Please recommend books to someone who loves Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings

[Anonymous]

I loved the GoT books and the LotR books when I read them, and with the new prequel TV shows for both of them, it's reminding me how enjoyable it was to read those series. I was thinking about rereading them but what I actually want is a series that is similar to one or both in style (epic fantasy).

Any suggestions? Also interested in stand alone books but would love something long and involved to sink my teeth into as the weather gets colder.

[Anonymous]

Highly recommend Bernard Cornwell’s books. Have you seen “The Last Kingdom” series? Cornwell is the author of the books it is based. Also has many others.

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Patrick Rothfusss - The Kingkiller Chronicles

I love this series so much. His writing just pulls me in, and the world he’s created is amazing. But heads up that we’ve been waiting for book 3 for a decade. Rumors say it’s coming, so I have more hope than I do for GRRM.

[Anonymous]

My husband really likes the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

[Anonymous]

Dune, maybe? It gets pretty craze-balls though.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband really likes the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

Yes! The Wheel of Time is kind of a bridge between LOTR and GOT. It's epic (and the first book intentionally follows the beats of LOTR) but becomes modern and it's own thing as the series progresses. It's 14 books, so it's long, but so worth it!

[Anonymous]

I haven't watched Game of Thrones, but I love Tolkien (and CS Lewis and Lloyd Alexander when I was a kid). A great adult fantasy cycle is Princes in Amber, by Roger Zelazny. Some of the writing can be a tad weak, but the concept and adventures are wonderful. I wish it could be made into a Peter Jackson movie!

I hated Dune, by Frank Herbert, because of particular acts of violence against women. But in science-fiction, Isaac Asimov is excellent, both his short stories and his longer series. He posed, in the middle of the last century, many of the ethical and technological problems that we are sure to grapple with in the future.

[Anonymous]

You might try Maurice Druon's The Accursed Kings series, which is about the dynastic struggles in France that led to the Hundred Years' War, and which inspired GoT. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn books might also be good for you.

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Anonymous wrote:You might try Maurice Druon's The Accursed Kings series, which is about the dynastic struggles in France that led to the Hundred Years' War, and which inspired GoT. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn books might also be good for you.

+1, came here to recommend this! GRRM wrote the foreword for the English translation of the Accursed Kings. It’s a great series and you can definitely see how it inspired GoT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved the GoT books and the LotR books when I read them, and with the new prequel TV shows for both of them, it's reminding me how enjoyable it was to read those series. I was thinking about rereading them but what I actually want is a series that is similar to one or both in style (epic fantasy).

Any suggestions? Also interested in stand alone books but would love something long and involved to sink my teeth into as the weather gets colder.

Guy Gavriel Kay's first trilogy is called the Fionvar Tapestry and it's very much in that style. Kay helped Christopher Tolkein assemble and edit the Silmarillion.

[Anonymous]

The Black Company books by Glenn Cook

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband really likes the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

Yes! The Wheel of Time is kind of a bridge between LOTR and GOT. It's epic (and the first book intentionally follows the beats of LOTR) but becomes modern and it's own thing as the series progresses. It's 14 books, so it's long, but so worth it!

+1 WoT one of the best fantasy series ever written. Unlike GRRM, it was planned from the beginning, so everything comes full circle at the end in a way that makes sense (the author died before finishing, but Brandon Sanderson took over using Jordan's notes)

[Anonymous]

+1 for Wheel of Time and also anything by Guy Gavriel Kay.

The Eternal Sky trilogy by Elizabeth Bear is great. You may also enjoy Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley (it's a standalone).

For a lighter approach, Terry Pratchett and T. Kingfisher.

Possibly also look at the Malazan books by Erickson, or Scott Lynch's books, or Joe Ambercrombie.

I know people will recommend Robin Hobb, Brandon Sanderson, Terry Brooks, and Patrck Rothfuss but personally I don't recommend.

[Anonymous]

I just finished the Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty, which is a Middle Eastern/Islamic folktale take on the fantasy epic. Also fun is Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, which are the Napoleonic Wars, but with dragons.

[Anonymous]

+1 to Patrick Rothfusss.

You might also like The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison and the other two books set in that world. The court intrigue and depth of worldbuilding, including the in-world linguistics, will appeal to the GoT and Tolkien fan, though they are much less action-oriented than classic high fantasy.