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I just found a $20 bookstore giftcard in my closet. What are your favorite books, authors, or just good books you've read? Any genre.

House of Leaves is a nice, long read. But it is pretty expensive for one book.

For smaller, quicker read I love Robert Cormier! Anything by him is great, in my opinion.

I can't stand House of Leaves. It's one of those books where you either hate-hate-HATE IT or love it.

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Yeah, Flannery O'Connor is good as hell

I've read Flannery O'Connor for classes before but I didn't feel it, to be honest. Very dry for my tastes.

I read some Flannery O'Connor back in school (2 novels and 3+ shorter works). I could tell back then that it was quite well-written, but it was very much not my taste. I wonder if I'd appreciate it more now that I'm older.

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Yeah, the religious themes were probably the main reason we read them in school (Catholic school). I appreciated the Southern Gothic weirdness, though. We did a little Faulkner in that class [American lit] too, and I liked that more. And I think you and I have talked about this here before, but I love Tennessee Williams-- although I didn't get into his stuff until 2 years after that class.

Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

it's a trilogy but only the first book has been translated so far, I think

I'm into Sherman Alexie and Junot Diaz lately.

Ooh I need to read more Sherman Alexie. I read Ten Little Indians and really enjoyed it.

Alrighty, time for a bit of a mixed bag of recs.

If you like detective stories with some romance, I recommend JD Robb's In Death books. The main character suffered and is still dealing with the fallout of CSA if that's something that bothers you.

Do you like thrillers, FBI agents, and monsters (both actual monsters and the typical 'humans are the real monsters' BS)? Then give Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's Pendergast series a read. Much of the series is stand-alone, but some of them tie together into longer story arcs. I recommend starting with Relic and Reliquary, they're the first proper story arc.

Magic, fantasy violence, and a casual decline in quality about 20 books in more your thing? The Legend of Drizzt is all those things. YMMV on the last thing though, I personally think the series would have been better if it'd ended at the end of The Ghost King.

Do you prefer horror and consistent quality with your magic and fantasy violence? Try reading The Haunted Lands. They're set in the same world as The Legend of Drizzt, all about zombies, necromancers, war, nonsense like that. Actually, most books I've read set in the Forgotten Realms D&D setting are really good.

Paranormal romance more your deal? As much as I hate to suggest it, the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series really did begin very well, though it turns into bad smut in the 10th book and doesn't get any better on that front. The last couple books have been better about having more plot to balance the smut, but I don't think it'll get better anytime soon.

I think everything else I have to read are kids books, expanded universe crap for Doctor Who/Star Trek/Star Wars, or I realize they're horrible and have always been horrible. Or I haven't actually read them yet because I'm terrible and reread things a hundred time.

Let's see if I can try not to go on too long here.

For fantasy I love Steven Brust, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Lois McMaster Bujold. I love old mysteries, especially hardboiled detective stories like the ones by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and Dorothy Sayers is great too.

If you like things that are a bit odd (I do) one of my favorite books is If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino. Half of it is in second person about you trying to track down a book and the other half is excerpts of other books you come across along the way. I also love Kobo Abe, a Japanese writer who's done some strange things. The Face of Another is one of my favorites of his.

Some other writers that come to mind (lumped together because I tried trying to keep classifying and got tired of asking "is this person more sci-fi or fantasy?" and that sort of thing): Daphne du Maurier, Angela Carter, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, Amelie Nothomb, Stanislaw Lem, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Murial Spark

If you can find a copy of it, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's "Roadside Picnic" is some delightful Soviet sci-fi fun.

I would also recommend Arthur Koestler's "Darkness At Noon."

The first one is still on my to-read list but I'm seconding Darkness at Noon.

Here's some urban fantasy recs. They'll all be series.

Generation V, by ML Brennan. She's got a really cool vampire mythos going there, there are kitsune and werebears, and, just, yes, please. I devoured all four books in something like two weeks.

Remy Chandler, by Thomas Sneigoski. An angel who chose to leave Heaven after the War makes a living on Earth as a private eye.

Monster Hunter International, by Larry Correia. They're a corporation. They hunt monsters. We open on an accountant who manages to toss his werewolf boss out a 14th-story window.

Kitty Norville, by Carrie Vaughn. Kitty is a radio talk show host who is also a werewolf. This series is now complete!

Iron Druid, by Kevin Hearne. He's the last real druid on earth. His lawyers are werewolves and vampires. And he needs them because he gets up to all sorts of shenanigans.

Justis Fearsson, by David B. Coe. Think "the wolfman meets Jekyll and Hyde meets Sam Spade."

Spellmason Chronicles, by Anton Strout. The protag has a family legacy wherein they can control stone. There's a living gargoyle. It's awesome.

Jesse James Dawson, by KA Stewart. He's a demon hunter. Things get hairy.

That should be enough to get you started...

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