i read artemis fowl, harry potter, dragon rider, vampirates

"Malazan Book Of The Fallen" series by Steven Erikson.

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Eragon - Christopher Paolini

If you're into high fantasy and epic fantasy, you should read The Hobbit (lightweight), then the Lord of the Rings (moderate, depends on the reader) and after those two try The Silmarillion (heavy) and then the Children of Hurin (moderate, depends on the reader). The Hobbit and LoTR are one pretty much, but the other two are not. They are _all_ part of JRR Tolkien's epic fantasy legendarium Arda and are all connected in one way or another. I warn you though, the legendarium is _vast_, there's nothing like it in any way.

By the way, Christopher Paolini's book series is called The Inheritance Cycle. Eragon is the first book of the series.

Songs of Fire and Ice is another great one.

This post was edited by PryoMann on Jun 5 2011 06:05pm

thanx all i gotta hit up a bookstore soon i wanna get a nook or something aswell

The Name of the Wind/Kingkiller Chronicles. incredibly entertaining read if you get past page 200

I used to read novels by R.A. Salvatore. I'm not sure if they are great are not but he is the only author I have ever enjoyed reading.

Enjoyed the first books of Drizzt very much but never finished the series though.
When the stories about the Underdark were over all the books were pretty boring, with the exception of the books with Artemis Entreri.

Shannara series by Terry Brooks,
Sword of Truth - Terry Goodkind
A Song of Ice and Fire - GRRM
Dune-Frank Herbert
The Strain- Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Nightwatch - Sergei Lukyanenko

Vouch for Song of Ice and Fire and Night Watch & Day watch.