I'm not asking for personal recommendations, I'm asking you to just tell me about books that are important to you personally. Please do tell me about them if you're willing instead of dropping names if you're willing.
The Demon Wars #1: The Demon Awakens by RA Salvatore GraphicAudio is a fantasy novel that is very important to me, and I have a very hard time finding people that still love this. God people love to dismiss Salvatore as hot, shallow, pointless garbage, which I think is really unfair, and I've sadly never come across any fans of the GraphicAudio for this series. To me this is what you get when Salvatore gets to make his own thing instead of write something for a popular franchise, and it's absolute god-tier. What I love about it is that there are 3 main characters, and My favorite main character dies, but his death is super impactful and memorable, and he ends up teaching the "main main" characters romantic interest Pony the magic that he knows, and she ends up more powerful.
I'm also told by people who have read this whole series that the MC and Pony stay together the whole time, and she's not fridged, which is something that I especially appreciate as someone who has read way too much fantasy and watched too much anime where it feels like the author punishes women for the CRIME of getting together with the main character, and I hate that so much!
Savage Rebellion #1: Savage Legion by Matt Wallace is my favorite Fantasy Novel. The main reason is because pacing is the most important thing to me, and it's the most well paced fantasy novel that I've read that's over 300 pages(It's around 500 pages) and I have never read something this lengthy that has done better at not wasting my time. Every chapter is fascinating, and it really nails telling a very dark and serious story about a slave rebellion.
My favorite thing about this, besides how well paced it is is that it's very dark and serious fantasy without ever feeling like torture corn, and there's no Sexual Assault in it. I hate how hard it is to find dark fantasy without Sexual Assault.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is my favorite novel. It's a sci-fi novel, and the spoiler free version is that I can't recommend going in blind enough, and watch the show. I think that the show is even better.
The mild spoilerific version is that this is the far too hard to find sci-fi novel where the focus is on the main character instead of the technology, and I have never cared about a main character more in anything that I've ever read. I have never wanted to see a main character succeed at their main goal more than I have with this.
by ExplodingPoptarts