Top 10 Fantasy Series of All Time According to My Subscribers

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I asked you guys on social media what the top 10 fantasy series of all time are, and today I'm going over the results! Huge shout out to @PatrickRyanBookReviews for giving me the idea, creating the survey, and keeping all the data organized for me in a spreadsheet! Go check out his channel!

0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Rules
2:22 - Honorable Mentions
6:09 - Top 10
20:10 - Trovatrip Vacation Update

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[CapturedInWords]

I'm hosting a group vacation through Trovatrip which will be taking place on August 13th-18th! We're going to explore Dublin and Killarney Ireland together, and I can't wait! (more info in video)

[RyanCahillAuthor]

Wow, I'm not only shocked to be anywhere near that list but incredibly appreciative that you actually gave the series an honourable mention ❤️

[holdenpop]

Absolutely LOVE that Harry Potter has stood the test of time, and also makes this type of list. It truly is/was the entry point to science fiction and fantasy for some many of us. It may be a slight outlier in this list, but its definitely earned its spot

[francisgrizzlysmit]

so good to see how many young people are reading this stuff, I'm 61 and I feel a connection with you all awesome

[sicdavdff]

Here are some honorable mentions: Robin Hobb :)

[MrAelin]

Only Harry Potter had people sleeping at the door of the book stores just to be able to get a copy of the new book as soon as possible. The queues were huge, even TV news covered how long they were. Never seen people going crazy over a physical book like that anymore.

[red_mind]

Your in-depth summaries for SA are amazing!
I'm very happy you'll make new ones!

[CantStopTheMadness]

Absolutely criminal lack of Pratchett on this list

[MaximeOrtmans]

Just finished SOAIF and Kingkiller Chronicles. Now I‘ve startet my First Sanderson Book, Way of Kings. I absolutely adore it.

[kennethbandera]

Halfway through Words of Radiance and I started Stormlight because of this channel, it hasn’t disappointed. Can’t wait for your summaries 🙏🏻

[Jan_ne]

Skulduggery Pleasant only being mentioned 3 times but accumulating 23 points is proof of how there are many underrated series, especially across different continents

[brandonhenderson]

"Sometimes you just want to stop and tug on your braid." I love your delivery of references. 😂😂😂

[tyke]

Can’t wait for you to read ASOIAF! The later books will blow your socks off

[SethGordon-bpks]

I'm only just getting back into reading after a long absense, but I re-started with Mistborn and it's honestly incredible. One of the best pieces of media i've ever experienced.

One series I have read before is Lord of the Rings, and I think the thing that gets a lot of people out of that is that it kind of needs to be your first fantasy series otherwise it feels incredibly tropey, because it came out before everything else. It influences so much of fantasy over the last 70 years that so much of it feels like other series. The language is also incredibly eloquent. With mistborn and i'm guessing a lot of other of Brandon Sanderson's work, his simple prose is incredibly accessible and anyone should be able to pick it up and feel like they can read it. I definitely remember having to google words in LOTR, although the last time I read it, I was 12 so I could be remembering wrong.

I also feel like Lord of the Rings is so hyped and large as an entity, that people are either scared to read it out of worry they wont like it, or they build an unrealistic expectation in their head that no book could match.

I fondly remember forgetting to sleep when I read Lord of the Rings and my mother not being too happy about that, and I look forward to reading it some day again.

Thank you for creating lists like this because if The Stormlight Archive is better than Mistborn Era 1, then I may go back to that 12-year-old who forgets to sleep.

[intrepidfool]

I was just happy that I have read all of the top 10. Only ended up buying one audiobook from the honorable mentions portion. This is my one hesitation with watching your videos: they have a negative impact on ny wallet. :)

Nice work as always.

[DuckRon]

Knocking The Lord of the Rings is like saying that you don’t like Shakespeare because it has so many cliches. THAT IS WHERE THOSE CLICHES STARTED! THE LOR IS WHERE THOSE TROPES STARTED!

[alffbooks]

This is really usefull for content creation since it gives you stats about your most active subscribers and what they may want to see 👀

[SuperBiologe]

i have a huge problem with stormlight archive... I started reading the way of kings at the end of february and figured it would last me until december when the 5th book will be published... Welp i am now almost half through words of radiance. its just too damn goood :(

[azurepulse]

You really do have to start in on the rest of the Realm of the Elderlings, by far my favorite series. The Tawny Man Trilogy and the Liveship Traders Trilogy within them are my top two.

[aleksandervadla]

The bound and the broken is amazing. You put it at the very top of the tbr list