Cheers for finding more books in the genre you love.  Here for our first featured Favourites Friday we’ll have a lot of Fantasy picks (talk about alliteration.)  Some of these are my suggestions, some my husband’s, and many from various family members, friends, and acquaintances across the world.

My personal recommendations:

• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Witch for Hire (A Witch’s Path book series) by N. E. Conneely
• The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
• The Selkie Spell — though this could be considered folklore/fairy tale retelling (Seal Island trilogy) by Sophie Moss
• The Paper Magician (series) by Charlie N. Holmberg
• The Dresden Files (series) by Jim Butcher
• Codex Alera (series) by Jim Butcher
• The Dark Tower (series) by Stephen King
• Neil Gaiman– he has so many books and they are all so wonderful!  My top three adult fantasy recommendations from him would likely be as follows.
  • Neverwhere
  • American Gods
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane

My husband’s recommendations:

• The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J. R. R. Tolkein
• The Essential Conan
• The Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Dark Elf Trilogy, the Legacy of the Drow series, the Paths of Darkness series, The Hunter’s Blades Trilogy, the Transitions series, and the Neverwinter Saga
• Monster Hunter International (series) by Larry Correia
• Son of the Black Sword (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series) by Larry Correia
• Hard Magic (The Grimnoir Chronicles) by Larry Correia
• Witch World (Witch World Chronicles) by Andre Norton
• The Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny
• The Aeronauts Windlass (series) by Jim Butcher

 

These suggestions are from various people at a website that I frequent.

Alex recommends:

• The Blade Itself trilogy by Abercrombie
• The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
• Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne (series) Brian Staveley
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Ken recommends:

• Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company series) by Glen Cook
• The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski
• The Stone and the Flute by Hans Bemmann

Cael recommends:

• The Last Necromancer (series) by C. J. Archer
• Kingkiller Chronicles (series) by Patrick Rothfuss
• Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan
• Age of Iron (series) by Angus Watson
• Traitor’s Blade/The Greatcoats series by Sebastien de Castell

Wolf, seconded by numerous others, recommend:

• Discworld series by Terry Pratchett– I am told that this is more of a satire of fantasy, so be aware of that before starting.

Dixon recommends:

• The Belgaraid series by David Eddings

Brin recommends:

• Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
• Xanth series by Piers Anthony
• Runelords series by David Farland
• The Sword of Shanara trilogy by Terry Brooks

Cederic recommends:

• The Wayfarer Redemption (two trilogies released as a single six book series, and has a follow up sequence) by Sara Douglas

Paul recommends:

• Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

 

Other various friends and family have weighed in for these additional recommendations.

Oran T Kelly recommends:

• The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
• The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard series) by Scott Lynch
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy) by N. K. Jemisin
• A Natural History of Dragons (series) by Marie Brennan
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
• Mistborn series by Sanderson
• Malazan Empire (Malazan Book of the Fallen series) by Erickson
• The Lightbringer (series) by Brent Weeks

N & C recommend:

• The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne

Kostis recommends:

• Coldfire Trilogy by C. S. Friedman

Maria Picone recommends:
(Remember Maria recommended I read Furies of Calderon, and you can contact her here)

• Alex Verus (series) by Benedict Jacka

Shelby recommends:

• Hidden Fire by Elizabeth Hunter — Shelby says she would definitely recommend this to any readers who like vampires, sex, love, mystery and death!
• Iron Chronicles by Elizabeth Hunter
• The Darkness Series by K. F. Breene

Cory recommends:

• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

 

There were more people who gave feedback, and many gave the same answers, so I attributed books generally to the first person who mentioned them.  Thank you so much for being a part of this giant list, and to those of you here looking for something amazing to read, I do hope that these 65 book recommendations featuring 54 book series help you find something fun to read in the Fantasy genre! 🙂

Next month’s genre will be Young Adult Fantasy!

 

 

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