Ten Books Fantasy Books I Want to Read

February 3, 2015 Top Ten Tuesday 20

toptentuesday2Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Want to Read in X Genre.

Top Ten Fantasy Books I Want to Read

As usual, these aren’t really in any order. And I couldn’t pare it down to 10, so I did 10 stand-alones and series starters – stuff that will be new to me – plus 9 books in series I’m already following.

Stand-alones & series starters
Morgenstern_TheNightCircus
Novik_Uprooted
Kowall_MaryRobinette_GlamouristHistories-01_ShadesOfMilkAndHoney
Turner-MeganWhalen_ThiefOfAttolia-01_TheThief
Valente_CatherynneM_GirlWhoCircumnavigatedFairyland
Marillier-Juliet_Blackthorn&Grimm-01_DreamersPool
Shinn_Sharon_SummersAtCastleAuburn
Cashore_Kristin_Graceling-01_Graceling
Gaiman_OceanAtTheEndOfTheLane

 

 

From series I’m already reading
Rothfuss_SlowRegardOfSilentThings
Hines_Unbound
Hartman_Seraphina-02_ShadowScale
Hale-Shannon_PrincessAcademy-03_ForgottenSisters
Novik_Temeraire-07_CrucibleOfGold
Britain_Kristen_GreenRider-03_TheHighKingsTomb

 

 

20 Responses to “Ten Books Fantasy Books I Want to Read”

  1. Lianne @ eclectictales.com

    Great list! You mentioned a lot of great titles that I read and enjoyed–The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, Shades of Milk and Honey, Night Circus, The Ocean at the End of the Lane–Hope you enjoy all of them when you get around to them 🙂

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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      I’m glad you like so many of these – makes me think I’ve made good choices! A bunch of these are on my list of the 20 backlist books I MUST read this year (my Top of the Hoard challenge), so hopefully I will get to them by the end of the year.

  2. Kaja

    Gah, I keep adding new books to my TBR! 🙂 Great choices. I only read Graceling and I remember liking it a lot, but I never read the sequel for some reason… I haven’t read A Slow Regard of Silent Things, either – to be honest, I’m afraid it’ll be a terrible disappointment. Ditto for Shadow Scale, though I have an ARC of that so I’ll be reading it soon.
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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      I have the Shadow Scale ARC too, and a copy of A Slow Regard for Silent Things. For that matter, my mom gave me Graceling when it came out and I haven’t read it yet. Hopefully this year!

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      Thanks, Kimba! I swear I will get to both of those books this year. (Maybe during the Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge!)

  3. Cheryl @ Tales of the Marvelous

    So I read down this list going, “oh, oh, good books!” (Night Circus and The Thief and esp. The Girl Who Circumnavigated…) and some I want to read too (Dreamer’s Pool and Unbound and Winter) and THEN I saw the publication date for the new Tamora Pierce book. 2016? Really? Delayed AGAIN? Well, hmph…
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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      [sighs] Yup. Delayed again, according to her website. Oh, well. I’d rather she take the time to write the best book she can.

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      I haven’t read any Sharon Shinn yet, either, but I had heard really good things about Summers at Castle Auburn as well as her other books. This one turned up at a library sale about 2 years ago and I’ve been meaning to get to it ever since. Good to have your recommendation on Dreamers Pool and the Fairyland books – thanks! And yes, by all means read Jim Hines’s Libriomancer series – if you love books generally and fantasy and SF in particular, the series is fantastic – lots of references to other books!

    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      Thanks, Jan! I own The Thief, too, and have been wanting to get to it for at least two or three years now. This is the year, I swear it.

  4. Angie @Angela's Anxious Life

    There are so many books on your list here that I want to read too!! I just really need to read more. I have been playing way too many video games lately. There just isn’t enough time in the day.
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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      No, there’s not. I’ve been spending more time on the computer than reading (email, facebook, blog, other people’s blogs, Tumblr, Pinterest…) I need to rein it in and spend more time with my books!