When I do some reading, I like "clean authors" like Clive Cussler.
No sex or bad language. But plenty of adventure.
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(full LibreOffice spreadsheet of reading history/plans)
Jack Whyte
- series, Dream of Eagles (or Camulod)
- series, Templar trilogy
- series, Guardians trilogy (or Braveheart chronicles)
David Weber
- series, Honor Harrington
- spinoff series in "Honorverse"
- series, Dahak
Mary Stewart
- series, Arthurian saga
Dale Brown
- Flight of the Old Dog
Michael Crichton
- anything not part of Jurassic Park series
David Drake
- series, Hammer's Slammers
Michael Flynn
- The Wreck of “The River of Stars”
Lian Hearn
- series, The Clan of the Otoris
Joe Haldeman
- series, Marsbound
- series, Worlds
Ann McCaffrey
- series, Brainship
Michael P. Kube McDowell
- series, Trigon Disunity (5 books)
Kim Stanley Robinson
- basically anything
Jerry E. Pournelle
- series, Janissaries
- series, Falkenberg’s Legion
Robert J. Sawyer
- basically anything
John Scalzi
- series, Old Man's War
- series, Interdependency
Vernor Vinge
- series, Queng Ho
Roger McBride Allen
- series, Caliban
Mark W. Tiedemann
- series, Asimov’s Robot Mysteries
Orson Scott Card
- series, Ender Saga
Arthur C. Clarke
- series, Rama
Gordon R. Dickson
- series, Childe Cycle
Robert A. Heinlein
- series, World as Myth
Frank Herbert
- series, Dune (6 books)
Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson
- multiple series, Dune universe books (18 books)
Keith Laumer
- series, Retief
Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner
- series, Known Space
Allen Steele
- series, Near-Space
R. J. Pineiro
- pick any one; start with Breakthrough, Shutdown, Firewall
(P.S. Sorry if I got carried away! )
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Thanks for the recommendations.
Michael Crichton
- anything not part of Jurassic Park series
I thought that dinosaurs eating people was kinda of cool.
Everybody needs food...right ?
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Uuuu nice book recommendations !!
I would like to add to the list/suggest:
Brandon Sanderson - Elantris; Mistborn series - solid world-building fantasy
Herman Hesse - Demian/Narcissus and Goldmund/Glass bead game - less popular than Siddhartha but much better in my honest opinion
David Foster Wallace - Broom of the System and Infinite Jest - two longest novels I've read not counting serial sequels and would recommend them both, helped me tremendously to expand my english vocabulary (english is my second language)
Don Delillo - White Noise - read it multiple times, love it to bits as it has a nice tone of sarcasm/irony
Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas - a nice story of a quest for justice, and has a nice english translation from german as well
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We - a Russian novel from the start of 20-th century, first dystopian novel and a heavy inspiration for "1984" (Orwell actually wrote the review of the french translation back before he wrote his dystopian work)
I could go on for days about dystiopian novels as it was one of my masters thesis, but I will end it here since we don't have a "book club" section in the forum hahah 
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I am always up for a little Dirk Pitt and NUMA. I never read his later books with Juan Cabrillo tho.
RIP Clive.
If you like Clive Cussler then you should try Michael Connelly.
Also, Ernst Cline and Ready Player One. What a great book.
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I liked the original Jurassic Park. The book was a lot different from the movie. The other JP books were not so good, but I would recommend the first one.
Oh and Old Man's War was one of the best sci-fi books I have ever read.
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One of my absolute favorite authors.I'm very much a Pern series fan.
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I said that because his other books, to me, seem so much better, not that I was dissing the JP series.
... and before I forget, there is this magnificent site for looking up Author's and their creative works,
as well as this other site for doing lookup on details about various books and editions published,
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For some excellent female sci-fi, Octavia Butler's Kindred is a great time travel story but my recent favorite is Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries. Freaking awesome!
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Sheri S. Tepper's "Grass" certainly offers an interesting twist!
I'm not into time travel myself, but Mike Shupp's "Destiny Makers" series was very absorbing!
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For all the French members out there, the one series which I found very good, was that of the
I read almost all of those during my university days, 1974-1980. Unfortunately, I had to make hard choices and purged many of my books back in 1993, after the Nortel London plant shutdown. I regret that. 
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