Flights of Fantasy discussion

Im desperately looking for more fantasy series to read. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Heres a list of series Ive already read.

So far Ive read:
*Malazaan books of the fallen
*Sword of truth
*both Farseer series
*Dragonlance chronicles
*Broken Empire
*Codex Alera
*Dagger and Coin
*The Dark Age
*The Demon Cycle
*First Law
*Gentleman Bastard
*Godling Chronicles
*Half Orcs
*Kingkiller
*Palindins
*Powder Mage
*Shadowdance
*Riyria Revalations
*Song of Fire and Ice
*Songs of the Dragon
*The Sorcerer's Ring
*Sorcery Ascendant Sequence
*Tawny Man
*Ties that bind
*Tower and Knife
*War of Light and Shadow
*Wheel of Time

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Read Mistborn (thats the farseer series).

Riyria Chronicles & Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan (I recommend you read this one in published order rather than chronologically. So Revelations first and Chronicles second.)
Masks of Aygrima by E.C. Blake
Firekeeper by Jane Lindskold
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
The Shadow Campaign by Django Wexler
Seven Realms by Cinda Williams Chima
Chronicles of the Necromancer by Gail Z. Martin
Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Night Angel by Brent Weeks

It's not in a series, but The Goblin Emperor was a really good standalone book.

Benjamin wrote: "Read Mistborn (thats the farseer series)."

Umm, no. Farseer is by Robin Hobb. Mistborn is by Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages.

Opps yeah, Becky. Read soo many they get confused. Read both series in any case. Sorry.

Ok, it wasn't listed. ;) What about Sanderson's Stormlight Archive books? The Way Of Kings and Words of Radiance.

Jim ButcherDresden Files, and Michael J Sullivan Riyria Revelations.

The Death Gate Cycle, starting with Dragon Wing. I read these books like 15 years ago and I loved them when I was in my teens. I need to reread them to see if they´re as good as I thought back then...

Blood Song is the first book of a trilogy, with the second book coming out in July. It´s actually our fantasy group read for this month, so you can go check out that thread, if you are interested. Great story, but you should know it has some pretty terrible editing.

Some classic must read epic fantasy that I don't see on your list.. Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series (starts with The Dragonbone Chair).

Dawn wrote: "Some classic must read epic fantasy that I don't see on your list.. Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series (starts with The Dragonbone Chair)."

I'll second the recommendation of Memory, Sorrow & Thorn. It's up there with Riyria as my favorite.

I second Dragon Wing. Great series. I read them again a couple of years ago and still love them.

A few other suggestions:

The Acts of Caine (first book is Heroes Die)

Prince of Nothing (first book is The Darkness That Comes Before)

Low Town (first book is The Straight Razor Cure)

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (first book is Swords and Deviltry)

Riyria Revelations are fantastic (unless you have difficulty with Rs and Ws...), and I agree with Dragon Wing as well.

You might also want to read the forthcoming Hobb trilogy, which continues the story of Fitz from the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies. I think the first book's called Fool's Assassin, and comes out in a few months.

I think this thread is going to wind up costing me a lot of money... It has already caused my TBR list to grow!

Thaddeus wrote: "Riyria Revelations are fantastic (unless you have difficulty with Rs and Ws...)"

What do you mean by "unless you have difficulty with Rs and Ws"?

Someone's probably mentioned it already but The Stormlight Archive is great series by Brandon Sanderson.

Scott wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Some classic must read epic fantasy that I don't see on your list.. Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series (starts with The Dragonbone Chair)."

I'll second the r..."

Thaddeus wrote: "Riyria Revelations are fantastic (unless you have difficulty with Rs and Ws...), and I agree with Dragon Wing as well.

You might also want to read the forthcoming Hobb trilogy, which continues the..."

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn are top notch. Jim Butcher's Dresden Files as well. Highly Recomend both. Also The Emperor's Blades

Riyria didn't do it for me. Sorry guys. Dresden. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. And well, you've read most of the rest. Song of Fire and Ice? I know HBO picked it up but it's good. Has been since Martin started it long before it was a TV series.

Can't go wrong with the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake :) (on app so can't link, sorry).

Sean wrote: "Riyria didn't do it for me. Sorry guys. "

I've only read the first two, but I'm not particularly fussed about it. The first I thought was pretty meh. I did think the second was an improvement, but not enough of one that I felt overly compelled to continue, obviously. :>

c.o.lleen ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "Sean wrote: "Riyria didn't do it for me. Sorry guys. "

I've only read the first two, but I'm not particularly fussed about it. The first I thought was pretty meh. I did think the second was an..."

I think I got about half way through the first one and realised it wasn't doing anything for me. The main characters seemed interesting but the story was not particularly interesting. Not enough to hold my attention anyway.

Brent Weeks, his assassin series, Stephen Brett, "The Warded Man" series, Any of David Gemmell, Douglas Hulick, "Among Thieves"

If you can find them, Hugh Cook's Chronicles of an Age of Darkness are great and way ahead of their time.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/4315...

My suggestions:

The Young Elitesseries, by Marie Lu
Tales of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding (first book is Retribution Falls)
The Winner's trilogy by Marie Rutkoski (first one is The Winner's Curse)

If you can find it, the Rifter's series by Ginn Haleis great.

The epic series that pioneered grimdark fantasy:

The Black Company by Glen Cook

Beautiful fantasy in the vein of Tolkien:

The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip


Epic fantasy for young adults and grownups, too:

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander


Two highly important and influential anti-heroic fantasy sagas:

The Book of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock

Oh, and last, but not least, perhaps the best fantasy series of them all: Lyonesse by Jack Vance:

Suldrun's Garden

Highly influenced by European folklore and mythology, this fascinating trilogy blasts the borders between high and low fantasy. It was published in the 1980ies, but reads at times like it was written about half a century earlier.