The Expanse Series! All of the characters are extremely well written. The plot and setting are also amazing. (personally: I would watch the show and THEN read the books.)
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The wandering inn. I started reading it 2ish years ago. I am still reading. The author literally writes faster than I can read. In a good way.
No killing Goblins!
Believe it or not, the 2 original Winnie the pooh novels. I just finished reading my son the second one again, and the ending is melancholy and bittersweet I nearly cried.
Hyperion (Series) and Project Hail Mary. A Fire Upon the Deep also stands out, but do note that the author died before finishing the series, which leaves parts of the story painfully unanswered. The series and characters were incredibly different than most books.
Wheel of time
All the colors of the dark.
DCC
Missed opportunity of using the word "deeply"
- Broken Earth trilogy and Great Cities duology by N. K. Jemisin
- Pretty much anything I've ever read by Adrian Tchaikovsky but special attention to Shattered Earth series, Children of Time series, and lately Service Model
The Saga of Pliocene Exile series, and associated Galactic MIlieu books by Julian May.
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The old man and the sea
The Cosmere series by Brandon Sanderson. Particularly The Way of Kings series in it. I haven't been able to put it down.
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine.
The stand and 11/22/63
Fritz Liebers Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series.
If you like grownup fantasy this is better that LOTR IMO. Or at least at the same level, less opera more character, again IMO.
Locked Tomb trilogy. I devoured those books and they consumed me back.
Moby Dick!!!! Ishmael is one of the most amazing fictitious characters I’ve ever had the pleasure of encountering.
Honorary mention to The Brothers Karamazov.
The characters are so fleshed out that you really don’t get into the book’s plot until you’re 200 pages in.
- Watership Down
- The Lord of the Rings
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- The Accidental Tourist
- Any of the Harry Potter Books
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (while Salandar is such an engaging character the story of the book is a chore to read)
- The Green Mile
Touching The Void was incredible. I literally didn't put it down until I finished; I started it when I went to bed, I read through the night, and I finished it right before I had to leave for work.
It's such an incredible gripping story that it's hard to believe it's non-fiction.
Fly Fishing by JR Hartley :)
"The german revolution" by Pierre Broue, it's a gripping read even if you know the ending.
Luna: New Moon
The Spellmonger Series
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