Epicly epic!
12 April 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: 10 epic series, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at the The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. The topic this week is:
‘Ten Books Every X Should Read’
And in this case I’ve decided ‘x’ = epic fantasy lover. So, if you want a series to really sink your teeth into here are my 10 choices for this week (all with links to 1st in series over at Goodreads):
- The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
- The Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence
- The Lord of the Rings by JRRTolkien
- The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Game of Thrones by GRRMartin
- The Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch
- The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb – I confess that I have only read the first but I will be completing this!
- The Copper Cat trilogy by Jen Williams
- The Red Queen’s War by Mark Lawrence- yet to be completed but the first two books are excellent
- The Divine Cities Trilogy by RJBennett – again, to be completed but so far excellent.
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Stormlight is a definite must read. I hope Oathbringer is coming out this year *fingers crossed*. Though realistically speaking it’s likely coming out next year 😦
First time I’ve heard of the Copper Cat trilogy. Will check that out.
Yeah, I rad it was out next year which I was a little bit sad about!
Jen Williams is brilliant – I love those books.
Lynn 😀
We have two common books! Here’s my list: http://wp.me/p7ksIu-38
Excellent – can’t wait to see.
Lynn 😀
oooohhh! again I so love your title, Lynn! and i am surely these books are all epicly epic!
They are deliciously epic!
Lynn 😀
ohhh! 😀 😀 😀
Some top quality series on that list! 🙂
Yes, excellent list
Thanks 😀
Thank you kindly 😀 😀
I do have a few of these on my to read list already! Great pick 🙂
Thanks – look forward to reading your reviews.
Lynn 😀
Epic Fantasy is a great topic choice 🙂 Off your list I have read Lord of the Rings and I am reading A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones). I will have to keep the rest in mind for future reading 😀
I think you would love the Copper Cat. Jen Williams is so good.
Lynn 😀
Even looking at the word epic makes me sleepy. LOL! I think I’ve never got more than 2 chapters into the first GoT before falling asleep, nor have I got through more than the first quarter of Way of Kings.
I did my mine on Ten Hard Sci-Fi Books.
Haha – I absolutely adore Way of Kings and Words of Radiance even more so! Will check out your list thanks.
Lynn 😀
Your list is on point! Gotta read the Stormlight Archives myself soon. Happy reading! https://ireadboooks.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/top-ten-tuesday-audiobook-recommendations/
Hope you manage to find time – they certain are huge books but well worth it!
Lynn 😀
I’ve been meaning to read a few of these (especially The Lord of the Rings and The Kingkiller Chronicles) but epic fantasy books are always so intimidating!
Great list! 🙂
Only when they’re not good! And of course all of these are absolutely excellent!!
Lynn 😀
I love Brandon Sanderson! I’ve bought The Lies of Locke Lamora but I can’t seem to get in to it
I’m not buying in to the characters so far. I’ll battle on though! 🙂
I have reread the LOLL but if I can remember to the first time I picked it up it took me a while to get into it – I might even say a good third of the book which seemed to be a lot of set up?? All I can say is I hope you press on because there is such a lot of snarky goodness in this series.
Lynn 😀
I trust your judgment Lynn! I’m not sure I’ve actually cleared the first third but will keep coming back to it and hopefully get into it 🙂
Cheers
Danny
Good luck 😀
I read the Farseer trilogy, probably when it came out, and I don’t really remember much. I feel like I ought to re-read before I start on the sequels, but then I look at my massive TBR list and reconsider…
I have quite a few of Hobb’s books but it’s really quite daunting just looking at them all! I need a good couple of weeks to press ahead.
Lynn 😀
Having just “discovered” Sanderson, I think that The Way of Kings might very well be a good book to start discovering this author…
Great choices, by the way 😉
I literally, cannot, in any number of words, tell you how good this series is so far. I read all these great things about Way of Kings and I was kind of ambivalent about picking it up – not to mention a little daunted – and then I was blown away. I picked up Words of Radiance thinking this can’t be as good – and it was better! If No.3 doesn’t come out soon I’m going to explore or have a conniption!
Lynn 😀
Yes, so much epic! I am filled with joy that I have read all of these, at least their first books – like you I still have a couple series that I have to be caught up with, mainly Farseer and the Copper Cat!
Yeah – Farseer – I’ve only read the first one. And in fact I bought quite a few of Hobb’s other books after I finished just because I enjoyed it so much!
Lynn 😀
No A Song of Ice and Fire? I am so disappointed. Though, everyone should already know to read that anyways 😀
Yes yes, it’s on there – at No.5 (phew – i thought I’d deleted it by accident then ) – although I just put Game of Thrones and left it at that!
Lynn 😀
I love fantasy and several of these are on my TBR. Locke Lamora is one I really want to get to this year. Great list!
I hope you enjoy it and let me know if you post a review.
Lynn 😀
So – I have recently added Lies of Locke Lamora to my all-time favorite book list (a very exclusive club); Broken Empire trilogy became an instant favorite as soon as I finish the third book; and ASOIAF is my favorite series of all-time!
I want to read The Stromlight Achieve so incredibly much! But I am waiting to start it. A little bit because of my rule of waiting until the series is complete, but because it is going to take SO FREAKING LONG for all the books to come out.
I know – you could be waiting forever to read the Stormlight Archives if you wait for all the books. I’m pretty sure I heard there could be 10 books and at a book every two years it could be 20 years. I sincerely hope not – that being said No.3 already seems to have fallen a little behind schedule so what you gonna do!
Way of Kings is so good though and then Words of Radiance is even better – which I don’t even know how – but it is!
Lynn 😀
Oh, I see so many books on your list that I totally need to read this year. The Way of Kings, The Name of the Wind, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Assasin’s Apprentice, The Copper Promise. Now I want to read them even more, haha.
You’ve got such a lot of good reading to look forward to that I feel quite envious.
Lynn 😀
I need to read the Gentleman Bastards and Red Queen’s War. Heard good things about the latter and I read the first chapter of the Lies of Locke Lamora and was instantly captivated.
Another epically epic series is Joe Abercrombie’s Shattered Sea trilogy. I read the first book on Kindle, but it was so good I just stopped because I need physical pages of the awesomeness. You might want to try that out if you haven’t already 🙂
Yes, I read the first in the Shattered Sea and now need to continue with the others. It was really good. I also have Abercrombie’s First Law books waiting to be read. So many books, so little time!
Lynn 😀
I have the first book of the Stormlight Archive on audiobook and it’s a really, really long one – over 45 hours long. So it’s taking a bit for me to really invest in it, but what I’ve listened to so far is really cool.
I’ll also forever be reading A Game of Thrones because 243094893028902 pages long.
I know – Game of Thrones, so many pages!!! A lot of good stuff though.
Lynn 😀