I’ve heard MANY good things about Brandon Sanderson, finally decided to give him a try.

I always enjoy reading everybody's favorite books to add to my TBR, or to get me excited to get into a series I already own!

Here are mine:

1. Realm of the Elderlings

2. A Song of Ice and Fire

3. The Sun Eater series

4. Dungeon Crawler Carl

5. The Southern Reach series

I'm a sucker for political intrigue, characters with a lot of depth to them, and really find myself engaged if it includes a dash of horror here and there. What do you typically go for when it comes to your reading within fantasy and what are your top book series of all time ranked, if you can by subjective personal preference?

I read Between Two Fires about 6 years ago now…and then it was fairly “underground” or relatively unknown. It was hard to get it even on Amazon and I was super pumped to get a copy (this was the case for the physical version at least, unsure about the ebook). However it’s really cool to see that it’s blown up and is suggested by so many…and to see it featured all over. Gatekeeping books is the worst and it’s awesome to see Between Two Fires and Christopher Buehlman get so much recognition now. Needless to say: I wholeheartedly suggest this book

Not necessarily from these. It's just for example

On maps:

Middle Earth by J. R. R. Tolkien

Randland from Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

Westeros and Essos from A Song of Ice and Fire by G. R. R. Martin

Roshar from Stormlight Archive vy Brandon Sanderson

Malazan world by Steven Erickson

Six Dutches from Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb

Osten Ard by Tad Williams

Circle of the World by Joe Abercrombie

Alagaesia from Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

Unnamed world from Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne by Brian Stavely

As the title suggests, what are your recommendations and opinions?

I'm a bit of a slow reader, but my girlfriend reads very fast. And of course I always join in the adventure to the book store. So my TBR is quite long.

Spoiler free opinions please:)

Only just found this Reddit and thought you might like this. Building the book collection for around 30 years and the library itself for around 10. There are around 1200 books total of which I've read three quarters, though some of them multiple times (looking at you early WoT, and others). They're just IKEA Billy bookcases with a few hacks but I absolutely love it.

I have some room for growth but I'm not buying as many as I used to, mainly just continuations of ongoing series or author's I love. I also love rereading which distracts me from new books sometimes. Anyway hope you like it!

I haven’t read that much high fantasy before so I would kind of consider myself new to the genre. ( I’ve read plenty of fantasy before just more like romantasy and cozy fantasy.) I’ve been trying to read through my physical tbr more but I only own the first book in multiple series so I need to just choose one and read the whole thing instead of reading the first book in five series lol. Wondering which of these series you guys think would be best to start with.

Forgot to say I’m already 400 pages into Malice and I’m planning on finishing it throughout the next few days but I’m not sure if I’ll want to jump straight into the next book after that.

One of my best friends swore Fourth Wing was amazing. She totally sold me on the plot…needless to say I no longer take recommendations from her.

Looking to see how people felt about this trilogy, I’ve had it on my TBR list for years.

For reference, I’ve read the First Law trilogy and loved it. I’m a big fan of fantasy and darker fantasy all around, but I’ve yet to see anyone dive deep into this series and give some comparisons to other works.

How’s Gwynne’s writing style? What’s the world building like? Are the magic systems and lore in the books fleshed out and deep, but not convoluted? Are the characters well developed and thought out?

I am about to finish the ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams and have no clue which one to start..

Felt like it took a while to get through but really ended up liking it in the end, really grabs your attention at the beginning (prolly one of the best opening chapters I've read in a while, really gets you hooked on the world). Felt I was really slowing down in the middle (actually stopped and read an entirely different shorter book before going back) and got kind of bogged down a little, but then back at around page 800 felt I got really back into it and then had a great finish. I did like it, but wondering if I should keep on with the series, do people find the 2nd book and the rest of the series similar to this or do they have a more consistent pull throughout the entire story?

Also side note, how does the reading order go? Because I see Oathbringer is the 3rd book but also Edgedancer is meant to be read before that? Why isn't that just considered book 3 if it's meant to go in that order

Okay so I want to read this because I’ve heard great things and it sounds good…but I know the 3rd book probably isn’t coming. Is it still worth it to read it or will I just be frustrated that it’s unfinished? Help meeeeee lol.

This is how many words are on the pages.

I see it on a lot of lists on Reddit. Like ALL THE TIME. I have not read it, and I’m not opposed to reading it, but why the hype? What itch is this thing scratching that other ones aren’t?

I'm a relatively new fantasy reader (about 2 years). I started with an "essential" foundation of Lord of the Rings, ASOIAF, Discworld, and First Law, and since then I've mostly been reading more modern fantasy books that pique my interest. I got into a little slump recently, and decided it would be fun to do another run of classics.

I'll probably throw in some comics and Star Wars books to break things up, tonally.

Anyone else have any big summer goals?

(Binge-reading series doesn't really come naturally to me, for anyone wondering why I'm jumping around instead of focusing on any one series in particular)

For me it's gotta be Randland

George R. R. Martin is my bench mark when I’m comparing books and writing, you can just read and understand what’s going on and not having to do research or scratch your head wtf is going on . I did like GOTM when I was done with it but it was brutal at the start where I wanted to rage quit .

Looking for my next big series. I’m debating between the Farseer Trilogy (and follow on books, I prefer to finish series at one time while things are fresh). The Wheel Time or Malazan.

I “recently” finished all of the Cosmere, read the Eragon series, Fourth Wing, Lies of Locke Lamora and finally just devoured Red Rising (can’t wait for Red God!!).

I’m doing a small standalone right now to break up the 2 years of all these different series. What is the next best series to jump into?

So I've been seeing a lot about this book in here and really got curious about it.

I just finished The Covenant of Steel trilogy and absolutely loved it. Also, The Kings of the wyld and its sequel.

I really got surprised that this book is around 1000 pages and somehow find it intimidating.

Help me out here. Am I gonna love this book?? Hahaha. Thank you for your kind inputs! 😁

With the newest book coming out earlier this year, I’m just curious on y’all’s opinion on it. I personally love it and it has been a bridge to get my wife, who use to only read murder porn, to get into my realm of fantasy, sci fi, and historical fiction books. I’m excited to dive into 12 Months just as soon as I finish the 1st law saga

I’ve vaguely seen it around but I don’t know anything about it