Amy's Favorite Books |
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Science Fiction | Fantasy | Humor | Mystery/Thriller/Suspense | Classics | Dark Fantasy |
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Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamiliton: Every book by this women is my favorite!!! If you like balsy female characters with lots of cutting wit, and very handsome monsters you will love the Anita Blake Vampire Executioner series. Throughout the series this petite dynamo cuts a swath through monsters be they vampire, werewolf or human. These books have great character development, interesting plot twists, witty dialogue and starting in the Killing Dance (the 4th book) some of the best sex/love scenes I have read in a long time. No smarmy euphemisms like in romance novels but just intense scenes with fantastic imagery. These books will not let you put them down until you've read them cover to cover. The other books in order are Guilty Pleasures, Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings and Blue Moon. Every one of them is worth the cover price! The next book is due out in 2000. For more information you can check out the official Laurell K. Hamilton fan site at Alpha's Lair. |
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Children of the Night by Mercedes Lackey: Other two Burning Water and Jinx High |
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Blood Debt by Tanya Huff: Other Books Blood Price, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, Blood Trail |
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A Dozen Black Roses and Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection by Nancy Collins: |
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Kim and Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling: |
| Watership Down by Richard Adams: | |
| White Fang by Jack London: | |
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Jubal Sackett by Louis L'Amour: I rarely read westerns as they are often full of macho tripe and unrealistic shoot out scenes. (I like my violence realistic and plausible!) This novel is nothing like that. It depicts a quiet man who is as at home in the woods as an Indian. It is full of great woods craft and a sense of wonder and mysticism in life that is absent in today's world. I found it gritty yet sensitive. I highly recommend it as well as some of his other books like Walking Drum and Last of a Breed. |
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Naked in Death by J.D. Robb this story and series defies description. It is a gritty detective/mystery thriller about a female cop in a sci-fi fiction and has some romantic interest thrown in to spice it up. An excellent series for the person who likes a lot of genres. Other books include Glory in Death, Immortal in Death, Rapture in Death, Ceremony in Death as well as several others. The lastest, Conspiracy in Death is reviewed in my new books section. |
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Black Betty by Walter Mosley: Other books are Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, A Little Yellow Dog |
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Ugly Duckling by Iris Johanson |
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Mathemagics by Magaret Ball: This funny character is first introduced in the Chicks N Chainmail series edited by Esher Friesner. Riva Konneva is just your regular single parent working mom. She just happens to work as a sword woman in an alternate reality and commutes from the "Paper Pusher's Reality" so her daughter can have a better education. This novel is hilarious. Great characters with a cutting wit, it touches on important issues in a sensitive yet funny way. A stand alone novel yet I would also recommend the stories in the first two Chicks in Chainmail anthologies for background and just on their own merit. |
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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: This hilarious armageddon spoof is one of the finest, humorous tales I've read in quite some time. What can I say about a gay angel who is friends with a demon with a sense of humour, a hell hound that is a lovable mutt and a very unlikely anti-christ. It is one hell of a ride. No matter how funny the scene I rarely laugh out loud (at least not in public). I give this book a major thumbs up because it not only gave me the giggles but actually surprised a few belly laughs and guffaws out of me! |
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Final Diagnosis by James White: This series of books, Sector General novels, is fantastic. James White is not well known,but he has a hilarious series about an inter-galacti,spacegoing hospital and the problems, health and otherwise that doctors face when dealing with many species of aliens. The earlier books are hard to find, but well worth the scrounging to find them. Viva a la yard sales and used bookstores! |
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Still Pumped from Using the Mouse by Scott Adams: Straight funnies no story, but I've been a Dilbert fan for years. If you love the sunday funnies and you are in the computer industry Dilbet is the comic to pin to your cubicle. For anyone in the sciences, of course the comic is Farside. These are two of my favorite cartoonists. Both are somewhat sick and twisted and are so funny because they depict the real world in all it's perversity. |
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The Callahan Chronicals by Spider Robinson: |
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Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle: The Devil and Dan Cooley, Hell on High |
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The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell by Harry Harrison: |
| Firebrand by Marion Zimerman Bradley | |
| Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman: | |
| Tales from the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee: | |
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And Eternity by Piers Anthony: |
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Battlefield Earth : A Saga of the Year 3000 by L.Ron Hubbard: Okay I know all the jokes about Dia-whatsis and Scientology asside this is a great book. They turned it into a series and that honestly was too much. This book is the finest science fiction novel I ever read. It takes a long time to read, but the character development, and plot twists alone are worth it. It 's main character goes from a near caveman to a civilized, diplomat/leader in the equivalent of an ancient China's court to an Intergalactic Technological Emperor. Great battle scenes and amazing strategy. A great book if you love sci-fi and you have a lot of free time to read. |
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: |
| Lady El by Jim Starlin and Diana Graziunas: | |