Your Favorite Novels Nobody Else Ever Heard Of

Song in the Silence is the first of a series that I never knew existed, but it's an interspecies romance between a woman named Lanen and a dragon named Akhor, who is the king of his (dying) clan of Kantri (True Dragon; lesser dragons exist on the continent the woman's from, but they're not considered true dragons--not exactly, anyway). It's also weirdly enough a childhood book, yet I've always had a hard time reading the first half of the book because I wanted to get to the dragons as quick as possible.

I unfortunately can't seem to find the books (my parents' bookshelf is quite unorganized, but I don't believe Mom got rid of them), but there were these four books by an LDS author I read in high school. When an LDS member thinks of an author, they usually think of either Orson Scott Card for Ender's Game, or Jack Wayland and his famous Charly, but while I don't mind the latter's books, I preferred this series. (I just found out the author of The Maze Runner is Mormon, so there's him, too.) It's been years since I last read them, but from what I remember, the story first took place in the 1800s and spanned well into the days of Christ's second coming in the other books. Other plot-threads happened, but the series was connected through a family that stemmed from an Irish woman who joined the church but had all sorts of trials in her personal life that made her an extremely unhappy woman, and it kinda carried on to her descendants as some kind of curse or something. But I think she was just unhappy because her abusive husband didn't turn out to be her "soulmate" like she believed, he ended up being born much, much later into the future. Meanwhile one of her descendants ended up with her "soulmate", and that must've not sit well with her. I wish I could remember, and this upsets me that I can't recall any of the titles except that I'm pretty sure "storm" is one of the words and the last third of the series was split into two books.

But as I was looking for those books, I found another one I read around the same time called Jimmy Stillman, I Will Always Love You from another LDS author. I don't remember that one as vividly as the series, so I'm going to read this one here soon to see if it holds up.
 
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Has anyone read A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay?

I have met one other person who has read this, and that was the person who told me to read this.

Why isn't this considered a classic? Why has nobody even read it? I don't know.

People are dumb and they have bad taste.
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I've read that and loved it, though I found the end baffling. Its biggest modern champion is probably Clive Barker, who often praises it as one of his biggest influences in interviews.
 
"Son of The Morning Star" by Evan Connell. Ostensibly a look into Custer's last stand, it meanders and circles around the conditions and history of the plains, Indians, whites, you name it. All of it clever, all of it informative. I've never found a better work about the time. Makes Stephen Ambrose's book about Custer and Crazy Horse look like a hack piece of mediocrity.

Edit: Shit, just saw the "novel" part. I don't care, my answer stands.
 
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A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin.
I know she gets a bad rap for "durr muh female sexuality" but there's some legitimately vivid imagery in there and I feel like it accurately depicts the massive cultural shift from the late 1950s-early 1960s. Not only that, but most characters only last for a page or two and are so well-described it feels like they're a central part of the story.
 
The Master of the Fallen Chairs by Henry Porter. It's supposed to be the first in a trilogy, but it looks like he's never gotten around to writing the second book.
 
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Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
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Poppy Z Brite is a rampant fucking degenerate, who spends far too much time and energy on writing horribly janky, awkwardly fetishistic gay sex scenes.

As for stuff that I like, Accelerando by Charles Stross is a firm favourite of mine.
 
SeaPancake dijo:
I never said my tastes were purely intellectual or high quality.
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Eh, fair enough. I just find that her more in-depth fantasies about gay sex made for really unpleasant reading. I don't give a toss that the characters are gay, but the point at which one of the characters starts going on about their incestuous desires as well is where I checked out. It's all really lurid and (to use a word I saw earlier in the thread that seems to fit) squicky.
 
Blindsight I'd say counts. I've seen people talk about it online but no one I've met in meatspace ever heard of it. It's a great little hard sci fi story about first contact with aliens, but the aliens are completely unlike anything anyone could predict. If you're a fan of Michael Crichton you'll probably like this, though it's a lot more pessimistic than Crichton.
 
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I'm sure many have seen the anime and the manga by the same name. However it was originally a Japanese light novel. I read the novel in high school (having never heard anything of the anime or manga) and I was obsessed. Since then I've written several research papers on the hikikomori phenomena. Its a wonderful blend of bleak lonely scenes in the main characters apartment complex, and nostalgic relaxing recollections of his adolescence.

The Savage Detectives

This is a Spanish book although it's been translated quite well into English. The first part follows a teenager who gets involved with some young poets trying to transform Latin American literature. The first part is set in the massive sprawl of Mexico City and you feel the urban vibes and expanse of the city. The rest of the story bounces around Europe Africa and the Middle East, while the protagonist tries to find 2 missing literary elitists. If you love traveling and Latin American poetry/literature this would be a good read.
 
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Blindsight I'd say counts. I've seen people talk about it online but no one I've met in meatspace ever heard of it. It's a great little hard sci fi story about first contact with aliens, but the aliens are completely unlike anything anyone could predict. If you're a fan of Michael Crichton you'll probably like this, though it's a lot more pessimistic than Crichton.
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Yeah, Peter Watts is criminally underrated, IMO. His Behemoth trilogy is really good as well.
 
There's a book called, labyrinth not the Jim Henson and my dad has my copy so author escapes me.

It's one of my favorites. It's a spy novel that shits on Tom Clancy, with out spoilers. Dude goes HAM and a pile of WW2 fighters suit up and battle some current gen migs.

I'll edit when I ask him who wrote it but it's such a great read. If you enjoy books that make James Bond blush.
 
I love everything by T. Coraghessan Boyle, especially Budding Prospects, which has a couple passages that I nearly pissed myself laughing at. It's one of the funniest books ever written.

And again, Tom McGuane, especially The Bushwhacked Piano.
 
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