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I think we should have a rec sub-thread. Aaaand go!

I'm partial to Good Omens and anything written by Jasper Fforde, especially Shades of Grey.

omg all I saw was Shades of Grey and I thought you meant 50 of them and I was about to call troll.

- An Imaginary Life by David Malouf.

- Anything by R.K Narayan (he's hit-and-miss for me, though. Some of his novels I like, some I totally don't get.)

- The Harp in the South - Ruth Park. Don't read "Poor Man's Orange".

-Most of Thomas Hardy's better known novels (I don't like his more obscure ones).

- Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy

-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

- Dirt Music by Tim Winton. I couldn't really get into his other stuff.

- The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa. The Jull Costa trans. is far superior. Some might find this emo - I find it depressing and trite if I'm not in a certain mood.

... fuck, I need to start reading again.

I love Shades of Grey sooooo much. It helped that I'd just come off a color-theory jag, which Jasper Fforde must have also been going through, so I was all "Oh hi, references to people and things I know". But it's so much more than that, and I am itching for him to write the sequel, although I also want him to take more time over it, like he did Shades of Grey, because that so paid off.

Just, argh! So good. And so many hints about the world the characters inhabit, and what the characters themselves look like and so on.

UGHHH, I love it so much. I mean, I like the Eyre Affair and the Nursery Crimes, but there's something just very me about Shades of Grey. Maybe it's the Victorian Manners Comedy set in dystopian Wales or Tommo Cinnabar (who's my favorite)

...Or maybe I'm just biased because he put in Muppets and Raiders of the Lost Ark references. XD

Terry Pratchett, like mostly everything from him. Also because it was called earlier in the thread David Foster Wallace's essays, especially Consider the Lopster, Juli Zeh's (not sure if any of her books were translated into english) essays and from her novels in particular 'Spieltrieb', Haruki Murakami 'Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'.

Seconding Good Omens though I am partial to Gaiman's works in general.

Silas Marner by George Eliot reads oddly like babyfic.

I just finished John Steakley's Armor. Sci-fi classic easily on par with The Forever War and Ender's Game, one of the first to deal with the effects of PTSD in a realistic and engaging way.

Also, Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow. The results of a global nuclear catastrophe, but written in the 1950s, with a very different take on the devolution of society than we see in modern post-apoc.

Oooh. Thanks, I'll mark those as TBR.

Others have recommended Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, so I'll just second them.

I'm a fan of Jim C. Hines, especially his Jig the Goblin trilogy and Princess series. Haven't had a chance to read his latest, Libriomancer, yet.

Also I really enjoyed Agatha H. and the Airship City (the novelization of the first year or so of Girl Genius), but again, I haven't yet had a chance to read the second book, Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess.

Does Ash by Malinda Lo count as adult fiction? 'Cause if so, definitely that. I hear that the second book, Huntress, isn't as good, though.

Carl Hiaasen is hilarious, and really gets the special brand of weirdness that makes up Florida, especially South Florida. He's one of the few non-fantasy authors that I read on a regular basis.

There's also The Dark Wife, by Sarah Diemer, which is about Hades and Persephone with a femmeslashy twist. Hades is a bit too perfect and Zeus too evil, but it's still a pretty fun read.

Huh, wonder if Carl Hiaasen's work is anything like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which I feel like really gets Savannah and its ridiculous weirdness. I'm not in Florida, but I've visited enough to probably think his work is funny.

I like just about everything by Haruki Murakami--my favorites are 19Q4, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and South of the Border, West of the Sun.

Natsuo Kirino writes some really unsettling but really fascinating stuff. If you can stomach awful people doing awful things because of societal pressures she's worth reading. Out is her best-known work in English.

Uh, what else....I have a lot of issues with Dan Simmons, but The Terror is 3/4 of a good historical fiction novel about the doomed Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The ending isn't very good, but the majority of the book is excellent, creepy survival horror.

I'll never pass up an opportunity to rec my favorite writer of all time: Robertson Davies. Fantastic characters, witty writing, in some series shades of fantasy/magic realism -- I just adore him. The Depford Trilogy is my favorite series of books, period.

OP here!

Thanks for starting this thread, very cool to see I'm not alone in my tastes, as I see some good books I've read mentioned here!

I can't recall titles except for Un Lun Dun (which is technically children's fiction), but I like everything China Mieville has written. One of them was a socio-linguistic dystopian sci-fi suspense sort of thing. I understood half of it and enjoyed every minute of it.

Timothy Zahn does great sci-fi, as does Jack Campbell.

What I’ve read and liked recently (besides the YA books) (because of very different reasons (admittedly one of them being escapism)) in alphabetical order:

Bourdain, Anthony: Kitchen Confidential (non-fiction, autobiographical book about chefs)
Camilleri, Andrea: the Montalbano-series (Italian (Sicilian) crime novels)
Eco, Umberto: Baudolino (It’s easier if you have your history books with you, but still fun if you haven’t.)
Fforde, Jasper: The Eyre Affair
Fowler, Karen Joy: The Jane Austen Book Club (A book *not* exactly about Austen’s novels. I was hungry for derivative works at the time, and this was what I’ve found. Now I know how to search better.)
le Carré, John: The Constant Gardener (So… this one I’ve read for the romance.) (The first ever book I’ve read in English. Yay.)
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn (That was a huge surprise for me.)
Lindsay, Jeff: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Only the first book I’d recommend from the series.)
Pratchett, Terry: Discworld-series
Priest, Christopher: The Prestige
Rákos, Petr: Korvína čili Kniha o havranech (I doubt it’s been published in English; a Czech book *not* exactly about crows.)
Shaffer, Marry Ann & Barrows, Annie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (So the end is a bit cheesy, but it’s written in epistolary format, and it’s about books, and it succeeded to make me cry, so I still recommend it to anyone who cares.)
Stoppard, Tom: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (So it’s not a novel but a play, but it’s different enough from the movie.)
Swann, Leonie: Glennkill (Three Bags Full) (A german crime novel *not* exactly about… sheep.)
Wass Albert: Elvész a nyom (The Tail Perishes) (Hungarian novel about faith… or not. It’s an interesting reading experience, liking the way the story is told and at the same time, hating the political connotations it evokes.)
Werber, Bernard: Les Fourmis (The Ants) (the first part of the trilogy) (A French sci-fi *not* exactly about ants.) (Yep, I’m sensing a pattern. Still not listing Akif Pirinçci’s “Felidae” (German crime novel with cats) here, I’ve read that book too long ago.)

That’s all? Ow. I think I have to check my bookshelf.

There's always something!

Lorenz, Konrad: Er redete mit dem Vieh, den Vögeln und den Fischen (King Solomon's Ring) (Biographical non-fiction book about ethology.)

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