The Malazan Book of the Fallen - by Steven Ericson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_malazan_book_of_the_fallen
Starts off a little slow, and has a lot of characters. By the end of book one you will be hooked.

 

Snow Crash and/or Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
For Cyberpunk action and all round awesome respectively

The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum (but FUCK Eric Von Lustbader's shit)
For... it's motherfuckin Jason Bourne.

House of Leaves by Danielewski
Because you said weird was good.

The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

 

One of Von Lustbader's series is pretty decent. Can't remember which for the life of me. I was a teenager the last time I picked one of his up.

The Undead series by Richard Lee Byers is pretty good.

 

Nah, I was talking about Lustbader's Bourne series continuation.
I only ever tried to read Ninja, I think, and gave up somewhere around the lesbian sex involving a shotgun or something equally stupid.

And how did I forget the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons?

 

I'll go ahead and recommend some literature, seeing as no one has done so yet.

Sherlock Holmes - Doyle

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Don Quixote - Cervantes

Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

The Three Musketeers - Dumas

Brothers Karamazov/The Idiot/Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

Pillars of the Earth/World Without End - Follett

The Worm Ouroboros - E. R. Eddison

Anything by Ernest Hemmingway.

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut.


As for some other recommendations:

The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (highly underrated)

Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson. Everyone always recommends Neuromancer and doesn't mention Gibson's other works. While Neuromancer is great, a lot of Gibson's other works are just as good, if not better.

Also, if you are into spy novels like the Bourne series, I would highly recommend Barry Eisler's John Rain series. It follows the adventures of half American half Japanese assassin John Rain. Very good stuff. It mostly takes place in Japan, but some of the later books in the series branch out to other areas in that part of the world.

 

Jonathan Stange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Huge book, excellent read.

 

I beg to disagree. I mentioned only Neuromancer because it was the only one worth mention. Ol' Johnny Mneumonic's been off his game for years... *cough* Difference Engine *cough* Spook Country *cough*

 

I disagree. They were both enjoyable, and while perhaps not quite on Neuromancer's level, they were still worthwhile reads.

 

These assassin-SF-hero types make me puke. Neal Asher's Gridlinked series. Only modern futuristic spy thriller worth it. Ian Cormac++

If I had to pimp one single author on the SF side, I'd go for Roger Zelazny. Especially "My Name is Legion" and "Lord of Light". Words fail, Trag. Srs.

 

Allright, I have this really vague memory of a series I read about 5-6 years ago. It was high-fantasy and the only thing I can really remember is that the protagonist forged this white/shining sword from magical ore on a mountain. This is seriously all I an remember, except for the epic and win the series was made of... any help?

 

The Penhaligon Trilogy? Haven't read that since I was like...12. That seems to fit into the story line. Vaguely.

 

That beast is bigger then the bible... Not to mention those god damn foot notes.

If you do pick this up be forewarned it starts off very very slow.

 

Sorry Kori that's not it. Looks interesting though.

I remember those footnotes... they weren't that bad... and can you tell me of one book as big as the Bible that doesn't start off slowly?

 

Non Fiction Espionage story
"Breaking With Moscow," by Schevchenko
USSR Undersecretary General of the UN, Arkady Schevchenko was the highest ranked Russian ever to defect to the West. Well written, and the lack of sex and James Bond style toys is completely compensated with the understanding that this isn't fiction.

http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Moscow-Arkady-N-Shevchenko/dp/0345300882

 

The Artemis Fowl series is quite excellent.
Some consider it childish but I think it kicks royal ass, Rich anti-hero who is a teenage prodigy who fucks over magical society....Sweet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_Fowl_(series)

The Earthsea Series is awesome as well.

• A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
• The Tombs of Atuan (1972)
• The Farthest Shore (1974)
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990)
• The Other Wind (2001)

The Jester, a novel by James Patterson and Andrew Gross.

 

Do you have access to Brazilian books? Don't know if there are translations of them, but there are a lot of good ones. Just, please, don't read Paulo Coelho (albeit he's the most known internationally, he's trash...).

 

Robert Heinlein wrote hard science fiction - his work can be divided into young adult and mature. Both age groups are excellent.
Anne MacCaffrey The Dragons of Pern series
Stephen King I've read The Stand many times.