ideas froy next books please. i like a series or saga.

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just read....

Hunger games trogy. All gpod.

Fifty shades trilogy. Pure shite

Water for elephants. Good

Me before you. Good

Also liked Temeraire series, Elly Griffiths, Camilla Lackberg.

Ideas please or it will be pride and prej again.

This is good!! Try this!! go on www.literature-map.com and put your fav author in the box and watch it go!! Gives you authors who write in a similar genre etc, the nearer the name is to your chosen author the similar they are! but I just like to see them dance before my eyes! You'll see what I mean!!

I like the dancing but when i put in phillipa gregory as i fancied a historical romp, argos catalogue was on the list.

Thats so funny!! although my dd2 used to read the argos catalogue when she was little and could quote pages and numbers at will!! Mind you there weren't many close to phillipa gregory were there!! My favourites are Karin Slaughter, Tami Hoag, James patterson, lee childs etc if there isn't a psychopath or serial killer i'm not interested! (Got some v funny looks when i tried to off load books at the pta christmas fair!)

The Kingkiller series by Patrick Rothfuss is good, two out of the three books are published, number three is still to come.

First one is The Name of the Wind and the second one is A Wise Mans Fear. It's a bit like Lord of the Rings meets the Dark Tower and tells the story of Kvothe, a man who was once a feared magician and warrior but who is now believed to be dead, who is actually living in hiding and telling his story to a scribe because he wants the true story of his life to be known before he dies. Each book takes place over just a day or two as he tells his story but covers years of his life as he tells it.

Stephen King's Dark Tower series, starting with The Gunslinger, is fantastic. It's about a world that is parallel to ours, although sometimes it overlaps, and the journey of Roland Deschain, The Gunslinger, who is trying to reach the Dark Tower before it is destroyed and all the worlds come to an end. It's much better than I have made it sound and it references so many books, not just Stephen King books but lots of others (Harry Potter, Wizard of Oz, classic fairy tales etc) and it's very, very good.

Justin Cronin's The Passage is the first of a series of three books about the post-apocalyptic world after a virus has turned most of the human race into vampire like creatures. The second book is due out soon.

And Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth and it's follow up book Worlds Without End, are both very good. The first is about a community wishing to build a cathedral and the struggles they face to do so from both the church and the king. The second is about the ancestors of the people in the first book, again struggling with church and royalty and this time in the grip of the plague as well.

What about Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy? If you like it there are at least a couple more linking trilogies too although you don't need to read them.

I use GoodReads to track what I've read and what I want to read, and it also gives me recommendations and is really handy for reading other people's reviews.

If you want something historical try the Outlander series by Diana Gabbaldon, the first one is called Crosstitch, they are absolutely brilliant and there are about 7 at the mo with a new one out next year. They are quite long but really hold your attention. There are also about 3 which are about one of the characters that run with it

What about The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manners?

Also liked Me Before You and Camilla Lackberg, haven't read the others.

Tiger Hills is a great family saga set in India, I realy enjoyed it.

I second the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I also loved Penny Vincenzi Spoils of Time trilogy. But they are bit blockbuster glitzy in parts.

Outlander & Pillars of the Earth here too.
Cutting for Stone (Abraham Varghese) I loved.