Fellow bookworms, I am glad to announce that I am at the last book of Cosmere (Yumi and the Nightmare Painter). And then, I will have finished it all.
So this is where I need your help. Recommend me some awesome Sci-fi and Fantasy books that you believe will blow away my mind, like the impact needs to be huge, cannot believe this happened type of stuff.
Preferred genre are Sci-fi and Fantasy, but if you know some awesome book from other genre, don't hold back, all suggestions are welcome.
Thank you in advance.
UPDATE: Piranesi is currently on lead and I am almost finished with Yumi, so that is the next on my list. But don't let that stop the recommendations coming. Eventually all of us are going to run out of recommendations ;)
Gideon The Ninth
Harrow The Ninth
Nona The Ninth
All by Tamsyn Muir.
This series is scifi fantasy. It's about necromancers in an ancient religion that spans a planetary system, and some very dramatic lesbians.
The books are each from a different characters view point and you get to piece everything together through their eyes as you go. This results in puzzles nested within puzzles and lore so deep, it's going to be mined for fanfic till our world ends.
Book 1 is the easiest to read and a lot of fun as it unfolds and even more fun to reread once you've finished book 3. Also the battle scene in book 1 is probably the best battle scene I've ever read for how clearly all the chaos and carnage is depicted.
Books 2 and 3 will confuse the fuck out of you but you will eventually start to figure out what's actually going on, and when the dots start connecting they will feed into speculation and obsession, everything means something else and deciphering the narrative subtext is addictive.
Every reread of the series is so much fun as once you have an idea of what's going on, words will rearrange themselves in your head as you pass them on the page and suddenly there's a joke, or a bit of lore or something that clicks into place and makes sense in the most blindingly obvious way.
The 4th book Alecto The Ninth, is due to release soon, hopefully. Please.