Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick.

Like the last three pages alone make reading this book worthwhile...but you have to read the whole book for them to make sense.

I'd like to be the third to recommend The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Atlas Shrugged is great, too... but just skip the 60-page long (I mean it!) John Galt radio rant... it's useless. :p

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky is wonderful as well, but I've known people to dislike it. If you've read and liked other stuff by him before, you'll probably like it as well.

John Galt...bleh. I dunno, Ayn Rand can make some sense at times, and at other times just prattle on about stupid BS.

Just my opinion. We have to read anthem for Honors English 12 or AP English, can't remember which. Either way, I've already read it, so yay :p

The Yoshi speaks truth.

Some of Ayn Rand's philosophy makes sense, other parts I singularly detest. But I love her storytelling; that's what I'd reccomend AS or TF for.

I didn't like Anthem at all, though. Too much bland allegory for my tastes.

Pratchett, Stephenson, and Zahn. Then you win. :p

Woo, quite a bit of books. Anyway, I've read a great many of them (from only 1/3 of the discworld series, catch 22, Cat's Cradle/Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut, Fahrenheit 451 and other stuff by Bradbury, the giver, the DiVinch code, ect). Good taste all around.

But the sequel to LotR written by CS lewis is set... in space? Man, just gotta read that just for how odd it would be. For some reason I imagine them trying to throw the ring in the fire again, but a robot arm reaches out and says "I can't let you do that, Frodo." The "foundation" series seems interesting too. Pity some of it is out of print though. We have a few used bookstores, so some hunting there is warranted. Hey, one had a Battletech paint-by-numbers book, so probability is decent.

Anyway, thanks for the recommendations. Got myself quite a reading list now.

You really need to put American Gods and Neverwhere at the top of your list.

Well, they are single books anyway, might as well. And if they suck YOU WILL FEEL MY WRATH! FOR I AM... wait, crap, no one really. Anyway, I'll take your word for it.

You sir, are correct. The Trinity, right there.

It's not so much a sequel in the sense that its a continuation of the story of Lord of the Rings, but rather it takes place in a modern day setting (1940's, which was modern day when it was written), and assumes that the events of Middle Earth, including the Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and LotR actually took place in the past. Numenor and the concept of the Istari (the wizards) particularly play an important role in the third book. The theme of the third book is also quite similar to Lord of the Rings, it's the idea of the goodness of nature versus the evilness of technology.

The Star Wars X-Wing series by Micheal A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston, immediately followed by "I, Jedi" by Stackpole. THE BEST Star Wars books in existence.

Stackpole owns. His Battletech books are still my faves.