Underated Books

[kelby_lake]

Books that have not got a thread on this forum?

[JBI]

by thread do you mean forum? If so, then only books in the public domain get forums, if not, I have no idea what you are really asking.

[Oniw17]

I'm starting to feel monotonous but Keith Taylor's Bard series is very underrated if you like history, mythology, or squashbuckling adventure. So underrated that you've never heard of it.

[kelby_lake]

by thread do you mean forum? If so, then only books in the public domain get forums, if not, I have no idea what you are really asking.

Maybe. I mean books by authors which don't have separate forums. I don't mean
really obscure self-published ones, just ones like say...Black Beauty. A classic book but because the author only wrote that, and it's sort of for children, she doesn't warrent her own thread.

Basically just talk here about books that you feel are underrated or generally ignored but which you consider to be very good.

Have I made sense now?:)

[SirRaustusBear]

I think Richard Brautigan is ignored more than he should be, especially since he was fairly prolific, writing around ten novels along with a few collections of poetry. This is probably in part due to the strangeness of his novels, like In Watermelon Sugar, where the characters live in a town composed entirely of watermelon sugar, and explore an old abandoned metal maze-like structure.

Mikhail Lermontov is fairly unknown by the general public, mostly because he only wrote one novel before being killed in a duel.

Cao Xueqin, author of The Story of the Stone, which is regarded as one of the greatest chinese novels ever written isn't very well known in the west.

Stefan Zweig, author of a couple great novels isn't all that widely known, though I think I've heard him mentioned on this board at least once.

[Morten]

Stefan Zweig, author of a couple great novels isn't all that widely known, though I think I've heard him mentioned on this board at least once.

Zweig is great. Confusion was dazzling. I haven't read anything written so passionately in a long time.

[Morten]

Richard Yates, of course, is the most underrated great writer there is.

Charles R. Jackson wrote at least two excellent novels that should have immortalized his name. Now he's out of print.

Mavis Gallant, Dow Mossman, Harold Brodkey, I could go on.

[believin]

These come to mind first, for me.


Geraldine Harris's The Seven Citadels

Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series, The Homeward Bounders, and almost everything else she has written

Some self-published books include:
Malcolm Campbell's The Sun Singer
Seth Mullins's Song of an Untamed Land

[kelby_lake]

I've heard of Diana Wynne Jones and her series but I haven't heard of any of these other writers