Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Fantasy is such a good way to get your head outside your usual setting. 4.Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Less a fantasy series and more a complex dedication to world-building. Although it's technically science fiction or science fantasy, it feels like fantasy; on a distant planet in the far future, people who've modified themselves into the form of Hindu gods struggle over the question of freedom and technology. Mmmmmm. Barry Longyear's The God Box is the story of a rug merchant who gains a very strange inheritance that sends him on a trip through time as well as across the world. I really enjoyed The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, too. ._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4{width:100%}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA{display:none}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA,._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:block}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:none} Gerald Tarrant and Damien Vryce. I read this when I was growing up, and I've reread it a few times in the years after and I've fallen in love with it again every time. 2.Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. By the end of the series you feel like you've lived among them for years and hate to see them go. Squibler. The characters, the story, the world(s), the themes, I just adore this trilogy. Being the founding father of the fantasy genre, knowing your roots, common plot elements and where it all started seems so very important to me that without at least reading it once just seems like blasphemy. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.927a8835c106513651cb.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} Holy, shit. 3: The Disworld series. Or you can read it at the second level and see how utterly serious and dark a work it was becoming towards the end. 4: The Farseer trilogy. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/ReredditLink.f7b66a91705891e84a09.css.map*/ I love the characters, especially Glokta and Logen. His protagonists are unusual for the genre in that they're actually intelligent and decent people. More than 60,000 of you voted. Becomes a bit of a toss up now, so I'll just pick two out of a bunch. Discworld. Do your children love fantasy? The Red Queen's War. .LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH{fill:var(--newRedditTheme-actionIcon);height:18px;width:18px}.LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH rect{stroke:var(--newRedditTheme-metaText)}._3J2-xIxxxP9ISzeLWCOUVc{height:18px}.FyLpt0kIWG1bTDWZ8HIL1{margin-top:4px}._2ntJEAiwKXBGvxrJiqxx_2,._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{height:24px;vertical-align:middle;width:24px}._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;display:-ms-inline-flexbox;display:inline-flex;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-pack:center;justify-content:center} The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. Often it’s said that the ideas or twists in a good book is the expression of the mind of the writer behind it, and you truly have to read the Dredsen Files. Since the list was created by parsing user comments, it represents the most popular fantasy books according to users on reddit, and does not necessarily reflect our personal opinions. For giving us gritty, epic fantasy with great characterization. Danna Windsor. Well, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, of course. It got me into fantasy, and while I find the books a struggle to read now because of the dated prose the story is as incredible as it's ever been. For being excellently written, with great characters. It's a mystery with magic, humor, adventure, and it's simply mind-blowing. Oh man the Animorphs books were my life when I was 10-12 years old. Note: If this wasn't limited to just series, then Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke would take my number four spot. The Graveyard Book, published in 2008, was the first paranormal fantasy book I ever read. Beagle is most famous for writing The Last Unicorn, which is also an amazing and unique book. Because it's the classic that introduced me to adult fantasy novels and made me an addict for life. It's a classic story, but it's well-written and the interactions between the five different types of magic in that world are fascinating and memorable. His travels are exciting, funny, and in the end deeply moving. I find that Sullivan's writing style is a lot better, and the characters and significantly more fleshed out. You can step inside magnificent worlds (or familiar settings! But this is by far the most epic fantasy series I have read. 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Very well written, and with what is probably my favourite take on magic in the genre. Although novels are arranged simply by genre in bookstores… ._12xlue8dQ1odPw1J81FIGQ{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle} The Dredsen Files is the best fantasy book written by the best author – Jim Bucher. Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen is a trilogy set in a world in which technology was long ago replaced by magic due to a war gone awry. This was my introduction to fantasy and all 22 books still hold as very good quick reads for me today. Seeing common fantasy tropes twisted and played around with made for plenty of surprises. Guards! We got 50 of our top fantasy books for kids here. The story of Nobody Owens, an orphan who is adopted by ghosts at a cemetery after his parents are murdered, captivated me to a point where I obsessively started seeking out other books in the genre. An all-original culture, massively powerful demon-spirits and the poets (yes poets) that control them, the passage of seasons, The Crown of Stars (Kate Elliott): set in a pre-1000 magic Holy Roman Empire, with dragon-dog-vikings, centaurs and a villain you love to hate, Discworld series (Terry Pratchett): not only awesomely funny, but actually pretty deep. Pratchett may have started writing it for fun, and this is very evident in Colour of Magic, but the tone of the series began to shift and it went places that not many books go to. The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2020 to catch up with Stretching from the expanse of space to sagas right here on Earth By Andrew Liptak Jan 10, 2021, 10:20am EST Fantasy books bring the imagination to life and allow the impossible to occur. 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Malazan Book of the Fallen :- I can't say much about this series that many other more eloquent people haven't said. 1: Malazan Book of the Fallen. The first three suck, though, he hits stride with Mort. I'm only listing completed series so no stormlight archive or dresden files here. And now the results are in. Grid view List view. Tolkien. The gritty grey characters with moral ambiguity and tough choices, with the speed, structured magic system, and action sequences of Sanderson. would have mentioned Guy gavriel Kay but since he dont really write series I choose not to include him although he is my fav author at the moment. Abercrombie's take on the standard Lord of the Rings journey quest is surprising and a perfect deconstruction of the typical fantasy narrative. All the fantasy book recommendations! It has a really cool, low magic, magic system and in my opinion, the greatest villain ever to terrorize a fantasy novel. Her journey from there is amazing, and detailed. Alodar, a young apprentice thaumaturge, quests to redeem his family name and marry the princess. Once established in your mind, the second book takes off and you bond further and get to know flaws and weaknesses as well as seeing them grow and discover who they are. However, there are numerous books out there with intricately detailed laws and rules for their magic. 2 The Lightbringer Series; Brent Weeks I want to start out by saying that Brent Weeks is rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors. Animorphs :- This seems like a strange entry but I remember spending most of my middle school hunting down books in the series in the library. 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