Good Books?

Question

any good book recomendations I like: fantasy, horror, suspence, Sci-fi, and/or anything with an unhappy ending
please include Title, Author, and Description.

Also they don't have to be best sellers

Answer 1

Here is a small list of my favorites in those categories

Fantasy

Martin - Song of Fire and Ice
Bakker - Prince of Nothing trilogy
Erickson - Tales of Malazon
Hobb - Farseer trilogy

Sci Fi

Card - Ender's Game
Miller - Canticle for Leibowitz
Zelzany - Lord of Light
Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
McCarthy - The Road
Wolfe - Book of the New Sun

Horror

Blatty - The Exorcist
King - The Stand
Rice - Interview With a Vampire

Unhappy / Disturbing

Ellis - American Psycho
Ellis - Less Than Zero
Selby Jr. - Requiem for a Dream
Palahniuk - Fight Club

Suspense

Harris - Silence of the Lambs
Nasaw - The Girls He Adored
Follet - Eye of the Needle

Answer 2

I'm not going to type out a big list, mainly because I don't feel up to it, but also because I don't know that many you'd like. But I do know you'll like Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I rate it 5 stars (*****!). It's a sci-fi fantasy book about the future where mankind has barely survived two invasions by the "buggers", an insectoid alien race. The world's most talented children, including the extraordinary Ender Wiggin, are taken into "Battle School" at a very young age to supply commanders for the expected Third Invasion.

It was just amazing to me how well written this book was. Ender is truly amazing and it even has a sort-of OK ending. Not too good; an ending I think you'd enjoy, seeing as there aren't too many non-happy endings nowadays.

Enjoy!

♥ Peace

Answer 3

Lord of the Rings-J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit-J. R. R. Tolkien
Harry Potter-J. K. Rowling
Pellinor Trilogy-Alisson Croggon
Stoneheart Trilogy-?
Farsala trilogy-Hilari Bell
Redwall series-Brian Jacques
Star Wars books
(Legacy of the Force series-multiple
New Jedi Order series-multiple
Thrawn Trilogy-Timothy Zhan
Jedi Academy Trilogy-?)
Inheritance Trilogy-Christopher Paloni
Artemis Fowl-?
Pendragon-?
Chronicles of Narnia-C. S. Lewis
Dragon Lance-?

they dont all have unhappy endings, but their all good.

Answer 4

Well. Don't ignore the answer. I know one book that fits all the categories mentioned above one way or another.

Book name - Bible.
Author: mostly Jews, but at least one was non-Jew (Luke). Inspired by God.

Horror - books: Revelations, some of the prophets
Unhappy ending - historical books (1st and 2nd Kings etc)
SCI-FI - first five books of the Bible
Suspence - the one with guy inside of belly of the fish
Fantasy - gospels.

Now, if you have never read it - you might not be in a position to appreciate any of the books that are about to mentioned by others.

Be warned though: as you read, you might ask yourself if whatever is in the Bible is true (and you should - 'cause it is).

Answer 5

The Stand - Stephen King
The Good Guy - Dean Koontz
Invisible Prey = John Sandford
The Traveler - John Twelve Hawkes
Q is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
The Ruins - Scott Smith

Answer 6

How about these:
Anything by Matthew Reilly, Jack DuBrul or Paul Christopher
John Ringo's series
GHOST
KILDAR
CHOOSERS OF THE SLAIN
UNTO THE BREACH
Anything by David Weber, J.A.Jance, Stuart Woods, James Doss, John Dunning, Jane Lindskold, David Drake, the late David Gemmel, Roland Green, Glen Cook, S.M.Stirling and the list goes on and on. Have fun, happy reading.

Answer 7

historic Fiction: the two factors of Time sequence- Caroline B. Cooney (additionally romance) Bloody Jack sequence-L. A. Meyer (additionally experience) If I ought to Die formerly I Wake- Han Nolan the great and poor splendor sequence- Libba Bray (additionally fantasyish fiction) the different Boleyn lady- Philippa Gregory The Queen’s fool- Philippa Gregory The consistent Princess- Philippa Gregory The Bolelyn Inheritance- Philippa Gregory The e book Thief- Markus Zusak Fantasyish Fiction Twilight sequence- Stephenie Meyer (additionally romance) The Mediator sequence- Meg Cabot (additionally romance) Avalon intense- Meg Cabot (sorta) Uglies sequence-Scott Westerfeld Midnighters sequence- Scott Westerfeld Fiction: All American lady- Meg Cabot Airhead- Meg Cabot The Earth, My Butt, and different huge around issues - Carolyn Mackler Fly on the Wall- E. Lockhart Megan Meade’s instruction manual to the McGowan Boys- Kate Brian fortunate T- Kate Brian The 5 people You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult substitute of heart- Jodi Picoult The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown Romance: The Angels Trilogy- Lurlene Mcdaniel The %.- Jodi Picoult The laptop- Nicholas Sparks secret: Stranger With My Face- Lois Duncan Down a dismal hall- Lois Duncan Locked in Time-Lois Duncan Any e book by using R.L Stine Non- Fiction a toddler referred to as It- Dave Pelzer Who Killed My Daughter- Louis Duncan Diary of a youthful lady- Anne Frank

Answer 8

SKIN, Ted Dekker, A Serial killer who somehow is able to put these 7 people he is stalking under the same illusion. Its a mind thing to if ur into that

Answer 9

i don't know if you're " too young or too old" for it but Ender's Game is a lovely series (i personally think any age is the perfect age to start reading ender's game), dune....the historian...bad love....anything by chuck palanhniuk (my favorite author)
ENDER"S GAME by orson scott card
A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

THE HISTORIAN by Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, while exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to a horror hidden in the depths of history. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts and evading terrifying adversaries, she comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil.

BAD LOVE and DEVIL"S WALTZ by Alex Delaware
Now, for the first time, here are two of his popular Alex Delaware books in one volume. Taunt, penetrating, terrifying, Devil's Waltz and Bad Love are Kellerman at his best. From the hospital to the street, Delaware follows mysterious killers in two of the most suspenseful works ever, tracking them down through a combination of keen perception and psychological expertise. In Devil's Waltz, Delaware explores a dark side of parental love. In Bad Love, Delaware follows the twisted logic of a stalker's mind games, aware that next the stalker may be coming for him. In both, weaving a web of disturbing events that will thrill and captivate as he reveals their stunning conclusions.

FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk.
The plot is based around an unnamed protagonist who struggles with his growing discomfort with consumerism and changes in the state of masculinity in American culture. In an attempt to overcome this, he creates an underground fighting club as a radical form of psychotherapy. It was made into a movie of the same name in 1999 by director David Fincher. The movie became a pop culture phenomenon. In the wake of the film's popularity, the novel has become a target of criticism, mainly for its explicit depictions of violence.

Answer 10

unhappy endings? why? i know there are books with bittersweet endings, like one by naeem murr called the genuis of the sea...how about some michael dibdin?