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read any of garth nix books.. or my all time fav. author christopher moore! he is absolutley hilarious!!! like LAmb. or the Lust lizard or melencholy cove. he has the most random sense of humor and everybook that he puts out is on my top books ive ever read!

I have PLENTY of books and authors. First off Anything by Tamora Pierce Her series are: Lioness Quartet, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens, Trickster's Choice, Trickster's Queen, The Will of the Emperess, Beka Cooper. I suggest that you read The Lioness Quartet first, then read The Immortals Then read Protector of the Small series. These all deal with the same characters. You do not have to read them in the order. You do not need to know to much about them in each others books. It is just cool just knowing what happend to them and such. If you liked the whole Alanna thing, then you should read her daughters adventure. That would be Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen. Then if you like George Cooper and everything then you should read Tamora Pierce's latest book Beka Cooper.

The Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens and The Will of the Emperess do not deal with Alanna or anything. It is a total different series, but never the less still great.

If you like the whole vampire books then I think that you should read books by Barb and J.C Hendee These books are great. I believe that there are only three books out there and they are: Dhampir, Thief of Lives and lastly Sister of the Dead. These books go in order and I listed them in order as well, but you do not need to read Dhampir to know what is going on in the other books. It would just be better I personally think.

Well, I have read alot of books. So if you need suggestions or what not feel free to ask me.

-Harley

Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Good story and it made me think, it really is because of this book that I'm much more open to the concept of intelligent design. It is amusing, engaging and it explores.

The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
It has an interesting pace and yes is somewhat religious, but it doesn't force it on to the reader. Not for the homophobic.

Deep Secret and The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
Funny, hectic and you really just become fond of the characters.

I saw a lot of fantasy listed here and little Science Fiction. I've read some of those fantasy works and have enjoyed them.

On the sci-fi list I would include Arthur C Clarke. A long time writer who has written some good stuff. 2001, 2010 were quite good. I liked 2010 best. Rendezvous with Rama was good as well. Though much of his good work was done early on, I find that I like him. I have quite a collection of his and reread them quite often.

Timothy Zahn is very good as well. He has written several excellent Star Wars novels, yet his regular sci-fi novels are good as well. I just got done his Night Train to Rigel which I received for Christmas. Excellent. I would recommend him.

Isaac Asimov is good. I have been a fan of his for decades. He's not a writer the young would like today, I think. But his Foundation Series won a Hugo award. I liked that series. Writing as French, his Lucky Star series was interesting to me as a teen though it is quite dated now. I enjoyed his Robot stories as they were quite good and the movie I Robot merely combined the stories with a bit of Hollywood adaptations.

Jack Williamson's The Black Sun was good.

On the fantasy level no one mentioned David Eddings. I like everything I have read of his. The Belgarid series was excellent as was the Sparhawk series (thats the main character and I cannot remember the Trilogy title)

Octavia Butler (I Hope I spelled that right) has some good work out there which could be both fantasy and sci-fi.

Reading is subjective, though, and what I like others might hate. A. C. Clarke's The City and The Stars is about a boy serching for his own identy which struck me as I have done that all my life. So as a teen it resonated with me.

Another example happened when I was in a sci-fi readers club. We read the book Dawn by Octavia Butler. The leader of the group hated it saying it was merely a retelling of a Bibical story from Genisis. I though the book dealt with man's inability to get along with each other and what would happen if we had a war that totally wiped out life on Earth. In this book we are found by an alien species who rescues us from our own folly. But what a price we pay. I thought the book examined the concept of survival and the price we may have to pay if we don't get our act together.

As far as writers living long enough to finish a series Rex Stout who wrote the Nero Wolfe murder mystery series wrote until he died at the age of 84. Other writers continued writing well into their advanced years. So there is always hope an author will remain active enough to finish such long projects.

The Belgariad and The Mallorean. Two wonderful series by David Eddings. All of Douglas Adams' books, and pretty much anything by Larry Niven.

Emerald House Rising by Peg Kerr was AMAZING.

"Jena Gemcutter thinks she knows what she wants out of life--to marry Bram Tailor, to become a master gemcutter, to make her father happy. Then she meets a stranger with a ring only she can see, and strange things start happening. She learns she can do magic. She has strange visions and dizzy spells. She discovers she feels trapped in her life. And suddenly only someone who can use magic--someone like Jena--can save the entire Diadem from treachery."

I didn't know Howl's Moving Castle was a book... Hmm... hafta check that one out.