If you liked Harry Potter
You may like some of these other great Fantasy and Science Fiction Books, and check out Barnes & Noble if your interested in buying them or any other book. As J.K. Rowling says, "Keep Reading."
If you liked Harry Potter
You may like some of these other great Fantasy and Science Fiction Books, and check out Barnes & Noble if your interested in buying them or any other book. As J.K. Rowling says, "Keep Reading."
I have read all of these books and I highly recommend them to anyone who likes Fantasy or Science Fiction.
My all time favorite:
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
A trilogy of books, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, set in Middle Earth concerning Elves and men and, of course, Hobbits. Considered by many to be the greatest literary work of the 20th century. Frodo Baggins continues the adventures started by his Uncle Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit in an epic tale of good versus evil. A tale that begins in the days even before Elves as told in The Silmarillion.
These 5 books make up the greatest story I've every read, except for the Bible. Begin with The Hobbit, a childrens story of the adventures and misadventures of Bilbo Baggins, the Dwarves and the Wizard Gandolf. Next read The Lord of the Rings where the adventure continues and the action and mystery become intense. Then read The Silmarillion to see how it all started, and about the great achievments and the great downfalls that devistated the Elves and their faithful friends amongst the houses of men. Finally, if your like most other fans of Tolkien, you will want to re-read all of these books every few years.
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Earth isn't real, it is just a shadow of the real world of Amber. Prince Corwin, the rightful heir to the throne fights family politics and demonic dangers and Chaos while traveling, and protecting, all the shadow worlds. A series of books starting with Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, The Courts of Chaos, The Trumps of Doom, and more.
The Ender books by Orson Scott Card
The Earth is threatened by a ruthless enemy and the only chance to save the world is a young boy named Ender Wiggins. Will this young child succeed, and what will happen to him if he does. Find out in Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the mind. And enjoy the unusual story of one of Ender's closest companions and fellow warrior, tiny ??? in Enders Shadow.
The entire Dune series including the original 6 novels by Frank Herbert:
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
Heritics of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Dune: Chapterhouse
And the 3 prequilles by Brian Herbert (Frank Herberts son) and Kevin J. Anderson:
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino (due out in 2001)
The Dune universe thousands of years in our future, where computers (machines that mimick the human mind) are strictly banned and much of the universe depends on Spice which can only be found on the Dune planet named Arrakis, is filled with political conspiraces, intrigue, mystery, hatred, and love, attemps at being good and success of true evil, triumphs and failures of all the major powers in the million world universe.
The Foundation Trilogy and subsequent books by Issac Asimov
The first three books from the original Foundation series are Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. Hari Seldon forms a secret group of scientists whose task it is to save the galaxy from its own decline and ultimate collapse they use his newly developed science of Phsycohistory, that allows Seldon to calculate the future and plan changes to
alter that furture for the better. Then there are the sequels, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth, and Forward the Foundation where the true hidden plan is discovered. Along with many of the other books written by Assimov, including his famous Robot series, I, Robot being the most well known, and more recent prequels which tie all of the books together into one monumental tale of galactic history from the 1980's through many thousands of years.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
You will never look at rabbits the same again. Fiver's flight to safety is wrought with dangers at every turn. Only his courage, and the courage and trust of his companions, keep them alive.
Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and other works by Robert Heinlein create an alternate future, and sometime past, history of mankind from the struggles of the twentieth century, to the colonization of the moon and Mars, to the stars beyond. I enjoyed nearly all of Heinlein's works. Three more of my favorites are Friday, about the struggles of a genetically altered young women yearning to be free from the prejudice she experiences in a difficult and dangerous world, Double Star, where and actor stumbles onto a job that that becomes the role of a lifetime, and Starship Troppers, about a young mans adventures in the military, battling the enemy, giant intelligent bugs, as they travel from planet to planet.
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Fleeing danger, the human and alien crew of a space ship crash land on a planet shaped like a ring, with the sun at the center. They find danger where ever they turn as they seek safety on this planet a million times the land area of Earth.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
Thomas Covenant, a leper in our world, is transported to a world of magic where only he can save the world with his wild magic, but he must believe in himself first. He meets many strange people and creatures, and much to his suprise he is actually befriended by some. This is a series of six books: Lord Foul's Bane, The Illearth War, The Power That Preserves, The Wounded Land, The One Tree, The White Gold Wielder.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The kingdom of Tigana is defeated and magically wiped from existence, even from everyones mind, except from the memory of the few survivors who battle to reclaim their lost kingdom from the evil and powerful sorcerer who destroyed their homeland.
The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn
A smuggler is hired to fly a ship to Earth, but the Patth, powerful alien merchants, will do anything to stop the ship
