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Originally Posted by fetishwealth
The Dresden Files
Hyperion Cantos
Neuromancer
The First Law
The Book of the New Sun
Snow Crash
Cryptonomicon
Anathem
Tarzan
The Forever War
A Princess of Mars
The Fellowship of the Ring
I, Robot
Foundation
Mistborn: The Final Empire
American Gods
The Player of Games
Assassin's Apprentice
The Eye of the World
At the Mountains of Madness
Some of these are trilogies or series obviously.
They're all baller as fuck and for the most part pretty damn contemporary.
If you want even more and in a wider range of genres and whatnot,
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
honestly has a shitload of the essential books for pretty much everything.
Finally, this may get my head chopped off, but it honestly isn't worth reading A Song of Ice and Fire, it's about 1.4m words or some shit in which absolutely dick all(of sustenance) has been resolved and which may actually not be finished at all(it's been how many years since Dragons now? And there's 2 more still to go.)
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I love the Dresden Files and just read the first of the Alera Codex series. Eagerly awaiting the next Dresden book out in May.
Dean Koontz is always a good read - currently reading
77 Shadow Street.
For good action oriented stuff I would also recommend Clive Cussler (at least the Dirk Pitt and Oregon series), Robert Ludlum (real Ludlum, not the crap coming out these days under his name), John LeCarre, and Michael Crichton.
Will Self is a good read. His stuff tends to be a little out there, but he is also a wordsmith who plays around with meanings.
Orson Scott Card is also a favorite of mine. He has a knack for character development. He has co-written a couple lately outside of his comfort zone and they are both quite good.
Chuck Palahniuk is kind of hit or miss, but for the most part I like his stuff.
Most John Barth is repetitive among the same themes, but I particularly enjoyed
The Seventh Voyage of Somebody the Sailor.
Antarctic Navigation is one of the best books I have read.