I might also mention that my recommendations are all better books than HP. So there.

[sabotabby]

Once the shock of reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the fifth time in a row wears off, some readers may be wondering what they can read next. So why not start a meme of suggestions? So here are the rules:

1. You must copy and paste the directions, rules, and the list so far into your blog and then add three (and only three) books to the list.

2. These three books must NOT already be on the list so far. They must be fantasy or science fictional in nature that those who enjoyed Harry Potter may also enjoy. You must provide your name and a link to your blog and/or website so that people may contact you to ask for more information about the books, if they want. They must be books that you have actually read yourself.

3. You cannot recommend a series; instead, recommend the first book in the series. Terry Pratchett's Discworld would NOT be considered a series; but Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time would. Use your best judgment about whether you're recommending a series or not.

4. You must label the books as either YA (young adult, suitable for the younger fans of Harry Potter) or A (adult, suitable for the not-so-younger fans of Harry Potter). Please be clear about this. It will be understood that anything labeled YA is also recommended for A.

5. If you are an author, you CANNOT recommend your own books. (You can however hound your friends into recommending your books.)

6. Providing a link to information about the books you are recommending is optional.

And here's the list so far:



Jim C. Hines (jimhines.livejournal.com) recommends:

1. Pat Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind (A)
2. Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice (YA)
3. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (YA)

Janni Lee Simner (janni.livejournal.com) recommends:

1. Lene Kaaberbol's The Shamer's Daughter (YA)
2. Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword (YA)
3. Tamora Pierce's The Magic in the Weaving (Circle of Magic, Book 1) (YA)

Joshua Palmatier (jpsorrow.livejournal.com) recommends:

1. S.C. Butler's Reiffen's Choice (YA)
2. Jim Hines' Goblin Quest (YA)
3. Patricia Bray's The First Betrayal (A)

Booniecat (booniecat.livejournal.com) recommends:

1. Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) (YA)
2. Diana Pharaoh Francis' Path of Faith (Book 1 of a trilogy) (A)
3. Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Pawn (Magic Trilogy, Book 1) (A)

Erin (erinlin.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men (A Diskworld Book, Tiffany Aching book 1) (YA)
2. Laurence Yep's Dragon Of The Lost Sea (Dragon Series Book 1) (YA)
3. Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle (YA)

Sabotabby (sabotabby.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. China Miéville's Un Lun Dun (YA)
2. Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) (YA)
3. Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms (A)

Comments

[nom-de-grr.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love Wings of Desire. What a kick it is to see a young Nick Cage peform, and the film is so beautifully shot. Haven't seen the sequel, though. Have you?

[sfslim.livejournal.com]

Sequel is meh, at least compared to the transcendently perfect original (which is one of my favorite films ever). "Faraway So Close" is enjoyable, or can be, especially if you're fond of Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz, but it seemed far less focused and poetic than "Wings of Desire". Best treated as a separate creature entirely.

But Wings... such beauty...


"Als das kind ein kind war."

"Schaue. Meine augen."

[sabotabby]

I thought the second one was amazing, but in a totally different way. I liked that it consciously screwed with audience expectations.

[begundan.livejournal.com]

+1 in big letters.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Hah. Nicholas Cage, right. Well, I haven't seen the remake, so I guess i can't talk.

[sabotabby]

Me thinks nom_de_grr meant "a young Nick Cave." I hope. I refused to watch the remake.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

aHah, of course. I'm so stupid.

[nom-de-grr.livejournal.com]

OMG, I meant Nick Cave. Cage was in that unbelievably bad American remake.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Funny coincidence! I should have realized you wouldn't talk about nicholas cage.