The Myth Books by Robert Aspirin.
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My longtime favs (apart from LOTR by Tolkien) are:
- The Realm of the Elderlings series bei Robin Hobb
- Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
- Ea Cycle by David Zindell
Patricia C Wrede. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. The titles for the series are below:
- Dealing with Dragons
- Searching for Dragons
- Calling on Dragons
- Talking to Dragons
Fantasy stories with each book centered around one protagonist and a meta take of your usual fairy tales. And includes wizards, dragons, princesses too.
Give The Prince Of Nothing series a read. A bit more of a philosophical series than a hack and slash fantasy.
Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
Very fresh and original high fantasy.
I really enjoyed the first six Dragonlance novels - after that, not so much.
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The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings. His books have classic D&D feel, light reading with bits of humor.
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Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. A massive plotline (all books already written so no need to wait), very dark, superb characters.
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I'm currently reading the Bound and Broken series by Ryan Cahill. Seems pretty solid. It has dragons, wizards, other magical creatures, elves, dwarves... There is some war, but it's largely a coming of age story centered around an 18-20 year old man.
Mistborn is great, less dragons and more alchemical science. Begins with a satisfying tale of overthrowing the government, and then tackles some of the “okay… now what” with tons more interesting stuff along the way
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NPRs top 100 scifi and fantasy books.
I googled it instead. Loving the first few entries. Specifying only the first Ender book but the entire (Frank Herbert) Dune series is 👌. The fact that the rest of the Dune series is mostly ignored is criminal. The first book is far from the best and the series varies so much in setting and tone that it stays interesting to me after many readings.
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I'd recommend David Eddungs' Belgariad. Got me into fantasy genre. Then there's Robin Hobb, Trudi Canavan, Raymond, E Feist (brilliant), Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy. So many good things out there. If you enjoyed Discworld you'll enjoy these too even though they're not comical like Pratchett novels are.
I'm saving this thread for later because I'm interested in this genre, I am totally new to books, I haven't even read LOTR, The Hobbit, Game of Thrones or House of the Dragons books, I have only consumed that through the movies and TV Shows, but seems like there are some really neat suggestions here.
Rick Riordan's various series might catch your fancy - they're really young adult fiction, but they're still a good read. They cover Greek, Roman, Norse, and Egyptian mythology from the perspectives of the god's half human offspring, bringing the mythology into a modern context while retreading the old myths.
Fairy Tale by Stephen King is a refreshing take on classic fantasy themes!
Reading Wheel of Time and I'm really enjoying it
Have you considered Kate Elliott novels? Jaran was amazing if you like sci-fi/fantasy crossover, or King's Dragon if you like pure fantasy. If you prefer easier reading check out the Dragonriders of Pern series.
The Reyira Revelations Is great fun. Five Gods is an outstandingly well-written series.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora is a fun fantasy heist book
The Book of Three is the first in a classic high fantasy series. It's a lovely comfort read, but definitely targeted at younger readers.
You might consider Nix's Abhorsen series for a unique take on Necromancers.
Foundryside is wild and fun if not a hugely traditional fantasy. Imagine if you could carve sigils on objects to make them ignore reality in very specific ways.
Oh also the Demon Cycle series by Peter V Brett was a fun romp. I like the way the author built a pretty unique world with a lot of different aspects to it. He did a good job of switching the point of view across characters to challenge perspective.
You say fantasy, but while technically sci fi, I'd like to suggest the galactic milieu series by Julian May. It starts out sci fi and I guess constantly has sci fi elements but leans pretty heavily into bridging the gap to fantasy (elves, dwarves, shapeshifting monsters, magic etc)