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The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell, the 7th book of his Saxon Chronicles.

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Wolf of the Plains, the first of Conn Iggulden's Genghis Khan books.

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"The Violent Bear it Away," by Flannery O'Connor
Not quite done w/ it; pretty sure I know how this is gonna end.
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Lords of the Bow, book 2 of the above.

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Bones of the Hills, 3rd book in Iggulden's Khan series.

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Conqueror, book [5] of the Khan series.

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Empire of Silver, which actually turns out to be book 4. :D I mixed them up and read book 5 first. :D

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book four of the mongoliad / foreworld saga
principles of virology
the kalevala
richard k morgan's the steel remains
joe abercrombie's heroes, again
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo again.

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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. A pretty cool first novel!
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The Girl Who Played With Fire, Book 2 in the Millennium trilogy.

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Avatar wrote:The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell, the 7th book of his Saxon Chronicles.

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I've wanted to read some Bernard Cornwell. How are his books?
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I just finished up Assassin's Apprentice and really enjoyed it.
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caamora wrote: I've wanted to read some Bernard Cornwell. How are his books?
Brilliant if you like historical fiction. I've read almost all of them. The only ones I didn't like were his stand-alone contemporary books. (Mostly about sailing IIRC.)

His historical stuff, I can't recommend enough.

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On the last Millennium book, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest.

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I've been fulfilling a new year's resolution to read all of SRD's published fiction (yeah, I know, I'm slow :P ). Currently, I'm about fifty pages into The Man Who Fought Alone, which already promises to be the best book in that series! :)
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Never read any of them. Never even seen any of them. :D Not too bothered..not usually a genre I'm much into.

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Avatar wrote:On the last Millennium book, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest.

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I saw that book, just the other day while searching for second-hand DVDs. I haven't been reading much at all recently and didn't know it was about the further adventures of Lisbeth Salander - I've been watching all the David Fincher films I can find.

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Cord Hurn wrote:I've been fulfilling a new year's resolution to read all of SRD's published fiction (yeah, I know, I'm slow :P ). Currently, I'm about fifty pages into The Man Who Fought Alone, which already promises to be the best book in that series! :)
That's a noble quest, Cord Hurn!

IMO, The Man Who books get better, and kind of turn into an SRD work as they go. The Man Who Killed His Brother was relatively straight-forward for an SRD work, but they get more complex and character driven as they go on, and The Man Who Fought Alone to me was more about the characters than the mystery. Definitely my favourite of the series.

I still haven't read all SRD yet - haven't made it to The Last Dark yet - I'm almost finished with Fatal Revenant, which was a bloody chore in parts (at least the first half of it, then it got better). Then to AATE...
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