Looking for a fantasy book, ideally a series. Can't be an unfinished series.
Something like a Brandon Sanderson series would be just right. I've read everything by him that's finished.
Ideally:
- "decently-written": I love the writing of Gene Wolfe, Ada Palmer, Ursula Le Guin, Ann Leckie, Guy Gavriel Kay: that's what I think of as good writing. I like carefully crafted writing, and long-winded, detailed descriptions. I don't much like Robert Jordan, Brent Weeks, or Robin Hobb's writing. I'm looking for something in the middle of these two poles.
- No glaring plot holes or characters doing things that make absolutely no sense for the character
- Not coming of age, but that's not a hard rule
- The weirder the better, BUT
- Nothing SUPER complicated or extremely "avant-garde". E.g., I LOVE the Malazan books, and M. John Harrison, and Dhalgren, etc, but I don't want to read that kind of thing right now
I've read quite a lot of fantasy and sci-fi, and I'm worried this will annoy people, like, "read this", "already read it". You can find my list of books on goodreads. I don't think I'm supposed to post links here. I'm "387920-hawkeye", so goodreads.com/review/list/387920-hawkeye. I've listed my top favorites down below.
Here's the sort of thing I'm looking for, but ideally, just tighter and better writing:
The Warded Man by Peter Brett Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) Nix, Garth
The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1) Staveley, Brian
The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1) Abraham, Daniel
The Shadow of the Gods (Bloodsworn Saga #1) by John Gwynne
Low Hanging Fruit:
I've read everything by Ursula K. Le Guin
I've read everything by China Mieville
I've read everything by Guy Gavriel Kay
I've read everything by Neal Stephenson
I've read everything by Octavia Butler
I will read everything by Joe Abercrombie
I can't read Jack Vance right now
I can't read Gene Wolfe right now
I can't read N. K. Jemisen right now
I haven't read anything by John Scalzi yet, but he's on my list.
Favorites:
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) Ada Palmer
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) Ann Leckie
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) Arkady Martine
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) Brandon Sanderson
The Dreaming Tree (Arafel, #1-2) C.J. Cherryh
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) China Mieville
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1) Christopher Buehlman
The First Book of Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1-4) Fritz Leiber
The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1) Gene Wolfe
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1) Guy Gavriel Kay
The Lions of Al-Rassan Guy Gavriel Kay
The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien
Kushiel's Dart (Phaedre's Trilogy, #1) Jacqueline Carey
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1) Joe Abercrombie
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1) John C. Wright
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1) K.J. Parker
Shaman Kim Stanley Robinson
The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1) Lois McMaster Bujold
Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1) M. John Harrison
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) Martha Wells
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1) Mervyn Peake
Sharing (no name series, #1) Miracle Jones
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) Naomi Novik
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) Octavia E. Butler
Riddle-Master (Riddle-Master, #1-3) Patricia A. McKillip
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) R. Scott Bakker
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) Richard K. Morgan
The Great Book of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-10) Roger Zelazny
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1) S.A. Chakraborty
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) Steven Erikson
Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1) Tanith Lee
Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1) Terry Pratchett
More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon
Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) Vernor Vinge
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