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QoaD, pt. 2:

I need to read more. Tell me a book to read. Something you think I really need to read.

Any genre, fiction or non-fiction; but I have a definite taste for fantasy/sci-fi, memoir/autobiography, and anything with really strongly written characters.

I am currently in the middle of:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Utne's Guide to Salons (I think I have the title right)

but I read fast. So, gimme some more ideas.

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. Zoë and I can loan you our copy, if you'd like. It's the best book ever.

Well, like I said Anansi Boys is good...

Das list:

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
"The Diamond Age, or: a Young Ladies Illustrated Primer" - Neal Stephenson
Villains By Nescessity (don't remember the author's name offhand)
Neuromancer, Count Zero and MonaLisa Overdrive - all by William Gibson (they're Cyberpunk though, so I'm not sure you'll like 'em)
War for the Oaks - Emma Bull

I'm sure I could come up with more. =)

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Stardust and Coraline are my two favorite Neil Gaiman books. But you'd probably really enjoy the Sandman series, too.

And I know you've heard this, but I think you should dabble in some Tom Robbins, and I'd recommend Jitterbug Perfume as his best and most "you."

I'd also strongly recommend Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis & Derick Robinson, though frighteningly, much of that horrific "future" is already coming true, so it's getting dated. I mean, when you point out that the emperor has no clothes, it's supposed to do him in, but that doesn't happen anymore, so when Spider brings down the powerful with his pen, you kinda doubt it could happen these days. But the future described is quite fascinating regardless.

Harp of the Grey Rose by Charles De Lint.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull.
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
War of the Flowers by Tad Williams.

You do realize that this is a dangerous thing to ask me, right? Okay, here it goes.

Vegetarian America (the author's last name is Iacobo. I can't remember the first name)
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (and if you like this, read the next three--Lavondyss, The Hollowing, and Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. Lavondyss, though, is the best of the four, I think, but the series makes no sense if you read them out of order.)
Winter of Magic's Return and Weirdos of the Universe, Unite! by Pamela F. Service
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson by George Alec Effinger
Elsewhere by Will Shetterly
Mad Amos by Alan Dean Foster
Changing Planes and The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula LeGuin

If you haven't read it yet, go and get Lolita by Nabokov. It gets my vote for being the best novel ever. Also, Alice in Wonderland. If you haven't read it, you must experience the book itself.

Neuromancer would be my number one recommendation. It is probably the most influential scifi book written in the last 30 years.

at least that is my view of it all.

Kushiel's Dart - Jaqueline Carey (And the 2 books after that)
Anything by Sarah Douglass (Ask Nathan and Alicia)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini as well as the 2nd book
Terry Goodkind's Wizards First Rule series
House of the Spirits - Isabell Allende
100 years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anansi boys - Neil Gaiman
Robert Newman's The Fifth Sorceress series
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

I also recommend starting (and devouring) the His Dark Materials trilogy by Mr. Phillip Pullman. I also read quickly and this way there are two more books to follow and get lost in.

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