Recommended Books and Podiobooks

Hello and welcome to my recommended reading list for books, ebooks, and podiobooks. Below are my personal top recommendations for quality reading.

Listings followed by “(PB)” are audio podiobooks… all others are regular printed novels.

 

Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery

• Raymond E. Feist: Riftwar Saga
  • Magician (Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master) (Rated 7.4): click to see the review
  • Silverthorne
  • A Darkness at Sethanon
• Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman: Dragonlance Chronicles
  • Dragons of Autumn Twilight
  • Dragons of Winter Night
  • Dragons of Spring Dawning
• Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman: Dragonlance Legends
  • Time of the Twins
  • War of the Twins
  • Test of the Twins
• J. R. R. Tolkein
  • Hobbit
  • Lord of the Rings
    • Fellowship of the Ring
    • Two Towers
    • Return of the King
• Robert E. Howard: Selected stories
  • Soloman Kane
  • Bran Mak Morn
  • Conan

 

Techno-Fantasy

• Stephen King: Dark Tower novels
  • The Gunslinger
  • The Drawing of the Three
  • The Waste Lands
  • Wizard and Glass
  • Wolves of the Calla
  • Song of Susannah
  • The Dark Tower
• Stephen King:
  • UR (eBook) (Rated 5.6): click to see the review
• China Miéville
  • Perdido Street Station (Rated 6.4): click to see the review

 

Science Fiction

•  Richard K. Morgan: Takeshi Kovacs novels
  • Altered Carbon (Rated 6.6): click to see the review
  • Broken Angels (Rated 6.6): click to see the review
  • Woken Furies (Rated 7.0): click to see the review
• Robert A. Heinlein: Lazarus Long novels
  • Methuselah’s Children
  • Time Enough for Love
  • The Number of the Beast
  • The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  • To Sail Beyond the Sunset
• Ben Bova: Grand Tour novels
  • Powersat
  • Empire Builders
  • Mars
  • Return to Mars
  • The Moonbase Saga
    • Moonrise
    • Moonwar
  • The Asteroid Wars
    • The Precipice
    • The Rock Rats
    • The Silent War
    • The Aftermath
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Titan
  • Mars Life
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Tales of the Grand Tour
• Nathan Lowell: Trader’s Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper (Podiobook)
  • Quarter Share (Rated 7.4): click to see the review
  • Half Share (Rated 7.0): click to see the review
  • Full Share (Rated 7.6): click to see the review
  • Double Share (Rated 7.6): click to see the review
• Warren Hammond: Juno Mozambe series
  • KOP (Rated 7.2): click to see the review
  • Ex-KOP (Rated 6.6): click to see the review

 

Thrillers, Techno-Thrillers, Mysteries, and Crime

•  Clive Cussler: Dirk Pitt novels
  • The Mediterranean Caper
  • Iceberg
  • Raise the Titanic!
  • Vixen 03
  • Night Probe!
  • Pacific Vortex!
  • Deep Six
  • Cyclops
  • Treasure
  • Dragon
  • Sahara
  • Inca Gold
  • Shock Wave
  • Flood Tide
  • Atlantis Found
  • Valhalla Rising
  • Trojan Odyssey
  • Black Wind
  • Treasure of Khan
  • Arctic Drift
• Clive Cussler: Kurt Austin
  • Serpent
  • Blue Gold
  • Fire Ice
  • White Death
  • Lost City
  • Polar Shift
  • The Navigator
  • Medusa
• J. C. Hutchins: 7th Son novels (Podiobook)
  • 7th Son: Decent (Rated 7.0): click to see review
  • 7th Son: Deceit
  • 7th Son: Destruction
  • 7th Son: Obsidian