I have a lot of feelings about books so hi!
I know some Minnions read his books because I got in a great discussion with some of them in the comments, but I want to recommend Brandon Sanderson to EVERYONE.
He's a fantasy/science fiction/sorta-mystery writer. His books are incredible. He's my favorite author
ever.
Basically, he's written a bunch of different series. There's one of my favorites, the Mistborn trilogy, which is incredible. (And now there's gonna be two other trilogies in the same universe... what?!) There's the Stormlight Archive, which will consist of 10 monstrous books. Number three comes out this year but the series is already insanely good. Elantris, his debut, is remarkable. I don't even know how to describe how incredible his writing is. He's amazing at world building and character development. He writes a lot of books at once, so even when you're caught up, the next one is never more than a few months out. Not to mention that he's a master of plot twists and intricate plot lines, but he never makes it confusing. It's great.
One of the most impressive parts of Sanderson's writing is that, although there are many series and books in different universes with different magic systems, they're all
connected somehow, in a "universe" called the Cosmere. We don't know how it's all connected yet, but there are some things that show up in all the books (such as a mysterious character named "Hoid" that has minor appearances in each series). My guess is this will result in one epic, culminating, immense book/series to connect them all. There's a lot of theories as to what this might entail but no one really knows.
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Basically, read
all the books!