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'A Dance With Dragons' Released: What's Your Favorite Fantasy Book?

First Posted: 07/12/11 03:50 PM ET   Updated: 09/11/11 06:12 AM ET

Finally, after 6 years, George R..R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons" has arrived. Book 5 has already received many glowing reviews.

In honor of the big event, we at HuffPost Books have compiled a list of some of our favorite fantasy novels and/or series.

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Finally, after 6 years, George R..R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons" has arrived. Book 5 has already received many glowing reviews. In honor of the big event, we at HuffPost Books have compiled a l...
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Viqueen2
Working in a liberal city, living in a conservativ
02:18 PM on 07/24/2011
Prince Ombra by R. MacLeish
08:14 PM on 07/23/2011
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett , The Noble Dead by Barb and J.C. Hendee, and pretty much everything Mercedes Lackey has ever written are among my faves missing from your list. =)
04:28 PM on 07/23/2011
What? Terry Goodkind gets no love?
11:05 AM on 07/22/2011
I've been having a real hard time staying into fantasy over the last several years. I'd thought I was done with the genre forever when I read Brandon Sanderson's "Mistborn" trilogy, which saved the genre for me. I then went and finally started the Wheel of Time series, which I'm definitely enjoying.

I've resisted GRRM's ASOIAF series, mostly because I don't like getting invested in a series that isn't done or at least close to done, but it's become so popular lately that I kind of have to finally cave in.
08:05 AM on 07/22/2011
The THOMAS COVENANT series -- beginning with LORD FOUL'S BANE -- is a fantastic and often neglected set of books...check it out!
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kareemachan
watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
01:38 PM on 07/14/2011
Edding's books - meh. They just seemed to be a variation of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, and much too wordy.

I was blown away by the Gunslinger series . Now all we can do is hope they don't butcher the movies....

IMO, just about anything by Guy Gavriel Kay is excellent!

And I've have to put Ursula le Guin's Earthsea series in my top 5 favs for fantasy. Absolutely gorgeous, and the author is a lovely person.

And I'm glad to see Robert Holdstock is mentioned here. His books are some of the most idiosyncratic, quirky, singular works of fantasy I've ever read. VERY interesting.

Other favorites of mine are 'The Face in the Frost' by John Bellairs, any of Charles de Lint's novels, Ernest Bramah, Susan Cooper's 'Dark is Rising' pentology, Stephen Donaldson (Lord Foul's Bane), Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake, and because I love the quirky humor, books by James Branch Cabell.
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kareemachan
watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
01:46 PM on 07/14/2011
Oh yeah, Garth Nix's Abhorsen books as well.
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kareemachan
watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
01:50 PM on 07/14/2011
Kinda sci-fi, but the Northwest Smith stories by C. L. Moore.

Okay, I'm going to go now. Honest. Really.

;-)
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kareemachan
watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
02:12 PM on 07/14/2011
Dang, I'm back, but only to plaintively ask, "When is Clive Barker going to publish the third Abarat book?!"
08:51 AM on 07/14/2011
Kevin Hearne's urban fantasy series, Iron Druid Chronicles.
08:48 AM on 07/14/2011
DragonLance, sounds lame but very well written, would make better feature than LOTR
06:41 AM on 07/14/2011
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Good Omens - Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Bas Lag novels (Perdido St. Station, The Scar & Iron Council) - China Mieville
The City & the City (sort of pseudo-fantasy) - China Mieville
ASOIAF - GRRM
Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss
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01:16 AM on 07/14/2011
Gene Wolfe - The 12 novels in the New Sun, Long Sun, and Short Sun series; and 'Soldier in the Mist'.
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09:42 PM on 07/13/2011
The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin

I'm TOLKIEN MAD! :)
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08:24 PM on 07/13/2011
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury
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kareemachan
watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
01:38 PM on 07/14/2011
YES!
06:49 PM on 07/13/2011
The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
Jurgen by James Branch Cabell
Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
The Fafhrd & Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
The Incompleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt
The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt
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kareemachan
watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
01:39 PM on 07/14/2011
Fanned for your excellent taste in fantasy! Eddison's books aren't for everyone, but they are excellent reading.
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05:05 PM on 07/13/2011
I would nominate the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Phillip Pullman.
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kareemachan
watashi ha tororu ga oroka da to omoi masu。
01:40 PM on 07/14/2011
Yup.
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04:44 PM on 07/13/2011
"Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" set the standard. I haven't read anything yet that comes close. A couple folks here have mentioned "Dune," which was just as evocative in it's construct, but I consider that Sci-Fi, not fantasy. Maybe a hybrid. "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon was great, but it's considered horror. But isn't much horror actually fantasy? Larry Niven's "Ringworld" series was pretty good too.