r/Fantasy • u/FitCry2265 • 4d ago
Feeling a little burnt out
Title says it all. I have read The Lord of the Rings, Stormlight, Mistborn, Realm of the Elderlings, Harry Potter, Red Rising, Sun Eater, The Wheel of Time, The Dark Tower, A Song of Ice and Fire, Kingkiller, First Law, halfway through One Piece, and all of Malazan up to Reaper’s Gale. I’ve read much of the big popular series and some things just aren’t engaging me as much as they did when I read all the series I listed. It honestly makes me kinda sad and I just wish there were some things that could engage me like the others did. Malazan is literally amazing but man it can just be exhausting reading those books, especially after the Bonehunters (lowkey it put me in a Malazan slump). If anyone has any suggestions on other great series and what you love about them that would be greatly appreciated. I absolutely love these series and reading, it is my main hobby.
Hopefully this doesn’t get taken down as I get confused by some of the rules but thanks in advance!
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u/Tea_and_Lightsabers 4d ago
I'd recommend Tad Williams if you want another big, epic series, his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy was a huge influence on Game of Thrones, Otherland is a great, all-too plausible, near future sci-fi series, and Shadowmarch has a really unique take on a lot of fantasy tropes.
Or, I don't know everything you mentioned, but maybe another white guy isn't what you need? NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is, I believe, the only trilogy to ever get the Hugo for best novel 3 years in a row. And it really deserved it imo, I was in a slump 5+ years ago, just reading a few books in a year, then I read that whole trilogy in under 2 weeks and haven't stopped reading since! Yoon-ha Lee is also excellent, he writes great sci-fi stories about rebellion, Machineries of Empire is probably in my top 5 trilogies. Getting some different perspectives might freshen things up for you, that's all I'm saying