Just be careful with the kingkiller series. The author has stated that he doesn't plan on finishing the trilogy anytime soon.

Which seems to be a trend in fantasy authors of late.

My favorite novel of all time: James Clavell's Shogun. So much adventure! So much political drama!

That's cool, as long as he concludes the series reasonably well. (Is it even still supposed to be a trilogy? For the life of me, I can't imagine how Rothfuss would be able to fit the rest of Kvothe's dictated autobiography AND bring some resolution to the "wraparound" events in one more volume (unless the Kingkiller Chronicles is intended to focus mostly on Kvothe's backstory, and setting the scene for a future series also following that character).
Also, I think Rothfuss is quite a bit younger (and probably less...rotund) than certain other authors of popular, but much-delayed, fantasy series. ;D

Another very good book. I also liked Musashi. It's a different beast because it is a Japanese story translated to English as opposed to a Western novel taking place in Japan, but still very good.

I read that so much that I had to put and adhesive plastic cover on it, Amazon recently banged out Shogun and its sequels on Kindle for .99 each in the daily deals, (instabuy!), did you know that even King Rat is part of the Asian saga with its decendents etc.?

Have you read Aztec by Gary Jennings? Kind of similar to Shogun, you would like it if you liked Shogun so much :)

"He Reminded me of Lord Toronaga from Shogun"

At 4:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KzMbckJqgs

Mine's disintegrated. I should buy a new copy some time. I never read Clavell's other stuff. It's been in my wishlist for years though. And Aztec's been in my wishlist for years, too.

Yeah its hard to get, I lost my original and was lucky enough to get another copy in a 2 hand shop. it is available on Kindle now afaik.

Definitely read Tai Pan or watch the 1986 movie (and sequel Noble House is also very good, afaik it was a tv series with Pierce Brosnan)

FANTASY

Anonymous - Elder Edda
Arturo Pérez Reverte - The Club Dumas
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
GRR Martin - Game of Thrones
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
John Milton - Paradise Lost
JRR Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus


SCIENCE FICTION

Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
GRR Martin - Tuf Voyaging
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (2nd book, Speaker for the Dead, is algo great, third one is good but series starts slipping from there)
Robert Heinlein - The Door into Summer
Robert Silverberg - Hawksbill Station


Also, check out GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday (which may or may not belong to one of these categories)

Ready Player One is a fantastic book that I think would really go over well here. Grab a sample on Kindle if you can.

As an aside, for those of you who have more than a passing interest in Shogun, you may wish to research Tokugawa Ieyasu, upon whom Lord Toranaga was based.

EDIT: And just for completeness, Blackthorne was based on William Adams.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyasu

Brilliant, thanks so much +1

Some faves in the fantastic genre:

Machine of Death: A collection of short stories by various authors, all based on the idea of a certain type of vending machines which can tell how you're going to die.

John Dies In the End and This Book is Full of Spiders ... A certain drug opens doors to other dimension. The author got the same crazy-ass inventiveness as Douglas Adams, but instead of space opera we got cthulhu-like monsters and body horror.

Lexicon: A secret society known as 'poets' have discovered the basic code behind human language. With the right words, they can make anyone do or believe anything. I really got sucked into this supernatural thriller.

There's a whole bit on Wikipedia dedicated to the analogs.