Fantasy books & series - Suggestions?

[The Gnome King]

I figured this would be a good place to ask:

I've run out of long-winded fantasy novels and series to read, and I don't feel like re-reading any yet. Can you offer suggestions as to authors or books I might not have read?

I have read everything by, and enjoyed immensely, books by the following authors -

George R. R. Martin (Game of Thrones series, ASOIAF)
Robin Hobb (Assassin's Apprentice series; Rain Wild Chronicles, etc.)
Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear)
Scott Lynch (Lies of Locke Lamora - lesser known but excellent author)
Brandon Sanderson (Oh! Just realized I've read Mistborn by him but not his Way of Kings book)

Those are the more "recent" fantasy authors I've read and enjoyed that come to mind, to give you an idea of my tastes. They're not in any particular order of enjoyment; Robin Hobb is probably my favorite author on that list but I love them all.

I'll be reading them on an iPad so availability through Amazon or iBooks would be a plus. I don't mind huge, sprawling fantasy series at all - in fact, I enjoy them.

So Escapists... any suggestions for reading material in the fantasy genre? Specifically fantasy; not science-fiction as I have enough of that piled up to read. Looking for high-fantasy/swords & sorcery type stuff.

 

[AvsJoe]

Try Yahtzee's novel, Mogworld.

Seriously, it's hilarious. It's not very similar to your previous examples, but it's an excellent read if you're into fantasy and/or MMORPGs.

 

[Sonicron]

Haven't read much fantasy in my life, but I did read the first three books of the Gotrek and Felix adventures by William King (Warhammer Fantasy) and found them enjoyable.

Also,

Try Yahtzee's novel, Mogworld.

I very much second this, it's a lot of fun. ^^

 

[Sensenmann]

If you haven't already, try Tolkien's books

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Codex Alera by Jim Butcher. Great humor, roman influences, and magic spirits that suspiciously remind me of pokemon. Sweet series.
Then there are the fall backs of the Sword of Truth and Wheel of Time...the last 3 books of the latter having been written by your Brandon Sanderson.

 

[Manji187]

You could try the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks (or his stand alone novel The Black Prism) but I doubt it that you will consider him any good when compared to the authors listed in your first post.

EDIT: whoops...apparently The Black Prism is the start of a new trilogy.

 

[WolfThomas]

I love Robin Hobb too. The Farseer and Tawny man trilogies are some of my favourite books of all times. I alsoenjoyed the Soldier son and Merchant/Ship books, but not as much.

You said you like sprawling fantasy? Then the Wheel of Time, it's a little daunting at currently 13 books (and one final book to be published this year). But it's truly epic and the tone changes quite noticeably, from initially explaining the world, to simply packing awesome stories into the setting. The characters get craploads of developements and there's some amazing parts.

Brandon Sanderson has written the last two books (and upcoming book) based off Robert Jordans notes/plan and it's actually some of the best stuff yet in the series.

 

[ScumbagEddie]

Mogworld was a lot of fun.

The Black Company by Glen Cook is a fantastic series.
Also by Cook - The Swordbearer, The Dread Empire Series
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
Chronicles of the Necromancer by Gail Z. Martin (I had issues with this one, but good reading anyway)

If i think of more, I'll post

 

[loc978]

Raymond E. Feist's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_E._Feist#Riftwar_Cycle] Riftwar Cycle is interesting, and there are quite a few of 'em. I haven't read the entire series, mind you... just the Riftwar Saga, the Conclave of Shadows, and the Darkwar Saga... never really looked for the rest.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Haven't read much fantasy in my life, but I did read the first three books of the Gotrek and Felix adventures by William King (Warhammer Fantasy) and found them enjoyable.

The later ones get better. The first two were more or less short stories stuck end on end, and not very good ones at that. Once the proper novels start, it gets much better.

Though, he's perhaps a little too good at depicting trudging through boring wastelands...gets a bit dull in two of his later books when they do that.

Also, after Giantslayer, King left, and they gave the series to a less talented author with a very different writing style, which really didn't work.

The contemporary or earlier Warhammer stuff was generally pretty good (especially the Jack Yeovil and Brian Craig stories), they'd hadn't reached the staged of sticking their logo on anything their could find back then.

 

[Stoplesteimer]

Codex Ale-

Codex Alera by Jim Butcher.

you sonuvabitch

I would also recommend the Black Company series by Glen Cook. It does tend to stretch on a bit but it looks like you prefer that kind of thing.

 

[Coraxian]

You might not forgive me one day for bringing this up, but the Wheel of Time is usualy on lists as this one.

 

[Turing]

David Eddings is pretty good and so is Dave Duncan.
Also, for hilarity, Terry Pratchett is king.

Warhammer novels can be fun, but they are pretty much the fantasy equivalent of sappy romance novels, if you replace sappy romance with gratuitous violence and stock fantasy stereotypes

 

[MBergman]

The Firts Law - trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
Amazing books, they are what brought me back to the fantasy genre. He's great at creating interesting characters and twisting and turning the plot so that you'll never know what's gonna happen.

 

[meece]

Well you've almost certainly read it but Robert Jordans Wheel of Time?
Or Crown of Stars series by Kate Eliott. The first book is "Kings Dragon". Rather less well known

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold I personally think is one of the best in the genre or The Black Swam by Mercedes Lackey.

I have no clue if there's kindle versions of them I'm afraid...and while you say you're not interested in SF worth trying either Crusade or March Upcountry by David Weber. They're quite different from most SF. The latter books start is somewhat slow but they're both very enjoyable reads....well, I found anyway haha.

 

[The Gnome King]

Try Yahtzee's novel, Mogworld.
Seriously, it's hilarious. It's not very similar to your previous examples, but it's an excellent read if you're into fantasy and/or MMORPGs.

Looks like one I'll have to check out via physical book, as it's not available on the Kindle E-store. :/

The Firts Law - trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
Amazing books, they are what brought me back to the fantasy genre. He's great at creating interesting characters and twisting and turning the plot so that you'll never know what's gonna happen.

Grabbed a sample. Thanks!

David Eddings is pretty good and so is Dave Duncan.
Also, for hilarity, Terry Pratchett is king.

I've read some Pratchett; though I need to add Eddings and Duncan to my "to read" list - not much experience with either author.

Codex Ale-

Codex Alera by Jim Butcher.

you sonuvabitch

I would also recommend the Black Company series by Glen Cook. It does tend to stretch on a bit but it looks like you prefer that kind of thing.

Grabbed Codex Alera's first book sample; Black Company isn't available in E-book form by Glen Cook but some of his other stuff is, I'll check it out...

The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks

I've heard of this... I need to check out The Night Angel books; they're all available on a Kindle. Some people seemed to love the books and others; not so much.

Thanks everyone... I forgot to mention, I did enjoy Feist's "Rift War" series very much. I've NOT read the Wheel of Time books in so long (15+ years?) that many new ones have been written and I should just start the series over again. Hmm.

 

[y1fella]

I figured this would be a good place to ask:

I've run out of long-winded fantasy novels and series to read, and I don't feel like re-reading any yet. Can you offer suggestions as to authors or books I might not have read?

I have read everything by, and enjoyed immensely, books by the following authors -

George R. R. Martin (Game of Thrones series, ASOIAF)
Robin Hobb (Assassin's Apprentice series; Rain Wild Chronicles, etc.)
Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear)
Scott Lynch (Lies of Locke Lamora - lesser known but excellent author)
Brandon Sanderson (Oh! Just realized I've read Mistborn by him but not his Way of Kings book)

Those are the more "recent" fantasy authors I've read and enjoyed that come to mind, to give you an idea of my tastes. They're not in any particular order of enjoyment; Robin Hobb is probably my favorite author on that list but I love them all.

I'll be reading them on an iPad so availability through Amazon or iBooks would be a plus. I don't mind huge, sprawling fantasy series at all - in fact, I enjoy them.

So Escapists... any suggestions for reading material in the fantasy genre? Specifically fantasy; not science-fiction as I have enough of that piled up to read. Looking for high-fantasy/swords & sorcery type stuff.

Robert Jordan's wheel of time. He died so Brandon Sanderson (whom you previously mentioned) took over and started to finish the series.

 

[MBergman]

The Firts Law - trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
Amazing books, they are what brought me back to the fantasy genre. He's great at creating interesting characters and twisting and turning the plot so that you'll never know what's gonna happen.

Grabbed a sample. Thanks!

If you like them, he's also made two stand-alone sequels "Best Served Cold" and "The Heroes" who are both very much worth checking out.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Raymond E. Feist's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_E._Feist#Riftwar_Cycle] Riftwar Cycle is interesting, and there are quite a few of 'em. I haven't read the entire series, mind you... just the Riftwar Saga, the Conclave of Shadows, and the Darkwar Saga... never really looked for the rest.

I second this until I die. Very epic high-fantasy, with new variations added with each series to keep it (relatively) fresh. Must be about 15 set in the Midkemia set universe. There's also an associated trilogy with Janny Wurts (Empire: Daughter/Servant/Mistress).

Also, for something completely different: Peter V Brett (can't wait for the conclusion of the Painted Man).

 

[hawkeye52]

brian sanderson has recently just taken to writing the last book of the wheel of time series after robert jordon died. Seriously give it a look it will be 14 books of epicness when the last one comes out