, Stranger In a Strange Land, Farnham's Freehold, Orphans of the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein

To Open the Sky, Up the Line, To Live Again, Dying Inside, Tower of Glass, Hawksbill Station, The Book of Skulls, The Stochastic Man - Robert Silverberg

Moon Children - Jack Williamson

The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney

Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Coma, Outbreak - Robin Cook

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

The First Immortal - James L. Halperin

Answer 3

I like Italo Cavino...an Italian Writer. It isn't exactly sci/fi but if the brain is science then traveling around in the mind could possibly be considered sci/fi if you stretch your imagination.

Baron in the Trees
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (a book about reading a book!
WEIRD MIND TRIP!!)

Answer 4

One of my favorite books "The Innamorati" by Midori Snyder. She wrote the "Dinotopia" series, but I didn't like those. This book is a fantasy in an Italian-like medieval setting. The characters all travel to a town, Labrinto, that houses a labyrith where curses are broken if the pilgrims make it to the center. The book follows the characters on their journey to Labrinto, and their trials inside the maze. It is filled with magic, curses, and mythology. Some of the characters include a barren mask maker, a silenced siren, beggars, and theives.

Answer 5

The Bell Jar/Plath
Dreamcatcher/King
Anastasia Krupnik
anything by Orson Scott Card
The Dragonbone Chair/Stone of Farewell/Williams

Answer 6

These are some of the one's that I really like--almost anything my David Eddings, Terry Brooks and his Shannara series, most of the books by Timothy Zahn, Michael J. Stackpole, Richard Knaak, the Dragonlance series-which is by multiple authors, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. These are some of my favorites though I am drawing a mental blank because I know that there are some more which I have read and really liked.

Answer 7

Anything by Ray Bradbury. My favorite is Fahrenheit 451. Also try Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Another good author is Rod Serling, who besides Twilight Zone, wrote many short stories and other books.

Answer 8

Hi! I am also a book lover like you and coincedently I too love sci-fic fantasy book. I even have a perssonel library and I am sugesting some books.They are
Dr WHO
The Inheritence Trilogy
The bartimeous Trilogy
I hope you find them interesting.

Answer 9

The Historian
also Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Neffensomethinratheranother :D

Answer 10

i dont know much about sci-fi and stuff but personally the best book i have read till date is "tuesdays with morrie" by mitch albom. it is a wonderfull book written by mitch albom to honor his teacher morrie. this book teaches us life's greatest lessons with a very practial approach, all coming from the mouth of a man who is on his death bed. the book has a beautiful flow and you can easily connect with the content. my life truly changed after reading it.
besides that, "nights in rodanthe" and "message in a bottle" are my personal favorites, both by nicholas sparks. any book that can make you shed buckets of tears is a classic in itself.
i have even liked "one night @ the call center" and "five point someone", by chetan bhagat and has led me to experiment with books by new writters.
though the pace of "the inheritence of a loss" by anita desai is a little slow, still it is a good book.