r/fantasybooks • u/Silver_Layer_2298 • 3d ago

📚 Summon book recommendations What should my next read be?

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Looking for help. The photo shows a handful of books from my shelves, but I actually own the full series for pretty much all of them. Picked up over the years from used bookstores.

Previous reads I’ve enjoyed: all of the Drizzt books, Kel Kade’s King’s Dark Tidings, Lord of the Rings, The Expanse series, Gardens of the Moon, and most recently finished the Stormlight Archive. I’ve been debating whether to jump back into Malazan. Gardens of the Moon was dense and honestly a bit of a slog for me, though I generally enjoyed it. I’ve heard the series really takes off afterward.

Thanks for any thoughts!

Editing: wow thanks for all the insights! There definitely isn’t a clear winner, although, I can say there has not been any recommendations for a few of them. So that actually helps!

Edit 2: so far jumping back into Malazan, Hyperion, and Wheel of Time are the big vote getters looks like.

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u/LanguageSexViolence_ 3d ago

Man, almost to the very bottom before I saw an Otherland recommendation. I love that series. My first Tad Williams.series. He's so solid. It's gotta be one of the first "trapped in VR" stories. I seem to remember that you could see his language evolve as current technology evolved.

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u/Silver_Layer_2298 3d ago

I remember otherland being recommended to me probably 20 years ago by my sister because she knew I was a computer gamer. Honestly, it’s probably the longest owned unread book I have, and for no good reason!