Help me find a new fantasy/magic/witches & wizards series (books)
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
|
Looking for a new series to dive into. Adult or YA, but not middle-grade. Ideally not too much of a dystopian/post-apocolyptic angle.
Authors that I've really enjoyed include: Naomi Novik - probably my #1 favorite Sarah J Maas Leigh Bardugo Marissa Meyer Andrea Stewart VE Schwab Alice Hoffman Ben Aaronovitch Authors/series that I didn't like: Victoria Aveyard/Red Queen, Nora Roberts/The One, Ava Reid/Wolf and the Woodsman, Kiersten White/Camelot Rising, Doborah Harkness/All Souls Trilogy Would love to hear your recommendations! |
Anonymous
| If you liked Leigh Bardugo, you may like Holly Black and her Folk Of The Air series which starts with “Cruel Prince”. |
Anonymous
|
Jay Kristoff - Nevernight Chronicle
Brent Weeks - Lightbringer series Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicle Have you read Naomi Novik’s Scholomance? I’m reading that one now. |
Anonymous
| I’m reading the Bartimaeus trilogy right now which I don’t necessarily recommend but I’m going to try the Golem & the Jinni soon. |
Anonymous
|
Maggie Stiefvater!
She has the Faerie series, the Raven Cycle, some great standalones like Scorpio Races (and another wolves series which I haven’t tried because I think it is pitched a little younger)…. |
Anonymous
| Seanan McGuire? |
Anonymous
|
I love this genre and am hoping for some good recommendations, as well (I love Naomi Novik, too!)
Ilona Andrews: Kate Daniels series is one of my all time favorites https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38619.Magic_Bites?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=FIb1sKjxhT&rank=1 T.A. White: Broken Lands series and Firebird Chronicles series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363942-pathfinder-s-way |
Anonymous
|
I absolutely loved this YA series: the infernal devices by Cassandra Clare. Also the narrator for the second book is amazing.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/54144-the-infernal-devices |
Anonymous
Wayward Children series is excellent! Have you read Diana Wynne Jones? Chrestomanci series is more on the younger end but she has several books/series for adults that are excellent. Lies of Locke Lamora — not apocalyptic but denser and darker Robin McKinley’s Damar books Patricia McKillip’s Riddlemaster series Patricia Briggs — Dragon Bones / Dragon Blood On the subject of dragons — PERN series by Anne McCaffrey (start with Dragonflight or Dragonsong) Tanya Huff for more urban fantasy — Summon the Keeper series and her Smoke series are my favourites Kristen Cashore’s Graceling/Fire/Bitterblue |
Anonymous
(And by narrator I mean the audiobook narrator, not the narrator of the story. It's third person, so not a particularly noteworthy narrator.  )
|
Anonymous
| A bit more out there but I love the Gideon the Ninth books by Tamsin Muir |
Anonymous
| Invisible Library series. The first one is just okay but then it gets really good. 8 books in total |
Anonymous
|
Did I write this OP? We have the same taste.
I'll have to take a look at latest fantasy recs that don't dupe the above, but I am loving Sci Fi- Becky Chambers. If you want to go in that direction. Highly recommended by someone with your taste. Oh Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka - I nice blend of Harry Dresden and Peter Grant/Nightingale |
Anonymous
Oh if you like fantasy feel sci fi have you tried Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga? |
Anonymous
| Pamela Palmer - her Esri series takes place in DC. Also her Feral Warrior and Vamp City series. |