Book Recommendations

Didn't see anything in search, so here's a thread devoted to books you'd recommend to reference without clogging up random thoughts.

Include author, title, and genre when applicable. Thanks!

I am not sure what you mean by this, like text books for referencing while doing a given task?

I think he's just talking about reading material. If that's the case I can throw out



Watership down, by Richard Adams is such a classic novel. It's a story about a group of rabbits that are forced to evacuate their home and go on a long journey to resettle. It's a deep tale of adventure, travel, leadership, temptation, strife, danger, hunger, and conflict. The book has the rabbits communicating with one another in the human tongue so that readers can relate to the tale, but they do so in a way and with terminology that's distinctly animal. It's a very good book and one I read multiple times as a child.

Final Fantasy XI Online Official Strategy Guide by Michael Lummis is a harrowing look at the gritty, rain-soaked underbelly of the Bastok criminal underworld. Follow the adventures of Brady the PLD/DRK as he navigates the world of Vana'diel in this non-stop noir adventure.

no, referencing this thread for ideas on what to read. sorry for the confusion.

Might have to close the thread already, though. Gonna be nearly impossible to top Turambar!

Here's one of my favorites

Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash

great cyberpunk sci-fi with lots of mythology and pop culture thrown together.

The Culture series is my favourite scifi book series. Different story for each book told from different perspectives. Some are aliens, some human descendants.

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. Douglass Adams



Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters: "Where God Went Wrong," "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes," and "Who is this God Person Anyway?"

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects:

First, it is slightly cheaper;
and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

Douglas Adams is amazing. Read those several times over. My favorite memory is the trick to flying, and I wonder whether the ship's drink machine or our AI would make a better cup of tea.

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Sabriel by Garth Nix