Books: Reading for relaxation and enjoyment

Love reading and enjoy some but by no means all fantasy.

Currently on book five of the Malazan Empire books. Huge EPIC books, and very well written by Steven Erikson.

I also thoroughly enjoyed the Kingkiller books by Patrick Rothfuss, the prose is just beautiful. And of course Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, and even more so Nation.

In general I like speculative fiction and SciFi more than fantasy, but I read a lot and will give just about any genre a go.

Oh more on the fantasy side, I absolutely love Anne Bishop's novels about The Blood, and The Others. I reread those regularly. And Richard K Morgan, The Steel Remains and The Cold Commands... I think there is a third one the title of which I have forgotten. He does SciFi too, but these ones are fantasy.

And everyone should read the NeverEnding Story, BOTH parts. The second half is incredible and not part of the movie. Michael Ends. He also wrote a lovely YA novel called Momo that I loved as a kid.

There's a lot of enjoyable Anne McCaffrey work out there, I rather preferred the Crystal Singer stuff, but also like almost all of the Pern books.

And Elizabeth Scarborough, Songs of the Seashell Archives. Loved those.

And Robin McKinley's remained fairly tales, especially Beauty.

And I like some of David Gemmel.

OK yeah, I guess I do like a fair bit of fantasy!

Oh brill - I had not heard of Malazan or Kingkiller and Anne Bishop. Have captured the titles in my TO READ list. LOL! Yes you have read a fair bit 'o' fantasy afterall. I have never read the Neverending story (one or two) either will pop that on the list. I read Anne McAffrey back in the 90's but haven't revisited her recently. Have captured all the authors here to investigate thanks @chookmojo

Absolute top fantasy novels that were lifechangers for me were Ursula LeGuin's The Wizard of Earthsea, and her "Tehanu"

This is what I'm reading at the moment. Shantaram. It's shaping up to be one of my favourite books ever.

I'm reading the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander Mc Call Smith.

I friend recently gave me "Cordelia's Honour" by Lois Mc Master. It was fun ... reading modern outlooks written into the heroine ... but still the girl wants to be swept off her feet .....

I loved The Earthsea Trilogy and early SF

but had not been able to justify reading books for fun ... worked as Bookclub Co-ordinator and had 5 groups whose book of the month I had to keep up with ... bloody hell ... more fun for me PLEEZ

Have to agree that McCall Smith's novels are wonderful, always feel good after reading his books and find them very beneficial to my mood. Love books in general and would be lost without my local library. So many good book recomendations here, I will have to expand my horizons... Regards Gypsy

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@MoonGal wrote:
@Sienna - I love Alexander McCall Smith, specially the Ladies No 1 series, his Isabel Dalhousie novels (kind of a mix between philosophy and detective story) are great too. Enjoy!

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