Brent Weeks

Though not exactly within your prefs, I think you'd enjoy (at least a couple of) the books of Sebastian Fitzek

Haruki Murakami
William Gibson

The Passage by Justin Cronin, starts off as a thriller and quickly hurtles towards an apocalypse and its aftermath, pretty awesome read, the sequel is also available now called The Twelve.

http://www.amazon.com/Passage-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B003TJA8Y2/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379785396&sr=1-2&keywords=justin+cronin+book+3


Also well worth a look is Reamde by Neal Stephenson

http://www.amazon.com/Reamde-A-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062191497

American Gods is great, I also liked Neverwhere(Mr.Croup & Mr. Vandemar are epic). The Sandman stories from Gaiman are also very good - he draws heavily from occult and mythic themes, but they are comics.

Greg Bear is cool if you like Sci-fi.

If you're up for some gore - try Graham Masterton. Long, long time ago my adventure with horror started with his Manitou.

Sure, I'll recommend some stuff.
Peter Hamilton - Night's Dawn Trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God)
David Brin - The Uplift series
Dan Simmons - Hyperion series
Larry Niven - Anything you can get your hands on. Given your stated tastes, I'd say you'd probably especially enjoy:
- The Heorot series (The Legacy of Heorot, The Dragons of Heorot/Beowulf's Children)
- The Mote series (The Mote in God's Eye, The Gripping Hand)
- The Dream Park series (Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, The California Voodoo Game)
Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land
While I will gladly support you in recommending that, I feel that it also needs to be said that in order to read that book/those books, you need to concentrate fully upon what you're reading and analyze every sentence as you go along (more or less) or you will "fall off" the narrative. The story jumps around so much that it's easy to get confused, especially as it doesn't tell you when it jumps. At one point it jumps seven years into the past and switches from a male to a female narrator in the middle of a sentence. That's how complicated it is. It's brilliant, and a fantastic book, but it really takes a lot of concentration to get through.

Wow, that is intense. I am not that much of a bibliophile, but I am feeling in the mood I will give it a shot. You guys are some hardcore book enthusiasts. :)


I checked out A Mote in Gods Eye, and I love the attention to detail and universe the narrative creates. Whatever you call it, I like it.

A few you might find enjoyable:


Communion: A True Story
Whitley Strieber

The Nye Incidents
Whitley Strieber, Craig Spector

Locke & Key
Joe Hill

Damned
Chuck Palahniuk

The Club Dumas
Sonia Soto, Arturo Perez-Reverte

Koko
Peter Straub

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski

The Man Who Counted by fictional author Malba Tahan.

It's about the tales of an exceptional mathematician in XIII century Baghdad and the inventive ways in which he uses math to solve disputes and give sage advice. The book is half about the atmosphere of the setting, the author did write in character as someone from that period, and half about the wonders of mathematics itself. But if you don't like mathematics, don't fret, it's not difficult to follow at all and the author manages to make it very accessible and fun all throughout.

As far as horror, Clive Barker books are great for that. I've been meaning to read a few of his books, as it's been quite a while since I have been in the mood for a horror novel.

Thomas Ligotti is one of the current big names in the "weird sort of Lovecraftian but not exactly" field of horror right now; you might enjoy him.

If you think you might enjoy alternate history novels, I have two recommendations for those.

The Years of Rice And Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
This novel explores how history might have looked if the Black Death had killed 99% of the population in Europe rather than the 33% it actually did. The novel is divided into ten parts, which all take place in different places and time periods, moving forwards in time. The different parts are tied together by a recurring group of characters which are reincarnated in each time period. Which character is which is revealed to the reader by the fact that their names always start with the same letter as their previous incarnation.

The Ring of Fire series, by Eric Flint
A cosmic accident provides the setup for this series. It involves two spherical volumes of space 6 miles in diameter exchanging places. One is in rural America around the year 2000 and contains a small mining town. The other is in southern Germany in 1632 and contains only empty landscape. The modern American townsfolk suddenly find themselves stranded in Europe in the middle of the 30-Years War, and must find a way to cope with the situation with no hope of ever returning home again.

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