Book Pushing

Someone on the Discord server asked for fantasy book recs, so I dug through my Kindle and made a list of stuff I enjoyed. The Lies of Locke Lamora is my favorite fantasy novel of the last 20 years, probably. And yeah, I left off a bunch of the gimmies. No Martin, no Sanderson. Lynch is better than both of them. Anyway, stuff I liked. There’re holes, obviously, but it’s a start, right?

Traditional:

·      The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch

·      The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss

·      Codex Alera (series), Jim Butcher

·      The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan

·      Red Sister, Mark Lawrence

·      Black Company (series), Glen Cook

·      Cold Iron, Miles Cameron

·      The Emperor’s Blades, Brian Staveley

·      Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

·      Heroes Die, Matthew Stover

·      The Belgariad (if you haven’t), David Eddings (don’t read up on Eddings, btw. dude was a sicko.)

Urban:

·      Dresden Files (series; start at book 4 to get you hooked), Jim Butcher

·      Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo

·      An Unkindness of Magicians, Kat Howard

·      Rivers of London (series), Ben Aaronovitch

·      Alex Verus series, Benedict Jacka

·      Book of Night, Holly Black

·      The Rook, Daniel O’Malley

·      Last Call, Tim Powers (Tim’s brilliant, btw)

·      Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (dammit, Neil)

Scholastic (like they go to a magic school):

·      A Deadly Education (series), Naomi Novik 

·      The Magicians, Lev Grossman

I dunno what to call these:

·      The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (loved this book, btw)

·      The Near Witch, V.E. Schwab

·      The Craft Sequence, Max Gladstone

·      A Night in Lonesome October, Roger Zelazny (read in October, chapter a day)

·      Colors of Magic (series), V.E. Schwab

LitRPG:

·      Dungeon Crawler Carl (series), Matt Dinnamin

·      Cradle (series), Will Wight

“Cozy” fantasy:

·      Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree

Liked, but didn’t love:

·      The Will of the Many, James Islington