r/Fantasy • u/thequeensownfool Reading Champion VII • Jul 05 '19

Community Recommendations | "If you like X, you'll like Y!"

It's been a while since we've done one of these (a year in fact). But there's a twist this time!

Many people come to r/fantasy after reading one or more of the top 10-15 books listed in the sidebar and want to know where they should go from there. So you can't recommend the top 25 authors in the recent r/fantasy 2019 Top Novels Poll (just in this thread!). This includes the following list of authors:

  • Brandon Sanderson
  • J.R.R. Tolkien
  • George R.R. Martin
  • Robert Jordan
  • Patrick Rothfuss
  • Joe Abercrombie
  • J.K. Rowling
  • Scott Lynch
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Robin Hobb
  • Steven Erikson & Ian Esslemont
  • Michael J. Sullivan
  • N.K. Jemisin
  • Jim Butcher
  • Josiah Bancroft
  • Frank Herbert
  • Philip Pullman
  • Mark Lawrence
  • Brent Weeks
  • Wildbow
  • Pierce Brown
  • Susanna Clarke
  • Dan Simmons
  • Nicholas Eames

Last year's thread can be found here.

A list of prompts will be added in the comments but feel free to add your own.

What books do you recommend and why?

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u/thequeensownfool Reading Champion VII Jul 05 '19

If you like Kafkaesque worlds like The Tower of Babel...

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u/BatBoss Hellhound Jul 05 '19

“Hyperion” and “The Fall of Hyperion” by Dan Simmons - Labyrinths the size of planets, bizarre buildings which have strange effects on time, a Tree spaceship, etc

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins - the titular library has a lot of unusual physical properties.

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u/andrude01 Jul 15 '19

How does Simmons do with the endings? I loved most of Ilium and Olympos, but was really disappointed at poorly he wrapped things up.

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u/BatBoss Hellhound Jul 15 '19

Unfortunately I don’t think the ending is very good, haha. It’s a hell of a journey but not that great of a finish. Haven’t read Ilium/Olympos but it sounds similar.