I love books. I started out as an avid reader before I began writing.
These are some of my absolute favourite authors and series.
Urban Fantasy
Annette Marie – everything she’s written is great, but my favourites are all in her Guild Codex series.
Seanan McGuire – I love her October Daye series
Rachel Aaron – I loved both her dragon series: DFZ (Minimum Wage Magic) and Heartstrikers (Nice Dragons finish last)
Sarah Painter – love her Crow Investigations series
Paranormal women’s fiction
KF Breene – her Leveling up series is a romp
Shannon Mayer – her Forty Proof Series is great
Other genres
Travis Bagwell – his Awaken online series is un-put-downable
Neil Gaiman – a legend. Everything he writes is fascinating
Neal Stephenson – another great. I particularly like Anathem and Cryptonomicon
Online books
Worm Not your usual superhero story.
Caution: this may utterly consume your life for a few months.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HP:MOR) What if Harry Potter was raised by scientists and fed a steady diet of Science Fiction?
Note: generally speaking this takes a few chapters to really reach its stride. But then it’s literally one of the most worthwhile things I have ever read.
Practical guide to evil So, you want to be a villain. You have a lot to learn…