Can anyone recommend good fantasy books?
 

I have two great loves in my life: Roleplaying, and reading. The former is kind of like writing a book and playing an interactive game both. I take my hobby very seriously, so I try to construct my character as realistically as possible, and occasionally that means doing research.

Well, I recently fell in love with magic and wizards. And my character is developing from a thief-warrior type character into a mage character. So I want to read as many books with magic and wizards in it as possible as "research", and to give me ideas.

So, can anyone recommend some books for me? I prefer medeival fantasies, since my character lives in a medeival fantasy setting, but any books with a good magic system in them would be appreciated.

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is pretty good

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Green Rider series (the 1st and 3rd book have rather magicaly attuned people throughout, but its more of a realistic magic in that so far, throughout the series, we haven't really see fireballs and what not, but its dark magic all the same. It kills and injures... some of it anyway, there is good magic too. A lot of the magic seen is imbued into something like a brooch or a sword, but not all)

All right, good, I'll write all of that down. If I'm lucky the library might have some of those books on hand. Actually, yes, Kiwirose! I have six books from the Dragonlance series, the first trilogy with the Heroes of the Lance (Tanis, Flint, Sturm, Raistlin, etc.,) and the second having to do with Raistlin trying to become a god. I enjoyed the series very much, and I want the book/s having to do with Raistlin's past, because I enjoyed that character the most.

You might like the Earthsea books. Really quit good but slower paces. Lord of the Rings and it's related book like the Similarian are a good choice. Terry Prachet's Disc World books are hilarious!! Super funny if your looking for something a little more light hearted.

eragon and the other books in the series they use magic in them.

I'm a fan of the Septimus Heap series myself.
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I'd definitely recommend reading DragonLance and Forgotten Realms books. Also, try the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey.

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillar is an excellent choice. It is the first book the Sevenwater Trilogy. It is a retelling of an ancient Celtic legend.

I'm not sure about wizard series.
The power of three might be good a series for you to check out.
Other good fantasy book that you may like might be Inkheart and Sisters of Isis.

Oh, let's see. I've been drifting a bit from medieval fantasy into modern fantasy and sci-fi, lately, but I still know a few good medieval fantasy books.

First off, I recommend Hilari Bell's Farsala Trilogy. It's a young adult series, and a fairly quick read, but they're quite good anyway. A different sort of magic system than I've seen in a lot of places, actually.

The Enchanted Forest Chronicals, by Patricia C. Wrede. Hilarious books.

Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master by Raymond E. Feist. Incredible, convoluted story, and actually two different magic systems. The difference between the two ends up being part of the plot, actually. It's quite interesting.

Sherwood Smith's Crown Duel. Not a whole lot of magic in that one, but it does come up, and it's a good book.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head at the moment.

R.A Salvatore writes fantastic Dungeons and Dragons-esque fantasy.
Try starting off with Homeland.

The "Death Gate Cycle" by Weis and Hickman. These two have written a lot of books for Dungeons & Dragons, but this series is an original. The entire story is covered in seven books, each of which include a large appendix explaining the system governing the worlds, magic, etc. It's really interesting and sounds like something that would qualify for what you're seeking.

"The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan might also interest you. He puts a rather unique twist on the idea of "wizards" and the use of magic. If you don't want to read the whole series, "Eye of the World" would be enough to give you a general idea of what is in his books (though more, of course, is added as the series continues).

If you haven't already, the "Harry Potter" books might also interest you, as would Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

As has already been suggested, J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit" are also great reads. Along those same lines, I would recommend C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" series and anything by George MacDonald.

I have a lot of other books I can recommend. Just message me if you want more. :)

Ooh, another Misty fan! Thank the Star-Eyed! ;)
Yes, I whole-heartedly agree, the Valdemar books are an amazing series! There's a lot of magic, though in the chronology there's a time when the people of Valdemar seem to forget that magic exists. Interesting story behind that, and it's most fun if you start with the Queen's Own trilogy: Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight and Arrow's Fall. At least that's my opinion. I usually will follow -- on my multiple rereads of the entire series -- with the Last Herald Mage trilogy, the tales of Vanyel Ashkevron: Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise and Magic's Price. I think there's somewhere around thirty books in this setting by now.
She also has authorship in the Bardic Voices series, another more medieval setting series of tales. She also has a whole other genre she writes for that sets the elves of Irish lore in modern times. California to be specific. There's seven or so books in that series, which according to her website is the Bedlam Bard series.http://www.mercedeslackey.com/books/bedlam1.html

maybe cashore's book graceling? I second the terry pratchett recommendation. also the abhorsen trilogy by garth nix- I bought them for myself for christmas xD

Here are a list of fantasy books I strongly recommend:
*The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
*The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
*The OZ Chronicals vol. 1, L Frank Baum
*Lioness Quartet, Tamora Pierce (series of 4 books)
*Wild Magic Quartet, Tamora Pierce (series of 4)
*Protector of the Small Quartet, Tamora Pierce
*The Acorna series, Anne McCaffrey
*The Rowan, Anne McCaffrey
*Flight of Dragons, Peter Dickenson

I would reccomend the books by Trudi Canavan. They are really good, there are two series: "The Black Magician's Trilogy" and "Age of Five"

Also "The Mortal Instruments" by Cassandra Clare are one of the books that you must read XD, absolutely brilliant!

Good fantasy books???????
 

Hey peoples, i am looking for a good fantasy book to read, any suggestions?

Well, gosh. I could name about a million. Let me think...

The ones that are currently on my bookshelf:
-Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist. Feist is a fantastic fantasy writer to begin with, but I especially love this series. It has a variety of different characters in a kingdom all thrown together by a war. It's very well written and a good length of books. It also has a sister series about the attacking people, which I also liked a lot. These are probably one of my favorite books ever.

-Ranger's Apprentice books by John Flanagan. Some of my favorite fantasy books. In these a boy apprentices as a ranger. Which is a group kinda like hunters, who work for the king and are very secretive. It's got lots of action.

-If you haven't read it, Eragon by Christopher Paolini was very good. The movie wasn't near as good as the books. It does seem to start out like any other dragon book, but it's not. It was actually surprisingly original, and I enjoyed it a lot.

-Lastly I'd recommend the books of Xanth. Piers Anthony created a fantasy world called Xanth. The first book is called A Spell for Chameleon. They're all wonderfully witty and charming stories. I fell in love with Piers Anthony right away. He's probably my favorite author. He writes so well, and his stories are all very original and there are both simple and intricate plots happening at once, it's fun to read and see the big picture unfolded at the end.

I agree with Lexta on the books of Xanth. Those are some of the best books I have ever read! My favorite of the books is one called "Harpy Thyme". It's a great book. As well as Centaurs Isle. Those are just two of many books of Xanth. All of them are great! I recommend ALL of them ahaha.

Also, read The Giver by Lois Lowry, I believe is her name. But her book, The Giver, is about a boy named Jonas who lives in this world where everything is pretty much controlled, and he's given this job called "The Giver" (yup!), and so when he starts the job, he realizes there's more to the world than where he's living, so he tries to escape.

I also suggest you read Fahrenheit 451. AMAZING, and Anthem by Ayn Rand.