Beginner to Advanced Fantasy Books Sorted (All our favorites!) ft Daniel Greene

Links to books I talked about in this video
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[ShalomDove]

“Brandon, go outside...” *Sanderson, holding a bottle of vitamin D tablets* “sunlight is for amateurs.”

[reidszimmerman]

This only makes me wish for a podcast with these two.

[SlackwareNVM]

16:45 As Merphy was falling, she was like "The book, Daniel, save the book!", not knowing how Dan treats his own books.

[eternally.sleepy]

Daniel: “Brandon, go outside!”

Also Daniel: *New video every day

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I still think it’s one of the greatest flexes in authorship ever that Tolkien wrote the LotR series because he thought the languages he invented as a linguist needed some background...😂
He basically created the greatest series of fantasy ever on a whim...

[aflowerthatcannotbebloomed]

A goat person is either called a satyr or a faun. A satyr is the name they used in the Greek mythology while faun is from the Roman mythology. Yay to Rick Riordan for educating me about mythology😂😂

[edifiedreader]

It's not a Daniel and Merphy crossover episode unless Daniel praises Wheel of Time and Merphy praises The Lies of Locke Lamora.

[themaster]

Merphy: Kingkiller is Daniel’s favourite right now.
Wheel of Time: *Sad noises*

[KalNertea]

"Brandon, go outside...", who needs sunlight when you have Stormlight?

[Hoaking]

Merphy: I skip the song breaks... Do you read them??
Daniel: I read them, they are good poetry
Me: .... I sing them... I thought that was what every one did

[NekoMouser]

The Mistborn series is one of the tighest I ever read. You get to the end of the last page in the third book and you feel as if the author knew exactly where he'd be and how he'd get there from page 1 of book 1. It just all came into play and you realize clues were laid out two books before for things that pay off in book three, and not in that "they threw a lot of mud at the wall early on so that they could make something pay off and look like a genius, even though a lot of things didn't pay off" way. It felt like every word had purpose and intent all the way through. It's impressive.

[ernestogcosta]

2019: Brandon, go outside
2020: Brandon, stay home.

[nvwest]

Beginner
1:01 Mistborn
3:50 Warbreaker & Elantris
4:50 Good Omens
5:45 King Killer
6:45 Narnia
8:25 The ocean at the end of the lane
8:40 Duel of Fire

Intermedite
9:10 Stormlight Archive
10:45 Gentleman Bastard
12:40 American Gods
14:00 Lord of the Rings
15:25 First Law
17:00 An Unkindness of Magicians
21:05 Lightbringer

Advanced
18:25 The Wheel of Time
22:30 A Song of Ice and Fire
23:47 Broken Earth
24:25 Dark Tower
25:00 Witcher

Actually, having read about half of these already, I don’t agree with this at all. Witcher is so easy to read through. Good omens as well. The stormlight archive I could barely put down.

Lord of the Rings however really was a struggle. Both because of not being used to the writing style and because of already knowing the story too much to have this strong drive to find out what will happen next.

Also the wheel of time is much easier to read than A song of ice and fire, but for both series I’m at book 5. Asoiaf b6 has been waiting on the shelf for almost a year and wot is an addicting I started not even two months ago that hooked me so much at the start of this year that I’ll finish the series before I know it.

[CanadaAtheist]

To get into Lord of the rings as a beginner, it might be better to read The Hobbit before the Trilogy.

[FairyRosee_]

"Excited for book three" of the Kingkiller Chronicles. Oh sweet summer child..

[nikolayiliev]

The Malazan book of the fallen series is hands down the most complicated fantasy series ever written IMO :)

[unrulyjulie]

To me, Tolkein's writing style is pure magic itself. It one of my favorite things about the whole LOTR world!

[merphynapier]

Be sure to check out the video we did together on Daniel's channel too!


Also, if any of these books interested you, be sure to check out the links I left in the description! It took me a time to put them all there 😅

[dusbus]

I think reading the hobbit first in the LOTR series makes the books as a whole easier to read. I read the hobbit as a kid (which shows how easy it is to read/comprehend) and didn't read the rest of the series until high school after rereading the hobbit.

[sineadjenks]

This was the first video I found on YouTube of people talking about books. THIS is when I discovered booktube 2y ago and decided to read all the books on this list and follow you and Daniel. I've never looked back since. I watch both your videos religiously and have loved coming back to this first video of yours that I watched to reflect on how much you have both grown and encouraged my love of reading ❤️ I love you guys.