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Many of the series in italics come from Amazon.com recommendations,
which are useful if you rate a lot of the books you have read and liked,
or the site’s ‘Listmania.’

key


italics not read yet, but expect to be good
* great
** favorites
*** perfection
(Y) liked when I was younger

recommended reading list
Author
“Series Name”
Book Title
*** Robert Jordan
“The Wheel of Time”
* Terry Goodkind
“The Sword of Truth”
* Frank Herbert
“Dune”
*(Y) Tamora Pierce
“The Circle Opens”
“Protector of the Small”
“The Immortals”
“Lioness Quartet”
“Circle of Magic”
“Daughter of the Lioness”
David Eddings
“The Belgariad”
“The Malloreon”
“The Elenium”
“The Tamuli”
“The Elder Gods”
Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Earthsea Cycle”
The Left Hand of Darkness
* Garth Nix
“The Abhorsen Trilogy”
* Mercedes Lackey
“The Heralds of Valdemar”
“The Last Herald-Mage”
“The Mage Winds”
“The Mage Storms”
“Vows and Honor”
Exile’s Honor
Exile’s Valor
Brightly Burning
Take a Theif
** J.K. Rowling
“Harry Potter”
Terry Brooks
"Shannara"
"Word and Void"
George Orwell
1984
(Y) Brian Jacques
“Redwall”
** Orson Scott Card
“The Ender Series”
“Homecoming”
Pastwatch
“Tales of Alvin Maker”
*(Y) Anne McCaffrey
“The Dragonriders of Pern”
“The Harper Hall Trilogy”
“The Crystal Singer Books”
*** Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
For Us, The Living : A Comedy of Customs
Tunnel in the Sky
Glory Road
Friday
Farnham's Freehold
Katherine Neville
The Eight
The Magic Circle
A Calculated Risk
* Isaac Asimov
“The Foundation Novels”
Nemesis
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Digital Fortress
(Y) Jane Leslie Conly
“The Rats of Nimh”
(Y) Susan Cooper
"The Dark is Rising"
(Y) Lloyd Alexander
"The Chronicles of Prydain"
(Y) T.A. Baron
“The Lost Years of Merlin”
Joe Haldeman
The Forever War
Keith Laumer
Star Colony
**(Y) Jane Yolen
“The Pit Dragon Trilogy”
Philip Pullman
"His Dark Materials Trilogy"
(Y) Joan D. Vinge
Psion
* Sarah Douglass
“The Wayfarer Redemption”
Threshold
*** David Weber
“Honor Harrington”
* [Various]
“Legends” (1,2,3)
Diana Wynne Jones
Dark Lord of Derkholm
“The Dalemark Quartet”
Christopher Paolini
“Inheritance”
** Lois McMaster Bujold
“The Vorkosigan Series”
T. H. White
The Once and Future King
George R.R. Martin
“A Song of Ice and Fire”
* Kristen Britain
“Green Rider”
** Anne Bishop
“Black Jewels Trilogy”
* Elizabeth Haydon
“The Symphony of Ages”
Raymond Feist
“Riftwar”
Tad Williams
“Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn"
"Otherland"
The War of the Flowers
* Katharine Kerr
"Deverry and the Westlands"
Stephen R. Donaldson
"The Gap Series"
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
"World of Recluce"
** Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Legacy"
Douglas Adams
"Hitchhiker's Books"
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
Guy Gavriel Kay
"The Fionavar Tapestry"
CS Lewis
"Space Trilogy"
"Narnia"
** Steven Brust
"Vlad Taltos"
Gene Wolfe
"The Book of the Short Sun"
"The Book of the Long Sun"
John Ringo
David Weber
"March"
C. J. Cherryh
"Fortress" et al
Sean Russel
"The Swans' War Trilogy" et al
Michael Moorcock
"Eternal Champion"
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
China Mieville
Perdido Street Station
The Scar
Stephen Baxter
"Manifold"
Diana Gabaldon
"Outlander"
** Robert Asprin
"M.Y.T.H."
Lois Lowry
The Giver
Anne McCaffrey
Elizabeth Moon
Jody Lynn Nye
The Planet Pirates
Andre Norton
"Witch World"
Mary Stewart
"Merlin Trilogy"
Arthur C. Clarke
The City and the Stars
Stephen Lawhead
"Pendragon Cycle"
Patricia McKillip
"Riddle of Stars"
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
"Dragonlance Chronicles"
Kate Eliott
Robin McKinley


a few good short stories
Isaac Asimov
"The Last Question"
Robert A. Heinlein
"The Long Watch"
Fritz Leiber
"Sanity"
A. E. Van Vogt
E. Mayne Hull
"Abdication"