Hello everyone!

I used to read a lot and that's something I'd like to get back into. I read the Dragonlance novels, the original Dune; a few others in the series including House Harkonnen and The Butlerian Jihad.

I tried looking at different titles on Amazon but it looks like every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinks he can write the next war of the ring. I honestly don't know where to start. Has fantasy and sci-fi become over saturated? Was it always like that and I just didn't notice?

How have the Dragonlance novels aged? I remember reading those in highschool and I absolutely loved them.

What about video game novels? My only experience with them is Richard A. Knaak's writing and his work is stupid and boring.

I'm open to other genres as well. Fight Club is one of my favourites.

How do you feel about recommending authors as opposed to recommending individual books?

American Psycho.

Read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave

The Children of Hurin

The Simarillion

Neil Gaiman American Gods

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

Typical Fantasy and entertaining in my opinion:

Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara

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As Seleapi pointed out, Richard Matheson - I am Legend is also very good, it is way better than the movie with Will Smith which took the book as inspiration, but apart from that has not much to do with it(the old movie with Vincent Price took a lot more from the book).

You read one of my two favorite books - Dune

Now read the other - The Martian

And also a book essential to gamers - Ready Player One

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

Armor - John Steakley

Glory Road - Robert A. Heinlein

"Deathstalker" series - Simon R. Green

Old Man's War - John Scalzi

All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka

That list should get you started. Enjoy.

Anything from Isaac Asimov, really. Foundation is a good start, but The Caves of Steel is a great start as well.

Neuromancer by William Gibson is a great cyberpunk novel.

Check out David Eddings' "The Elenium" series (which then leads into The Tamuli series)

the first book is called:

The Diamond Throne

I also highly recommend Piers Anthony's:

Split Infinity (Adept series first 4 books are great)

Incarnations of Immortality series (first book is On A Pale Horse)

also maybe check out Clive Barker's Imajica (2 books)

and you really shouldn't miss:

Joan D. Vinge's:

The Snow Queen + The Summer Queen (2 books)

also note this thread:

reading books thread

Anything by Robert A. Heinlein is a good choice I think, my favorite/I think his best is:

Stranger in a Strange Land

I recommend the novels of Harry Turtledove, especially the ones about Gerin the Fox and the series called the Videssos Cycle.

It's not only one novel, it's 4, but I strongly recommend the 4 books of the "Planet of Adventure" from Jack Vance (which is an author I love).

I recommend too in a very different setting some Richard Matheson books, "Journal of the Gun Years" (if you want what I would call a "typical western put in a book"), or simply "I Am Legend" which is very good and smart.

If you want some fantasy (especially entering in Tolkien's universe), I strongly recommend reading "The Hobbit". Good universe and great story. And NOT BORING (I've read Lord of the rings... oh my... that... was...so... slow...... and I got the feeling of reading more a guide book of Middle earth than an epic story)(but I understand that some people can like that). I think it's the best entry point in this universe.

"The Castle" from Kafka.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" from Oscar Wilde.

And to finish (there would be a lot more depending of your tastes), I recommend "Farenheit 451" from Bradbury. Maybe online purchase amplify this feeling : years ago, when you were going in a local store, there were only some shelves... With online purchases, all catalog is in front of you :P (but I personally have got the feeling that yes, there is a lot more "choice" than before)(even if I've got the feeling too that quality as reduced a lot in the same time) Quality vary a lot. Not in video-games but close, Dan Abnett's books of Warhammer 40,000 are interesting.
I still have the witchers novels to read :P (I heard good things about them) Individual books is nice to give a better "taste" of what, for you, can be interesting in the work of an author, or in a domain (sci-fi, space-opera, horror, etc...). Advising the whole work of an author is really hard : quality (and interest to read) may often vary. The authors that I can say have in general very good work (=worth to read almost everything they wrote) are very rare.

The Passage by Justin Cronin it's a pretty self contained start to a trilogy, the final part will release in may .

It's an apocalyptic setting, as I read it, I was playing Fallout NV which seemed kind of apt :)

Terry Pratchett. You should try at least one of his Discworld books if you like fantasy at all. "Guards! Guards!" is a good one to start with.

Mooooort!!! I like it a lot.