I'll just copy/paste this 2006 list posted on the OF Blog (all but one are available as one-vol.)
Larry Send a noteboard - 07/09/2009 11:10:26 PM
1. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciónes (Spanish)
2. Borges, El Aleph (Spanish)
3. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
4. Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Ben Okri, The Famished Road
6. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
7. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
8. Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
9. Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
10. Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler...
11. Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
12. Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial (Spanish)
13. José Saramago, Ensayo sobre la ceguera/Blindness
14. Alejo Carpentier, Los pasos perdidos/The Lost Steps
15. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
16. Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
17. T.H. White, The Once and Future King
18. Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors
19. Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats
20. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, La sombra del viento/The Shadow of the Wind
21. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
22. China Miéville, The Tain
23. R. Scott Bakker, The Prince of Nothing
24. Zoran Živkovi?, The Fourth Circle
25. Nalo Hopkinson, Skin Folk
26. Ian MacLeod, The Light Ages
27. Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves
28. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
29. Saramago, Las intermitencias de la muerte (Spanish)
30. Roberto Bolaño, Los detectives salvajes (Spanish)
31. Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
32. Borges, El Hacedor (Spanish)
33. Saramago, El hombre duplicado (Spanish)
34. Caitlin Sweet, A Telling of Stars
35. Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
36. Borges, El libro de los seres imaginarios (Spanish)
37. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
38. Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño (Spanish, play)
39. Miguel Cervantes, Don Quijote (Spanish)
40. John Crowley, Little, Big
41. Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
42. Franz Kafka, Collected Stories
43. Gina B. Nahai, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
44. Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
45. Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
46. Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Novels
47. Horacio Quiroga, Cuentos de amor de locura de muerte (Spanish)
48. Jan Potacki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
49. Ovid, Metamorphoses
50. John Milton, Paradise Lost
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
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So you've read X and you want to read more books like it: Part Two
30/08/2009 06:35:01 PM
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Historical fiction.
30/08/2009 07:00:35 PM
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Patrick O'Brian
30/08/2009 07:03:35 PM
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You know
30/08/2009 07:08:50 PM
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Did you read the Horatio Hornblower series?
02/09/2009 12:17:00 AM
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Oh, there are Hornblower books?
02/09/2009 12:24:31 AM
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The first half. I've never been able to find the rest of them. *NM*
02/09/2009 01:10:11 AM
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Wars of Light and Shadow definantly need to be added to the list *NM*
30/08/2009 07:04:15 PM
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Re: Wars of Light and Shadow definantly need to be added to the list
31/08/2009 11:35:00 PM
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Slash, please!
30/08/2009 08:13:33 PM
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Oh, and Skin Folk
31/08/2009 01:52:58 AM
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I knew about A Companion to Wolves.
31/08/2009 03:22:38 AM
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So, I've read Shadow of the Wind
30/08/2009 10:06:30 PM
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The Historian
05/12/2011 04:56:40 AM
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Thanks for your contribution, but not many people are likely to find it here.
05/12/2011 10:14:04 PM
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Re: So you've read X and you want to read more books like it: Part Two
30/08/2009 10:20:05 PM
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The Holy Grail of recommendation requests.
31/08/2009 12:59:50 AM
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give Ken Scholes a shot
31/08/2009 05:37:11 PM
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Will do.
31/08/2009 11:26:57 PM
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I didn't think the characters were particularly week or one-dimensional
01/09/2009 03:42:06 AM
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comedic sci-fi mystery? *NM*
31/08/2009 03:57:52 AM
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Something like Michelle West's Sun Sword? *NM* *NM*
31/08/2009 04:49:51 AM
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i've always kind of wanted to make a website that does this sorta thing
31/08/2009 10:12:26 AM
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Librarything does it
21/09/2009 04:02:54 PM
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Their system isn't great.
26/09/2009 10:14:30 PM
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Re: Their system isn't great.
27/09/2009 10:07:53 AM
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Yeah, but the accuracy is way off....
27/09/2009 04:34:07 PM
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Re: Yeah, but the accuracy is way off....
28/09/2009 08:51:14 AM
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Human error? You are being way too nice. Btw, I have a link for you.
29/09/2009 10:02:35 AM
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Hehehehe. Heheheheheheheheheeheheheeheeheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh
29/09/2009 10:05:26 AM
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Something with a good magic system. *NM*
31/08/2009 01:57:00 PM
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gotta be more specific
31/08/2009 05:35:47 PM
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Something in-depth, and well used.
31/08/2009 07:16:54 PM
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Have you read Coldfire?
31/08/2009 11:33:18 PM
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Re: Hi, I want a book that seems like it was written on acid?
01/09/2009 12:24:01 AM
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People who say use the phrase "on acid" have rarely tried acid
29/09/2009 03:07:45 AM
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Agree with this list... I would have typed one very similar. *NM*
01/10/2009 03:21:31 PM
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Stand-alone novels
01/09/2009 02:31:07 AM
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Re: Stand-alone novels
03/09/2009 10:53:46 AM
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Well, yes and no and sequels
03/09/2009 12:46:50 PM
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Re: Well, yes and no and sequels
03/09/2009 02:18:40 PM
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Regarding Tigana (spoilers)
03/09/2009 03:33:08 PM
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By definition almost all of Kay's books are standalones.
03/09/2009 11:54:16 PM
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All except for these. *looks amused* *NM*
04/09/2009 01:09:57 AM
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*shrug* I probably should have said half his books are standalones.
04/09/2009 03:21:25 AM
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I'll just copy/paste this 2006 list posted on the OF Blog (all but one are available as one-vol.)
07/09/2009 11:10:26 PM
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Various Recommendations
03/09/2009 06:00:39 AM
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hehe, so you like Lois's fantasy too eh? *NM*
03/09/2009 10:57:37 AM
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Yep yep! *NM*
03/09/2009 01:46:53 PM
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Have either of you read her Vorkosigan/Barrayar series? *NM*
04/09/2009 09:20:59 PM
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Nope. Have you?
05/09/2009 12:39:14 AM
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~Forces self to remain calm and understated~
05/09/2009 03:22:37 AM
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~holds out library card~
05/09/2009 03:34:25 AM
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~Grins like a fool~
06/09/2009 01:54:22 AM
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Since I'm now a big fan of Angela Carter's work...
07/09/2009 11:04:30 PM
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No, I haven't read anything by her.
23/09/2009 08:53:27 PM
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I think you'd enjoy some of Angela Carter's works; I've managed to get one at this site to enjoy her
28/09/2009 12:19:39 AM
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If you want a spec fic/fantasyish book where characters actually tell each other what they know...
05/06/2010 04:39:01 PM
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After two years, I wonder if we should revise this thread and edit in newer books. Thoughts? *NM*
20/11/2011 10:37:27 PM
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Probably better to start a new one, people aren't huge fans of reviving old threads... *NM*
21/11/2011 10:21:31 PM
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These days, people here aren't fans of anything outside of expressing political opinions
*NM*
22/11/2011 12:45:42 AM
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