r/fantasybooks

I keep seeing them recommended over and over again, and there are some things I’ve heard about them that seem interesting to me, but I just can’t get over the fact that if I read them I might never see a proper ending.

It’s a little ironic since I’m a big stormlight fan so “journey before destination“ and all that, but I don’t want to start a journey that has no destination.

I can’t be alone on this, right?

edit: forgot the book series is called a song of ice and fire, my bad.

I love how everyone has their collections and their bookshelves and it’s all honestly amazing and such an aesthetic. But this is where I differ.

For me collecting books I feel like it takes up too much space and also I’m someone that likes to live frugally so I was thinking of buying a kindle which helps my space issue and it’s a cheaper route to go. Also it’s more efficient I can just have the books at my fingertip and saves me time on delivery or a car ride.

I’m just wondering is no one else really bothered by these things? Because I rarely see people talking about reading on their kindle in this subreddit.

Hello friends,

I dove head first into the Grimdark world this year and have been swimming through it.

While I love everything about the brutality and realism of the Grimdark genre, I realized I lost sight of where my passion and soul of reading first sprouted. So I am looking for recommendations for books that makes you laugh without sacrificing quality of writing, world building, or characters.

So recommend me anything that checks that box for you! And even if I have read it already, I will be happy to reread them.

So i just can't find anything to read anymore. I have read Grishaverse series, fourth wing series, the folk of air series and all other popular booktok books and i LOVED them. But now i'm in a reading slump cuz i can't find anything as i already said. Pls tell me some hidden gems that i could read🙏🙏🙏

Hi, so just like the title I want someone to suggest me a high fantasy and when I say my first book, I mean my 'first' book.

Let me elaborate, I have never read a novel in my entire life, I know it's weird, funny even but it is what it is (I blame schools). now, although I have never read a book I just love fantasy shows/movies/anime so much so that at one point in my life I decided to write my own stories and while I've had a ton of ideas/plots/characters, I have never been able to finish a single story (because again literally never read a book in my

life) English is not my first language so I never could put in words what I was seeing in my mind, I have thought about giving up but I love this stuff way too much to do that...

so coming back to the topic, since I am too lazy and inexperienced about novels to finish my own stories, I have decided to start from square one, and I need help to find my first novel.

I love hobbit and lotr (only watched the movies, but don't want to start with its novels since I already know the story) so I want something with elfs and dragons maybe, something not too serious or emotional but i wouldn't mind if it's sprinkled throughout the story. I want something with adventure and good world building and characters and this is optional but something that has a few illustrations.

i wouldn't mind it being a series either just something that ticks my need for a new world and adventurous story.

thanks in advance!

My favorites of all time are The Night Angel and Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks,Shadow of the Leviathan by Robert Jackson Bennet,Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff,Red Rising by Pierce Brown,most of the Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson and all the Books of Elan by Michael J Sullivan. Blood over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang is probably my favorite standalone novel. Im currently reading the Nevernight Trilogy by Jay Kristoff but I like to alternate series and im struggling getting hooked on anything else.

So this was my first Brandon Sanderson Novel, i listened to the Graphic Audio version of the audiobook at work and I loved all the action scenes, the magic, and the characters. I especially enjoyed how grounded the magic felt. I'm new to fantasy novels as a whole and this was a very solid introduction, I did really enjoy the sfx and voice acting for this particular version tho. I will be moving onto the 2nd book when I return to work Friday. overall I would give Mistborn The Final Empire a solid 8/10 and I'm looking forward to listening to book 2

Looking for a good series to read in my post red rising era, started the series at the beginning of the year and couldn’t put it down. I’ve now finished all 6 books available in about 4 months. Loved it, I’ve also liked GOT, HP, LOTR… looking for some good recommendations on a new series to read.

I like books that are around 400 pages and i love fantasy books where they dont have modern tech.

I really liked The Scholomance trilogy when I first read it last year, and mostly I was just impressed by how hilarious El's internal monologue was. I'm looking for light books now, after too many favourite characters dying in my last read, and would really appreciate a book with a mc with as strong a characterization as El.

I would prefer a standalone, but at this point, I could do with a series of low-stakes fun and memorable characters. If you've read anything like this, please let me know. Thank you

Hi, I'm trying to hunt down a specific kind of fantasy and keep accidentally wandering into straight-up

romantasy or smut, so I'm hoping y'all can help.

What I love:

• Big stakes: war, rebellion, conspiracies, political maneuvering

• Dark / morally gray MMCs, especially trickster or

"dangerous to the world, gentle with their one person" types

• Trauma, found family, post-war fallout, characters dealing with the cost of violence

• Slow burn or background romance is fine, but not required

What I don't want:

• "We make eye contact and are suddenly having acrobatics in every chapter"

• Romance as the main plot engine (I'd rather it be war/politics with some relationship stuff, not the other way around)

• Tons of explicit on-page smut

Bonus points if:

• There's a clever, scheming, or trickster-type MMC

• There's a strategist / "brainy" FMC who actually uses her brain in the plot

Thanks in advance, and please flag if your rec has a lot of explicit spice.

Adding a few tiers of books that I’ve enjoyed a lot, enjoyed some and some that I just couldn’t get into to hopefully provide context.

Adding some of my favorite book series below

- Cradle - Will Wight

- Mark of the fool - JM Clarke

- Sufficiently Advanced Magic - Andrew Rowe

- Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

- GoT - George RR Martin

- Gentleman Bastards - Scott Lynch

- Mother of Learning - nobody103/Domagoj Kurmaic

- Elantris - Branden Sanderson

- Dune - Frank Herbert

- Warformed: Stormweaver - Bryce O’Conner/Luke Chmilenko

- All the skills - Honour Rae

Adding some book series that I thought were good, not great

- Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson

- Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Roth’s (I think this was too hyped up for me and then I read it felt like nothing special based on how it was described to me)

- He Who Fights Monsters - Shirtaloon and Travis Deverell

- Spellmonger - Terry Mancour

Adding some books/series that I just couldn’t get into or didn’t really enjoy

Red Rising - Pierce Brown (felt like they used every trope possible, maybe if it was my first fantasy read it would have gone better)

Ten Realms book series - Michael Chatfield

The Beginning After The End book series - TurtleMe

Unbound book series - Nicole Gonnella

Cephreal’s Hand - Melissa McPhail

Mark of kings - Bryce O’Conner/Luke Chmilenko

Licanius trilogy - James Islington (underwhelming)

Anywho I really appreciate any suggestions that are sent my way.