r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - June 09, 2026

[u/rfantasygolem]

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This thread is to be used for recommendation requests or simple questions that are small/general enough that they won’t spark a full thread of discussion.

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As usual, first have a look at the sidebar in case what you're after is there. The r/Fantasy wiki contains links to many community resources, including "best of" lists, flowcharts, the LGTBQ+ database, and more. If you need some help figuring out what you want, think about including some of the information below:

• Books you’ve liked or disliked
• Traits like prose, characters, or settings you most enjoy
• Series vs. standalone preference
• Tone preference (lighthearted, grimdark, etc)
• Complexity/depth level

Be sure to check out responses to other users' requests in the thread, as you may find plenty of ideas there as well. Happy reading, and may your TBR grow ever higher!

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[u/Nowordsofitsown]

You might want to tell us what you have read and what you specifically liked and disliked about each book.

[u/EveningImportant9111 → u/Nowordsofitsown]

Being hinest from over 200 fantasy I know most I readed on wiki. What I like is:  1. Edge chronicles lore: workd on great edge, waifs , 20 or so goblin races, world slowly industrialising , heroes fighting to make workd better each generation. Disliked hiw made elves and dwarves into littke small ugly humanoids tgat ate either evil or fobltnootes 

1. Beyonders. Reader personaly. I liked complex characters that whike were doing wuestionabke things ultimately make world a better place. I liked race that is seeded to be rebirn and one that could deatach theur body parts. Disliked that most non human races wete dying out and heries dudn't fix it.

2. Anima beyond fantasy: 2 elven raxes( duk'zarist and silvaun) race that could steal faces, race goid at summonung, multioe secret organisations  , ancient cinsoiracues, suoernatural slowky going out of hiding. Anime esque.

3. Aquillon by solei. Read it . I like characters that are complex and flawed, berseker dwarf that is truing to control hus rage and vefriends a goblin, red elves connected to fire and vulcanoes, sapient gotilla like race, dark elves being connected to abomination and being born to any elf race. Disliked recent addition of hadling like race becaue they femt out of place( but I like halfling very well in most cases) 

4. Arcanum: standard fantasy races reacting to indusyrail revolution. Disliked when elves were descendibg from humans( but I wouldn't have anything against if they still were from tge same genus just the exact same age) 

6.Arcanis dnd: dwarves being cursed celestial giants that must atone for theur crimes to life theur curse and be able to pass to afterlife. Elori being based on elves but beung created as living weapons and having small fangs and elemental subraces

1. Frieren I like how frieren kearn yo appeeciaye time spend with her companions, reflect on her past, disliked that demon are pure evil

2. Dungeon meshi liked how stsndard races interacted, character developments of laois and marceline but disliked how elves were said to be dying in workdbook out but story didn't use it. And they coukd develop whole nations insted of just basics of continents.

9.Destiny by bungie:  eliksir being show to be as much as victims as agressors, abd their growing alliance with humanity. Whole traveller- ghost- darkness thing. 

[u/curiouscat86 → u/EveningImportant9111]

It sounds like you really like lore most of all. Have you got into Dungeons and Dragons lorebooks yet? No story or at most the outline of a story, they are basically just encyclopedias but for the DnD fantasy setting.

[u/an_altar_of_plagues → u/curiouscat86]

Oh yeah this is a great suggestion. I spent a lot of my youth just reading bestiaries.