Posted: May 03, 2012 7:36 pm
UM, I would highly recommend R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series if you like GRRM. It's fantasy but written by a philosophy lecturer. SOIAF is brilliant, and feels really real, but PoN is something else. It's going to be two trilogies set about twenty years apart. We're currently on the first book of the second trilogy. A longer recommendation by me can be found here.
But besides that my favourite book ever would be a toss up between Absolution Gap by Alistair Reynolds and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. Also, the Sandman series of graphic novels by Neil Gaiman is brilliant, but not everyone considers GNs to be "proper" books.
But besides that my favourite book ever would be a toss up between Absolution Gap by Alistair Reynolds and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. Also, the Sandman series of graphic novels by Neil Gaiman is brilliant, but not everyone considers GNs to be "proper" books.