Whenever I run across these kind of posts, I always recommend American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I definitely feel like this was the best new book I've read in the last decade. Other recommendations are: Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series by Tad Williams, Death by Black Home by Neil deGrasse Tyson (my current man-crush) and I'm going old school with Inferno by Dante because the classics need to be repped.

 

I'm intrigued by the commentary on The Way of Kings series and will be checking that out. I read the Silmarillion every 2-3 years out of habit so I love me some Tolkien and would probably really get into this.

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