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I've read ones by Tamora Pierce, Dianna Wynne Jones, Gail Levine Carson (Did I spell this right?), Patricia C. Wrede, Elizabeth Kerner, David Farland, Eoin Colfer, and so many more ...^^ and I seem to can't find anymore....can you help?

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Green Rider and Riders First Call are good. Both by Kirsten Britain. But the main characters a girl (I dunno, some guys may not like that...?)
Riders First Call gets really interesting, but you need to read Green Rider first. She should have another book out soon (she better!)

Have you tried David Eddings? Start with Pawn of Prophecy, then there are a lot of sequels. =)

Have you read The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper? There're five books, first one is Over Sea, Under Stone. I highly recommend them^^

If he likes books by Tamora Pierce, then books with girl main characters won't bother him

Let's seeeeee. The Young Wizard series by Diane Duane might be something you'd like....I like them a lot, and the first two authors you named are two of my favorites

^^ haha...yea...most of the good fantasy books have girls as the main characters...sometimes you want to strangle the male characters because they have such rash impulses when the male character is the main character....hehe...and I forgot to add J.K. Rowling to that list

Robin Hobb writes excellent books. She has a trilogy of trilogies which starts with The Farseer Triloy, onto The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and The Tawny Man Trilogy. The first book in the whole series is Assassin's Apprentice. The books are brilliant and I adore them.

Ummm, the Merlin trilogy by Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, I don't remember the rest, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Fire Bringer and The Sight, Same author, David something. There's always Tolkein too. Can't think of anything else.

Hmmm. Mercedes Lackey's heralds of Valdemar books are always a good read. I don't know if you've read any of Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, but I'd certainly recommend that. And seeing as I'm slowly (well it certainly feels slow. Most people would say I'm going through rather quickly) through Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, I feel obligated to recommend that too.

Harry Potter.

I recommend starting with the book The Dark is Rising, the second book -- think of Over Sea, Under Stone as sort of a prequel . . . it'll come into play with other books in the series, but I think TDiR is the best introduction (and perhaps the best of the lot). I gather there was also some sort of snarl with the publishing, with at least one imprint putting out only books 2 through 5.

I do enjoy Mercedes Lackey, but she does have a tendency to make her protagonist the best/most ______ ever -- a bit of what is called (I think) Mary Sue syndrome. It can get a bit tiring.

I just read Robin McKinley's Spindle's End, which is fantastic. (It almost cries out to be read aloud.) The other books I've read of hers were also enjoyable.

And Eliabeth A. Lynn's Dragon's Winter -- though much darker -- is extremely good, and appears set up to become a series.

On a completely different tack (though still fantasy, dealing with talking animals & such) are Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books. A bit old-fashioned (and Kipling is indeed a product of his time, though not nearly as racist as some of his contemporaries), but the short stories are poetic. His Just So Stories are good also.

Esther Freisner (I think I've got the spelling right) writes in an astonishing range of fantasy modes -- all of them great.

Fire Bringer is an excellent book. A bit long, maybe. I cried at the end XD

Also - two trilogies by Meredith Anne Pierce. The first one is the Darkangel Trilogy: The Darkangel, A Gathering of Gargoyles, and The Pearl of the Soul of the World. some might call me sad for randomly memorizing all three parts of the huge poem also, she's written another trilogy, about unicorns: Birth of the Firebringer, Dark Moon, and Son of Summer Stars.

Also, Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. I would recommend reading The Blue Sword first even though it's set ages after HatC, but maybe that's just because I read it first they're far enough apart that it probably doesn't matter.

Treasure at the Heart of Tanglewood was a charming book, if a bit short.

Oooh, Meredith Anne [it might be Ann?] Pierce also wrote The Girl Who Loved Reindeer, which is a perplexing but enjoyable read. It really makes you think. I liked it better the second time I read it. I have a copy somewhere, I should track it down.

That's all I can think of for now, I'm sure I'll come up with more

YESSS *glomp* yaay^_^ I'm not the only one XDD mwahahah.

I recommend David Gemmell, ummm, oh, and there's a book called The Dark Glory War, but I can't remember who wrote it. It is AWESOME, and the sequels are incredible too. Real cliffhangers *sigh* yeah.

Have you read The Wheel Of Time series? By Robert Jordan. THey're not for everyone, but I find them quite good.

The Corean Chronicles are quite good, can't remember author... some odd spelling... ends with Jr though^_^ something M Jr. Yeah..o.O; *glares at horrible memory*

Then, Through Wolf's Eyes is an excellent book! The sequal is quite good too^__^

Yeah, can't remember a bunch of them that I've read O.O

The Jerle SHannara is quite good, sequels too.

Maybe I should stop now But I hope that you can actually FIND the books that I've mentioned, since I haven't been super specific >.<

On the topic of Shannara... I would suggest reading the other series of Shannara, too. Sword of Shannara.. you know. And the other books by Terry Brooks! I love the Demon one... sorry, I can't remember the actual name of the series, but the first book is Angel Fire East, I believe. I'm going to go have to read it again... And the Magic Kingdom. I love it! This series starts off with Magic Kingdom for Sale -- Sold!

Brooks has also written a few other books.

I also like Anne Mccaffrey's writings. The Dragons of Pern is one of her series, and Acorna... she's also written a great book called 'Black Horses for the King' or something to that extent... she is a really good author.

I can't remember the Author, but 'Searching for Dragons' (might begin with 'Dealing with Dragons') is also a good one. This has been one of my favorites since 6th grade.

Laurence Yep's Dragon of the Lost Sea is also a good series, however, I haven't quite gotten to read other writings.

You can tell I haven't been to library lately, can't you?

Is that Patricia Wrede, or am I thinking of something else? Because she was on his list of already read. =P

I second whoever recommended Diane Duane's Young Wizard's series, I enjoyed that. Also, Garth Nix...Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen. And Phillip Pullman, His Dark Materials, starting with The Golden Compass/Northern Lights (depending on where you are).

Umm...I'll stop there for now. But I still stand by David Eddings like I said before. =D