Top Five Favorite Books or Series of Books

1. Moorcock Multiverse
2. Bartimaeus Sequence
3. Tolkein Legendarium
4. Cthulhu mythos
5. American Gods

A++ Glad to see darth bane trilogy get not one but two shout-outs!!

Here's my List
1. ASOIAF

2. Deathless by Catherynne Valente (where my sig quote is from)

3.  The Green Knowe series by LM Boston (a children's series, but definitely shaped my view on magic as a child, and they hold up well on an adult re-read)

4.  Star Wars EU (some of my favorites are the ROTS novelization and Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover, the previously mentioned Darth Bane trilogy, and the Thrawn Trilogy.

5.  The Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs (more thriller/action sort of novels, but I still really like them...)

High quality fantasy literature is such a vast ocean I see many of you read nothing else! I'm new to the genre so I have others in my list (not series though, or I'd have to include The Lone Pine Club and Famous Five!!):

1. Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds (whimsical and easily digestible biography of Buddha and his key teachings)

2. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

3. The Outsiders, Colin Wilson (non-fic)

4. A Song of Ice and Fire, some guy

5. The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong (non-fic)

Changes as I get older...

but the Earthsea trilogy never gets knocked of first - especially scince she published Tehanu, it is just so well written.

I put my Eddings and Jordan books into the sell pile this year, but they hung around for a long time.

Janny Wurtz's Servant of the Empire is my most re-read series.


I love Robin Hobb's writing style, and her ability to make you feel all the bitter-sweet moments. Read them all. Only been able to find a pair of her ML works though, not sure if they have been published outside of the US?.

Kim Stanley Robinson. Anything. But the Mars trilogy is so good because it feels so close to future history. The Years of Rice and Salt is also excellent.

LotR but that goes without saying. I'm the type of person who has read the annexes at every re-read 😄

Alistair Reynolds stuff is on my hot list at the moment.


And then theres all that space opera. It's like violet crumble and michoko - I know it's not good for me, but once the packet is open, I can't stop.

Very hard to have only 5 in the top 5 😀

Notice that even though I said five even I couldn't stick to that. LOL. And even the five I named first were all at the very least trilogies if not entire series. Then there were the like ten honorable mentions.

Forgot about the DaVinci Code books. They're great too. Especially Angels and Demons.

Is that the latest one?

If it is, I think that I bought it for Lord D at some point, but forgot about it after he finished it. Took him forever.

Been trying to remember youth (not young adult) stuff in the last couple of months, and either it isn't edited in the language I need or hasn't stayed in print since when I was that age.

What do you guys remember as good stuff for the 8 to 12 year olds?

I have thougt of Narnia, obviously
And the babysitters club but I can't bring myself to follow though...
The Once and futur king is not edited in FR.
Chronicles of Prydain is out of print too.
The dark is rising is available but only on amazon....


HP has been done already

Any new stuff ?