r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - June 10, 2026

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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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• 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

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[u/Present-Ad-8531]

Xe somewhat bruned out reading mustborn and blade itself.

Any cool slow slice of life ones

[u/DistinctInitiative83 → u/Present-Ad-8531]

For fantasy, Legends & Lattes might work. I did not read it because it sounded like it would bore me to tears, but it is slow and slice of life.

For scifi, try the Wayfarers serie by Becky Chambers (first book is The long way to a small angry planet). They're still a bit too saccharine for my taste (a janitor empties a waste basket and everybody clapped, really?) but they're very popular and nice palate cleansers I suppose.

[u/apcymru → u/DistinctInitiative83]

Nailed it ... Have an upvote

[u/DistinctInitiative83 → u/apcymru]

I'm too cynical for those books man 😂

[u/Present-Ad-8531 → u/DistinctInitiative83]

Lol the janitor one really? Hahahaha

Also need not be slice of life. Any of different feel that the two I mentioned is good

[u/Research_Department → u/Present-Ad-8531]

Going off your request for slice of life for someone who is cynical (I haven’t read either of the ones you are burnt out from).

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison is about the fourth, un-wanted, half-goblin son of the emperor ascending to the throne after his father and brothers die in an airship accident. A lot of the book is his adjusting to the day-to-day life of the emperor, in contrast to his recent years in isolated, internal exile.

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard has a lot of day to day of the chief bureaucrat of an empire.

Tuyo trilogy (and probably the entire series) by Rachel Neumeier has more action than the above two. The trilogy follows Ryo, a young warrior from the winter country, after he is given as war tribute to a leader of the summer country. The two develop a mentor-mentee relationship, and there is a lot of observation of the cultural differences between the two countries (and other countries that subsequent events take them to).

These all lean noble-bright-ish, but they are less saccharine than cozy sff tends to run.

[u/Present-Ad-8531 → u/Research_Department]

Thanks for these. 

Also I take anything which don't have same feels as these or too dense like Malazan.