If you like “Anita Blake Vampire Hunter” by Laurell K. Hamilton, then you might enjoy…

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Anita Blake is a necromancer and vampire hunter. Vampires are protected by law, but when some of them gets out of hand, then you call Anita Blake, the Executioner. Guilty Pleasures, the first book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series, starts out with someone killing innocent vampires. Anita is approached by Jean Claude, the second strongest vampire in the city to help figur out who is killing vampires. Anita agrees to help out after a bit of vampiric arm-twisting.

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If you like “The Riftwar Saga” by Raymond Feist, then you might enjoy…

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Pug is despite his name a human orphan and not a dog. He was chosen to study under the master magician Kulgan. They will soon discover that dark beings from another world have opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to begin again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. Pug ends up in the centre of this strife. Will he be strong enough to save his world?

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If you like “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline, then you might enjoy…

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Wade Watts is a poor teen living with his ant in the stacks, a trailer park with the trailers stacked atop each other, a place for the poor. Wade only feels alive when he`s inside the OASIS, a popular online game that most of the world is obsessed with. Even with the basic headgear and gloves its almost like you are inside the game, and it gets even better for those with the money for specialized body suits. The creator of OASIS, James Halliday, told every one before he died that he had hidden an easter egg inside the game, an whomever finds it first will inherit his entire multi-billion dollar fortune. Wade is among the most dedicated hunters that label themselves as gunters. To find the egg they study the life of Halliday, especially his earlier days in the 80s. When Wade is the first to find the first clue thing takes a nasty turn when he discovers that people are willing to kill him in the real world to get it.

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If you like “Super Powereds” by Drew Hayes, then you might enjoy…

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To become a super hero you have to take the Hero Certification Program in collage, and only a handful of those starting it will be able to get to the final year. Among this years freshmen at Lander University, one of the top universities with a Hero Certification Program, there are five fresh students that are not as the rest of the aspiring heroes. They are former powereds, people with abilities like the supers but without the ability to control them. Powereds have always been treated like second class citizens and a burden. However these five are the first prototypes for a new highly classified experiment that have managed to turn powereds to a super. They have been those into the Hero Certification Program at Lander University as a trail by fire to see if they can compete against supers.

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If you like “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” by Tad Williams, then you might enjoy…

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Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is a splendid series. And if you love it as much as I do, then you wil love some of the following Books, TV-shows, Movies and Animes. The High King of Osten Ard, slayer of the dread dragon Shurakai, lies dying. With his death, the Storm King, undead ruler of the elvishlike Siti, will finally be free to unleash his plans to regain his lost realm. Only the League of the Scroll, a small secret group with members scattered all over, recognizes the true danger. Simon, a castle scullion and an unknowingly apprenticed to a member of this League, will be tossed out in the centre of the conflict and the Leagues quest for the solution to a riddle of long-lost swords of power. Simon will be confronted with enemies straight out of a legend-maker's worst nighmares!

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If you like “Sword of Truth” by Terry Goodkind, then you might enjoy…

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Sword of Truth is a splendid series. And if you love it as much as I do, then you wil love some of the following Books, TV-shows and Animes. Richard Cypher, a young man in the Westland, helps out Kahlan Amnell, a young woman from the Midlands in trouble. She has managed to cross the boundary between the lands to see Zedd, of all people. She brings with her dark news from the other side of the Boundary. Darken Rahl, Ruler of D'Hara, has brought down the Boundary between D'Hara and the Midlands. Kahlan Amnell seeks a great wizard who had left the Midlands for the Magic free Westlands to have him Name a Seeker of Truth. That way they can find a way to defend them self against Darken Rahl.

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If you like “The Belgariad” by David Eddings, then you might enjoy…

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If you like Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad #1) then you will most likely like some or all of the following recommended Books. I find them to have some degree of similarity with Pawn of Prophecy. Garion is a young boy living on a large farm. He lives there in a peaceful happy ordinary life with his Aunt Pol and his his friend Durnik the blacksmith. One they when the storyteller called Mister Wolf comes on his regular visits, Garion`s life undergo a dramatic change. Garion, aunt Pol, Mister Wolfe and Durnik sets out on a long journey to retrieve a lost item.

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If you like “Age of Fire” by E.E. Knight, then you might enjoy…

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If you like Dragon Champion (Age of Fire #1) then you will most likely like some or all of the following recommended Books and Movies. I find them to have some degree of similarity with Dragon Champion. Auron, a rare defenseless gray dragon that might be the last of his breed, witnesses the slaughter of his parents at the hands of a band of dwarves. Once out of the mountain cave he was born in, he quickly learns just how dangerous it is to be a dragon. With dwarves, elves, and humans relentlessly hunting him. Armed with nothing but his claws and a determination to survive, he sets off in search of his kind. But to find other dragons-or, at least, find out who's killing them off. Dragon Champion is the first book in the Age of Fire series. Some of the other books in the series shows us how it goes with Auro`s siblings once they flee the cave.

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If you like “The Ender Quintet” by Orson Scott Card , then you might enjoy…

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The Ender Quintet is a splendid series. And if you love it as much as I do, then you wil love some of the following Books, Movies and Animes. The earth's government agencies started to breed child geniuses to train as soldiers in order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack. The brilliant young boy Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader among his peers and respected in the Battle Room, where they play at mock battles in zero gravity. Will Ender become the great general Earth needs to survive?

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If you like “Mistborn” by Brandon Sanderson, then you might enjoy…

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If you like Mistborn (Mistborn #1) then you will most likely like some or all of the following recommended Books and Animes. I find them to have some degree of similarity with Mistborn. A World that has been a wasteland of ash and mist for over a thousand years. For this time the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity”, has reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror. Every revolt has failed miserably. Then a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa named Kelsier, placed it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison “snapped” and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. The skill to burn all sixteen of the Allomantic metals. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate play, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. For this Kelsier recruited the underworld’s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom capable of burning one of the Allomantic metals. Kel’s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life, a girl with the potential to become a Mistborn like himself.

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If you like “The Inheritance Cycle”, then you might enjoy…

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The Inheritance Cycle is a splendid series. And if you love it as much as I do, then you wil love some of the following Books, Movies and Animes. Eragon, a fifteen year old farm boy, finds a polished blue stone in the forest. He thinks it is just a lucky discovery that might buy is family meat for the winter. But it`s no stone, its an egg, and when a dragon hatches from it his life is changed forever. Eragon is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and evil beings. Can Eragon take up become one of the legendary Dragon Riders and save the Empire?

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If you like “Jane Yellowrock” by Faith Hunter, then you might enjoy…

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Jane Yellowrock is a splendid series. And if you love it as much as I do, then you wil love some of the following Books and TV-shows. Jane Yellowrock is a skinwalker that shares her body with the soul of a mountain lion. She can take any form aslong as the has some bones with DNA from them. Jane works as a freelance rogue-vampire hunter. In this first book she is hired to take care of a nasty rogue-vampire in New Orleans. When she is there she comes in contact with the vampire society and learns the about the "sane" vampires. She also learns more about her own Cherokee heritage,

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If you like “The Wheel of Time” by Robert Jordan, then you might enjoy…

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If you like The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1) then you will most likely like some or all of the following recommended Books, TV-shows, Movies and Animes. I find them to have some degree of similarity with The Eye of the World . The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. The first book in The Wheel of Time (The Eye of the World) starts out in the peaceful village of Emond's Field. The villagers pay little attention to rumours of war in the western lands until a brutal attack by Trollocs, troll-like minions of the Dark One, forces three young men to confront a destiny which has its origins in the time known as The Breaking of the World.

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If you like “White Trash Zombie” by Diana Rowland, then you might enjoy…

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White Trash Zombie is a splendid series. And if you love it as much as I do, then you wil love some of the following Books, TV-shows and Movies. Angel Crawford lives with her alcoholic redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout without any ambitions, has a mile long police record and she is addicted to drugs and alcohol. All this changes when she is turned into a zombie. She is now only addicted to brains and she gets a job at the local morgue that she has to do her best to keep if she wants to stay "alive".

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