What other fantasy books do YOU read?

I have read Chronicles o/ Narnia, First two wrinkle in time books, harry potter, a book by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey called "Elvenbane", and teh Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey, also some SW books.

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[Eowyn Skywalker]

Oh, Dragon Riders of Pern... forgot about those. I just finished The White Dragon. Also, read the Acorna books... very good. I started on the Eye of the World... and boy, that book is LONG. But good. That's Robert Jordan, if you were wondering.

Interesting pic. But I'd suggest putting it n the 'What happens when I am bored' thread. That's what to do with those things, as our little group of LotR picture makers see fit to share them. That's Middle-earth Mirth, if you please. I don't feel that this is the place to post pictures.

Star Wars is good. Not fantasy, but good. Read it!

-Eowyn Skywalker

[Quicksilver_Sprite]

The Dragon-Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, Sabriel etc. by Garth Nix, Neverwhere and Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip, Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson and Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling are my favorite fantasy/fiction books.

I also used to read the Wheel of Time series, but didn't get farther than the fourth book because the slow pace of the plot was irking me.

[Mahal]

I've gotten a few new ones. These are about the World of Darkess an Rpg game, set in modern times(does that count?). Their written, by Greg Stolze, its a trilogy. Ashes of Angel Wings, The Wreckage of Paradise, and the Seven deadlies. The first few chapters are good so. The books about Exalted are also good books to read, I recommend them.

Greetings and Salutations.
I suggest you try David Eddings "Belgariad" series, Mercedes Lackeys "Heralds of Valdemar" series, Jennifer Robersons "Chronicles of the Cheysuli" series. . ..........Lady Kealin

[Vanwatholiel]

i love The Golden Compass trilogy by Philip Pullman and The Sabriel Trilogy by Garth Nix. um... im also a big fan of the adult Left Behind books by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. Those books are totally awesome. weeee!!! three cheers for fantasy novels!!!!!! hip hip hooray!!!!! im so silly. im sorry. forgive me.

[Elennar Starfire]

I recommend wandering aimlessly through the library and reading whatever catches your eye. I've found some great books that way.

Also, The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea is excellent.

[Lady Gamgee]

I really enjoyed reading all 4 of "The Enchanted Forest" Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Most would consider these children's books, but believe me, adults will love these. I was so wrapped up in them, it was hard to put them down. I highly recommend them.

I've been wanting to begin reading some of Robert Jordan's books ... they just look so interesting & intriguing, but there are so many he's wrote, I don't know where to start ... anyone have any suggestions??

[Encaitare]

I too love Garth Nix's "Sabriel" trilogy. I'm currently reading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, and one of my favorite fantasy novels *ever* is "Song in the Silence" by Elizabeth Kerner.

[Isowen]

Not much, can you count the silmarillion, as it is by Tolkien. I like the Chronicles of Narnia, The mabinogion (welsh fairy tales, i think thats how you spell it), Harry Potter could be counted as fantasy but I think its more just fiction.

[Elennar Starfire]

I thought it was spelled Maboingion...do you know where I might find it to read? I've been wanting to for quite a while...

EDIT: Isowen's right on the spelling.

Far too many books to recomend, but briefly;

Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Song of Ice and Fire by George R Martin
Red, Green, Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dune (et al) by Frank Herbert
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Willaims
Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the Trillogy of Five) by Douglas Adams

Just a few than spring to mind as favourites that get re-read, as many other works of fantasy get read once, and then never seen again.

NB, when mentioning Dune, I am NOT including any of the prequals written by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert, which in my humble opionion are little better than candyfloss fantasy.

[Amrod the Hunter]

The Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin-one of the best books i ever read and they are all big so you can really read as long as you want
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams-At first it is a bit boring,but later it's great
Forgotten Realms-You really have many books,and they are all great
Harry Potter-good competition to LoTR

[Faramir]

i read alot of the forgotten realms seris by R.A Salvatore.
my favorite trilogy is IceWind Dale:
The Crystal Shard
Streams of Silver
The Halflings Gem

(of course none of those comes close to lotr)

[Soronumë]

David (& Leigh) Eddins:
The Belgariad, The Mallorean, The Eleneum, The Tamuli, Althalus, POlgara, Belgarath, Rivan Codex, Elder of Gods
J.K Rowling:
All Harry Potters
Marion Zimmer Bradly:
The forest house or something like that and Mists of Avalon is in progress
Katherine Kerr:
The Deverry-thing
Annie McCaffrey (or something similar):
Dragon riders of Pern

[yavanna II]

Dan Brown:
1. Da Vinci Code
2. Angels and Demons

JKR:
~ALL HPs~

Ysabel Allende
1. Eva Luna
2. House of the Spirits

Oh. And all the Star Wars I could find in the local bookstore.

Is there any fantasy book referring to the Vatican Secret Archives? Please tell me; after reading Dan Brown I got so curious about what the Citta del Vaticano hides in that Archive thing.

[Kitanna]

After looking through this thread I got to thinking about how many fantasy movies there are out there. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in posting on a thread that would be like this one only about fantasy movies instead of books.

[Encaitare]

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in posting on a thread that would be like this one only about fantasy movies instead of books.

I would.

[Elonve]

Hi

I am New over here! Well the books I've liked...
Dan Brown: The DaVinci Code and Angles and Daemons
C.S. Lewis : the Narnia Series.
Douglas Adams: all of the Five books
Tolkien: LotR, The Hobbit, Simalirion, The lost Tales of middle earth.
Phillip Pullman: His dark materials trilogy, I was a Rat, The Tin Princess, Ruby in the Smoke...
There was this book that I read called the Mists of Avalon and its sooo amazing its written from the perspective of Morgana LaFay, George RR Martin is good too and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I sort of like the book Ella Enchanted, And Witch Hall was good. Harry Potter. This amazing book called Walking the Boundries...which isnt really Fantasy Except this guy meets his dead grand-ma when shes young...
A series of unfortunate events and last but not least Dr. Suess!

Peace
Elonve
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[Encaitare]

I heard Mists of Avalon was great... I ought to read that when I'm done with all the other books I'm halfway through... no wonder I can never find a bookmark!

And welcome to the Downs, Elonve.

[Ainaserkewen]

Originally posted by Amarantha_Daisy post #309
My friends are into Anne Rice. I dunno if vampires are considered fantasy, but... yeah. I haven't read any of her books but I'm sure my friends will beg me too.

Originally posted by Belethfacwen post #171
I'm going a bit off topic, but you can't really consider Anne Rice fantasy, which is my latest kick.

Why isn’t Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles considered fantasy?

Like Belethfacwen said, it’s my latest kick too. Ms. Rice is an artist because of how she leads the reader around and then by slowly giving clues you're given the whole picture or only a frustrating portion. “Queen of the Damned” which I am currently reading is the most complex so far. It jumps around and can get pretty confusing but slowly towards the middle it starts to make sense. Anne Rice’s books have always been a satisfying read. She also writes very good fiction worth checking out.

[Luinalatawen]

I very, very highly recommend the Bitterbynde trilogy by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. She has a new trilogy (of which the first book has just been released this month in the US) set in the same world as her first trilogy. I'm really looking forward to delving into it. Currently, I'm reading Dracula. It's a classic, so I really do recommend that one too.

Has anyone read R.A. Salvatore, Terry Brooks, David Farland, Steven Eriksson?

[Thinlómien]

They certainly lack the sort of detailed description most fantasy books (walking in Tolkien's footsteps) are full of, but I don't see it as a fault. On the contrary, it works. Le Guin uses a certain simplicity and roughness and it impressed me greatly when I reread the books a while ago. She has no need to overdo anything. I, for one, love her personal style and name her one of my favourite authors.

After A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore and Tehanu, two Earthsea books have been published. Tales from Earthsea is a collection of short stories set in the Earthsea and one of them works as a kind of bridge from Tehanu to the next actual book. The next actual book is called The Other Wind and "completes" the story.

In my opinion, the original three (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore) are brilliant and way better than the newer ones, but the newer ones are not bad either. I especially recommend the short stories of Tales from Earthsea. Of all the books my favourite is the Tombs of Atuan, it has a wonderful, dark atmosphere I've found in no other book.

[Saurreg]

What about Neal Stephenson's highly acclaimed Baroque Trilogy? Now those were the best fantasy books I've read in a while.

[ninja91]

Originally Posted by Tom Bombadillo

Has anyone read R.A. Salvatore, Terry Brooks, David Farland, Steven Eriksson?

Salvatore is of my faves, and Brooks is very good.

[ninja91]

As of now, The Thousand Orcs , and about to start book 2, The Lone Drow . I highly recommend them!

By the way, these are part of The Hunter's Blades trilogy by R.A. Salvatore, just in case.

[Lalwendë]

I've had a quick look at Naomi Novik's (I think that's how its spelled...) Temeraire, and so far it looks to be a decent 'young adult' fantasy novel. Out on the blog circuit we've been talking about Eragon too, as I'm tempted to read this, with the new film coming out. Opinion seems divided over whether it's good or just a 'Rings-rip-off'. Anyone else here care to let me know if its worth a go? After all, I do like dragons...

The Books Of Magic compilation was very good, and had some absolutely stunning illustration, so that's worth finding - it groups together the first four tales, all written by Gaiman. It made me a little suspicious of where the idea for Harry Potter came from though...

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I read lots of fantasy... I love it.

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Couldn't stand the others)
His Dark Materials
Inheritance Cycle
Harry Potter
Artemis Fowl
Recently, Earthsea novels

There's way more, but off the top of my head I can't think of them.

[Galadriel55]

I've finished a trilogy called His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, which is made up of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. It's intriguing to read if only because of its philosophy about existence. I got the books from my sister who liked them because of the adventure. And my mother, who read the first one, liked it because of the complexity and the language.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

I've finished a trilogy called His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, which is made up of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. It's intriguing to read if only because of its philosophy about existence. I got the books from my sister who liked them because of the adventure. And my mother, who read the first one, liked it because of the complexity and the language.

I love this trilogy to bits. Pullman is one of my very favourite writers.

Now, where do you want to begin with discussing these? They have a fan forums just like this one, there's so much to talk about and I've got a number of books about them too. I even went to find Lyra's Bench in Oxford Botanical Gardens. There's so much to delve into - Blake, Milton, the Bible, the science and physics etc.

The first one is called Northern Lights in the UK, incidentally, so if I ever refer to that then I'm not talking about a completely different book!

[Galadriel55]

The thing I forgot to include in my previous post is the number of references to history, various mythology (and mythology that is evidently made up, as I can't find a parallel), linguistics, and just the breadth of it all. Man, the trilogy is vast in its cultural aspects! And the other things - as you say, Lal, there is just so much to delve into!

And when I read the first book, I thought it was full of intrigue, philosophy, and complexity. When I read the second, I realised that the first was just a little warm up. It's just mind-blowing!

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

I've finished a trilogy called His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, which is made up of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. It's intriguing to read if only because of its philosophy about existence. I got the books from my sister who liked them because of the adventure. And my mother, who read the first one, liked it because of the complexity and the language.

I loved the trilogy, but I haven't read it in a long while because they're down in the storage area. I mean, they were really good but I can't constantly read them. And, I'm like the only person I know who's actually read the book, and I've never seen the movies. (The Subtle Knife was my favorite of the three.)

[Lalwendë]

I think my favourite is the first one (Northern Lights in the UK), because the story moves along so quickly and there are some incredibly tense moments. I love the Gyptians because many of my own ancestors were canal boatmen and lived that lifestyle (without daemons of course ), but also Lyra's friendships are beautifully drawn. I also like the whole alternate universe Oxford and London. And Lyra's charistmatic but terrifying parents.

Then as the trilogy moves on, it all gets so much deeper. I think one of the greatest things about it, aside from it being a tremendous adventure featuring a girl for once, is it really stirs your interest in the works that inspired it, much as Lord of the Rings does.

One of the 'guides' available which help explain the books and their sources, I can really recommend getting one of these if you see them cheap, this one especially. It's also fun to go to Oxford and find the landmarks like Lyra's bench and the Pitt Rivers museum. I'd really like to visit the real Svalbard too, but it's maybe one for when I've won the lottery

[Ninde Lossehelin]

For Fantasy books its really just JRR Tolkien's works but i have read the chronicles of narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe.

[Alcidas]

Elfquest.
Conan the Barbarian.
Kushiel's Dart (that one only because I had been told that there were "juicy" bits...)

[Unforgiven]

01. ERBorroughs
02. CSLewis
03. JRRTolkien
04. REHoward
05. ARaymond
06. IAsimov
07. ACClarke
08. RJordan
09. TPrattchet
10. DGemmell

Pity, most of them are no more.
And the new writers can't seem to hold a candle to these supernovas.

[Nolwë_Namiel]

I read a lot of fantasy. Most recently I've enjoyed the Paladins series by David Dalglish.

I am also a fan of Steven Brust and Stephen R. Donaldson.

[Pellanarién Aldarion]

I love a lot of fantasy and science fiction authers and books. I haven't found too many authers in the last few years to interest me much. I deffinatly prefer late 19th and 20th century literature to the 21st. A few that stand out in my memmories are:

Mercadies Lackey and her Chrome Cycle series. I remember reading the back of the second book before I found the first, all I got was, "Hot Elves, Fast cars and Kidnapped Kids." I was sold. I think there is 10 or so books to the series.

Barbara Hambley is another I love and her "Dog Wizard" Series. I gound the first book 'Silent Tower' in my freshman year of highschool and the second book 'Silicon Mage' a few days after that. I found the third book 8yrs later in a used book store. So worth the wait.

Terry Brooks and the Magic Kingdom Series is another favorite sries I like. I just think having a slightly off wizard as one of your advisors is too funny.

Also anything Norse or Celtic Mythology. I know its not really fantasy but its myth and its awsome fantasy to me.

[Galadriel55]

Recently finished a book called Night Circus, which I thought was written by a Downer (but it isn't; it would have been fun if it was, though, because in the book there is a fan club society thing that's pretty similar to the Downs and the Tolkien Smials). Basically two people are chosen to play what is called the game, and they have to outdo each other in their "magic" abilities, and both do so through the circus. And when they both want to forfeit, they realize they can't because they are bound to it and because too much depends on their involvement in the circus. It was a fun read, though the chronology sometimes got confusing.