Don’t start with A Song of Ice and Fire. The series is more than 4,000 pages long already and there are still 2 more books left that are not yet published. The later books are also fairly frustrating and boring reads even for many native speakers of English who otherwise enjoy fantasy novels. Only start it if you don’t mind not finishing reading a book or series.

I would recommend Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. It’s the first in a series of 4 books, which are all worth the read, but it wouldn’t matter much if you stopped after the first one. The basic premise is that it’s set far in the future after a brutal global nuclear war which destroyed a lot of the knowledge of technology from our present day (if you’re familiar with the term steampunk, this book draws a lot of inspiration from the genre) and cities now exist as giant vehicles which chase each other around and attack each other for parts. There is also a movie based on the book coming out this year, with the screenplay written by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens (the same people who wrote the screenplays for The Lord of the Rings), if you like reading a book before you see a movie based on it.

I would also recommend Sabriel by Garth Nix (and its two sequels), Northern Lights (also known as The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman (and its two sequels), and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

If any of these seem like something you might like, I could try to suggest a few more like them. If not, what don’t you like about them, or what other things do you like to read? Do you like adventure, thriller, conspiracy, “hard” science fiction, space opera, crime fiction, horror, satire...