Does anyone have any recommendations for books in the fantasy genre? Skip over obvious series like LotR, Harry Potter, and Narnia.
Does anyone have any recommendations for books in the fantasy genre?
Skip over obvious series like LotR, Harry Potter, and Narnia.
Lux, Covenant and Dark Elements by Jennifer L. Armentrout.
Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa
Firelight by Sophie Jordan
The Abhorson books by Garth Nix!
Garth Nix rings a bell. I think I read a book called Mister Monday. Was that him or am I thinking of someone else?
that was him! The abhorson books involves necoromancers and something called an Abhorson that banishes the raised dead back to death.
Garth nix is the shit. You read keys to the kingdom and a confusion of princes
Dragonlance
Shades of Magic series, V. E. Schwab is pretty good, I am almost finishing the first one…totally recommended
Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan
Also, the trilogy Snow like ashes is very good…
Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart
Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness (more sci fi)
The Seventh tower by garth nix
William Nicholson: Noble Warriors trilogy or the Wind singers trilogy
Keys to the kingdom garth nix
Wind through the keyhole series
Ink heart series
Incarceron duology
Dark tower series
Shanara / elfenmark /robin hobb
Darker shade of magic series V e Swchab
Caravel. A court of Thorns and roses.
I love Caraval…so beautiful…
Anything by V E Schwabb – Vicious, the Shades of Magic trilogy or the Savage Song duology.
House of Night series
Morganville vampires series
♡♡♡ these two
Here is another two that I love: the violet eden series by jessica shirvington and the watcher series by veronica wolff
What are they about?:)
Angels protecting the world is the first one I mentioned and the other one is about mistreated girls kidnapped to an island learning to be defenders for vampires
I will look them up 🙂 thanks ♡♡
Pleasure
My husband loves The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The mortal instruments
House of night series
The Mortal Instruments
The Bartimaeus sequence by Jonathan Stroud
I loooooved these books!
The name of the Wind.
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Wonderful read.
The Looking Glass Wars Trilogy, different take on Alice In Wonderland.
The Camelot Inheritance, it’s kinda like Percy Jackson but with Arthurian mythology rather than Greek mythology.
The Lunar Chronicles, futuristic versions of Cinderella, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, etc.
Anything by Brandon Sanderson or Rachel Caine.
Study series by Maria V.Snyder
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Throne of Glass
A Court of Thrones and Roses
The Mortal Instruments
The Infernal Devices
Game of Thrones
Soul Eaters
Six of Crows
Red Queen
Red Queen and Six of Crows
The Iron Druid Chronicles and Good Omens are both really great.
Hey, I’m almost finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, it’s pretty good ?
Acotar series
Thorne if glasses series
A dark shade of magic
The infernal devices
The Great Library series by Rachael Caine.
Hi, what is this book about?
http://rachelcaine.com/books/greatlibrary/
Cassandra Clare book series (TMI, TDA, TID)
or the Red Queen Series ?
david gemmell
The Study Series by Maria V. Snyder
Artemis fowl
The Sword Dancer Saga by Jennifer Roberson. It’s an older series but one of my all time faves.
Grisha trilogy, six of crows duology, a bond of venom and magic by Karen Tomlinson, everlasting flame by Katelyn Anderson, red queen series, the bone season by Samantha Shannon, the emerge series by Melissa A. Craven,
Dragonlance chronicles and legends by Margaret weis and Tracy Hickman
The Wheel of Time
Can’t recommend it enough read it so many times!
Watchmen
Necroscope
Falling Kingdoms
I’ve read this one in a day, right now I’m on the second book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33897359-first-year
Chronicles of Nick. Is a YA fantasy series I actually really enjoyed.
everything by Robin Hobb
The Shades of Magic and The Tearling series were both pretty remarkable in my opinion.
The throne of glass series!!
I loved this book and its on sale today for $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003K16P3M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_Q3oBzbJJAM1CX
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
I’m planning on picking this series up. Do you recommend the other two series in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles?
I recommend Heroes of Olympus but I personally didn’t like the Norse or Egyptian series.
Ah, that’s a shame. I really like Norse mythology.
It’s a little left wing but Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta.
Red Queen
In the name of the wind.
A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J Maas
Discworld by Pratchett
Storm Siren is a very good serie!
The Wheel of Time series, the Amber Chronicles
Did we just become best friends haha
Lol they are so amazing. I got the WoT Companion to keep it fresh in my memory until I read it again
I loved the WOT series but after a while it kinda got a little repeative
Red rising
The Xanth novels and the incarnations of immortality by piers Anthony are good
The Lunar Chronicles is my fave
The Lunar Chronicles is Sci Fi and not really fantasy
Well it has Sci Fi elements but it certainly is still a fantasy. I’m not a fan of Sci Fi myself, but thoroughly enjoyed the Lunar Chronicles because of its fantasy, inter alia. 🙂
The Witcher by Sapkowski
The queen of the tearling was really good
Half a King series by Joe Abercrombie
Time machine
The Grimm Legacy is one of my favorites. It’s made more for middle schoolers, but I’ve always loved it
I haven’t personally read them but I hear the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fford are very good.
They are good. His Last Dragonslayer series is good, too.
Check out Patrick Rothfuss ?
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Fantastic series!
leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman.
Magician series by Raymond E Feist , 21 books of pure awesome
Young elites
The mortal instruments
Lunar chronicles
The Song of The Shattered Sands series by Bradley P Beaulieu & The Draconis Memoria series by Anthony Ryan
The final empire by brandon sanderson
The Mortal Instruments, for sure! I don’t know if you like things like this, but Game of Thrones are EXCELLENT books. Brutal, in some ways, but Martin’s writing style is very easy to read and it tells an excellent story
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Any Neil Gaiman book
RA Salvatore books for D&D feels
Shannara by Terry Brooks
Wheel of Time
Already a fan of Neil Gaiman. 😀
The rock star of the literary world! I ❤️ him. ?
I so nearly had the chance to meet him once. He attended a book signing in the city I live in… but it was a week before I moved here! 🙁
He came here twice already but unfortunately I still haven’t met him. ☹️ The lines were crazy! I think he was signing the entire day.
Trudy Canavan. Start with the Black Magician Trilogy. You will not regret it!
Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas.
Anything by Judith Tarr.
Terry Pratchett is my all time favourite fantasy author, his writing style is very homely and real and even though the stories are in a world filled with wizards and dragons there is a lot of familiarity in them
Discworld
My upcoming Memoirs of Detective Wade Falx
Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke. The best ❤
Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor; anything by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, or Charles de Lint.
A book called Sylvia my friend wrote, the sequel will be out in a couple of weeks:
https://www.amazon.com/Sylvia-Last-Ranger-Kaylee-Dolat-ebook/dp/B072BC7293/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500350059&sr=8-1&keywords=Sylvia+Kaylee+Dolat
Mist born by Brandon Sanderson, krondor by Raymond e feist, Nevernight by jay kristoff
SIX OF CROWSSSS!!!!!
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. Red Queen.
My new favorites are the Vault of Heaven series by Peter Orullian and the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
Read Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Air Awakens series by Elise Kova
The forgotten realms by R.A. Salvatore
Fablehaven series
A court of thorns and roses by SJ maas
Anything Brandon Sanderson. I would start with the Mistborn trilogy. 🙂
The Creepy Hollow series by Rachel Morgan
The Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs
Percy Jackson and all associated books by Rick Riordan
Something more adult fantasy is the Dark hunter books by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Redemption Song by Henry Burns. Just released.
I loved The Legend of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reichert
A court of thorns and roses, throne of glass, six of crows
The Golden Company series by Philip Pullman. Extremely imaginative and one of my favorite fantasy books.
I named my daughter lyrah based from that series!
The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie! It’s a great fantasy series, set in a fictional medieval world, with magic and war. It’s pretty brutal tho, if you’re okay with that
The Belgariad series by David Eddings
The girl with all the gifts
I’ve got there here. Many of the people who’ve read it have said that it’s VERY similar to a video game called The Last of Us – a game I absolutely LOVE – which came out in 2013.
I just downloaded that. I don’t usually go for zombie-type stories, but I was intrigued by this one. I’ll probably read it after I finish The Chimes.
Awesome @Anne let me know how you like it!!
A song of ice and fire.
the inheritance cycle
I’ve been thinking about this one. Reviews online tend to be quite mixed, and Eragon is often described as really slow paced – but the others are rather good. Probably will pick them up at some point.
I liked them a lot, I only thought Glaedr was slow-paced….
I love the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.
Wheel of time series! Alcatraz series by brandon Sanderson!
Inkheart, The Golden Compass, and/or Percy Jackson
The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices and The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare.
“A Series Of Unfortunate Events”
The Dragonlance chronicles
The spellsinger series by Alan dean foster. And if you like a little humor with your fantasy, the myth inc series by Robert asprin.
Love Butchers Codex Alera. Briggs Dragon Bones and Raven duology
Saintcrow’s The Hedgewitch a queen and The Bandit King
Rick Riordan’s and Sarah J. Maas’ books
I’m currently reading the last book in the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo…this trilogy is just incredible! I have others on my TBR list that I hear nothing but incredible things about: The Belgariad series by David Eddings, Runelords series by David Farland, The Immortals series by Tamora Pierce, Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson…and sooo many more! My TBR list has nearly 500 different books/series!
The Belgariad is one of my all time faves!! Have you ever read The Black Company? It’s pretty awesome too.
Try Throne of Glass
The Realm of Elderlings series by Robin Hobb, the first book is The Assassins Apprentice.
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King–the first book is the weakest but I still really enjoyed it
Reps for recommending the Dark Tower series. Trying to get as many of my friends to read the books before the movies come out in case the big screen turns the idea of Ka into KaKa.
@Dan I’m really hoping the movie is set in a parallel universe–almost like an 8th storyline. It would easily explain all the changes the trailer has shown. And I could get down with an 8th instalment no problem. An adaptation is going to be harder for me haha
It’s the next cycle in the wheel as far as I’ve heard. Sure I saw a brief instance where Roland is walking about with the Horn of Eld. Been trying to get my mates to read the books for years. They usually only get into books I’ve been badgering them to read once they’ve had Tv or movie adaption( Games of Thrones and the likes.). Just hope they don’t come out the cinemas with even less inclination to read the books.
I’m on the same page. Read the series three times now, I’ve got my own movie in my head of the original seven. I don’t want some other director ruining that for me ;P
@Dan I’m not typically a fan of adaptations anyway, soooooooooo it’s already gone downhill for me hahaha. It doesn’t help that DT was my childhood Harry Potter. Started them when I was 9 and it’s basically what raised me ?
Same here. Read the stones of power trilogy by David Gemmel (Similar themes of guns and sorcery, just not as expansive or enthralling.). My dad told me about a similar series of books that were much better. Given that I’d already destroyed six or seven Stephen King books I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of them. Great to find a fellow member of Kings Ka-tet.
May your days be long upon the earth 🙂
@Dan well met. Long days and pleasant nights good sir.
May you have twice the number
The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
jean Johnson sons of destiny/ theirs not to reason why
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. If you can stomach or get past the flaws of a reprehensible main character (reprehensible may be under selling it for the first book as well.) there’s a great story there.
The black company. Also the silver call duolgy is amazing.
Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind
Anything by Joe Abercrombie or Michael Sullivan
Here, There Be Dragons (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica) by James A. Owens
Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra!
Jump and crash by sean williams. Gone by michael grant. Uglies by scott westerfield
I’ve got the Gone books, and his BZRK series. ?
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Sardonyx Net
Laural K Hamilton Anita Blake series. The first book is called “Guilty Pleaures”
The Zodiac series by Romina Russell is very good!
Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
The School of Good and Evil
The golden compass, subtle knife and the amber spyglass…. his dark materials I tjink may be the name of the trilogy