Anyway, I think I could make a kind of a list of top books in certain categories. In the future, if I find this post, I will be able to compare. Might be useful to somebody as well, idk
All books here are very big and very thick, many are series.
• Young adult fantasy (big series)
Leigh Bardugo "Grishaverse"
Brandon Sanderson "Mistborn"
Carlos Zafon "the Shadow of the Wind" (1 book)
Philip Pullman "His dark materials"
• Serious fantasy (big series)
Brandon Sanderson "the Stormlight archive"
Max Fry "the Labirinths of Ekho" (urban fantasy detective, it is basically Harry Potter for adults)
M. and S. Dyachenko "Metamorphoses"
• Fiction
G.D. Roberts "Shantaram"
Guzel Yakhina "Zuleikha opens her eyes"
• Science-fiction (I am not a fan or expert here, though)
Douglas Adams "The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"
Frank Herbert "Dune" (series)
David Mitchell "Cloud atlas" (1 novel)
• Detectives, thrillers
Dan Brown "Deception point"
Stieg Larrson "The girl with a dragon tattoo" (3 books)
Steven King "Running man" (novel)
Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie (everything)
• Classical or nearly classical
Ayn Rand "Atlas shrugged"
Senkevich "Quo vadis"
J. Galsworthy "the Forsyte Saga" (a series)
A. Cronin "The stars look down"
Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the wind"
Leo Tolstoy "War and peace"
George Orwell "1984" and "Animal farm"
All books here are very big and very thick, many are series.
• Young adult fantasy (big series)
Leigh Bardugo "Grishaverse"
Brandon Sanderson "Mistborn"
Carlos Zafon "the Shadow of the Wind" (1 book)
Philip Pullman "His dark materials"
• Serious fantasy (big series)
Brandon Sanderson "the Stormlight archive"
Max Fry "the Labirinths of Ekho" (urban fantasy detective, it is basically Harry Potter for adults)
M. and S. Dyachenko "Metamorphoses"
• Fiction
G.D. Roberts "Shantaram"
Guzel Yakhina "Zuleikha opens her eyes"
• Science-fiction (I am not a fan or expert here, though)
Douglas Adams "The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"
Frank Herbert "Dune" (series)
David Mitchell "Cloud atlas" (1 novel)
• Detectives, thrillers
Dan Brown "Deception point"
Stieg Larrson "The girl with a dragon tattoo" (3 books)
Steven King "Running man" (novel)
Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie (everything)
• Classical or nearly classical
Ayn Rand "Atlas shrugged"
Senkevich "Quo vadis"
J. Galsworthy "the Forsyte Saga" (a series)
A. Cronin "The stars look down"
Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the wind"
Leo Tolstoy "War and peace"
George Orwell "1984" and "Animal farm"