As there is no real good place to put this I will put these here
For those who are going through withdraw from the end of the Green Ember, I thought I would start a post about books we could all read, I will post some below on this and will jump back in to give some other works as well, that I have read or are on my reading list (I will state which ones I have not read).
For those who would like books in the same vein (talking animals) as the Green Ember (these are in no particular order):
1) The Redwall Series: Lighter reading with predictable plotlines, but still very enjoyable reads
a. Jacques also has another series Castaways from the Flying Dutchman that maybe of interest
2) Beyond the Western Deep: A dark fantasy webcomic series for all ages that updates every Saturday, the main characters are squirrels, otters, cats (of various types), and some others
a. Right now, they are running a side series set in the same world as they work on the next chapter of the main series
b. Link to the beginning of the series: https://www.westerndeep.net/comic/comingsoon/
3) The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle: One of my top favorite books and enjoyable read
4) Watership Down: Another good book and one of my favorites, it is more intense the Green Ember, and the rabbits act more like real-life rabbits
a. If you enjoy this book, I recombined reding the follow-up Tales from Watership Down
5) Of course, The Mistmantle Chronicles: I have not read these works, though they are on my list
6) Fifteen Rabbits: By the author of Bambi(the book on which the movie is based), is another work I have not read, but reviews point to this booking being in the same vein as Watership Down, and thus a bit more intense then Green Ember (think dead baby rabbits)
7) The Chronicles of Narnia: Another series I enjoy and have read multiple times.
a. You may also what to look at C.S. Lewis’s Out of a Silent Plaint, the first book of his Cosmic or Space Trilogy
b. I would also recommend The Screwtape Letters
8) The Five Realms by Kieran Larwood: The big selling point of this work is its a #rabbitswithswords series, also a series I have not yet read but intended to
I will be back with some other recommendations that do not have talking animals. If anyone has any other books they would recommend reading, please comment below.
Song for a Whale by Lynn Kelly is a great read as well!!!
Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier is a great book! As is it's squeal Sophie Quire and the Last Story Guard, also Sweep, is another great book by Jonathan Auxier
Wars of the Realm series by Chuck Black, if your a young adult or teen...these books are really good! Like super good! Christian, clean, and action packed.
That's all we can think of at the moment....
Not sure if anyone has suggested these yet, so I'm just going to start. Of course, if you haven't read Lord of the Rings, it's an awesome series (so far anyway, I'm almost done with the first book).
Also The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. He also wrote a book called Secret Keepers that I really like, slow to start, but a really good read.
Genius Files by Dan Furman (I think) is a really good series, fun read.
Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket is good. Touch sad, of course, but good. If you are looking for something to watch, the Netflix adaptation of the books is very close to the books. Fun to watch, even though it is kind of dark, considering what it is about.
Out of the Silent Planet is good. My family listened to it on the way to Orlando once. I want to read it
i love Watership Down. might be my second favorite.
Here's one!
Lightfall: The Girl & The Galdurian
It's book 1 in a graphic novel series. It's one of my favorite books now!
I also made a wiki about it which you can find here.
UwU
Another thing people here might like is Mouse Guard
Guess what! One of my friends and I were talking about books, and I mentioned the Mismantle Chronicals, and my friend said that they had the whole series. My friend told me I could borrow them, but when they gave them to me, my friend said I could keep them.
The Songkeeper Chronicles are really good, one of us just finished reading them right before we read EE...
If you like the idea that music is powerful than they are really good, add fighting and adventure, not to mention a griffin... and you see where we're going...
Also The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Not exactly the same as the musical, but still a good read.
@Saraina I read your profile, and I saw that you were writing books with lotr fans(I think that's what you called it).
I don't know if someone recommended this series, but I LOVE "Keeper of the Lost Cities" series! Its awesome!
Hi everyone! I have recently been listening to Hope*Writers. They are AMAZING! They have been so helpful with my writing. Their site is:
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Totally recommend them! S.D. Smith was on there last month.
@TGEFanForever as far as order goes, the only thing important is that you read Song of the Eastern Sands before Chapter 3. The other ones aren't as important, though "The Adventures of Cain and Yurk" sets up the characters for "The Abyssal Dunes". "The Scholar and the Seawal" is mostly extra worldbuilding. Also, within each chapter there are occasional short stories and such that build on certain characters and are worth reading.
@Ian G. I finished "Beyond the western Deep." I remember you saying you read it.
Also, I have just finished an AWESOME book series. I don't think any book could come close as this to TGE. Its called "Longburrow series." It does have dark magic in it. Its about three rabbit children trying to create an army to fight back against the enemy(TGE). A rabbit just like Maggie Weaver. The two oldest of the children are like Heather and Picket TRY IT OUT!!! Its so good!
@The Fowlers Hi! My cousin and I are writing a book. We were wanting to publish it on Amazon, and were wondering how to do it.
In no particular order:
-Anything by N.D. Wilson
-Ranger's Apprentice
-Wingfeather saga
-Brotherband
-Brotherhood of Thieves
-Percy Jackson
-Wilderking trilogy
-Jack Blank
-Underland chronicles
-Wonder
-Section 13
-Tuesday McGillycuddy
Thanks for the suggestions! I've run out of Christian fantasy books at our library, and all the others have a lot of dark magic. My mom is trying to convince me to get into historical fiction, of which there seems to be an endless supply. It's okay, but I really prefer the action and magic in fantasy. And dragons. 😊
Other books I've read:
The Door Within, by Wayne Thomas Batson
The Dragonkeeper series (I think that's what it's called) by Donita K Paul
Neither of these were outstanding, but they made entertaining reads.
My favorites remain the Green Ember, The Wingfeather Saga, and LotR. I'm also a Redwall fan.
I survived and The Crossover are good books too
Oh and Wonder along with Auggie and Me. Great books.
Some of my favorite books. 1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians and other books by Rick Riordan 2. Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo 3. Geronimo Stilton ( not very long books ) 4. Diary of a wimpy kid amazing books by Jeff Kinney though l, still not very long, but still amazing. Andddddd, yeahhhhh, that's all I can think of now so yeah.
Thanks, always looking for good books to read and it's discouraging how hard it is to find one.
Also, another good book series is the Math Inspectors. My aunt wrote it. You should all check it out.
I don't see any heresay in it. Haha
Heresy!!!
Oh man. I blasted through the first chapter of Beyond the Western Deep today. The worldbuilding and visual designs are stunning. I love it! Thanks for that suggestion, @Derrick Rowe !
While I'll admit that my reading tastes have wandered into YA and teen fiction/fantasy, sometimes straying as far from GE as geopolitical thrillers, I still haven't found another series like it, with the exception of one. The Ravenwood Saga is a Christian, Dark Fantasy series targeted toward YAs and teens, so not really a family read aloud. Still, I'd recommend it to any of my fellow teenagers who don't mind a little bit of violence, strong (sometimes mature, but Godly) romantic subplots, and a lot of vibrant light-in-the-darkness messages (including a God type figure called the Light).
@Power I will try to check out your books. Most of the book that you guys have mentioned aren't at the Library, and that's where I get most of my books. OH, and one more: Metropolitans
good
LibriVox also has a lot of classical books that they have volunteers read aloud and it's totally free.
How is it going?
Yo, @Power
The fifth book is hilarious
Here are some more
1. Pie in the Sky
2. Redwall(again)
3. Beyonders
4. Magic Thieves
5. Rise and fall of mount majestic
Another good book (that sort of has a talking animal) is "Once on a Time" by A.A. Milne. He's the author of "Winnie the Pooh" but he has some other books that are more grown up, and he has a knack at looking on the ironic side of thing (which if you are like me, I enjoy books with humor). LibriVox has a dramatized reading of "Once on a Time" that's good
Or Wing feather saga(which I still haven't read @LuvGreenEmber .
Some books we like are:
The Kingdom Series by Chuck Black
The Prince Warriors by Priscilla Shirer
Wrinkle in Time series by Madeline L'engle, we think we spelt that right but probably not.
The Crown and Covenant series and Faith and Freedom series by Douglas Bond.
The Peleg Chronicles, we can't remember who wrote it, not sure where to find the books anymore, our dad got them for my brother on Vision Forum before it went out of business.
That's all we can't think of right now.
For some non-talking animal books:
1) Of course, there is the venerable The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
a. If you have not read it check out The Hobbit first
b. If you really like Middle Earth read the Silmarillion, it’s a slog but if you are into Middle Earth it is a good read, and has the most beautiful love story ever written within it (Bren and Luthien)
c. Final note, I don’t usually recommend this, but I would (after reading them) get the unabridged audiobooks and listen to them, it really helps make Middle Earth come to life, trust me on this
2) The Princesses Bride: If you have seen (the exultant) move and pick up this book, I have yet to read it but it is on my list
3) A Tale of Two Cities: My favorite book of all-time hands down, I cannot recommend it enough, it is, in my opinion, one of Dickens best works
4) Ginger and Pinky Pye: Both fun books, nice reads
a. You can also check out The Moffatts Series by the same author
5) Treasure Island: Always a fun and quick read
6) The Phantom Tollbooth: Great fun for all ages, watch for the quick wordplay
7) The Chronicles of Prydain: A fantasy series set on Welsh myth; I have not read but intend to. Disney made a move off the first book in the 1980s The Black Calderon, think of it as the Welsh King Arther
a. You can also look at TH White's The Once and Future King
probably the definitive modern rendition of the Legend of King Arther
8) For those of you who are older, and like sea stories, I recommend the Aubrey-Maturin Series set during the Napoleonic Wars
a. I would say this is about said PG-13 level, some profanity, but not really much, goes into great detail on how to operate a sailing ship
b. If that series may be too intense read the Hornblower series instead, also set during the Napoleonic Wars
I have a mind to provide some history works as well.
There really isn't a whole lot out there in the talking animals with swords genre, is there?
Just realized what The Five Realms series was, we actually looked into reading those, but found a review that said they were pretty dark. If we remember right the rabbits have their own sort of religious system where they worships gods and godesses. The review also said that the illastrations were pretty intense, not in a good way. After reading the review we decided not to read the books and our parents agreed with our decision. We're a Christian family and our book standards are pretty high. We're not saying you shouldn't read this series we just thought we would give everyone a heads up, cause we know how disappointing it can be to get a book and then find out it's not like what you thought it was going to be like.
Well, you covered most the good ones we can think of with talking animals. "The Wingfeather Saga" is a good one that technically has talking animals if you count the Fangs. We know of some good series and books with people but we'll wait till you come back with that list.
We agree that the Chronicles of Narnia and The Vogages of Dr. Dolittle are good books. We read Watership Down but personally we found it a little bit slow. That's just our opinion though.
Also, there's the book "Doctor Dolittle", it's a good one too!