Book Suggestions?
 

I just got done with the A Song of Fire and Ice Novels (for now) as well as finishing God Is Not Great by Hitchens, World War Z, and Letter To a Christian Nation by Sam Harris. Generally I enjoy books in these genres: Sci-fi, "fantasy", fictional history, actual history, and just in general books that combine action with political intrigue. I listen to audio books while at work so I go through them VERY quickly. Was just wondering if anyone had some good suggestions for me to yo ho ho.

Anything Philip K Dick is a surefire win. I'm sure you've seen Blade Runner, which was an adaptation of one of his novels. My favorite of his stories though is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. It's much more of a slower paced book, that deals with the apathy of an individual. The setting is dystopian as one would expect from a PKD novel and pushes every sci fi fans button with drugs, technology, society, spaceships, and aliens.

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Next to ASOIAF my favourite fantasy stuff is Robin Hobbs' Realm of the Elderlings books (start with Assassin's Quest) and Joe Abercrombie's series which begins with The Blade Itself. Another couple of authors who aren't afraid to put their characters through the wringer, and Abercrombie's stuff has a great vein of dark humour running through it.

Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust

The Black Prism - Brent Weeks
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Dune - you know who.
Taming Fire - Aaron Pogue
The Warded Man - Peter V Brett

My brother-in-law just loaned me this book (The warded man) a few months back and haven't gotten started on it yet.

He mentioned it was very similar to Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows (The Night Angel trilogy) which I liked quite a bit.

Since I haven't read The Warded Man yet, I'd definitely suggest The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.

If you like hard sci fi, go with Flying to Valhalla by Charles Pellegrino or Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward. Anything from Arthur C Clarke is also a good read. Or if you want more Earthly based sci fi, Prey by Michael Crichton is pretty good. For softer sci fi, the Foundation series by Asimov is top notch and can keep you busy for a while.

Yes - my suggestion to you, OP, is Clarke's Childhood's End.
It's as interesting as it is brief and the science fiction is brilliant.

My scifi runs pretty soft. I own just about every star wars novel ever created as I love that universe. Never really could get into dicks work for whatever reason.
I'll have to check out all these suggestions at some point. I did discovers bunch of dragon lance and star wars audio books before work and those should occupy me for a month hopefully but I literally go through two in three days usually.

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan would keep you busy for awhile.