Can anyone suggest a good fantasy book?

Question

I'm looking for books in the same style as Trudi Canavan's Black Magacian Triolgy/Age of the White and Alison Croggan's School of Pellenor series.

Answer 1

Best fantasy series ever: George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". Start with the first book: "A Game of Thrones". You'll love it.

Answer 2

The whole Dark Tower Series is a long, but good read. Also, now that the series is complete, you don't have to wait like 4 years for the next book to come out, as I did with the last 3 books in the series. Also, the His Dark Materials series is pretty good as well. Last but not least is the amazing series by, of all people, Clive Barker, entitled The Books of Abarat. I think that there are only two out as of now, but they are an excellent read, and there are two more on the way. Hope this helped:)

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Answer 3

Haven't read the books you named.But here are some of my fav fantasy books.

Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?

Mercedes Lackey's Take a Thief is the tale of Skif, a young orphan reminiscent of Oliver Twist, making his way in the knock-and-tumble neighborhood between two of Haven's outermost walls. Skif is intelligent, good-hearted and creative enough to forage up three meals a day in a place where food is scarce and kindness almost unheard of. After a chain of events leave him homeless, Skif lands in the lair of Bazie, an Faginish ex-mercenary who trains thieves...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

Answer 4

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Answer 5

Hi there. I have a new medieval fantasy book out that you might like. It has received excellent reviews in the national media and is being considered for a movie deal. The title is THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY. It's 445 pages of action, adventure, magic, mystery and mayhem. If you like Conan style books, you'll like this one. A Hollywood producer told me last week that Blackgloom was, "Braveheart Meets Lord of the Rings." Cool, huh?

If you'd like to try it out, I'll send you a FREE, 4 chapter eBook demo if you email me at [e-mail]. That way, you can see if you like the story without spending a dime.

Good luck, whatever you decide to read!

Jon Baxley
THE SCYTHIAN STONE (eBook only)
THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY (hard cover and eBook)
THE REGENTS OF RHUM (fall 2007)

Answer 6

Try the Well World series by Clark. You can find it in science fiction sections of the book stores. There are about 7 in the series.

Answer 7

same as above only add The Lord of the Rings, 1 ,2 3.
The Hobbit
The Simarillion

Answer 8

greatest fantasy series ever written imo, is The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan. The first book is The Eye of the World.

Answer 9

I don't know if they are still in print but there was a series called DragonLance out in the 80's. At one time I wanted to buy them all until I found out, at the time I was looking, that there were over 50 of them. Who knows how many there may be now. There was a character, can't think of his name right now, that would actually make me laugh out loud at his antics, a very lovable character always getting in to trouble but he meant well. Gosh...gonna have to see about them.

Answer 10

Lord of the Rings
Hobbit
Harry Potter