I’ve read a few fantasy series, my favourites being Discworld and the Rigante series. Was wondering if anyone had any good authors to recommend? Doesn’t necessarily have to be fantasy, at the moment I’m reading A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind. It’s a bit dry and factual, but really interesting. The Sword of Truth series was also really good.
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I saw the title and ran in here ready to recommend Terry Pratchett, and then I read the post. 
Lesse… Piers Anthony is great for satire fantasy. It’s a lot more heavy handed than Pratchett’s work, but I find his Xanth series amusing nevertheless.
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher are a good read. Interesting world lore, and a good mix of humour and seriousness. I like the whole wizard who works detective jobs angle.
Finally, if you’re not adverse to books aimed at children, I highly recommend The Bartimaeus Sequence. There are only four of them, but they’re full of life and humour. They’re an interesting take on what a modern society might be like if magic were the norm. They’re written by Jonathan Stroud.
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Fifty Shades of Grey.
Spoiler Alert: It contains no goblins, wizards or super saiyans.
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I’ve been into kaiju fiction lately.
Books I’d recommend:
Jeremy Robinson’s Apocalypse Machine.
Joe Sharcoff’s The Drakos Effect.
Ryan George Collins’ Operation Red Dragon.
It’s a relatively new sub-genre. Long overdue, IMHO.
Brandon Sanderson - Stormlight Archive series <3
Mistborn is also awesome… anything from Brandon is ++
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If you like his work, OP, then I can’t recommend, “On a pale horse,” highly enough.
It’s about the Grim Reaper.
Phenomenal book.
#boxingischeating
#endmultiboxing
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Oh, if you like dragons I would also suggest the Age of Fire series by E.E. Knight. It’s from the point of view of three dragon siblings and deals with their lives from growing up, to interacting with the world around them.
Edit: The Pit Dragon Trilogy was also a great book series of you like dragons. It’s by Jane Yolen. Apparently there’s even a fourth one now.
My overall favorite book series is The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Thus far there are approximately 17 books out for it, with more planned eventually.
I also like his series The Codex Alera, it takes a bit to get used to because of strange names and locations used, but once you are in, you are in.
The Eragon series by Christopher Paolini is pretty solid too, just don’t ever watch the movie. 
Edited to add: Gerald Brom. If you like dark stories, Brom is a dark artist who has since dipped his toes into story telling a handful of times. I own each one, Child Thief or Krampus probably being the best of the 5.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of The Wind.
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So Now You’re A Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead, by John Austin.
Changed my unlife. 
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Count of Monte Cristo 
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There’s the Raven’s Shadow series by Anthony Ryan I enjoyed reading, or there is Skulduggery Pleasant novel series by Derek Landy.
If you’re into horror, check out Nick Cutter! He’s a truly great author and he writes some truly great horror. “Little Heaven” is easily the best, “The Deep” is quite good, and “The Troop” is frikkin horrifying (if worms/parasites creep you out, you’ll either love the horror of it, or have to put the book down in five minutes).
“Lovecraft Country” by Matt Ruff is also very good, if the HBO show isn’t already spoiling it for you.
Stephen Graham Jones does some good horror as well, namely “The Only Good Indians” and “The Last Final Girl.”
“Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a pretty good gothic horror, very traditionally themed within that genre.
Max Brooks (Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z) recently came out with a new one called “Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre” which sounds totally ridiculous but was actually very riveting, I was hooked from page one.
“The Shining Girls” by Lauren Beukes is a pretty good suspense/thriller.
… This is getting long, I’ll leave off here haha.
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My favorite series will always be Dune even though the last book, Chapter house kind of fell apart on account of the author dying.
The first 4 books though were excellent.
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Pick up a copy of Frank Herbert’s Dune, if you haven’t read it. There’s a new (attempt at a) movie coming once the world gets back to normal, too.
Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series, especially the Elric Saga.
Robert Howard’s Conan stories: Excellent! Even if they had to be fleshed out/finished by Carter and DeCamp.
Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. I was less interested in the other Pern novels, but the 4 in the Dragonriders series are wonderful.
Ursula LeGuin A Wizard of Earthsea
I didn’t even mention Tolkien, 'cuz I figure if you’re asking, you’ve already been there …
Sigh … the list goes on … and on …
Oh! and a closet favorite of mine in the scifi category (with a fantasy flair) Midworld by Alan Dean Foster
Beat me to it, love Dune. Just stay away from the sequels by his son and that hack Anderson
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my favorite book series is redwall
if you like hairy potter familiars is a neat spin on the idea of the wizards there cause it takes the view of the animal companions of wizards instead of the wizards themslves
and wereworld is a neat book series about werewolves and stuff
The first qualifies as a candidate for best scifi novel anytime, anywhere.
Everything after that was just trash. Don’t waste your time.
I’m not much of a reader but a couple years ago I read The Stand by Stephen King and LOVED it.
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Why… why would you do that to a poor unsuspecting Blood Elf?
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