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[Kashyyk]

It's my birthday tomorrow, and I've been asked what I wanted. What I want is some good books, but I don't know any. So Bay12, any suggestions?  Personally I like Fantasy/Sci fi/Action/Adventure/Comedy. But feel free to put any good series up, along with their genre, and we can compile a huge list of must reads.

[Strife26]

Ender's Game, Sci-fi classic

Commissar Cain
Commissar Gaunt
    They're both WH40k serries, but I enjoyed them both without ever playing the game. Cain is the funny look at the crap-sack world. Gaunt is the serious, depressing one.

Monster Inc, is kinda a fun read. Fighting monsters in the modern world.


What kind of Fantasy/ Sci-fi do you like? High/ Low? Hard/Soft?

[Kashyyk]

With fantasy, I like mid-low and with Sci fi, mid-hard. Although if the character development and plot is good I can put up with more crazy tech/magic.

[Max White]

Also, Enders game is one of the very few times I am going to encourage piracy, as the Author is a member of the national organization for marriage, an anti-gay rights group, so the more people who buy the book, the more money has the potential to be in the hands of active homophobes.

Less of two evils.

[Dutchling]

If you don't mind a story in a StarCRaft setting, I recommend Starcraft Archive. It has 4 really good stories. It is written like a normal book and you really don't need to know anything of the game to read it .

The Green Mile and Minority Report from Stephen King is a must for everyone, same for the movies.

[Grakelin]

The Game of Thrones is hot right now, and the books are good. I suggest A Song of Ice and Fire, the whole series. Book V is coming out in a couple months.

Try Asmiov's Foundation Trilogy if you haven't yet.

[Sir Finkus]

The Count of Monte Cristo

Fantastic book, and you'll probably still be reading it in a month.  Great value for your dollar there.  It's the finest revenge story ever written and the count is a total scheming badass.

[JoshuaFH]

While it's a book I read in Middle School, I suggest "The House of the Scorpion", about a boy cloned to provide organs for a ridiculously wealthy drug lord.

I also really enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes books.

Oh, and Catch 22. That's probably my most favorite book of all time.

[Vector]

Book V is coming out in a couple months.

That just made my month.

[Dutchling]

The Game of Thrones is hot right now, and the books are good. I suggest A Song of Ice and Fire, the whole series. Book V is coming out in a couple months.

Why didn't I say that >.>
They are the best books I've ever read...

[TherosPherae]

Before I recommend anything let this be said: I am known to be a pretty horrid judge of book quality. All I know is whether or not it held my attention, and how it did so.

That said...
The Ranger's Apprentice series is pretty decent, with some pretty damn visible ties to actual history.
Ender's Game is a classic, but some of the books in the series spun off of it are terribad, from what I've heard.
Not sure what the book title is, but there's a series out there called Troy Rising in which a dude gets fantastically rich off of selling aliens syrup as alcohol and then defending Earth from other aliens with... well, that'd be spoilers.
There's an incredibly long book my aunt got me for Christmas called Evil Genius, by Catherine Jinks. It's pretty decent, all things considered.

[Elim]

The Black Company, by Glen Cook!

The Black Company is a series of fantasy novels by author Glen Cook. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.

The Series focuses very much on Dialog and "Story".
Not very much Fighting and Stabbing, in the later Book's.
Dont let the Titles mislead you, or the Wiki-Thing.

And for Sci-Fi...
Old Mans War
Starship Troopers ( Must Read!, the Movie has NOTHING to do with the Book, in case you think "naah, ****" )
Foundation Trilogy

[Boksi]

The entire Discworld series. Okay, it's probably better to start at some books than others, but all the books are pretty good. The first one is a bit of an odd duck out, though. I, personally, started with Thief of Time, and that's a pretty decent book to start with I think.

[PremierMeridian]

1984 by George Orwell or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, both chained my view on the world, how it works and what I can do about it. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Brilliant book bit at 1200 pages is a bit of a wedge to read.

If you want comedy and slight sci/fi or fantasy, try anything by Terry Pratchett, you can't go far wrong with any of his books, particularly the Sam Vimes plotline in his discworld novels.

[Vector]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Brilliant book bit at 1200 pages is a bit of a wedge to read.

Also Notre-Dame de Paris, otherwise known as the Hunchback of Notre Dame.  I can't believe I forgot to recommend it.

If you get it, buy the Signet edition.