Alright, so I like Lord of the Rings of course...everyone does though I hate the Silmarillion, it's like reading the first part of Genesis in the Bible.

Harry Potter....I like them as well

R.A Salvatore books, I simply love them.

Piers Anthony's Xanth Series

Through the Dragon's Eyes (spellcheck) by Stephen King

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles

Anne Rice's stories about Sleeping Beauty (Very interesting twist on an old classic tale---it's a series of Erotic novels though so not for the faint of heart)

Also....I am interested in reading David Edding's books but not sure where to start so could anyone tell me where to start? I believe someone had said Pawn of Prophecy but I just want to check.

Once again my nerdish nature comes to the fore, as although I will admit to reading harry Potter and enjoying it (I can't stand LOTR though), my entire library consists of fantasy, from R.A Savlatore to Elaine Cunningham (you should read those Felemar, if you're reading R.A Salvatore's drow series you might like Elaine's stories about Danilo Thann & co.), to those really old books "Spelljammer" that no one who isn't a massive 2nd ed. D&D buff has heard of, to Troy Denning's Dark Sun World, to Wheel of Time (when I can find the stupid things, some berk nicked it out of me library!)

I think I have Dragons of Autumn Twilight....is that a Cunningham book? It seems like it....I have been researching Sword of Truth and David Eddings novels on Amazon and some of the Eddings books are going for such low prices, I can buy them all without any reprecussions so I may just do that.....also, has anyon read any of the Artemis Fowle books?

Nope. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wrote it, along with the rest of the Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends trilogies. I was quite fond of those novels.

Other than that, I read Tolkien's novels, Douglas Adams and many others that I can't think of right now.

Just looking to see if anyone can recommend some books for me to read.

I recently finished reading all of the Shannara Series and the Robin Hobb novels (Farseer, Liveship, Fool). Anyway, whatever you all can think of that I might enjoy.

Hmm, The Mists of Avalon, awesome awesome awesome.

The "His Dark Materials" series, I know a lot of people have read The Golden Compass, if you haven't finished the series, do so. Awesome.

"The Immortals" series.

Clan of the Cavebear and it's series.

I like series......*nod me*

Fantasy litterature, wai!

First of all, Salvatore sucks. But that's just me, I have several respectable friends who like his books. They're nice, apart from that.

He can't really cope with the best of them, though:
Steven Erikson is absolutely magnificent. His series about the Malazan empire gave me some of my finest reading experiences.

Also, lest we not forget, A Game of Thrones. Can't remember author's name. There's three follow-ups, fifth due out soon, methinks...also grand.

That's fantasy. I like China Mieville's books about New Crobuzon as well, I didn't read the last one, though, just Perdido Street Station and The Scar. King rat is also passable, though not really steampunk.

Then there's Gaiman; Neverwhere and American Gods are his best. Sandman is cool too, but that's a comic.

Favorite book so far... The Halachic Mind and The Halachic Man by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik

If you can get a hold of this book, and your Jewish or not, its got to be the biggest brain bender in existance. Warning: Book contains really really big words.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0827603975...958#reader-page

oh that, and The fountain head by Ayn Rand.. much better than atlas shrugged I think.

Oh another great book... "The Minds I" forget who thats ones by.

If you happen to be a fan of History and like war books, just look for the author Harry Turtledove, and you'll find the best alternate history books. They are simply, amazing.

We are nerds we all read the same books.

Oh, I doubt ANYBODY here has read Halachic Man

LOTR of course.

The Asian Saga by James Clavell are the best books I've ever read, and he's by far one of the best (if not the best) authors ever (in my oh so humble opinion).

I'm also a big fan of Garth Nix who wrote the Abhorsen trilogy, and a moderate fan of David Eddings.

OI. *kick me* I can't believe I forgot that. I got so attached to that series I actually cried when it was over. Yeah, even though it was a happy ending. *is lame* Don't worry, I won't spoil it. It's not disappointing though.

I actually thought Atlas Shrugged was much better then the Fountainhead, at least from a readability stand point, and also a bit clearer on the philosophical side. Although it does seem to be a trend to start off writing tight, solid novels, and then end up writing good novels that are overly wordy. (Like Harry Potter.)

Anyway, yes, I liked the HP books, and also in no real order... Patricia Wrede, Alan Dean Foster, Poe, Spider Robinson, Emma Bull/Will Shetterly, Heinlien, James Schmitz (the old version, I've heard the new is..different), Asimov, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Douglas Adams...

Besides the stuff already listed, most of which I like, I like the Ender series (Orson Scott Card), the Dune series (Frank Herbert), and stuff by Dave Barry.

99% of "classic" fantasy. 50% of the top SF books. And occasionally other random ones that sneak into my "To read" pile.

The Asian saga is good, but it varies a lot from book to book. I loved Shogun, Tai-Pan and Noblehouse, the others weren't as good.

Absolutely love Orson Scott Card's books, but my favourites aren't the Ender ones (Ender's Game was brilliant and everyone should have to read it but the others weren't his best). The best ones are his random books like Pastwatch and... I think it's called Fairytale? The sleeping beauty one (It's got a very believable and realistic idea of what would happen if someone from the modern era got sent back to medieval times). His short stories are excellent as well, but some of them should not be read on a full stomach, or alone (If you have a weak stomach, stay away from "A Thousand Deaths" and "Kingsmeat" in particular ).

Terry Pratchet rocks, of course. David Eddings is pretty good, but very very easy to pick holes in and once you've read one of his series, you've read them all (I maintain that this isn't a bad thing though... I like his characters so it's nice to see them in the other series). Harry Potter's alright, but there's far better out there. The world is wonderful, but I'm not sure I like the series as a series overly much.

"Dune" - Frank Herbert

Greatest Sci-fi work IMHO

I meant to read that a while back, but never got around to it. Perhaps some day...