[Closed] Book recommendations

Loads, but a clue as to likes/dislikes with regard to genre would help: I read mostly SF, which you might hate, so any recommendation from me would be doomed from the start. 😉

Hmmm. The last one I read was 'Gone Girl' (Gillian Flynn) and before that I reread about three Terry Pratchett Discworld novels in a row (I really like the early ones). I guess I like an easy, page-turner kind of a read but nothing [i]too[/i] retarded, if that makes sense. Haven't read and sci-fi in a long time but if it's good, I'll give it a go!

Anything by Iain (M) Banks.

I'm currently reading Wiggo's autobiography which is pretty good so far (only about 40 pages in)

'The Secret Lemonade Drinker' by Guy Bellamy it's old but very funny

'The Secret Lemonade Drinker' by Guy Bellamy it's old but very funny

If you like Pratchett, Nation is very good and a bit overlooked because it's not Discworld.

You mean Terry Nation, the Doctor Who writer? Or another one?

I mean the book called "Nation" by Terry Pratchett 😉

The Culture series, by Iain M Banks is a cracking good read, although [i]Player Of Games[/i] has such an unsympathetic main character I just can't read it anymore.
If you can get your head around the idea of there being magic within an urban environment, and the most mundane of objects being imbued with power, then Kate Griffin's Urban Magic series, or the Matthew Swift series as its also called, is a very good read, proper page turners. Kate knows London intimately, has explored it all her life, and uses the hidden grimy corners very effectively.

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http://lightningtreelive.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/review-a-madness-of-angels-kate-griffin/

There are six books, but only the first four feature Swift as a main character; he 'disappears' in the last two, but remains in the background, while still influencing events. The 'Magicals Anonymous' crowd are highly entertaining.
The emotional character development that the blog mentions actually takes place through the course of the four books, and there's a lot of humour, plenty of it dark, too.
I'm impatiently waiting to see what Kate's next project is, she's twenty five, and had fourteen books published so far, and she's being cagey about what it is. (Gnashes teeth)
And no, she's not a friend, although I've met her a couple of times at book signings. I just love her books, is all.
Oh, and anything by Neil Gaiman, like [i]American Gods, Neverwhere, Stardust, Smoke and Mirrors, The Graveyard Book[/i], and [i]The Ocean At The End Of The Lane[/i].
All superb books.
[i]Stardust[/i] you may have seen as a film, with Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, and [i]American Gods[/i] is in development as an HBO series as well.

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I've already got American Gods- I'll dig it out!! Thanks for the recommendations 🙂

Iain Pears - an Instance at the Fingerpost.
Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
Helen Grant - the vanishing of Katarina Linden.
David Millar's book is an interesting read.
Bad Blood - Jeremy Whittle (although it is old old old now).
Tyler Hamilton's - The secret race.

This has to be a good starting point for you...

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Tim Lebbon - Fallen, The Heretic Land, Echo City - just read the former 2, currently reading the latter