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Frank Herbert
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.K. Rowling
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
J.K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
Pierce Brown
Iain Banks
Naomi Novik
George Orwell
Recent additions from our reading community
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cormac McCarthy
Walter Isaacson
Adam Kay
Justin Cronin
Cormac McCarthy
Pat Barker
Patrick O'Brian
Pat Barker
Pat Barker
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
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The most-read authors across our community
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into film…
Iain M. Banks
Iain Banks was a Scottish author who published fiction under two names that marked a clear generic distinction: as Iain Banks he wrote literary fiction, as Iain M. Banks he wrote science fiction, though the boundary between the two was alwa…
Mercedes Lackey
American novelist and short story writer
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, includin…
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian was an English novelist, born Richard Patrick Russ in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, in 1914, whose Aubrey-Maturin sequence is widely held to be the finest historical naval fiction in the language. A prodigy who publis…
J.K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling is a British author best known for the Harry Potter series, seven novels published between 1997 and 2007 following a young wizard's education and his confrontation with the dark wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. The…
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American author known for his intricate and imaginative works in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sanderson developed a passion for writing at a young age…
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novell…
Reading orders for popular book series
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire is George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series following the struggle for control of the Iron Throne of Westeros. The story is told through rotating point-of-view characters whose perspectives often conflict, creating a narrative where no single character holds the full truth. The series is known for its moral complexity, willingness to kill major characters, intricate political plotting, and a sprawling cast that grows with each volume. Five of a planned seven novels have been published, with the sixth - The Winds of Winter - long awaited by readers.
5 books
Hergé
Hergé's Belgian comic albums follow Tintin, a young reporter who never quite seems to file a story, and his dog Snowy, through adventures running from Shanghai to the Andes and twice to the Moon. The supporting cast became one of the most recognisable in comics: the irascible Captain Haddock, the hard-of-hearing Professor Calculus, and the near-identical detectives Thomson and Thompson. Hergé drew in the ligne claire style he made famous, where every line carries the same weight and nothing is shaded, and from The Blue Lotus onwards he researched each setting closely enough that the books double as period travelogues. Twenty-three albums were completed between 1929 and 1976, with a twenty-fourth left unfinished at his death.
23 books
Joe Abercrombie
A sequel trilogy set a generation after the events of The First Law and the standalones, in a world undergoing industrialisation. The mills are changing who has money, the dispossessed are organising, and the Union's political structures are straining under pressures they were not built to handle. New characters carry the story - Savine dan Glokta, an investor and social climber who has inherited her father's intelligence and ruthlessness; Leo dan Brock, a celebrated war hero with political ambitions; Rikke, a young woman from the North with the Long Eye, the ability to see the future at considerable personal cost. Characters from the original trilogy and standalones return in diminished or transformed roles. The Age of Madness is Abercrombie at his most politically engaged - a trilogy about revolution, its causes, its violence, and the dispiriting reliability of its outcomes.
3 books · The First Law World
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian's twenty completed novels follow Jack Aubrey, an officer of the Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon who is also a naturalist and an intelligence agent, through the long wars against Napoleonic France. The books are as much about the friendship between the two men as about the fighting, and O'Brian writes the period from the inside: the seamanship, the medicine and the language of the day are left largely unexplained, on the assumption that the reader will keep up. Beginning with Master and Commander in 1969 and ending with Blue at the Mizzen in 1999, the sequence is often described as one very long novel rather than twenty separate ones, and rewards being read in order.
20 books
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