tavish1

Also really recommend 'Snow crash'.

I started reading sci-fi(mostly hard-sf) after I read the commonwealth saga,

'Pandora's star' and 'Judas unchained'. It was just really entertaining and unlike anything I've read.

The way of kings etc.

Warbreaker

Also adding a couple fantasy recommendations: Lies of Locke lamora,

'Pandora's star' and 'Judas unchained'. It was just really entertaining and unlike anything I've read.

and any basically any novel by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn: the final empire, Warbreaker, The way of kings etc.)

Mistborn: the final empire