/lit/ - Literature

The Book of the New Sun

the bible

>>6665904
>fantasy

Conan

>>6665901
kind of hyped for the warcraft movie, hope the CGI wont be shit

>>6665918
Agree, whether toy believe it or not the bible has great tales

>>6665901
The God Delusion

Try the Warhammer/Black Library shit, or Forgotten Realms.

Elric

>>6665901
Dune is Sci Fi but it counts

>>6665901
wheel of time
farseer

>>6665901
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams (his ignorance of the Oxford comma, not mine)

Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg (pic related)

The Belgariad by David Eddings (sort of cliche, but a good read anyway)

The Sword of Bedwyr by R.A. Salvatore (standalone, not set with his D&D and Drizzt shit, pretty good and funny to boot)

The Dark Tower by Stephen King (if you can stand books 5 and 6, and the Coda of 7)

Honourable mention Harry Potter <:^)))

>>6665931
>hope the CGI wont be shit
That's like hoping water won't be wet.

>>6665901
Gormenghast is damn good, if you like literature and not just plain fantasy.

>>6666207
the oxford comma thing is exactly what keeps me from even picking up the books when i see them

>>6666219
Actually it's only in the title of the trilogy itself, weirdly enough. The books themselves use the Oxford comma throughout.

>>6666207
>Dark Tower.
I was in middle school when I found those books, and I spent the next week staying up late reading them instead of studying or doing homework.

Those were some great times

>>6665901
Dune. It's sci fi but read it and you'll be obsessing over spice and machine jihads in no time.

I just finished reading this series for nostalgia purposes and thought it was still pretty good. I don't know about obsessing over it but might be worth it

Conan (original Howard stories ONLY, the rest is cliche BS with 2D characters)
Fafthrd & Grey Mouser
Elric/eternal champion stories by Moorcock
Gormenghast (skip book three and read the short story boy in darkness instead)
Book of the New Sun
Discworld (all books before Pyramids & Small Gods are different and rather skippable however)

Try The Witcher series. They made games set after the books as well bretty gud

The Last Wish

Wheel of time
Elric saga
Coco the barbarian
Feist's magician series
Lovecraft

>>6666946
it's not awful but that's probably the worst series nix has written

the abhorsen trilogy and seventh tower series are both better IMO

>>6666977
>Elric/eternal champion stories by Moorcock
This because you can be a rabid fanboy who worships Elric's feet. The Elric saga is so good precisely because it allows for this kind of obsession.
>>6666977
>Book of the New Sun
This because you can lose sleep analysing Gene Wolfe's word choices.

It's also worth checking the various winners and nominees of the various fantasy/sf awards that exist. They're by no means the be-all and end-all of quality, but they're just as good a starting point for exploration as any.

>>6665901
The Inheritance Saga

The dragonlance chronicles

>>6668850
This all the way OP

>>6666211
ice, man

>>6668842
No.
it's written by a 15 year old, and exactly feels like that.

>>6665901
The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. It's recognizably influenced by Martin, but it still stands as its own thing , it's not a ripoff.

Greco-Roman mythology.

>>6665901
Cherryh's Fortress Series

The Witcher series.

>reading any fantasy series other than Malazan Book if the Fallen

>>6665901
Scott Lynch's "Lies of Locke Lamora" series
Brent Weeks' "LIghtbringer" series

>>6665901

Why would you recommend such a terrible saga?

The Call of Ktulu

>>6668762
I haven't actually read those, so I can compare, but I enjoyed the premise and setting of Keys to the Kingdom. Plus that twist at the end.

>>6671064
*can't compare

The Black Company chronicles are great. I just finished them two days ago and it's probably my favourite series now.

Would also recommend >>6668949 . The writing in the first half of the first book isnt great, but it really picks up after that.

>>6669109
This

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

>>6665901
A Song of Ice and Fire

>>6668759
nigga knows whats up

>>6665901
eddie lacroft (think it's spelled that way) medieval fantasy detective story.
also, "Betrayal at Falador" is a good book. the two follow up novels are just ok, suffer from characters developing into shits and not getting their just deserts. the first is pretty good from what I remember though.

>>6671387

I really like the witcher books by Anderzej Sapkowski.

Ive heard mixed things about dragonlance also.

>>6671675
kek well done m8

>>6671387
Harooooooooo!

Elder Scrolls

>tfw gonna take ~30 years for all this shit to finish

>>6671686
I liked the way they incorporated Polish folklore.

>>6669109
What I'd recommend

>>6671675
This isn't remotely amusing, did you make it? I can't even tell what it's supposed to be making fun of.

Umm... HELLO! The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Words of Radiance might actually be the best book ever written. 4.76 rating on Goodreads at the moment.

The Elric of Melnibone/Eternal champion works.
Lovecraft and cthulhu mythos such as Hounds of Tindalos

>>6671687
XD

>>6665901

go with the germans

>>6665901
>Dresden Files
>Black Company
>Malazan Book of the Fallen
>Black Jewels Trilogy
>Codex Alera
>Felix Castor
>Night Angel Trilogy(fuck you nay-sayers)
>Lightbringer Series(also fuck you nay-sayers)
>Raven's Shadow by Anthony Ryan
>Cold Fire Trilogy
>Riyria Series
>Powder Mage Trilogy
>Neal Asher Polity Series

is the blade itself any good?

>>6673538

You don't come here much do you? Either your a tumblrina, a troll, or you have made your way to the wrong side of the internet.

>>6673538
fuckin lol

I'd bet that you WILL get addicted to this story (3 books total) if you like fantasy
Trust me

The Third Law trilogy

>>6666886
yep, pretty much this

>>6676297
This book is the biggest mary sue I've ever read in my life.

It's actually awful, but as a guilty pleasure read its fantastic.

>>6666207
Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

Conan the Cimmerian

>>6676487

Koanan, the Commarian.

>>6666207
>thinks the Oxford comma is a mistake and not preference of style
'K

>>6676487
this isn't the right board for you

>>6676572
it's a mistake, pleb

>>6676487
>>6676594
It was a reference to a song you twat

>>6676297
If it is your first Fantasy novel and you have no standards to compare it to, then I could believe this post.

The Wheel of Time, obviously

The Witcher Saga dude, all 8 toms.

start with this and see what happens. one of the best games nowadays had to be inspired on something even bigger, right?

>>6665901

>>6666211
But water ain't wet mane.
Look it up

>>6677669
Do you really think videogames mean something in literary circles? First 2 novels are short stories that are not even good, merely acceptable, whilst the 5 book saga is worse than mediocre. If you insist, try the Spanish translation.
Genre fiction makes me feel dirty :S

the percy jackson books

Is The Lord of the Rings really worth reading?

The Edge Chronicles are actually pretty good for a fantasy series

>>6681415

Or Pendragon.

>>6665901
Pic related.

It's a pretty good story.

If you're looking for completed series try out:

Malazan Book of the Fallen
The Black Company
The First Law
The Broken Empire
Gentleman Bastard

If you don't care about it being completed, check out The Kingkiller Chronicle and The Stormlight Archive.

All of these are the most popular series to date, barring LotR and aSoIaF.

Y'all niggas overlooking the elder scrolls in-game books.

Full blown mythology, references everywhere to Greek, Norse, etc

>>6681473

I believe that if Morrowind was never a video game it would have made an even better book. Or just about anything in Elder Scrolls lore.

>>6681487
I would say it definitely could stand on its own, but the visual motifs of strange orientalism really helped in my opinion. I liked finding out the history on my own through contextual stuff, so I think some of that may be lost in a pure novel.

Hands down my favorite game though

>>6676700
A pleb song.

>>6665931
You should be hyped for the Assassins Creed film instead. It's got Michael Fassbender and the director of the upcoming Macbeth film. We're finally going to start seeing film adaptations of video games that aren't shit.

>>6665901
T.H White's The Once And Future King

>>6671124
>yfw they're literally fighting a fucking castle that feeds off of the dead, or living.

>>6673538
Umm... GOODBYE!

>>6681511
>>6681487
I think there's a couple of offical novels about Morrowind in-between the time period of Oblivion and Skyrim. I can't speak to their quality though.