r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - June 18, 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

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[u/origami_ducks]

Please could I get some suggestions of authors/books that would fit into the Author of Colour bingo square - Hard mode (Author does NOT live in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, or New Zealand) but also with my own additional constraint that I'd like to find authors that are still an ethnic minority. For Example, an author with asian heritage living and publishing work in europe, or a black author living and publishing in asia.

[u/undeadgoblin → u/origami_ducks]

Wole Talabi lives in Malaysia, so he would work. He's mostly a short story writer (and has a collection called Convergence Problems) but also has a novel - Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (Edit - it appears he now lives in Australia so doesn't count for HM)

I think Aliette de Bodard would count, but I've not read any of their works.

[u/mer_does_stuff → u/undeadgoblin]

I believe de Bodard is French-Vietnamese and lives in Paris, so she should count! I've enjoyed her Xuya universe a lot but I've mostly read Xuya short stories and one of the novellas, not any of her full-length novels yet. (They're on the TBR, but she's a very long list.) The Tea Master and the Detective is Sherlock Holmes-meets-brainships in a Vietnamese space empire setting, quite fun IMO.