Book recommendations...

mothoc is looking for book recommendations. Here's a few I culled from my shelves:

Garth Nix: Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen.

Will Shetterly: Dogland.

Kubotite: Bleach

Kazuya Minekura: Saiyuki

Tim Cahill: Road Fever, A Wolverine is Eating My Leg, Pecked to Death by Ducks, Pass the Butterworms, and Hold the Enlightenment. (Jaguars Ripped My Flesh seems to be out of print at the moment.)

David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day (best in audiobook edition, but still funny in text).

Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent, Neither Here nor There, Notes from a Small Island, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, and In a Sunburned Country.

Lois McMaster Bujold: Young Miles, Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem, and Miles Errant, The Spirit Ring, and The Curse of Chalion.

Katherine Neville: The Eight.

Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost.

Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu.

Michaela Roessner: The Stars Dispose and The Stars Compel.

Midori Snyder: The Innamorati and The Flight of Michael McBride.

Emma Bull: War for the Oaks.

Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth.

Lucia St. Clair Robson: The Tokaido Road.

Daniel Pinkwater: 5 Novels and 4: Fantastic Novels.

Kij Johnson: The Fox Woman.

Jeff Vandermeer: The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases.

Kage Baker: The Anvil of the World, Black Projects, White Knights, In the Garden of Iden, Sky Coyote, and Mendoza in Hollywood.

Jeanne Larsen: Bronze Mirror, Manchu Palaces, and Silk Road.

And a few more...

More books for mothoc

Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky.

Joan Vinge: Catspaw and Dreamfall.

Steven Brust: The Vlad Taltos series, collected in: The Book of Jhereg, The Book of Taltos, The Book of Athyra, Dragon and Issola. Then The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After, The Paths of the Dead and The Lord of Castle Black. Which will have you waiting on tenterhooks for the release of Sethra Lavode.

Glen Cook: the Black Company series starting with The Black Company.

Gene Wolfe: Shadow & Claw, Sword & Citadel, and then The Urth of the New Sun.

Dorothy Sayers: the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series in general, but especially the Harriet Vane story arc, in order, which starts with Strong Poison, then Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night (which has got to be my favorite book of all time, ever, but must be read in the proper palce in the series to get the full impact), and Busman's Honeymoon. If you like those, you might want to check out the sequels written by Jill Paton Walsh from notes and partial manuscripts of Dorothy Sayers--

Jill Paton Walsh: Thrones, Dominations and A Presumption of Death.