If I liked these books, which books should I read next?

I liked

His Dark Materials
The Hobbit
Harry Potter
Inkheart and Inkspell
A wizard of Earthsea

I know you'll say I should read The Lord of the Rings. Let me tell you that I already bought The Fellowship of the Ring and it's on my to read list. And I already added the rest of the Earthsea books to my wishlist.

So, what fantasy books should I read next?

Check out this list:

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/1001_Fantasy_by_Votes

or here where some (not all, working on it) have summaries:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=1001Fantasy

A couple that I think you'd like are Children of Amarid by David B. Coe and the the bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud of which the first book is The Amulet of Samarkand both books are about mages/magicians albeit in different timeliness and worlds and both are wonderful reads.

The Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy by Patricia McKillip

Anything by Diana Jones (that's Diana Wynne Jones, the touchstone wasn't working with her fullname).

Ursula Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore trilogy Gifts, Voices, Powers

The Borrible Trilogy by Michael De Larrabeiti.

Joan Aiken's Dido books:
http://www.librarything.com/series/Wolves%20Chronicles

The first few of Raymond E. Feist's Magician series:
http://www.librarything.com/series/Midkemia%20and%20Kelewan%20%7BInt%20Chron%7D

Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series.

Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Try Robin McKinley, Madeleine L'Engle, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Kate Elliott, Anne McCaffrey, Mary Stuart, Diane Duane, David Eddings, Mary Gentle, Margaret Mahy, Robert O'Brien, Guy Gavriel Kay, Doris Egan, Katherine Kerr...

And now I wish I was starting again.

The Percy Jackson books By Rick Riordian are very good. They are written for teens, so the pace is fast, but include a lot of references to mythology that adults will appreciate. From your list above, these would be perfect.

Try these:

The Belgariad series by David Eddings;
Sword of Shannara (and the sequels) by Terry Brooks;
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay;
Assassin's Apprentice (and sequels) by Robin Hobb

My suggestions would be:

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (which I'm currently reading)

Dragon Rider also by Cornelia Funke

Try 'The Dark is Rising' by Susan Cooper

Those are all YA novels - are you particularly looking for young adult books?

There have been good suggestions already (check the book's tags to see if they are YA). Another series to look out for is Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. G.P. Taylor's Shadowmancer is a book that had a lot of press but I haven't read it. Finally almost anything by Alan Garner is well worth reading.

Since those are all Young Adult fantasy, I'd have to recommend some classic YA fantasy:

Diana Wynne Jones - I just read Howl's Moving Castle the other day and thought it was amazing. I'd recommend starting there, although you couldn't go wrong with anything else she's written.

Diane Duane - The Young Wizards series, starting with So You Want To Be a Wizard. Loved it loved it loved it.

#9

Yes, I love Young Adult Fantasy! And yes, I'd like the recommendations to be YA books too
I'm sorry I didn't say this in my original post

Thanks everyone for your recommendations so far

You might want to try Artemis Fowl as well.

WEll, I advise you read motivating books for a chang. (Read Break your fallow )by Chika Amadi.

Sorry, I mean Break Your Fallow Ground

Here, There Be Dragons and Search for the Red Dragon by James A. Owen

Ruins of Gorlan, Burning Bridge, The Icebound Land, and Battle for Skandia by John Flanagan

The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

I read The Thief and I didn't like it.
Thanks for the other recommendations

# 12

I read Artemis Fowl 1 and 2 and I didn't like them

I have to strongly support a number of the recommendations made above that I think you will really like. I myself didn't care for the Thief or Artemis Fowl particularly.
Susan Cooper The Dark is Rising series. The second of the 5 books is one of my favorite all-time books (and nothing like the terrible movie).
Lloyd Alexander The Prydain Chronicles He wrote a lot of other YA fantasy, but these 5 books are his masterpiece.
Garth Nix I like his Keys of the Kingdom series (Mister Monday is the first), but I think his Abhorsen Trilogy is his best work.
Robin McKinley Her Damar books The Blue Sword and The hero and the crown are my favorites, but her two retellings of Beauty are not to be missed if you have ever loved fairy tales.
Terry Pratchett Start with his YA trilogy, and go on into the Discworld if you love them. The Wee Free Men, A hat full of sky and Wintersmith make up the trilogy.
Diane Duane So you want to be a wizard is a great YA series, and I like her worldgate-monitoring cat wizard series as well.
Diana Wynne Jones I love the Chrestomanci stories (now collected into 3 volumes) and adore Dark Lord of Derkholm. But when I was a YA, I loved crying over Dogsbody.
Patricia McKillip She has written a lot of books, some with more of a YA emphasis on others. Od Magic might be a good one to start with.
David Eddings The Belgariad is a series I think you would like--five books. If you like them, there's another 5 book series sequel and 3 related books. I've not particularly cared for anything else he has written, but I do like this series.
Anne McCaffrey Start with Dragonsong and Dragonsinger. If you love them, go on into the rest of her Pern books.
Patricia Wrede Start with her Enchanted Forest Chronicles. They are great. Then go on to her Sorcery and Cecilia collaborations.
Angie Sage I am enjoying this series (Magyk, Flyte, Physik and Queste) more than most of the current crop of YA fantasy series.

I hope you have much pleasure in discovering these for the first time.

I think I must have overloaded the touchstone utility--they were all there in my original message, honest!

#16: The second two Attolia books after The Thief (The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia) are way better than the first (much as I love The Thief).

I think you may enjoy Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Also, you might want to try the books of Diana Wynne Jones, Pratchett's Discworld series, and Anansi Boys.

Count this as second endorsements for Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain and Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern series. Chronicles of Prydain in particular is classic, and I still go back and reread it every few years.

Speaking of classic, I'm suprised no one else has mentioned Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

The first of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar trilogies, Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, and Arrow's Fall also count as YA fantasy, although I should point out that they include (non-graphic) sex and even rape.

Also you might try Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon series, and the Books of Great Alta series.

If you like cats, try Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams.

Robin McKinley's Damar series is great, as is her latest YA, Dragonhaven. (Though I think Dragonhaven is just a wee bit weaker than the Damar books, and is certainly a very different take on dragons from her original!

You might also try the Elvenbane series (I think the real name is The Halfblood Chronicles) by Andre Norton.

And I'll second or third the Prydain books, the Young Wizards books, The Dark is Rising series, and anything by Terry Pratchett!

Thank you so much everyone!

# 18
Don't worry, I can see the Touchstones perfectly, and thanks for that long list and your descriptions!

I hope I can read every single book you people recommeded me!
I'm going to make a list with all these, then I'm going to look for more about them on Amazon and Abebooks, and I'll decide which ones I'm going to buy (I wish I could buy every single one of them but I don't have a lot of money hehe, but I'm going to keep the list saved on my computer for the future)

More recommendations are appreciated!!

#24 -- Most of these would be available in your public library, I'd think. That would help you save some money!

Another good series is Peter Dickinson's Changes Trilogy. This is The Weathermonger, Heartsease and The Devil's Children. It is near future SF in an England where use of machines equals witchcraft. A bit different to what you have read before (and a lot of the other recommendations) but well worth it.

Also Dickinson's The Ropemaker and its new sequel Angel Isle. I like his writing a lot as well. Nemo, besides the library, there are some good bookswapping services now, such as paperbackswap.com, where you can exchange books you don't want to keep for books you want to try. Also bookmooch.com, although I haven't used that so can't tell you much.

# 25 and # 27

I don't live in USA, I can't find these books in my country sadly that's why I have to import them!
Thanks for the recommendations (# 26 too)

I think you would like Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. There is a whole series.

Another good series by Mercedes Lackey is her series about Eric Banyon, it starts with Bedlam's Bard and goes on for 4 more books. The first book is actually 2 books in one as she originally published them seperately. But it's a really funny series.

You might also try Strandia by Susan L. Reynolds. It's a good book, I read it when I was younger.

If Kate Forsyth's Witches of Eileanan series (first book Dragonclaw) is available to you, then I would highly recommend it.

Dragonclaw? Is that an alternative title? I thought Witches of Eileanan was the first book.

This was a great series though!

32# I'm pretty sure Dragonclaw is the first book in that series. Have you also read the sequel - a trilogy called Rhiannon's Ride? I enjoyed that one too.

I have the first couple of books in the Rhiannon's Ride series, but I haven't read them yet. I will get to them someday.

I looked up her website and fantastic fiction and I think the first book just has alternative titles. In some places it's called Dragonclaw in others it's The Witches of Eileanan, my is the Witches.

But they're all good!

Read Dragonlance by Margaret and Tracy Hickman...

You should read Raymond E. Feist - The Magician. A magic story about two boys and theyr adventure, also a book about hvat happends when two different cultures colide. Realy an amasing book. (I'm writing my masters degree about that book)

I would also recomand Deeds of Paksenarion by Elisabeth Moon. An other nice story about a young human, this time a girl, growing up. And finding her own plays in the world. As an hero ofcorse! (also part of my masters degree)

Sucks about not being able to get these from a library...
Um...I'd go with anything by Garth Nix. I preferred the Abhorsen series over Mister Monday and such, but those are good books too.
Another GREAT author is Tamora Pierce for Young Adult fantasy. I'm actually surprised no one else has mentioned her. She's amazing. You should prolly start with Alanna: the First Adventure. I prefer the Tortall series over the Circle, but again, that's me.
I guess, that's about it...
Enjoy!

Thanks for those recommendations!

I would put another vote in for The Dark is Rising
books. Required reading for any fan of the fantasy genre I would say.

I would also add in my vote for the dark is rising series as well as Tamora Pierce's books (though I prefer her circle books over everything else she has written)

The other other that I am surprised hasn't been mentioned is T.A. Barron's Young Merlin series. I really enjoyed those.

Thanks guys!

I'd agree with kmaziarz on The Shannara Series starting with The Sword of Shannara. Probably the most influential reading I've done. If you like Tolkein and Rowling, Terry Brooks cannot be missed.

You could also try the Dencalis Dragon Chronicles by MJ Allaire.

You also might like my book, PUSH. It's contemporary fantasy, not wizards and dragons, but it's very fast paced and exciting.

Good Luck.
Christopher Byron