ADULT EPIC FANTASY RECOMMENDATIONS 🧙🏽‍♂️

ADULT EPIC FANTASY RECOMMENDATIONS 🧙🏽‍♂️

**a note: Green Rider does not seem to be available on Bookshop, as well as Ninth Rain (in the case of Ninth Rain, the second book is linked in Bookshop)
Wheel of Time
Rise of the Ranger
Green Rider
Hobb
-Farseer
-Ship of Magic
Arrows of the Queen
Gardens of the Moon
Shadow of the Gods
Way of Kings
Ninth Flame
Mistborn
Engines of Empire

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[Tausify]

I don't believe Epic Fantasy is dying quite the opposite really with the wake of all the booktubers and even adaptations are getting ppl interested in Epic Fantasy

[steelorca]

What’s crazy about mistborn is that Sanderson has confirmed that we’re getting an era 5 as well 😂

[hasanmir]

It's so hard to find a list of epic fantasy recommendations that haven't already been talked to death. So kudos to you for managing to introduce me to some titles I wasn't aware of.

[ricoanthony]

Have you heard of The Wandering Inn? It straddles the line between fantasy and litrpg. It starts off slow and builds on characters and the world to an epic story. It is currently unfinished and the longest series ever. 14 million words in, and I am still hooked.

[biq]

Wow, this looks like a really good list. I've never heard of any of these, but I read their descriptions on amazon, from your links, and I've saved just about all of these. Thank you!

[mteresa-pf]

Oh my, listening to you while holding the Wheel of time, during the nineties I was raising my family, and developing my career, now I have a little more time to read my heart’s desire !thank you for your balanced presentations!

[grahamwade]

The Spellmonger Series has been really good. I've been really impressed with the Novels.1st 2 novels were a little slow but it really picked up and the world building is excellent

[sarahinthebackground]

Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind!! It's one of my favorites and is quite long. ♡
This was a very helpful video, thank you :)

[erictarango]

My intro into epic fantasy was Dragonlance by Weis and Hickman and I love this entire world and growing with the characters and I found Michael J Sullivan and his Riryia chronicles and first empire books are just so damn amazing and recommend.

[kaymay]

Storm light is really good, but the books are definitely a commitment, I read the 1st 3 books one after the other, now I’m taking a break before tackling book 4 before then new one comes out in December

[linkvagar]

Wheel of Time got me into reading fantasy. Found the first eight volumes in my local library and never looked back.

Looking forward to checking out a few of your suggestions here

[Nasser]

0:00 Elliot always closing her eyes every intro XD

[michaelrandold]

Great list!
Try The Orphan Seer
The Cerulean Wizard
The Ivy Princess

[CathysEnchantedReads]

I recently discovered Mercedes Lackey and I'm surprised how little people know about their series. I'm going to read it soon ^^ Thank you for all the recommendations!

[mmorgan]

As far as keeping epic fantasy "alive", Ryan Cahill is out here doing the Lord's work! The Bound and the Broken is a classic dragon rider story mixed with all sorts of other semi- tropy goodness. There are three books and three novelas so far.

The Age of Uprising is good, but I think the author gets a bit heavy handed with the allegory. Everything about the Dragonate Ministry screams "a bitter lapsed catholic wrote this" lol.

I have read the original 10 Malazan books, and I have yet to come across another series that is even close to it. I have never been more confused by a series, while thoroughly enjoying it.

[wesleyriley]

Elliot!! I read Sabriel on your recommendation from a video a while back and it was SO good!!! it brought me out of a 3 month reading slump!

[ricktaylor]

The “Wheel of Time “ series also spawned a new term. To be “Jordanized” is to use two thousand words to describe something that most authors would do in 20 words. I never finished WoT because of that. Martin fell into that on occasion in ASOI&F, but not nearly as often.

[tennilledawn]

Yay for Green Rider! I read book 1 in May and am on book 3 now, it's so fun! Also, yay for Valdemar! I have a few more books to catch up.

[EylonBear]

One epic fantasy that I don't see people talk about often is the sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind. My fiance got me the first one as he grew up on it and thought I would like it and it was really good. It even had the villian pov. Now i've only read the first book so far, and there are like 15 books, but the first one was really good.

[dougsundseth]

I really enjoy Lackey's Valdemar, particularly the arcs starting with the Collegium Chronicles and with Arrows of the Queen. I'll mention the Tarma and Kethry books as well, which were mostly published as shorter pieces and then later assembled into novels.

Raymond Feist's Midkemia books are definitely epic and have apocalyptic stakes. They have a more classic feel, but they're well-written and the series is many volumes.

David Weber's War God series never gets mentioned, but it's very good, with quite strong characters, a deep world, and a compelling plot.

Roger Zelazny's Amber series, especially the Corwin arc, is excellent and not much like any other series I've read. It has several of the more memorable characters in epic fantasy and the plot is fascinating. It's also quite short by the standards of modern epic fantasy.

And I think Steven Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series is worth at least a mention, even though it still infuriates me more than 40 years after I read it. The main character is unforgettably written, even though (or perhaps "because") I still want to punch him in the face. The world is remarkably well drawn and all the other characters are very sympathetic.