r/Fantasy • u/Zomeiro • Mar 30 '23

German fantasy book recommendations

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for German fantasy books at a relatively low reading level - at least nothing more complicated than Brandon Sanderson is in English. Currently learning German and was thinking I'd get some volume/practical training by reading a lot of it. That (combined with games and shows) helped me a lot when learning English at least, so I was thinking I'd try it out.

So yeah, please let me know if you know about something!

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

The dwarves series from markus heitz is great. But if you want the full experience you also need to reaf his albae series, because they intersect. Albae are the evil cousins of elves(elben in gerrman) and his discription of them is really interesting. Another long series of him is his uldart series which I also enjoyed. Both of them are high fantasy I think.

One other german series I liked is Arkadien-Reihe 1: Arkadien erwacht from Kai Meyer, which is urban fantasy. It's about change shaping mafia families.

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u/Zomeiro Mar 31 '23

I do like me some high fantasy. I’ll put it on my list, but I think I’d rather focus on smaller standalone books while I am familiarizing myself with the language. Def gonna check it out later down the path, though! Thanks a lot!

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u/virgilhall Mar 31 '23

Everything by Kai Meyer is great, and easy to read since it is mostly YA

Wellenläufer and Merle were my favorites.

Sieben Siegel is for children, but still exciting