what are your favorite books
this is a question I hear a lot of people ask so I assume people have one
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LOTR trilogy, Silmarillion
Hobbit is on a lower level
Inheritance seems good but I couldn’t borrow the last book
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the scythe and unwind series by Neil Shusterman, and Dry, which was also written by him.
The shadow and bone series
The insignia series, which I’m currently reading
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not reading this one tho
Some of my favourite series include
Wings of Fire
Warriors
Skandar
Artemis Fowl
The Elementia Chronicles
The Edge Chronicles
Max Einstein
Warhammer Adventures: Warped Galaxies
How to Train Your Dragon
The Hunger Games
I read more in a week than any one person should in their whole lifetime
sounds…interesting
The Worthing Saga
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banned where??? It’s a brilliant series and isn’t that bad.
House of Leaves is one of the best books to ever grace my eyes, but it is such an acid trip, I genuinely needed to annotate and write on sticky notes to keep track of it.
Also, DUNE. Read it. It is a book that was called unfilmable, and the movies didn’t even cover all of the amazing scenes and moments we didn’t get to see. The first six are amazing, and while it does lose quality slightly as the son begins to take over the franchise, the books still are phenomenal and amazing to reread.
Trust.
Also, while this book is slightly childish, it is a fantastic book: Fighting Words. This book is heartbreakingly amazing. Every character is realistic, and while it may feel horrifying at moments, it is a beautiful read that details every character perfectly.
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Mistborn
Only read the first book, and while I would say it’s 16+, it’s just really good. Good fantasy setting and one of the more interesting magic systems I’ve seen.
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scythe is a really good dystopian trilogy I highly suggest you read it
ALSO Game of Thrones. I know it had a show that practically destroyed itself but I’ve loved every single one of the books. I know it is weird, very inappropriate, but GOD, the characters feel real in a way that is rarely done well anymore.
must agree with this one
Everyone just has to be that way, but it’s because it takes place somewhere called the Edge (i think, its been ages lmao)
what does a king call musical chairs
Game of Thrones
Ok, Imma be more detailed with my books
- Chronicles of Narnia, extremely light series of seven books, if you’ll read these books you should start with Chronicles of Narnia as they’re, I’d say, the simplest of the lot. Most fairy-tale like, reusing mainly mythological creatures and with few dark or heavy scenes.
- The Hobbit, it’s also lighter than the rest the books, pretty simple. I recommend reading it before you read Lord of the Rings trilogy, as it’s much more simply written.
- Harry Potter, somewhat heavier series of seven books that progressively gets darker, the worldbuilding is decent, though still low. It’s also less complicated.
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, though I’d say it’s lighter than Harry Potter, I think Percy Jackson and the Olympians is still far more advanced. It depicts Greek mythology extremely well and is overall very interesting.
- Inheritance, a series of four books with honestly very well-made and advanced magic system, races and creatures, lore and world. While I think it is beneath Tolkien’s works, it is certainly up there.
- Lord of the Rings, a trilogy that I simply must put, as Tolkien’s writing is some of the best. Though magic is not exactly explained, the lore is told very well through songs and stories of characters, the world is extremely well thought out with multiple races, and the storytelling is overall far better than in The Hobbit.
- Silmarillion, I’d consider it optional if you want to read further about Tolkien’s universe, it is rather long and complicated but interesting nontheless.
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To go along with Gamehero’s recommendation, I high suggest after Mistborn you read the Stormlight Archives. It’s another series by Brandon Sanderson, but be warned it’s over 4k pages in total with only 4 novels currently out. However, it’s still very easy to read, I was done with the whole series in like 5 months.
Some other stuff by Sanderson (because he's basically the only author I read these days.) that's a lot easier to read than Stormlight are the following. Warning: Long
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians: Five book comedy series aimed at younger readers but is still enjoyable by any age group. Set in an alternate Earth where special sands can be smelted into lenses that give extraordinary powers. Oh, and also a globe spanning conspiracy theory ran by evil librarians.
Skyward and sequels: Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul. (Blurb on back of book)
The Reckoner’s trilogy: Asking the question what if there were no heroes in a world where super humans dominate those without powers?
Description from the first book Steelheart:
"There are no heroes.
Every single person who manifested powers—we call them Epics—turned out to be evil. Here, in the city once known as Chicago, an extraordinarily powerful Epic declared himself Emperor. Steelheart has the strength of ten men and can control the elements. It is said no bullet can harm him, no sword can split his skin, no explosion can burn him. He is invincible. It has been ten years. We live our lives as best we can. Nobody fights back . . . nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans who spend their lives studying powerful Epics, finding their weaknesses, then assassinating them.
My name is David Charleston. I’m not one of the Reckoners, but I intend to join them. I have something they need. Something precious, something incredible. Not an object, but an experience. I know his secret.
I’ve seen Steelheart bleed."
My other suggestion is a bit more of a soft fantasy series, as compared to what Sanderson writes.
Both the Moving Castle trilogy and The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynn Jones.
Moving Castle series: The first novel is what the Ghibli movie Howl’s Moving Castle is based on, however, it should be noted the movie left out and changed many events, scenes, and characters from the original book. So just don’t expect the same experience as the film.
Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Magical multiverse shenanigans, no I will not elaborate further.
go read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
I do that too
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Rick Riordan, any book is decent
Also Inheritance Games is cool