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50 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels That Everyone Should Read. 10 Books Every Fantasy Author Should Read. What an awesomely capacious list, what with the fiction and the non-fiction.

10 Books Every Fantasy Author Should Read

(It's an even better list after I reread the title of the article and saw that it didn't say "10 Book Every Fantasy Author Should Read Daily. ") 55 great books under 200 pages. Having no time doesn’t mean you have to stop reading.

55 great books under 200 pages

Just pick up the shorter book. Half Price Books, one of America’s favorite independent booksellers, asked their customers to recommend books under 200 pages that would be a perfect companion of a book lover. The image below displays top 55 recommendations. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is accompanied by Neil Gaiman’s new book The Ocean at the End of the Lane, or The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret. Check out the original post at Half Price Books Blog for the entire list. What book under 200 pages would you add to your reading list? Click or tap on the image below to see it in full resolution. NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction & Fantasy Books. Top 10 Anticipated Fantasy Books For 2012 - Part One.

Friday, January 6, 2012 Last year we ran an article where we chose our top 10 most anticipated novels for 2011.

Top 10 Anticipated Fantasy Books For 2012 - Part One

It proved overwhelmingly popular, amassing just shy of 20,000 hits! This year we decided to take things a little bit further though. Push a few boundaries. We are going to do it in two phases. I guess we should start by saying: What a year 2011 was for fantasy! With such a good year for fantasy in 2011, can 2012 really live up to it?

Well, without further build up (and rambling), let’s move on to our top 10 releases of 2012 as chosen by our readers, Twitter fans, forum visitors and Goodreads group members. 9 Books Scarier Than Any Horror Movie. There is nothing better than a good ghost story.

9 Books Scarier Than Any Horror Movie

It might be tempting to pop in one of your scarier movies when you want to get into the Halloween spirit, but there are plenty of novels sure to keep you up for just as many nights. Just be careful if you read these titles in a public place. You might mistake the woman who just wants your extra chair as your book's monster. And no one wants to go viral as "shrieking girl in Starbucks. " Image: Flickr, Maguis & David Molly Horan Molly Horan was an editorial intern at Mashable. 10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Actually Read Them) All-TIME 100 Novels.

Free Ebooks - Download Science Fiction Books from obooko. 13 Fantasy Novels That Are Good Despite Their Covers. Download free Fiction, Health, Romance and many more ebooks. Download free Fiction, Health, Romance and many more ebooks. 50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library. Post written by Leo Babauta.

50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library

I recently ran into a couple of reading lists (I’ll share them at the end) and realized that I LOVE reading book recommendations. I can’t get enough of them. So I decided to compile my own (somewhat eclectic) list of novels I think are amazing and essential to every library. I hope you enjoy it. I should make some notes before diving in. Another note: there are actually many more books listed here than 50 — a number of those listed are actually series of books, in a couple cases series that include 20 or more books. There are classics here, but there are cheap thrillers and popular fiction and even a few “kids” books. If you could fill your library with only 50 books, you could do much worse than choose these 50.

Not in any order but just in the order they came to me: King Lear, by Shakespeare. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. 5 e-Book Collections with Over 100,000 Free e-Books. Now that we have so many devices that enable us to read e-Books with ease, even those who were initially skeptical have now jumped on the e-Book bandwagon.

5 e-Book Collections with Over 100,000 Free e-Books

Whether you have an iPhone, Kindle, Nook, or smartphone — or you’re a student at a college offering free laptops and iPads — you will find free e-Books which are compatible with your device on these websites. Here are 5 e-Book collections which contain over 100,000 free e-Books: BookRix Over 95,000 new books written by the community’s 371,000 members are available on BookRix for free. They also offer foreign language and audiobooks.ManyBooks.net Over 29,000 free eBooks are available for the Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders on Manybooks.net. Thousands of free titles are available at Mobipocket in the genres of English, American, and Germanic Literature, Romance and Children’s Lit, and non-fiction genres such as World History.

And of course… Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide. When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well.

Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide

"Whole" by Lys. Elbows and Knees by Montana. 50 Novels to Read When You Need a Good Laugh. Lord Byron: Selected Poetry. Poet Seers. Not knowing by A M T. Book Country: Discover New Fiction with the Genre Map. Publishers, booksellers, and readers describe books by their literary categories, or genres.

Book Country: Discover New Fiction with the Genre Map

It's how books are placed in stores and sold online. We created the Genre Map to help you find the right genre for your book. Roll over the map with your cursor to see the different genres. Some categories, such as women's fiction, stand alone. If you select mystery, fantasy, romance, science fiction, or thriller, you'll see the many subgenres that you can explore within these categories. Please contact us if there's a category you'd like to see on the Genre Map. 80+ free classic eBooks for download - Totally free at Planet eBook.