Good fantasy novel or series?

Question

Can anyone recommend any good fantasy books/ series of books? I have read the Lord of the rings and the Dragonlance books and I like those.

Answer 1

Since I really like both books I highly suggest David Eddings Belgariad.There are many characters and many surprises. The characters are nicely done.


Pawn of Prophecy
Queen of Sorcery
Magicians Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanter's End Game

The Mallorean is the sequel to the Belgariad

Guardians of the West
King of the Murgos
Demon Lord of Karanda
Sorceress of Darshiva
The Seeress of Kell


The Dragonlance Series has new books
These books take place after the War of Souls trilogy. With Mina the new servant to the god of death,Chemost. Margret Wes is alone on this one. To say the least she did a good job.

Amber and Ashes
Amber and Iron

Another new Dragonlance book this July 2006. It is in between the
Dragons of the Autumn Twilight and Dragons of the Winter Night.

Dragons of the Dwarven Depths


The Shannara series. A book every generation. Just like Lord of the Rings. There are many books ,but after the first trilogy they go down hill and are the same thing over again. By Terry Brooks

Sword of Shannara
Elfstones of Shannara
Wishsong of Shannara

The inheirtance trilogy by Christopher Paolini. A legend about dragon riders and save the world. A poor farm boy named Eragon
finds a dragon's egg. It hached and Saphira was born. Her and
Eragon have a telepathic connection.

Eragon
Eldest
Empire* to be released soon.

Mage Quest by Brittain C. Dale. Is just a single book. It has very likeable characters.

Your ultimate fairy tale. With a tomboyish princess,Cimerone leaves her palace and comes across a dragon Kazul. Kazul makes Cimerone her princess. There are wizards,princes,magic,ect.

Dealing with Dragons
Searching for Dragons
Calling on Dragons
Talking to Dragons

Answer 2

LOVE Dragonlance...several authors have written other series,
Douglas Niles, Richard Knack, Margret Weiss, and Tracy Hickman have also written a series called the DeathGate...good.
not Drangonlance...

MY favorite, outside the series, is an author named Mercedes Lackey...she has a series called the Free Bards...
{and several other totally awesome books}
LOVE her writing...two thumbs up...

also try Harry Potter for some good light reading, they are incredibly well written books..
.
oh oh and check out a young author..Christopher Paolini the books are titled Eragon and the Eldest...he was 17 when he began writing, his mom was his publisher!, and his books are AMAZING!! comprehensive world, excellent staying power, i felt the book was a little slow the first 50 pages but , WHAT A READ!!!!
anyway, stop by....have some coffee
they're all in my library.

Answer 3

Stephen Lawhead's the Song of Albion series. It's three books, not too long....very good. The Paradise War, The Silver Hand, The Endless Knot. It's Celtic fantasy based on some history and phonology, just like Tolkien.

Answer 4

Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser books are very good, a lot of fantasy writing is done by people who have never picked up a sword in their lives, this is clearly not the case here... All of them have "Swords" in the title, so look for those.

I have to disagree with "Nihil" - Terry Brook's "Shannara" books are terrible! The first rips off LOTR in the worst way. The other two in the original trilogy use the bits of LOTR he didn't plagiarise the first time. After that he just got lazy.

"Magician" By Raymond E Feist is a good one. Unfortunately the remainder of that first trilogy of his don't quite live up to it.. And after those first three he just goes downhill, each successive book reads more and more like a straightforward account of his current RPG.

For quick and not-at-all taxing, try Michael Moorcock. The Elrond series is a good place to start. Chronicles of Corum another one to try..

Answer 5

David Gemmel's series about 'Druss the Legend', Raymond Feist, David Weber's War God series and his King of the Isles series, Dennis McKiernan's Warrow series, Ursela K. LeGuin's first series, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone series. There are so many series out there that you should go to a used book store and check out what they have in stock. Robert E. Howard's Conan series with the cover art done by Frank Frazetta is truly awe-inspiring! Good Luck and Happy Reading.

Answer 6

Definitely check out the Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore, starting with the Dark Elf trilogy. These are some of the best books I've ever read. Drizzt is a great character and the stories are very fast-paced and fun. I'm not even a huge fantasy reader and I loved them.

Answer 7

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Good luck, whatever you decide to read!

Jon Baxley

Answer 8

David Eddings - The Belgariad and The Malloreon. There is 5 books in each set. The Narnia series is good also, C.S. Lewis went to college with Tolkin.

Answer 9

Eragon and it's sequal, Eldest, are great fantasy books. They're making Eragon into a movie that comes out in December, too, so you know it's gotta be decent if they want to make a movie out of it! The books are by Christopher Paolini, who was 15 when he started writing Eragon. You wouldn't guess it buy the writing, though!

Answer 10

If you like fantasy try the Dragon Jousters series by Mercedes Lackey.The first book 'Joust', is about Vetch a young serf who is rescued by a Dragon Jouster from his cruel master.He becomes a Dragon boy(one who takes care of dragons).Later he secretly hatches his own dragon.The later two books are about how he escapes to his native Alta and how the war between Alta and Tia ends.The setting is strongly Ancient Egypt although Alta and Tia are fictional.

Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey is about a young boy Skif who is ill-treated by his relatives.He later falls in with a gang of thieves and becomes a master thief.Later he gets bonded with a talking horse and is admitted to a Herald's College.

Another good series is the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.The books provide an alternate take on vampires.People who are unjustly murdered call upon Artemis(Greek goddess) and she grants them a day to avenge themselves.After that they are recruited to her army to fight against evil.Be warned,this one is romance.

The Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is quite good.There are some 10 books in the series.The first few books are about John Carter who is magically transported to Mars.He falls in love with a Martian princess and has lots of adventures.The later books are about his descendents though John is usually present since the avg lifetime of a martian is 1000 years.The different cultures in Mars are awesume.