Dear Readers of Reddit,
I just came out of a reading slump thanks to Jasper Fford's Red Side Story. Since then I've read Fairy Tale by Stephan King, Mistborn and Tress by Sanderson.
I really love works by Diana Wynn Jones, T Kingfisher, Tamsyn Muir, Kalynn Bayron, Garth Nix, and S. A Charkraborty.
Books that drop information casually that the characters treat mundane but as the reader I know is strange are my favorites. For example, in Red Side Story (this is a small spoiler) the main character casually mentions not wanting to swim because of his fear of a mythical frog that drags people underwater to their deaths called "The Under Toad" I as a reader can pick up on A. he is referring to the undertow that has been spun into a creature B. that this rumor has been spread to keep people on his island from leaving.
I mainly read fantasy and horror comedy.
If you read all this thank you for your time.
by PrismPunkBea
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I’m assuming you know about it/have read it but The Dark Tower
Anything by Naomi Novik and Becky Chambers, Ursula LeGuin and Lois Bujold are a bit older but definitely hold up fantastically.
The Lies of Locke Lamora.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
I just finished ‘The Bear and the Nightingale’ by Katherine Arden today and definitely recommend it!
I’ll second Becky Chambers, I’ve loved everything I’ve read from her. And I’ll add Seanan McGuire, because while she works mostly in Urban Fantasy, the fantastical elements she weaves into our world are so well done and thought out.