Anybody Reccomend Good Fantasy Books?

Question

or any non fantasy books

Answer 1

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. It's an epic-quest type fantasy, similar toTolkien's The Lord of the Rings (which I also reccommend if you haven't read it)

any of the Dragonlance books (Start with Dragons of AutumnTwilight, Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning)

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books
Anne McCaffrey's Pern books
Piers Anthony has some good fantasy series (Xanth, Apprentice Adept, Incarnations of Immortality, Mode)
David Edding's Belgariad series, and also the Magic Kingdom of Landover series
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
The Green Rider by Kristen Britain
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M .Auel is good (I've seen it listed on here as fantasy, but I'm not sure that's how I'd classify it......maybe historical fiction (or rather pre-historical fiction!)

Answer 2

The Dragonlance Chronicles suck bigtime. It's a poorly written Tolkien ripoff, flawed in any number of ways, one being the fact that the viewpoint character changes more times than the player holding a ball during a basketball game.

Some of Bradley's Darkover novels are okay (not great, just okay), but quite a few of them are militant feminist trash, the kind where women are good and men are disgusting boors, and the smartest women are all lesbians. You get the picture.

Wizard's First Rule by Goodkind is passable. Not great, just okay. The rest of the Sword of Truth series is trash.

The Recluce series by Modesitt is good. Most all of the books in that series are B+ or A- stuff. Almost an A.

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is also good, but the quality of the individual volumes varies from A+ to B-, and Crossroads of Twilight is only a C. Still, Brandon Sanderson did a good job of wrapping up the story after Jordan died.

Piers Anthony sometimes sounds like a dirty old man, always thinking about girls' panties and such as that. The Xanth series starts out well and gradually becomes mediocre in the later stories. His best work is Apprentice Adept (seven books).

The Earth's Children series by Jean Auel starts out great with Clan of the Cave Bear, and the next book is also pretty good, if you don't mind the explicit sex in it. (It's a very "adult" pseudo-historical fantasy about the lives of cave people in the Ice Ages.) The third novel is less good (more explicit sex, which starts to get repetitive). The fourth is worse... Things just keep on going downhill. I bought the whole series in paperback, but when I decided to get the Kindle version, I only bought the first two books.

THE BEST FANTASY NOVEL IS
Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay

THE NEXT BEST IS
The Hobbit, by Tolkien

THE BEST TRILOGY IS
Lyonesse, by Jack Vance

THE BEST THREE-BOOKS THAT BEGIN A LONGER SERIES ARE
Books 1-3 of A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin:
* A Game of Thrones
* A Clash of Kings
* A Storm of Swords

THE BEST SERIES THAT STARTS GOOD AND STAYS GOOD FOR A WHILE UNTIL IT TURNS SOUR LATER ON is
Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia stories, the good parts being
* Magician (Apprentice and Master)
* Silverthorn
* A Darkness at Sethanon
* Daughter of Empire
* Servant of Empire
* Mistress of Empire
* Krondor: the Betrayal
* Krondor: the Assassins
* Krondor: Tear of the Gods
* Prince of the Blood
* The King's Buccaneer
* Shadow of a Dark Queen
* Rise of a Merchant Prince
* Rage of a Demon King
* Shards of a Broken Crown

Feist was on a roll. But then with his next trilogy in this universe he stumbled, and apparently he did not recover his old flair. A shame.

Stephanie Meyer's stuff is rubbish. It fairly mocks itself. I suppose that teenage girls might THINK the series is okay.

Rowling's "Harry Potter" is pretty good stuff. In a lightweight sense, you understand.

Chronicles of Narnia is Christian propaganda: it's the Jesus as Savior story disguised, complete with crucifixion, resurrection, and second coming. There are seven books in the series, and at the end of the last book Lewis drops the pretenses.

I haven't read Artemis Fowl, but I've heard the series recommended so many times that I just now bought all eight books in it.

David Gemmel is another author whom I have not yet read, but I own many of his books in both paperback and Kindle, and I've heard a lot of good stuff about him.

David Eddings has written exactly two first-class books, and he wrote them with his wife Leigh: Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress. I have the other series in the same universe, the Belgariad and the Mallorean, and they aren't as good as the first two books that I mentioned. David Eddings wrote some trash called The Elenium and The Tamuli, which I wouldn't bother with if I were you.

Answer 3

Try these authors: Jane Lindskold, Dennis McKiernan, David Weber, David Drake, the late David Gemmel, Raymond Feist, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mercedes Lackey, Trudi Canavan, Ted Bell, James Doss, John Dunning, J.A.Jance, Stuart Woods, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Dumas, Matthew Reilly(probably the greatest thriller writer today), James Rollins, Jack duBrul, Clive Cussler. Just to get you started. Have fun and enjoy the reading!

Answer 4

I have fond memories of Madeline L'Engle's Time series, beginning with A Wrinkle in Time. Dummy that I am, I read A Swiftly Titling Planet first (the next to last book in the series).

Currently Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner Series (beginning with Luck in the Shadows) is my favorite fantasy. I like a lot of the stuff other people have mentioned, but I prefer not to be redundant. I didn't much care for Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, though, or Chris Paolini's Eragon, truth be told. With Wizard's First Rule it was too dang difficult for me to suspend my disblief. And the prose from Eragon sounds strait from LOTR, which, dash it all, is NOT my favorite fantasy book of all time.

Answer 5

Eragon and Eldest by Paolini
Twilight and New Moon by Meyer
Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by Tokien
Harry Potter by Rowling
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Carroll
The Looking Glass Wars by Beddor
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Maguire
Mirror, Mirror by Maguire
The Princess Bride by Goldman
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Bray
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson
Frankenstein by Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde
Grimms Fairy Tales
All books by Angela Carter
Inkheart and Inkspell by Funke
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux
Enjoy!

Answer 6

Faerie Wars, The Purple Emperor, Ruler of the Realm a series by Herbie Brennan

Abarat, and its sequel(can't recall the title) by Clive Barker

Both of these series my 15 yr old sister had read (I'm in my late 20's) and I picked up out of boredom. I couldn't put them down! Great writing and fresh ideas in the world of Fantasy.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I just read Eragon which was pretty good. Christ the Lord- Out of Egypt by Anne Rice which was excellent, a must read, and a one that kept me turning the pages was First Impressions by Jude Deveraux, very fun.

Answer 9

All Tamara Pierce books are really really good! Also try Mercedes Lackey, she has some really good fantasy books too.

Answer 10

I recomend Artemis Fowl. Those books are very good..