The best books nobody knows about.

[ethaninja]

A lot of the John Marsden and Matthew Riely books.

 

[delet]

In my time on the escapist I've only come across one person who knows what the Black Company series is, by Glen Cook, so I think I can count that as 'books no one knows'. It's a terrific 10-book series about a group of mercenaries. It's got war and magic/fantasy. It's a lovely series.

Was it me? Because I remember making a thread about books that needed to be made into movies awhile back, and that's what I put in the OP.

Yeah, so the Chronicles of the Black Company for me.

No, I guess it's up to 3 people now. I'm thinking I'll be getting back into it once I finish reading through The Necronomicon, host of most all of H.P. Lovecraft's major works.

Wait a second, that's what I'm reading right now, too.

I'm in the middle of a story called "Dreams in the Witch House, or something to that effect.

You're ahead of me. I just finished 'The Dunwich Horror'. Nice coincidence, neh?

Also, I simply love finally being able to open a book to the middle and start a story, just like in the cartoons.

 

[G1eet]

Matthew Riely books.

I'm hoping you mean "Ice Station" and such?

 

[Durxom]

I don't know if anyone else has heard of them or not, but the Darkness series by Harry Turtledove. It's basically "what if World War II took place in a fantasy world" , where dragons equal bombers, leviathans equal subs, and the "germans" were killing the "jews" to use them as an increase to their magic. A very neat read, but the books are long as hell, and there's like...6 of them, I think.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

In my time on the escapist I've only come across one person who knows what the Black Company series is, by Glen Cook, so I think I can count that as 'books no one knows'. It's a terrific 10-book series about a group of mercenaries. It's got war and magic/fantasy. It's a lovely series.

Was it me? Because I remember making a thread about books that needed to be made into movies awhile back, and that's what I put in the OP.

Yeah, so the Chronicles of the Black Company for me.

No, I guess it's up to 3 people now. I'm thinking I'll be getting back into it once I finish reading through The Necronomicon, host of most all of H.P. Lovecraft's major works.

Wait a second, that's what I'm reading right now, too.

I'm in the middle of a story called "Dreams in the Witch House, or something to that effect.

You're ahead of me. I just finished 'The Dunwich Horror'. Nice coincidence, neh?

Also, I simply love finally being able to open a book to the middle and start a story, just like in the cartoons.

A nice coincidence indeed.

I'm kind of pushing it here, but have you also read The Dresden Files? It's like an amalgamation of the the gumshoe detective genre and fantasy, but you would know that if you read it.

 

[thom_cat_]

If you haven't read The Book Thief I advise it strongly.

 

[G1eet]

If you haven't read The Book Thief I advise it strongly.

Is that the children's book about the Holocaust?

 

[Alterayn]

I don't really normally post but I thought I should point out that we live in an age where reading just isn't the "cool" thing to do. If I were to walk up to a random person in the street and begin talking about just about any book the chances of them not knowing what I was talking about are very high.

This would only really apply to the younger generation though. I don't know how many times I've began talking about The Hitchhikers Guide only to be interrupted by a "Oh, I love that movie."

So if we're assuming that "we" are the population The Escapist and "they" are the general population then chances are that books that may be common for us are completely unknown to them. Thus making any book a book that nobody knows about.

Although this topic might actually mean "books that the average reader might not know about" and in that case I would have just wasted 5 minutes.

 

[delet]

In my time on the escapist I've only come across one person who knows what the Black Company series is, by Glen Cook, so I think I can count that as 'books no one knows'. It's a terrific 10-book series about a group of mercenaries. It's got war and magic/fantasy. It's a lovely series.

Was it me? Because I remember making a thread about books that needed to be made into movies awhile back, and that's what I put in the OP.

Yeah, so the Chronicles of the Black Company for me.

No, I guess it's up to 3 people now. I'm thinking I'll be getting back into it once I finish reading through The Necronomicon, host of most all of H.P. Lovecraft's major works.

Wait a second, that's what I'm reading right now, too.

I'm in the middle of a story called "Dreams in the Witch House, or something to that effect.

You're ahead of me. I just finished 'The Dunwich Horror'. Nice coincidence, neh?

Also, I simply love finally being able to open a book to the middle and start a story, just like in the cartoons.

A nice coincidence indeed.

I'm kind of pushing it here, but have you also read The Dresden Files? It's like an amalgamation of the the gumshoe detective genre and fantasy, but you would know that if you read it.

I don't think I have, sorry. Perhaps I should look into it.

 

[thom_cat_]

If you haven't read The Book Thief I advise it strongly.

Is that the children's book about the Holocaust?

Yeah, well I wouldn't say "Children's book" as some of the content is quite shocking.
(Markus Zusak)

Oh yeah and I forgot.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is also a FABULOUS book. In the BEST series I have ever read. (Millennium Trilogy)
Which is really irritating, because he is a brilliant writer and was going to write more along the same lines... But even these books were published posthumously.

 

[EnzoHonda]

Apparently I'm well-read because I've heard of most of these and read about half of them.

As for books I like from lesser-known authors... Hmmm... Anyone read Spider Robinson's "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon?" I haven't spoken with anyone who's read his work (other than my father who'd read everything). His early stuff is great, but took a Douglas Adams-ish "meh" route after a while.

 

[Tharwen]

Have enough people heard of the The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix for it to belong elsewhere?

I've heard of it, but only because I just got back from working at a bookstore.

In that case, I'll take this opportunity to highly recommend them.

 

[G1eet]

If you haven't read The Book Thief I advise it strongly.

Is that the children's book about the Holocaust?

Yeah, well I wouldn't say "Children's book" as some of the content is quite shocking.
(Markus Zusak)

Oh yeah and I forgot.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is also a FABULOUS book. In the BEST series I have ever read. (Millennium Trilogy)
Which is really irritating, because he is a brilliant writer and was going to write more along the same lines... But even these books were published posthumously.

Well, where I work, they put it in the children's section (we're currently moving Young Adult out of the kid's section). I don't discriminate, though. Just picked up The Monstrumologist; so far, it has bloodier scenes that would make the last Lincoln Child thriller I read cry out in pain.

Funnily enough, Stieg Larsson's book was probably one of the books I saw the most while working at the bookstore last year.

#1 bestselling Mass Market: Girl W/ Dragon Tattoo
#1 bestselling Fiction Paperback: Girl W/ Dragon Tattoo
#1 bestselling Hardcover Fiction: Girl Who Played w/ Fire (the sequel )

 

[Pegghead]

Mortal Engines. 'Nuff said.

 

[Hotfoottfox]

I once read a book that Wikipedia claimed didn't exist, as well as the author.

 

[muckinscavitch]

Oryx and Crake by: Margaret Atwood, easily one of my favourite books.

Cien años de soledad by: Gabriel García Márquez, arguable one of the best books of the 20th century. And yes, it is available in more than just its native spanish.

 

[ethaninja]

Matthew Riely books.

I'm hoping you mean "Ice Station" and such?

Those are the ones.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books are a favourite of mine, but the only other person I know who's read them is my dad, who introduced them to me.

 

[thom_cat_]

Well, where I work, they put it in the children's section (we're currently moving Young Adult out of the kid's section). I don't discriminate, though. Just picked up The Monstrumologist; so far, it has bloodier scenes that would make the last Lincoln Child thriller I read cry out in pain.

Funnily enough, Stieg Larsson's book was probably one of the books I saw the most while working at the bookstore last year.

#1 bestselling Mass Market: Girl W/ Dragon Tattoo
#1 bestselling Fiction Paperback: Girl W/ Dragon Tattoo
#1 bestselling Hardcover Fiction: Girl Who Played w/ Fire (the sequel )

Yeah I know it's a well know series, my point really was READ THEM *droool*

Yeah... I think it'd be more in the top of the Young-Adult section. It is really an adult book as well. It's on the border.
There's quite a bit of cruelty in it, from the whole nazi-jewish relations side of things. But it was the way it was written that made it awesome. Death is the narrator, and it is such a strange way of story telling, and it makes the detail even more thrilling.