At the age of 25 Iv started to read books

[Ebony Falcon]

So shame on me right ? 

Well I’m just finished the 2nd true blood book and it’s pretty good ! 

Im going to continue reading the trueblood books but I was wondering what else I should read as Iv never read anything 

 

any surgestions on what else to read 

 

[TetraSky]

It's never too late to pick up a good book and start reading. Lord knows the story you find in books is often a hell of a lot better than a many of the crap we're being spoonfed these days.

[dDave64]

Wheel of Time series if you’re at all interested in Fantasy (it’s by no means a “standard” fantasy story.)

 

Otherwise I might recommend Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton. More modern day type sci fi. It’s what the movies were based on but the books are better.

[Giganthrax]

Books are great. What kinda genre do you like?

 

I'm personally a huge horror fan, and would generally recommend Stephen King, Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Nate Southard, Thomas Ligotti, Max Brooks, Brian Lumley, Clive Barker (early works), and of course Lovecraft.

 

Tucker Max has written 4 hilarious short story collections that basically recount his drunken womanizing adventures, if you're into that kind of less-than-politically-correct comedy. Gavin Mcinnes's Death of Cool is another similarly funny anthology. 

 

Charles Bukowski is highly regarded for a reason.

 

Cormac Mccarthy is one of my all time favorites, but he's definitely not for everyone.

 

If you're into fantasy, The Witcher series is pretty damn good, and of course A Song of Ice & Fire series.

 

Lately, I've also been reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series and loving it. 

[Tristerin]

Anything written by R.A. Salvatore in the Forgotten Realms, or his other realms (Spearwielder tale etc) - he is my most favorite of majestic unicorn Authors in the world.

[Lord Mirdalan]

If you like modern adventure-science-apocalypse stuff, read James Rollins' Sigma Force series. Think Indiana Jones, but with more disease and guns.

[mariushm]

If you're into vampires, you should look at these, they're quite good :

 

Lynsay Sands - Argeneau Series (fun, interesting take on vampires) :  https://www.goodreads.com/series/40687-argeneau

Kerrelyn Sparks - Love at Stake (vampires, werewolves, werebears, panthers etc, more light and fun not so broody) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/41627-love-at-stake

Molly Harper - Jane Jameson series,  Molly Harper - Half Moon Hollow series, Molly Harper - Naked Werewolf series (vampires and werewolves) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/46406-jane-jameson (all series related between them, same universe, easy reading and fun)

J.R. Rain - Vampire for Hire series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/51121-vampire-for-hire

^ kind of light, easy writing style, enjoy reading it, woman made vampire without her will, vampires seen as evil spirits which invade human bodies and force them to drink blood and so on, different interesting take on vampires.

Dakota Cassidy - Accidental series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/44248-accidentals

fun and light series about group of women who become non-human by accident (werewolves, vampires, mermaids) and help others cope with the changes

 

 

more serious

Julie Kagawa - Blood of Eden trilogy - post apocalyptic, vampires control cities all over after some kind of virus infected the world : https://www.goodreads.com/series/63328-blood-of-eden

Lara Adrian - Midnight Breed series (vampires as originating from alien invasion thousands of years ago) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/49140-midnight-breed
Jeaniene Frost - Night Huntress Series (vampires, some good world building) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/67946-night-huntress

_Faith Hunter - Jane Yellowrock series :  skinwalkers (american indian stuff) , shapeshifters and vampires  : https://www.goodreads.com/series/161451-jane-yellowrock

J.C. Diem - Mortis Series (vampires, aliens, alien invasion) and Shifter Squad Series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/103844-mortis https://www.goodreads.com/series/147374-shifter-squad

^ this author has a hard on about Faith and people controlled by Faith as a supernatural entity - these two series along with a third called Hellscourge are all in same universe and in all this entity Faith shows up eventually.

Patricia Briggs - Mercy Thompson  and Alpha/Omega (vampires and shapeshifters, mostly werewolves)  : https://www.goodreads.com/series/40932-mercy-thompson

Chloe Neill - Chicagoland Vampires (vampires with swords) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/46147-chicagoland-vampires

 

Linda Lael Miller - Vampire / The Black Rose Chronicles : https://www.goodreads.com/series/51147-vampire

Good books but were written in 1993-1996, not like modern vampires from true blood - still good stories, romance, vampire falling in love, good stuff.

 

Rachel Caine - Morganville Vampires

 

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Anne Bishop - The Others : https://www.goodreads.com/series/99557-the-others

 

A cool series.. a sort of alternate Earth where the top of the food chain are a bunch of predator species that can shapeshift , a vampire like species, elementals and how they deal with humans - humans are restricted in how much land they can use for cities, growing food etc, and must trade with the "natives" who are powerful enough to exterminate humans if they want to 

 

Richelle Mead - Georgina Kincaid series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/90081-georgina-kincaid

Cool series, main character a succubus which works in a book store (and has to have sex with people from time to time to make them sin and take a bit of their life), some vampires and demons also ... cool concept ...

 

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If you're into good science fiction, you should check out

 

Jean Johnson - Theirs Not to Reason Why Series  and First Salik War (action happens before Theirs Not to Reason Why series)

space opera, military .. great series though author tends to be very very descriptive ... some of the books could have 10% less text and still be great

humans with paranormal abilities (telekinesis, telepathy, precognition etc), interaction with other species,  

first salik war - first contact with alien species , how humans deal with discovering other species, exchanging technologies etc

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Theirs not to reason why:

...What if you could see the future? What if you foresaw that, three hundred years from your time, your entire galaxy would be destroyed in an overwhelming invasion? What would you do to stop it, when it would all happen long after you were dead and gone?

These are the questions that Ia must face, and the obstacles she must overcome. Spurred by her teenaged visions of an apocalyptic future, the young heavyworlder woman seeks to set up a series of events, a domino-chain of actions and repercussions that will hopefully stop the coming invaders long after her time has passed. But in order to do so, she must enter the military and engage in a four-front war: an old, barely contained enemy whose twin goals of galactic conquest and lunch terrify all sane sentients; an ancient foe whose technology vastly outstrips anything the Alliance can fling at it; a fanatic, xenophobic religious movement on her homeworld which Ia dares not stop; and her ongoing battle against Time itself.

 

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves  :  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22816087-seveneves

Very good book about what would happen if the moon explodes and pieces of it fall on Earth causing a chain reaction which destroys everything on Earth and how humans have a limited amount of time to get as many humans in space as a colony so humanity can survive and so on... very interesting conclusion at the end

 

Evan Currie - NAC Odyssey : https://www.goodreads.com/series/79684-odyssey-one

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Beyond the confines of our small world, beyond the well of our star, lies a galaxy, and universe, larger and more varied than any of us can imagine. Assigned the task of blazing man's first trail into that great unknown, Captain Eric Weston and the crew of the NAC Odyssey launch on a mission destined to make history.

Past the bounds of comfort, they encounter horrors and wonders beyond their imagining, with people and monsters beyond reckoning.

Odyssey One is the first voyage of the NAC Odyssey and its crew, and the beginnings of a Military Science Fiction Epic that combines both old school space opera, and modern storytelling in one great, exhilarating adventure.

 

Nalini Singh - Psy-Changeling : https://www.goodreads.com/series/41454-psy-changeling

 

An alternate Earth where there's normal humans and some humans with psychic abilities and shapeshifter species ... and those special humans decided to kill their emotions and work like they're in a hive mind (they can use telepathy to talk to each other or access information)

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In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of "rehabilitation" - the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was...

Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion - and that the animal in him is fascinated by her.

 

Ruby Dixon - Ice Planet Barbarians , IceHome , : https://www.goodreads.com/series/151379-ice-planet-barbarians

women from earth abducted by aliens, manage to escape but crash land on some other planet where it's constantly freezing, make a new life with some aliens they find there.

 

Michelle Diener - Class 5 Series : Dark Horse, Dark Deeds, Dark Minds - https://www.goodreads.com/series/169743-class-5

women abducted from earth , artificial intelligence etc good trilogy

 

Veronica Rossi - Under the Never Sky : https://www.goodreads.com/series/69828-under-the-never-sky

 

Ann Aguirre - Sirantha Jax : https://www.goodreads.com/series/44705-sirantha-jax

 

 

Kimberly Derting - The Taking Series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/102604-the-taking

could have been condensed in a single book, but worth reading ... girl dissappears in front of her father on a highway and suddenly shows up ~ 5 years later, having the same age, no changes in her body, nothing and she thinks it's the next day, no memory of what happened to her

 

Evangeline Anderson - Brides of the Kindred  https://www.goodreads.com/series/58408-brides-of-the-kindred

Good series, species of alines attacks Earth, other aliens come to protect it and in exchange as for women as a genetic flaw gives them incredibly small female births so they go through galaxy looking for compatible species and Earth happens to be compatible. 

Good stories in each book, plenty of erotic content, just a headsup in case parents would be opposed to sex in books

 

Grade Goodwin - Interstellar Brides - kind of similar concept to the above

 

 

[mariushm]

OH ... and if you guys enjoy humans with supernatural abilities, you should check out Worm web series from Wilbow:

 

Website: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

 

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An introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy and frustrated civilian life. Her first attempt at taking down a supervillain sees her mistaken for one, thrusting her into the midst of the local ‘cape’ scene’s politics, unwritten rules, and ambiguous morals. As she risks life and limb, Taylor faces the dilemma of having to do the wrong things for the right reasons.

 

I made an epub version of the site for my own use, some may prefer to read it like this : John C. Wildbow McCrae - Worm.epub

 

Also, this is NSFW ... it's a series of LONG stories on a website that has free sex stories... but I promise it's a very good series :

 

The Adventures of Bela, the Vampire Girl : https://storiesonline.net/series/936/b-elas-world

May require a free account to read the stories.

 

It's about a vampire girl who gets "energized" by sex and blood and more aggressive acts (like cuts, being shot etc) ... it's a side effect of her being actually alien-human hybrid...

It's also about saving humanity, time travel, teleportation, parallel realities... really good stuff.

 

If you can get over these passages where there's violence and rough sex, there's a lot of good story.

 

Basically, the vampire is actually a hybrid from an alien species and humans, where the aliens were intelligent enough to transfer their "spirit" into these hybrid creatures in order to survive as their original bodies could not handle the solar radiation from our sun - their space ship's main engines were destroyed during an attack and there's no way to repair or produce fuel in our galaxy to leave so they decided to stay around Earth but they soon discovered that thousands of years in the future (~ 2500 in our time) our Sun would become unstable and cause big enough solar explosions to destroy Earth ... so for the last two thousand years they're using their ship and gravity pulls to move earth and ice and stuff and create an artificial moon behind Mars where humanity would be protected when the sun goes super sayan..

So  over some hundred years Sun goes gradually bad and people start living underground because radiation is too much, and cities get flooded, society devolves ...

meanwhile the vampire chick along with some humans she recruits and gives them extended life using her alien blood work on saving as many humans as possible to transport at the last minute to that artificial earth they create..

[Guest]

I like philosophy that’s not happy & other less than happy endings

slaughterhouse five

roadside picnic

One day in the life of Ivan denisovich 

 

I forget what else 

[Ravenbear]

I do not think it's that old. Never too late.  After I left the Army after 22 years, at 42 I went back to college. So never too late to learn in my book.

[Ebony Falcon]

20 hours ago, dDave64 said:

Wheel of Time series if you’re at all interested in Fantasy (it’s by no means a “standard” fantasy story.)

 

Otherwise I might recommend Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton. More modern day type sci fi. It’s what the movies were based on but the books are better.

Thanks Mann I’ll check it out

i decided To get song of Achilles and cerci as I enjoyed as assasinscreed odesy and they sound similar 

[Ebony Falcon]

18 hours ago, mariushm said:

If you're into vampires, you should look at these, they're quite good :

 

Lynsay Sands - Argeneau Series (fun, interesting take on vampires) :  https://www.goodreads.com/series/40687-argeneau

Kerrelyn Sparks - Love at Stake (vampires, werewolves, werebears, panthers etc, more light and fun not so broody) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/41627-love-at-stake

Molly Harper - Jane Jameson series,  Molly Harper - Half Moon Hollow series, Molly Harper - Naked Werewolf series (vampires and werewolves) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/46406-jane-jameson (all series related between them, same universe, easy reading and fun)

J.R. Rain - Vampire for Hire series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/51121-vampire-for-hire

^ kind of light, easy writing style, enjoy reading it, woman made vampire without her will, vampires seen as evil spirits which invade human bodies and force them to drink blood and so on, different interesting take on vampires.

Dakota Cassidy - Accidental series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/44248-accidentals

fun and light series about group of women who become non-human by accident (werewolves, vampires, mermaids) and help others cope with the changes

 

 

more serious

Julie Kagawa - Blood of Eden trilogy - post apocalyptic, vampires control cities all over after some kind of virus infected the world : https://www.goodreads.com/series/63328-blood-of-eden

Lara Adrian - Midnight Breed series (vampires as originating from alien invasion thousands of years ago) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/49140-midnight-breed
Jeaniene Frost - Night Huntress Series (vampires, some good world building) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/67946-night-huntress

_Faith Hunter - Jane Yellowrock series :  skinwalkers (american indian stuff) , shapeshifters and vampires  : https://www.goodreads.com/series/161451-jane-yellowrock

J.C. Diem - Mortis Series (vampires, aliens, alien invasion) and Shifter Squad Series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/103844-mortis https://www.goodreads.com/series/147374-shifter-squad

^ this author has a hard on about Faith and people controlled by Faith as a supernatural entity - these two series along with a third called Hellscourge are all in same universe and in all this entity Faith shows up eventually.

Patricia Briggs - Mercy Thompson  and Alpha/Omega (vampires and shapeshifters, mostly werewolves)  : https://www.goodreads.com/series/40932-mercy-thompson

Chloe Neill - Chicagoland Vampires (vampires with swords) : https://www.goodreads.com/series/46147-chicagoland-vampires

 

Linda Lael Miller - Vampire / The Black Rose Chronicles : https://www.goodreads.com/series/51147-vampire

Good books but were written in 1993-1996, not like modern vampires from true blood - still good stories, romance, vampire falling in love, good stuff.

 

Rachel Caine - Morganville Vampires

 

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Anne Bishop - The Others : https://www.goodreads.com/series/99557-the-others

 

A cool series.. a sort of alternate Earth where the top of the food chain are a bunch of predator species that can shapeshift , a vampire like species, elementals and how they deal with humans - humans are restricted in how much land they can use for cities, growing food etc, and must trade with the "natives" who are powerful enough to exterminate humans if they want to 

 

Richelle Mead - Georgina Kincaid series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/90081-georgina-kincaid

Cool series, main character a succubus which works in a book store (and has to have sex with people from time to time to make them sin and take a bit of their life), some vampires and demons also ... cool concept ...

 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

If you're into good science fiction, you should check out

 

Jean Johnson - Theirs Not to Reason Why Series  and First Salik War (action happens before Theirs Not to Reason Why series)

space opera, military .. great series though author tends to be very very descriptive ... some of the books could have 10% less text and still be great

humans with paranormal abilities (telekinesis, telepathy, precognition etc), interaction with other species,  

first salik war - first contact with alien species , how humans deal with discovering other species, exchanging technologies etc

 

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves  :  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22816087-seveneves

Very good book about what would happen if the moon explodes and pieces of it fall on Earth causing a chain reaction which destroys everything on Earth and how humans have a limited amount of time to get as many humans in space as a colony so humanity can survive and so on... very interesting conclusion at the end

 

Evan Currie - NAC Odyssey : https://www.goodreads.com/series/79684-odyssey-one

 

Nalini Singh - Psy-Changeling : https://www.goodreads.com/series/41454-psy-changeling

 

An alternate Earth where there's normal humans and some humans with psychic abilities and shapeshifter species ... and those special humans decided to kill their emotions and work like they're in a hive mind (they can use telepathy to talk to each other or access information)

 

Ruby Dixon - Ice Planet Barbarians , IceHome , : https://www.goodreads.com/series/151379-ice-planet-barbarians

women from earth abducted by aliens, manage to escape but crash land on some other planet where it's constantly freezing, make a new life with some aliens they find there.

 

Michelle Diener - Class 5 Series : Dark Horse, Dark Deeds, Dark Minds - https://www.goodreads.com/series/169743-class-5

women abducted from earth , artificial intelligence etc good trilogy

 

Veronica Rossi - Under the Never Sky : https://www.goodreads.com/series/69828-under-the-never-sky

 

Ann Aguirre - Sirantha Jax : https://www.goodreads.com/series/44705-sirantha-jax

 

 

Kimberly Derting - The Taking Series : https://www.goodreads.com/series/102604-the-taking

could have been condensed in a single book, but worth reading ... girl dissappears in front of her father on a highway and suddenly shows up ~ 5 years later, having the same age, no changes in her body, nothing and she thinks it's the next day, no memory of what happened to her

 

Evangeline Anderson - Brides of the Kindred  https://www.goodreads.com/series/58408-brides-of-the-kindred

Good series, species of alines attacks Earth, other aliens come to protect it and in exchange as for women as a genetic flaw gives them incredibly small female births so they go through galaxy looking for compatible species and Earth happens to be compatible. 

Good stories in each book, plenty of erotic content, just a headsup in case parents would be opposed to sex in books

 

Grade Goodwin - Interstellar Brides - kind of similar concept to the above

 

 

Thanks man really appreciate the effort u put into this

il Be sure to have a good look at all of thies ! 

[Sauron]

The Lord of the Rings

[NinJake]

3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

The Lord of the Rings

The movies are great but the books are greater!

 

(if you're into star wars at all, my friend has told me about all the star wars books and how crazy the lore gets in that universe, so I'd recommend that as well)

[dDave64]

12 minutes ago, NinJake said:

The movies are great but the books are greater!

 

(if you're into star wars at all, my friend has told me about all the star wars books and how crazy the lore gets in that universe, so I'd recommend that as well)

 

Lots of good content there. I’d most recommend the Legacy of the Force book series but the Mandalorian Armor is another favorite of mine and it’s more standalone.

[Flameweaver]

 

On 4/14/2019 at 8:29 PM, dDave64 said:

Wheel of Time series if you’re at all interested in Fantasy (it’s by no means a “standard” fantasy story.)

 

Otherwise I might recommend Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton. More modern day type sci fi. It’s what the movies were based on but the books are better.

Hello. I want to say that the Spielberg film is one of my favorite films, but still I think the book is better, and I recommend reading it. The beauty of Crichton, as a writer, is that he writes in some detail, sometimes to the point of boredom, but this does not negate the fact that the film is clearly visible in my head without Spielberg. I also try to write small stories similar to those of Crichton, I did not always succeed, and I found some good helpers for writing edusson.com. I hope with their help someday I will write something worthwhile.

[star_pilot475]

You should check out Carl Hiaasen's books. He writes for all ages, whether it’s teens, adults or kids. My favorite is Skink No Surrender.