EfU:M Reading List

[ShadowCharlatan]

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[Divine Intervention]

Dresden Files, must have read the whole series three times now.

[Halfbrood]

The Warlord Chronicles.

[Storm_in_a_teacup]

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

[tropic]

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck. Awesome characterization, but a bit lengthy!

[Porkolt]

HP Lovecraft.

[AllMYBudgies]

The Dancers at the End of Time series is quite good. The Hollow Lands was my favourite of the original three books.

[bigx]

Can't go wrong with Wheel of Time (final book #14 due next spring).  I also am a big fan of Song of Fire and Ice. Book 1 "Game of Thrones" is a series on HBO right now.

[caek]

Neil Gaiman's stuff is really good (Neverwhere, American Gods)

[Kinslayer988]

Twilight, Vampire novels, books with shirtless men (AKA any book on the romance isle)... You indeed asked for something at the pinnacle of it's genre.

All jokes aside, I suggest Wheel of Time if your into long readings of piecing lore together it's a win.

I also reccomend H.P. Luvcraft and discworld

[TheMacPanther]

William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) are awesome if you like cyberpunk and coolness, also Johnny Mnemonic by Gibson is a good short story (plus it has the best character ever: a heroin addicted cyberdolphin hacker named Jones)

Also Huxley's Brave New World is a classic.

[9lives]

Ignore all the shit posted above (except Gibson), and read:

Perdido Street Station, and anything else by China Mieville.
The Darkness That Comes Before, and the books that follow, by R. Scott Bakker.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, and his numerous others.
The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman, an excellent 'Weird West' type novel.

[PlayaCharacter]

Oh man, I am so glad you asked. There is only one book I would recommend for an EfU player, and I recommend it for all players. Every single one of you should read

The Count of Monte Cristo

[Wrexsoul]

I'd like to toss out a nod towards Tad William's "Otherland" - It's an interesting sci-fi/VR (cyberpunk I guess) series by an otherwise mostly Fantasy author that I really enjoyed reading.

[Nuclear Catastrophe]

"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch is utterly fantastic.

"Shogun" by James Clavell is a tour de force.


For epic fiction, obviously the Song of Ice and Fire series by GRRM and the Praxis trilogy by Walter Jon Williams are good bets.  So is the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton.