What is your favorite Fantasy Series

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Lord of the Rings

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What more is there to say? It's slow in parts, admittedly, but every fantasy series since has had to contend with being compared t... [show more]

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The Chronicles of Narnia

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Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Amazingly funny and readable again and again... If you never read a Discworld novel, give "Mort" a try - it is also available as a comic.

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The Riftwar Saga: Raymond Feist

Magician (1982) Silverthorn (1985) A Darkness at Sethanon (1986)... [show more]

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Blegariad by David Eddings

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His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Ive never read Narnia so I cant vote for that. I really did love these books & its such a strange place.

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Song Of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin

The absolute best Fantasy Series I have ever read. Even better than Tolkien and Jordan who I loved also.

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Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

Tolkienesque, but darker. Excellent books, have read the trilogy three times over the years. Here's an intro: Thomas Covenant i... [show more]

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Deathgate Cycle

1. Dragon Wing 2. Elven Star 3. Fire Sea 4. Serpent Mage 5. The Hand of Chaos 6. Into the Labyrinth 7. The Seventh Gate... [show more]

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Abhorsen Series

by Garth Nix Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen... I don't think a lot of people have read these books.... [show more]

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The Earthsea Chronicles

by Ursula K. Le Guin... the books are very intriguing... and if you've never seen the made-for-tv travesty based on the books, c... [show more]

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The Spellsinger Series- Alan Dean Foster

I cannot speak for the recent "Son of Spellsinger" or "Chorus Skating" but the others are wildly entertaining to me. The premise o... [show more]

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"Dragonlance Chronicles" - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Not the most involved, but incredibly entertaining. This series, especially the ones from Weis and Hickman got me involved in the ... [show more]

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Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance

Suldren's Garden, The Green Pearl, and Madouc -- fantasy by one of the best writers of speculative fiction, and certainly the grea... [show more]

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Dune (the original series)

This original series consisting of Dune up to and including Chapterhouse: Dune. (This excludes all of the additions "penned" by hi... [show more]

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The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

Only two books in the series - The Knight and The Wizard, but they were both amazingly good.

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Incarnations of Immortality

by Piers Anthony. This box set leaves out the last two books in the series, For Love of Evil and And Eternity, making it a series... [show more]

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Fighting Fantasy

Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's role-playing gamebooks.

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The War of Souls: Margaret Weis

Coauthored with Tracy Hickman Dragons of a Fallen Sun Dragons of a Lost Star Dragons of a Vanished Moon... [show more]

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JaChelli 2 years ago

Deathgate Cycle should be Death Gate Cycle.
Sorry about that everyone.

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