Some of my favorite books available on Kindle Unlimited:

They Mostly Come Out At Night and Where the Waters Turn Black by Benedict Patrick

Paternus by Dyrk Ashton

Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes

The Half Killed by Quenby Olson

A Star Reckoners Lot by Darrell Drake

Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe

Jaeth's Eye by K. S. Villoso


Here are some that I haven't read, but have heard mostly positive things about:

The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes

Revenant Winds by Mitchell Hogan

Ghosts of Tomorrow by Michael R Fletcher

A Warrior's Path by Davis Ashura

Valley of Embers by Steven Kelliher

Faithless by Graham Austin-King. He also has another series, The Riven Wyrde Saga, beginning with Fae - The Wild Hunt

Ours is the Storm by D. Thourson Palmer

Path of Man by Matt Moss

Threat of Madness by D.K. Holmberg

To Whatever End by Claire Frank

House of Blades by Will Wight

Path of Flames by Phil Tucker

The Woven Ring by M. D. Presley

Awaken Online: Catharsis by Travis Bagwell

Wolf of the North by Duncan M. Hamilton

Free the Darkness by Kel Kade

The Cycle of Arawn Trilogy by Edward W. Robinson

Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw

Benjamim Ashwood by AC Cobble

The Crimson Queen by Alec Hutson

The Queens Poinsoner by Jeff Wheeler

Stiger's Tigers by Marc Alan Edelheit 

Rise of the Ranger by Philip C. Quaintrell 

Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron

Devil's Night Dawning by Damien Black


Here are some older fantasy and sci-fi books that I enjoyed:

Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany - African inspired S&S by an extremely talented writer.

Witch World as well as other good books by Andre Norton

Swords and Deviltry The first volume of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Leiber - Many of the tropes of the rogue/thief came from this legendary duo created by Leiber. And it's worth noting that Leiber actually coined the term Sword & Sorcery. This collection contains 3 stories, two average origin stories for each character and the final story is the Hugo and Nebula winning novella "Ill Met in Lankhmar" detailing the first meeting of Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser.

Swords Against Darkness - A '70s S&S anthology. It has few stinkers, a few mediocre stories, and a some really good ones. Poul Anderson and Ramsey Campbell both have awesome stories in this anthology that are well worth checking out. For some reason, there were quite a few typos in this book, it was slightly distracting, but may have been fixed since I read it.

The Best of C. L. Moore by C. L. Moore. I read this earlier this year and I absolutely loved it. The collection is all sci-fi and one Jirel of Joiry story, which is her famous female Sword & Sorcery character. I was suprised by how well her sci-fi stories held up, often times pulp sci-fi doesn't age well, but this collection was great. Moore was married to the writer Henry Kuttner, and up until his death they wrote a bunch of great stories together. Both of their collections are basically collaborations, although I'm sure a few stories were done solo. His collection The Best of Henry Kuttner features the short story that the movie The Last Mimzy was based on. And, if you are into the original Twilight Zone TV series there is a story that was adapted into a memorable season 1 episode entitled "What You Need". Kuttner and Moore are two of my favorite pulp authors and I'm not even that into science fiction, but I really enjoy their work.

Finally had some more time to read, picked up books mostly on Kindle Unlimited with some exceptions on Novel Updates.

Stuff in bold is stuff I really like and can recommend, stuff italicized is stuff I'm not sure about but you should probably read anyway.

Picked up

Arcane Ascension: (Kindle)

1. Sufficiently Advanced Magic
   
   LitRPG, School, Dungeon/tower
   
   Story had a pretty decent hook in the beginning, characters are decently fleshed out although I do hope book 2 has more character development.
   
   The MC is a recovering loner with interesting family dynamics due to an unfortunate grandfather, militant father, and a missing brother.
   
   I would have enjoyed this story more if I read it in chunks as the author is trying to create something new with depth and that ruined a bit of the immersion for me.
   
   After reading 2/3 of the story I took a break and read other stuff before coming back to it and the last 1/3 was very enjoyable; then again the last bit was mostly plot development instead of world building.
   
   Completionist Chronicles: (Kindle)
   
   
2. Ritualist
   
   LitRPG, cleric?, puns?
   
   Same author as the Divine Dungeon series linked below.
   
   Compared to the Divine Dungeon series this story is much more enjoyable since the MC is human and already has a personality.
   
   Divine Dungeon: (Kindle)
   
   
   
3. Dungeon Born
   
   
4. Dungeon Madness
   
   
5. Dungeon Calamity
   
   Dungeon core, cultivation, puns?
   
   Pretty interesting premise but it is my first dungeon core story; story is pretty good and told in the POV of two MC's, a dungeon (Cal) and some shepherd who learns to cultivate.
   
   In book 1 Cal is still developing as he was just Born which made it slightly more difficult to get into due to not much character development but the different POV's makes things easier to read. If you're okay with book 1 which was enjoyable but focused more on setting the foundation of the story then you should like books 2 and 3 much more.
   
   Awaken Online: (Kindle)
   
   
6. Catharsis;
   
   LitRPG, Anti-hero?, Necromancy, glass cannon
   
   A bit of an aside but this really made me feel nostalgic for Legendary Moonlight Sculptor even though there isn't much in common.
   
   The prologue set the tone for the the story and while it could be too soon to tell I'd say he's only mostly anti-hero.
   
   Story is a bit cliched and there isn't much tension but it's pretty well written and does a nice job overall differentiating itself.
   
   Fields of Gold
   
   Mild Mary Sue, hunting, isekai, reverse harem?
   
   Phew, finally have something to fill the void that is Volare. (Even though I have 3 other novels I'm bulking up to binge later)
   
   Just when I think I'm free of all food porn from previous completed novels they ambush me with this. y u do dis /u/Etvolare (and Myst), some of y'all have gotta be foodies and I'm concerned it's a criteria in novel selection.
   
   Another Mary Sue story with hints of a reverse harem but that's probably unlikely. Her immediate family loves her but everyone else.. fuck 'em, except for maybe that one gentle aunt.
   
   The S-Classes That I Raised
   
   Time rewind, yandere, taming
   
   Weak asshole MC turns over a new leaf with his time travel and patches things up with his younger more OP brother.
   
   Ascend Online (Kindle)
   
   LitRPG, Crafting, taming
   
   Solid story but it's a bit average, pretty good read overall but character development is kinda weak.
   
   I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire
   
   Mecha, "anti-hero", ^^^ha! futuristic, isekai, misunderstandings, long life span
   
   MC gets betrayed pretty badly by his wife due to the involvement of a third party who gets off on the grief and misery of others. MC reincarnates to another world and is mistrustful of women, gets abandoned by his parents and ends up doing some territory management in the pursuit of being evil later.
   
   Demon King, Retry!
   
   Overpowered, loli, misunderstandings, territory management?
   
   Think of this as a more lighthearted, shallower take on Overlord for a younger audience, maybe.
   
   A Demon Lord’s Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss
   
   Non-harem harem?, Wish fulfillment
   
   Strong MC with a soft spot for ladies.
   
   
   ***
   

   Still reading
   

   
   Trash of the Count’s Family
   
   Restaurant seems to be going well, some more of Cale's background is being very slowly teased through the story which makes it all the more understandable he wants to chill.
   
   Ascending, Do Not Disturb
   
   Apparently another story where cuteness is justice regardless of gender; two justices have been unlocked so far: cuteness and deliciousness.
   
   The Beloved Imperial Consort
   
   Strict mother and chill father? That'll be a fun baby, smart little monkey.
   
   Lucia
   
   Lucia is hangry and the damn grapes aren't in season yet.
   
   The hubby is gonna have some serious blue balls if he doesn't find something to busy himself with.
   
   Assassin Farmer
   
   The assassin organization has changed hands with the death of the idiot boss.
   
   MC has plenty of people waiting on her now (much to her distaste) and new house(s) are being built for her and her hubby's brothers.
   *
   Edit**: forgot to add the Arcane Ascension series and labeled the ones on Kindle Unlimited.

Some other suggestions:

• I've really enjoyed everything I've read by Larry Niven. While you are waiting on The Mote in God's Eye, consider Ringworld as well if you haven't read it. Lucifer's Hammer is really good too.
  
  
• I borrowed Dawn of Wonder - free on my wife's kindle last month and really enjoyed it. It's sort of like a fantasy version of Enders Game (but not overly derivative or anything). I doubt your library will have it, but if you have a prime membership it is free to borrow.
  
  
• Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books are always enjoyable. They aren't great books, but they are fun and easy reads.
  
  
• You might like A Canticle For Leibowitz. I didn't care for it, but I know a lot of people who love it. For some reason, I feel like if you liked The Man in the High Castle you'd like this one (I don't know why though).
  
  
• The original Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn as well as the new eponymous novel are really good. I think you'd like them whether or not you are a Star Wars fan.
  
  
• /u/anna_in_indiana suggested Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell to me a while back, and I greatly enjoyed it.
  
  
• /u/tbown recommended the Terry Brook's Shannara books and I've enjoyed those as well.

For (currently) free Kindle books, David Weber's On Basilisk Station is the first book in the space-opera Honor Harrington series. The second book The Honor of the Queen, is one of my favorites in the entire series. Eric Flint's 1632 turned into a massive and awesome alternate-history series. If you'd like to delve into Alaskan-based murder mysteries, give Dana Stabenow's A Cold Day For Murder a try as the first in the some eighteen book Kate Shugak series.

For paid Kindle books, there's Hugh Howey's Wool Omnibus is the beginning of the dystopian Silo series; the followup Shift Omnibus is actually a prequel trilogy that I haven't gotten yet but is very readable. Naomi Novik's first novel in the alt-history Temeraire series, His Majesty's Dragon, is currently $.99.

In print, Elizabeth Moon's military fantasy The Deed of Paksenarrion is available used for a very affordable price and is an epic series. The Cage was my introduction to a fantasy universe written by SM Stirling, Shirley Meier, and Karen Wehrstein. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander is a sort of alternate history/light romance series set in Scotland that I've thoroughly enjoyed. Brent Weeks' assassin-based (excuse me, wetboy) fantasy Night Angel Trilogy was recently released as an omnibus edition. Empire from the Ashes collects Weber's Dahak sci-fi trilogy into an omnibus edition. Weber and John Ringo co-wrote March Upcountry and the other three novels in the sci-fi Prince Roger quadrilogy. If you haven't tried Harry Turtledove's alt-history sci-fi WW2 'Worldwar' series, In the Balance starts off a little slow plot-wise but picks up good speed. EE Knight's sci-fi/futuristic fantasy Vampire Earth starts off with Way of the Wolf. Mercedes Lackey wrote the modern-fantasy Born to Run with Larry Dixon, and the rest of the SERRAted Edge books with various other authors. Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk and slightly dystopian Snow Crash is hilarious and awesome. Maggie Furey's Aurian is the first of a fantasy quadrilogy that I enjoyed many years ago.

If you're at all familiar with the Warhammer 40k universe, the Eisenhorn Omnibus is Dan Abnett's wonderful look into the life of an Imperial Inquisitor. He's also written a popular series about the Tanith First-and-Only Imperial Guard regiment starting with The Founding Omnibus. He also wrote the first book in the Horus Heresy series, Horus Rising (I highly recommend reading the first three novels together as a trilogy and then cherry-picking the rest).

... and if you've read all that already, I'll be impressed.

Edit: Why yes, I do read a lot. Why do you ask?

I've bought a fair amount of ebooks on Amazon recently and I think most of them are books that a lot of people here would enjoy (heck I heard about most of them through here!).

The Preorders:

Underlord - The sixth book in the Cradle series which is described as a Western Xianxia series. A lot of people here don't really like the Xianxia genre and I agree with their criticisms of how many main characters are very villainous, under-developed enemies and female characters, the economies of cultivation aren't logical, poor scaling in conflict as you go from one city to interstellar in scope, and awkward prose. But I bring up all of these flaws to say that the Cradle series completely avoids all of the typical flaws in Xianxia and has a very smart character who sets out to cultivate smartly instead of bullheadedly.

And the sixth book is coming out in March! (Get the box set. It has the first three books and is cheaper!)

Exhalation - Who here hasn't heard of Ted Chiang, the master of short stories that perfectly appeal to the r/rational crowd? The same guy that we literally use as an introduction to rational fiction. Well, if you enjoyed his first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, you'll love hearing that the second collection is coming out in....May! (Ugh....really May? I don't think I can wait that long!)

The books you can read right now!:

The Beginner's Guide to Magical Licensing - Has a similar start to Unsong where a magical college-graduate, minimum-wage, sweat-shop worker stumbles on a powerful spell and sets out to start his own business competing with the powerful. The parts of the story that follows afterward makes a whole lot more logical sense than Unsong however. (Used to be online for free, but now you'll have to pay the price for your ignorance if you want to read it! (Nah, I lied.))

Six Sacred Swords - If you liked the Arcane Ascension series, but wished there was more dungeonnering and less of school shenanigans, then look no further! In some ways it's a lot like reading a very good DnD session played by really savvy players who never follow the 'standard' way to solve problems.

The author of Six Sacred Swords made a recommendation for The Ruin of Kings. He said that it reads like a Locke Lamora-esque rogue protagonist, telling the story in a style similar to Kvothe, in a setting similar to Game of Thrones. I haven't bought the book yet, but the review was interesting enough that I wanted to include it in my list of recommendations.

Senlin Ascends - I haven't read this yet either, but skimming through it, I see some fair bit of social manipulation/combat that I think people here would like. Plus the Tower of Babel setting is something that appeals very strongly to me.

Polyglot: NPC REVOLUTION - A lot of people here seem to really like LitRPG and Artificial Intelligence, but almost no one seem to ever question the implications of the NPCs in LitRPG stories having human-level intelligence.

Small Medium: Big Trouble - It's by the same author who wrote Threadbare that people here really liked. Similar to Polygot where the NPC is the main character who needs to deal with players, but smaller scale in scope. There's a lot of fast-talking to convince selfish sociopaths to do what you say.

Q is for Quantum - I was going through my older ebook orders when I found this one. It's the single best introduction for quantum mechanics that I have ever read (not that I've read too many of those). It focuses on building an intuition for the subject and once you've read through the book, you will understand on a gut level what superposition means. Note that it's meant as an introduction for the subject, so don't expect it to cover everything, just what's need to get started learning about quantum mechanics. But I'd still recommend it to experts if only for a better way to explain their subject to their peers and laypeople.

>Update 2: Obligatory "Thanks for the Reddit gold, kind stranger!" It's my first, I'm honored, truly.
>
>I highly (HIGHLY) encourage other folks on the sub here to make this same kind of post, the idea is certainly not "mine" by any means. For around $20 or so you can read some great fiction, help encourage people to participate in the sub, and make a real, tangible difference in the creative lives of your fellow fantasy fans. Reading through the comments here you can see what a difference it makes to authors to have their words read and acknowledged. And REVIEWED!
>
>Even if you're not up for a public outing like this, I hope you'll take a moment to go back to a couple of novels you've loved recently and leave a review for them somewhere, it's the single biggest thing you can do to help support authors (other than buying their books of course).
>
>Many thanks to u/ErDiCooper and u/Esmerelda-Weatherwax for coming through down-thread and agreeing to do the same thing for the authors I couldn't get to. You're the best!
>
>Update:
>
>Many thanks to the authors who volunteered their work, I know that's not an easy thing for writers to do. I've now got the first five purchased and in my queue; I'll be updating this post with a link to each review as I post them online. It may be a bit, there are a lot of chapters to savor!
>
>The five, in the order I'll be reading them, are:
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>1. Zeroth Law (Digitesque Book 1), Guerric Haché, Keezy Young
>2. The Woven Ring (Sol's Harvest Book 1), M.D. Presley
>3. Klondaeg Omnibus, Steve Thomas
>4. Ravinor (The Ravinor Saga Book 1), Travis Peck
>5. Below, Lee Gaiteri
>
>I encourage everyone here in r/fantasy to purchase some or all of these as well to help our community's active authors get the word out about their work.
>
>Off to read! Unless you're my boss, in which case I'm getting back to work, I promise.
>
>-------
>
>I've done this twice before and ended up with some new series I really enjoyed following, so I thought I would try it again. You can check the threads (first and second) to see I'm good for the review.
>
>I want to try some new independently published authors but I never know how to pick. So, I will buy one book from the first five different authors who comment here with a link to that work in the Kindle store (assuming I don't already own it) and, if it has less than ten reviews on Amazon, I will read it, and I will review it.
>
>I'll be honest in the review but as kind as possible; I'm not in this to tear people down, I just want to find some good new books to read and to help out new authors since getting feedback online seems to be a key part of generating more sales.

>Update 2: Obligatory "Thanks for the Reddit gold, kind stranger!" It's my first, I'm honored, truly.
>
>I highly (HIGHLY) encourage other folks on the sub here to make this same kind of post, the idea is certainly not "mine" by any means. For around $20 or so you can read some great fiction, help encourage people to participate in the sub, and make a real, tangible difference in the creative lives of your fellow fantasy fans. Reading through the comments here you can see what a difference it makes to authors to have their words read and acknowledged. And REVIEWED!
>
>Even if you're not up for a public outing like this, I hope you'll take a moment to go back to a couple of novels you've loved recently and leave a review for them somewhere, it's the single biggest thing you can do to help support authors (other than buying their books of course).
>
>Many thanks to u/ErDiCooper and u/Esmerelda-Weatherwax for coming through down-thread and agreeing to do the same thing for the authors I couldn't get to. You're the best!
>
>Update:
>
>Many thanks to the authors who volunteered their work, I know that's not an easy thing for writers to do. I've now got the first five purchased and in my queue; I'll be updating this post with a link to each review as I post them online. It may be a bit, there are a lot of chapters to savor!
>
>The five, in the order I'll be reading them, are:
>
>1. Zeroth Law (Digitesque Book 1), Guerric Haché, Keezy Young
>2. The Woven Ring (Sol's Harvest Book 1), M.D. Presley
>3. Klondaeg Omnibus, Steve Thomas
>4. Ravinor (The Ravinor Saga Book 1), Travis Peck
>5. Below, Lee Gaiteri
>
>I encourage everyone here in r/fantasy to purchase some or all of these as well to help our community's active authors get the word out about their work.
>
>Off to read! Unless you're my boss, in which case I'm getting back to work, I promise.
>
>-------
>
>I've done this twice before and ended up with some new series I really enjoyed following, so I thought I would try it again. You can check the threads (first and second) to see I'm good for the review.
>
>I want to try some new independently published authors but I never know how to pick. So, I will buy one book from the first five different authors who comment here with a link to that work in the Kindle store (assuming I don't already own it) and, if it has less than ten reviews on Amazon, I will read it, and I will review it.
>
>I'll be honest in the review but as kind as possible; I'm not in this to tear people down, I just want to find some good new books to read and to help out new authors since getting feedback online seems to be a key part of generating more sales.

>Update 2: Obligatory "Thanks for the Reddit gold, kind stranger!" It's my first, I'm honored, truly.
>
>I highly (HIGHLY) encourage other folks on the sub here to make this same kind of post, the idea is certainly not "mine" by any means. For around $20 or so you can read some great fiction, help encourage people to participate in the sub, and make a real, tangible difference in the creative lives of your fellow fantasy fans. Reading through the comments here you can see what a difference it makes to authors to have their words read and acknowledged. And REVIEWED!
>
>Even if you're not up for a public outing like this, I hope you'll take a moment to go back to a couple of novels you've loved recently and leave a review for them somewhere, it's the single biggest thing you can do to help support authors (other than buying their books of course).
>
>Many thanks to u/ErDiCooper and u/Esmerelda-Weatherwax for coming through down-thread and agreeing to do the same thing for the authors I couldn't get to. You're the best!
>
>Update:
>
>Many thanks to the authors who volunteered their work, I know that's not an easy thing for writers to do. I've now got the first five purchased and in my queue; I'll be updating this post with a link to each review as I post them online. It may be a bit, there are a lot of chapters to savor!
>
>The five, in the order I'll be reading them, are:
>
>1. Zeroth Law (Digitesque Book 1), Guerric Haché, Keezy Young
>2. The Woven Ring (Sol's Harvest Book 1), M.D. Presley
>3. Klondaeg Omnibus, Steve Thomas
>4. Ravinor (The Ravinor Saga Book 1), Travis Peck
>5. Below, Lee Gaiteri
>
>I encourage everyone here in r/fantasy to purchase some or all of these as well to help our community's active authors get the word out about their work.
>
>Off to read! Unless you're my boss, in which case I'm getting back to work, I promise.
>
>-------
>
>I've done this twice before and ended up with some new series I really enjoyed following, so I thought I would try it again. You can check the threads (first and second) to see I'm good for the review.
>
>I want to try some new independently published authors but I never know how to pick. So, I will buy one book from the first five different authors who comment here with a link to that work in the Kindle store (assuming I don't already own it) and, if it has less than ten reviews on Amazon, I will read it, and I will review it.
>
>I'll be honest in the review but as kind as possible; I'm not in this to tear people down, I just want to find some good new books to read and to help out new authors since getting feedback online seems to be a key part of generating more sales.

Here is some good history on dragons in D&D; there have been a lot of iterations, although they have kept to the basic theme of chromatics, metallics, and gemstones (later).

In all fairness, 5E Monster Manual is pretty thin on material to build out dragons as more than stat blocks, but part of that is because the MM is mostly stat blocks, a bit of behavior. Earlier editions like 2E and 3E gave a bit more to work with, and the 1E Rules Cyclopedia had a fair amount as well. Dragons, to play them well, should get the full NPC personality treatment to flesh them out, and should be done before focusing on the stat blocks - they should have a reason to be there, rather than another big scary thing. They are (mostly) highly intelligent, have strong personalities and interests, and won't just mindlessly attack without a good reason.

There are some great suggestions in this thread on source books, but I also encourage you to look at D&D fiction books like Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms books to see how dragons' personalities are beyond the monster-stat block side. Also, look at non-D&D fiction to explore dragons - The Dragon and the George is unusual but fun, the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik are a very different take on dragons that is all about their interactions with humans. E. E. Knight's "Age of Fire" series is excellent in terms of giving a natural history and political exploration of dragons (but the editing in the last couple books is terrible, sadly).

In the end, you can make any monster/adversary interesting, but you have to be willing to do the work to develop them. I've been on a kobold kick lately to research what has been done and to come up with ways to give them actual personalities and a society. Dragons are much easier as there is so much material out there, and you have so much to work with.

Full disclosure: have been obsessed with dragons since He-Man's Granamyr and "Flight of Dragons" the animated movie. Watch those too.

All the more resent books are garbage. Only one of them, in my opinion, is worth reading. If you want to find good books, you're going back until Urza block to find the good stuff.

The Brothers' War and The Thran are typically regarded as the two best MTG novels. The Brothers' War is the first book, The Thran is a prequel to that book. Like most good prequels, it is best reading the first book so the prequel makes more sense. In this case, it actually doesn't necessarily make more sense, but due to the excellent world building in The Brothers' War, you'll enjoy it much more if you do read the prequel. Here is what you want to be buying. It's both books compiled as one giant book, and it is definitely worth buying.

Aside from that, there are some solid scattered stuff. Rav block was pretty solid and apparently Time Spiral is too. If you're up for newer stuff, I'll only recommend Agents of Artifice.

Thankfully, the book I posted is still in print, and easy to get. Two great books for one great price is definitely worth it. It's a good starting place, as it'll give you background on the most famous story and characters, and be a good book to boot.

One word to the wise though, the majority of MTG novels suck. Flat out, they're horrible. The rest of this series is actually pretty bad, and aside from one book being marginally okay, the other two were awful and I could barely stomach them. There's a reason they don't make block novels anymore -- they simply were as bad as them imply.

Hey all! Sufficiently Advanced Magic is the first book in my Arcane Ascension series, and it's currently on sale for $1.49 in the US Kindle store.

The sequel, On the Shoulders of Titans, just came out earlier this week, so it's a great time to pick it up if you're interested.

For those of you who aren't familiar, Sufficiently Advanced Magic is a mix between a dungeon crawler novel and a magical school story. It focuses on Corin Cadence learning magic and attempting to climb the Serpent Spire, a colossal tower that his brother vanished into five years before.

Stylistically, the series is heavily inspired by Japanese role-playing games like Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, the Tales series, and The Legend of Zelda. The magic system is strongly inspired by the job class system in some of the Final Fantasy games and Bravely Default.

This means the story deliberately includes a lot of game-like elements, but explains them within the context of the setting. So you'll see justifications for things like respawning monsters, ever-changing dungeons, and analogues to character classes and leveling up.

If you like game-like fiction, you might enjoy this. If you tend to prefer for your magic to be more mystical and unexplained, you probably will not like this book. There's a huge emphasis on learning the rules of magic and figuring out tricks with them, which isn't for everyone.

Thanks to everyone who has supported my books so far, and I hope anyone who checks the books out enjoys them!

Here are a few that I find myself recommending often, which also seem to fit what I think you're looking for:

1. Threadbare by Andrew Seiple - Game-like world, good world building and magic systems. Looks like a kid's book but it's not. Used to be available for free on Royal Road if you want to check it out first (it still is).
   
2. Completionist Chronicles by Dakota Krout - Kind of standard litrpg fare, but done really well with interesting systems.
   
3. Ten Realms by Michael Chatfield - Transported to game world, portal fantasy. Starts off kind of weird, but gets into the game pretty quick. Interesting world building, especially after book 1.
   
   I typically read, not listen, so I can't speak to the quality of the audiobooks, but I enjoyed all of these a lot.
   
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   Edit: Cleaned up links

I would love to get Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, I've been reading his Mistborn Trilogy and I love love love his work! I'm soon at the end of the last book so more Sanderson would be very very nice <3

My favorite book? Oh my, there are many but the answer I usually give to that question is ALL of Terry Pratchett. I love that man and his writings so damn much! <3 His way of writing is extremely witty and humoristic but he also always handles more serious or challenging stuff through his writing. Every book is parody of something bigger :)

Well since you've read the Night Angel Trilogy you should definately read Brent Weeks next book 'The Black Prism'. I Absolutely loved it! Its the first book in the Lightbringer Series, only catch is he's only written one so far.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Prism-Lightbringer-Brent-Weeks/dp/0316068136/ref=pd_sim_b_3

Another awesome series is Peter Bretts Demon Cycle series, check out book 1 'The Warded Man' again awesome read.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Warded-Man-Peter-Brett/dp/0345518705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331693550&sr=8-1

And lastly since
both the series ive suggested so far are incomplete thought id at least suggest a completed trilogy for you to check out, Joe Abercrombie's First Law series are an excellent read as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Itself-First-Law-Book/dp/159102594X/ref=pd_sim_b_5

hope that helps

I'm continuing to work on short stories to supplement the science-fantasy series I'm working on. After the last three, I'm getting more experimental in terms of narrative in these little stories, and the one I'm working on now has sequences where I try to play with the rhythm of the words and sentences more explicitly to match the character's moods or actions. It's fun, but I'm not yet sure if anyone else will like it. :P

I also wrote a short story I intend to submit to Lightspeed Magazine later this week! It's essentially set in a transition point between a Silicon Valley-caricature (the tech industry, not the show) and a cyberpunk corporate dystopia. First time in a while writing something in the first person, but I did enjoy it, and it came across well to the people I showed it to. If Lightspeed doesn't pan out for me, I might find some other way of distributing it.

I also self-published my first novel! It's a science-fantasy story about lost civilizations, mystical technologies, and strange gods, and the struggle of two young people to find their place in their world. It's called Zeroth Law, and it's on Amazon right now.

Hope everyone's having a successful writing week! :)

photo taken by me from whidbey island facing port townsend. it had been really stormy most of the day. this was this january. i was visiting my best friend, so it makes me think of her, and it's really beautiful with muted colors, which i'm a huge fan of.

my all time favorite book is probably the lions of al rassan.

i'd like to have the emperor's blades because it's a debut fantasy novel that has been getting really solid reviews that i haven't gotten a chance to read yet!

It'd be great if they got 'official' support... that was my favorite feature of D&D 4e, despite the system being a steaming pile... at least we had supported kobold PCs.

D&D 3.5 had the Slayer's Guide to Kobolds, which had an alternate racial statblock that brought them in line with other PC races, but I still think it's more fun (in games that can support it) to play the 'stock' kobold. At least pathfinder's alternate racial traits offer some opportunity to alleviate some of the more glaring penalties (e.g. light sensitivity, depending on the campaign).

Hell, I'd be thrilled about a third party kobold resource based on David Adams' Kobolds novel series, which itself was based on Pathfinder.

I would first echo most people here and say Sanderson's anything- Elantris comes to mind as a good recommendation.

When you say in the same calibre, are you talking in terms of story, in terms of being high fiction, in terms of length or in terms of moments that make you go, "ohhh... well DAMN!"

I would recommend a lot of things I saw below, so I'm going to try to not do that any more than I already have. The Conan Chronicles by Robert Howard are fun and a much unappreciated classic of Low Fantasy. Orcs by Stan Nicholls is a great series, somewhere in the middle ground between high and low fantasy, and does an interesting twist on the classical fantasy story. The Gentleman Bastards series is another interesting take, but it is more of an Ocean's 11 in a fantasy world. I only saw one mention, but anything Tolkien is a must read if for nothing else than to pay respect to the godfather. The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks is another good story, and it uses a lot of the ideas Jordan uses in terms of who knows what, why and when to progress the story. Finally, for a more Eastern themed book, Tales of the Otori by Liam Hearn is a good trilogy with a lot of political twists.

EDIT: added a link for Elantris

Hey man, browsing through top posts so sorry for replying 2 months afterwords, but this art is specifically for Magic the Gathering, which has an incredibly unique magic system, both the game and the lore of the myriad of planes it takes place in.

There are some books about this, I've read one called the Artifact Cycle I (which is actually 2 stories in 1 book) and I loved it. Also at the MtG website lots of articles about these planes get posted.

So if you just want to delve into all of this amazing magic, there you go, or it's a great place for inspiration if you are creating your own stuff.

I have the this Harper/Collins Deluxe Edition of LotR (also the Hobbit book of this edition) and I would recommend it.

Its hardcover, its sewn (I'm not expert enough to tell you what kind of sewing or if its a kind of sewing/clueing hybrid - but I can see that its sewn) and in one single volume. The paper quality is good/decent. It contains some nice fold-out maps and pictures (of the Book of Mazarbul when they are in Moria - afaik by Tolkien himself?) -though no images/illustration.

The slipcase it comes in also looks very nice and the Edition fits together perfectly (dark green Hobbit, dark red LotR, dark blue Silm etc. - I also own the HoME in this Edition, though the paper is a lot thicker for LotR/Hobbit than it is for the HoME (there (HoME) its more like those Bible papers, but not quite as thin)).

I can very much recommend it. Though note that I was gifted the Hobbit + LotR version of these for christmas (since, just as you, I was looking for a decent version to replace my paperback), so I can't speak for the longevity/permanent quality of it yet.

Edit: ISBN for clarification: 978-0-00-718236-7

Howdy!
Fellow Canadian here, welcome to the subreddit.

What got you interested in mathematics / computer science?

What do you hope to do upon graduation?

If you like Fantasy, I recommend The First Law Trilogy, by Joe Abercrombie, if you like Sci-Fi I recommend The Expanse Series, by James S Corey. If you like Military History, basically anything by Steven Ambrose

Okay here are some good options:

4-volume 60th Anniversary Hardcover Set

Harper, ISBN 9780007581146

Amazon Link

This set uses Tolkien's original dust jacket designs, the companion volume is great for those interested (they're basically footnotes in a separate volume) and the smaller volumes are more comfortable than single volumes.

Single-volume 60th Anniversary Hardcover

Harper, ISBN 9780007525546

Amazon Link

This lacks the companion but has Alan Lee's artwork (the guy who did the concept art for the movies) - personally I'm not a fan of the slipcase but depending on your tastes it can look great.

Single-volume Deluxe Edition Hardcover

Harper, ISBN 9780007182367

Amazon Link

Fancy slipcase, some illustration, not as good as they used to be (they moved manufacturing to China at some point iirc) but still a good option.

Single-volume 50th Anniversary Hardcover

Harper, ISBN 9780261103207

Amazon Link

Older but some prefer the looks of this edition, this one's the first to have the corrected text iirc.

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All of the above feature the latest corrected texts, and generally the difference between versions aren't great anyway - so your decision should be based on what kind of aesthetic/budget/supplemental materials that you want.

I would however specifically recommend the 4-volume set (or the B-Format paperbacks) if your brother's going to collect the other titles too (Silmarillion, The Hobbit, the Christopher Restrorations) since those are the most complete format/trim with most titles available.

You could try Dakota Krout's other series, The Divine Dungeon, which is in a subgenre of litRPG called Dungeon Core. There are two different protagonist viewpoints; the sentient Dungeon and the shepherd turned adventurer who owns the mountain where it resides. The adventurer is a melee type and one of his later companions is a berserker.

While only half of the viewpoints are what you are looking for, you would probably enjoy it since you like the Ritualist. Krout wrote it in a similar manner with a strong narrative voice.

Book 1 in the series is called Dungeon Born:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RR97GXF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

I'm mostly into litRPG so that's what my recommendations will focus on.

everybody loves large chests was already a great webnovel but the author also published on amazon. you can still read it for free on royal road if you want. it features a truly evil monster as primary character who was never human to begin with, so it's quite a different take on the litRPG genre.

life reset is a VR based litRPG with the focus on the MC having been turned into a monster character against his will and ending up stuck in the VR world, with emphasis on city building.

Awaken Online is also a VR based litRPG but the main character kinda turns into a big villain. sort of.

Dodge Tank combines an interesting post-apocalytpical but very futuristic 'real' world combined with a VR world.

The Land/Chaos Seeds transportation litRPG with a bit of a contentious author who has a tendency to shove every fun idea he has into the story at the expense of actual story progression, but if you like the idea of city building litRPG I'd certainly still recommend it. there are plenty of other aspects that make up for it.

I strongly recommend a KU (Kindle Unlimited) subscription on amazon, typically there are deals this time of year

the genre is blessed in that practically every litrpg book of note is available on KU

among KU, I'd recommend starting with Life Reset and Ascend Online

for online litrpg, as mentioned Royal Road is a great source. Some of the ones of note there:

• Azarinth Healer - brawling tank (female protag, and don't let the title fool you, it's a bit of a running joke where people underestimate her because she's 'just a healer', then she beats the crap out of them)
  
• Delve - deep dive into the math and system geekery
  
• Chrysalis - reincarnated as an ant
  
  adjacent to litrpg is progression fantasy, which is all about, well, progressing from weak to strong and small to big
  
  on KU the Cradle series is based on eastern cultivation novels and Divine Dungeon is a fantastic intro to the dungeon core genre
  
  on RR, Mother of Learning is absolutely stunning
  
  
  there aren't many with female protags, but of the ones there are, practically all of them are OP, including Siphon and Metaworld Chronicles. Among the ones that aren't, you have Stonehaven League and Forge of Destiny (also cultivation like Cradle, you can keep up with the original quest here)

Congrats on your match!

Skip Dubin.

I think the best ECG book is Garcia's. It's really nicely done and includes sectioned learning points for beginners, intermediate learners, and advanced learners on every apge. My first time through I only read the "Level 1" and "Level 2" learning points. Later I went through again and read the "Level 3" points also. It's a super solid foundation.

I second all the suggestions below, with a caveat. Dr. Smith's blog is excellent. Its strong offerings are really smart pearls you won't learn elsewhere, and great training in pattern recognition. There tends to be less discussion of bread-and-butter features. Almost every ecg offered is tricky. If you find yourself struggling to keep up or surprised at the outcome of every case, your foundation probably isn't strong enough yet - see the first paragraph.

Dr. Smith (often) makes a really great point about practicing ECGs. You need to look at the ECG and have info available about the patient's clinical course. Picking up ECGs you find lying around the department can be good practice in identifying the basic features, but if you don't know how the patient actually did this isn't helping you corrrelate patterns of disease (the ultimate goal).

I can recommend:

• The Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett has a really nice and different world compared to other fantasy series and I'm really mesmerized by the story. 4 books
  
  
  
• Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. The Wheel of Time has 14 books, so it might be more than what you are looking for. But the story is insane, except for 1-2 books that were slightly boring.
  
  
• A Song of Ice and Fire. You have probably read it, but since you didn't list it, I thought I'd recommend it anyways. Amazing fantasy world, but with Game of Thrones being everywhere, you know of this one. 5 books (not finished yet)
  
  
• I also like the Eragon-series, but it's not for everyone and might be not as "grown up" as the others. Eragon by Christopher Paolini. 4 books

Was hoping you were announcing that it was actually released... not i gotta wait till December.. QQ

As for recommendations...

Just finished the two Underworld books. They were pretty good. Looking forward to the next one.

Also am in the middle of crystal shards and it's good as well. A couple nice twists, and a good take on dystopian litrpg.

The Galactic Mage by John Daulton is what first sprang to mind, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would, pretty light-hearted as well.

Charles Stross's Laundry Files are really good, although they take place in the modern era.

Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber was also fairly good, more political than scifi or magic, although it has elements of both.

Harper Collins has been coming out with Deluxe Editions of all of Tolkien's books, in a matched set with individual slipcases. I have two of the set and they are fantastic. The binding and paper quality are impeccable and they look great. In my opinion, they're the best versions of his books out there.

Lord of The Rings

The Hobbit

The Silmarillion

The Children of Hurin

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

Tales from the Perilous Relm

[Unfinished Tales](http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780007542925/Unfinished+Tales+(Deluxe+Slipcase+Edition)

Lastly before bed, a great resource for ECG interpretation:

http://ems12lead.com/tag/prehospital-12-lead-ecg-blog/

How many nursing 12 lead blogs are on the Internet? How many nurses have the experience, education, or interest to create a resource like that? A better question: how or why would they?

How many nurses have authored 12-lead books? http://www.amazon.ca/12-Lead-ECG-The-Art-Interpretation/dp/0763712841

It doesn't happen. Why would it? We could have had a much more interesting discussion, if you didn't resort to insults and ad hominem attacks. You may have even learned a thing or two. Instead I know exactly the way this is going to turn out. Maybe you can prove me wrong.

Scars is much more dependent than most books because it's essentially a sequel. Do you care about Urza, the creator of Karn? Or how Mirrodin came to be? Because it's annoying but all of it is tied together. But if you just want the story, check out the MTGSalvation wiki for your lore. It will keep you busy for a while.

If you really want to read, track down a copy of the Brother's War. It's easily the best of the books.

I was lucky enough to be a beta reader for these. He released two books at the same time.

Of Sea and Shadow.

[Of Shadow and Sea](http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Sea-The-Elder-Empire-ebook/dp/B00RE68P8C/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_mfw?&linkCode=wey&tag=wilwig-20
).

They are parallel stories, and honestly, I enjoyed these twice as much as I enjoyed his traveler gate series. Let me know what you all think too.

Well, the sequel to Sufficiently Advanced Magic released a couple days ago, so there's that.
On the Shoulders of Titans

Other than that, I can also recommend Mother of Learning, which has a similar feel. Past that, maybe check out some LitRPGs? My personal favorites are:

Everybody Loves Large Chests (occasionally NSFW, though hilarious)

Worth the Candle

The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound

I have a couple that fall under this category:

Level Up - the world breaks and becomes a video game. This is more satirical and riffs on a lot of gaming tropes. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079JFM67F

Grow Up - this one is closer to GameLit. A teenager finds himself kidnapped by aliens to fight in intergalactic legal battles using giant mechs. An alien is left on earth in his place and does his best to blend in...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VWLQL6N

A couple of other people have already mentioned Blood and Cupcakes (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CRPGGCX), which also has a sequel (Creatures and cupcakes) which is great for YA.

Crystal Shards is also pretty YA friendly and there are four book in the series. The first book is Dodge Tank (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LFBVB3/)

I recently enjoyed Ritualist and its sequel. I also enjoyed Dungeon Born both by Dakota Krout. The tone of his books is quite fun with dark undertones.

I enjoyed Zeroth Law very much! For any other Redditors reading this, I encourage you to buy a copy, it's a very good read.

Note also that this book, along with many others in the comments here, is part of Kindle Unlimited so if you're a member of that program you can read them for free. As I understand it, the authors still get paid for KU titles that are read so that's a good thing too.

Sci Fi, ok cool. Here are a few very entertaining Sci-Fi audiobooks (you can actually find some of these free).

Infected by Scott Sigler, with a sequel titled 'Contagious'. If you search for Scott Sigler online, you will be directed to his website, and can go through itunes to get the free podiocast.
http://www.amazon.com/Infected-Novel-Scott-Sigler/dp/030740630X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1311807514&sr=8-3

Robopocalypse
http://www.amazon.com/Robopocalypse-Novel-Daniel-H-Wilson/dp/0385533853/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311807626&sr=1-1

For fantasy, I highly recommend 'The Name of the Wind' by patrick Rothfuss
http://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicles-Day/dp/0756405890/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311807743&sr=1-1

The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
http://www.amazon.com/Warded-Man-Peter-V-Brett/dp/0345518705/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311807801&sr=1-1

For Horror I recommend
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
http://www.amazon.com/Darkly-Dreaming-Dexter-Vintage-Lizard/dp/0307473708/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311807869&sr=1-1

Serial Uncut
http://www.amazon.com/Serial-Uncut-J-Konrath/dp/1456401580/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311808020&sr=1-1

For the taste of apocalyptic greatness I recommend
World War Z
http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/0307346617/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311808107&sr=1-1

One Second After
http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765356864/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311808128&sr=1-1

I have other audiobooks that touches multiple categories. For a nice series, there are two I really love. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, and The Dresden Files series.

Me again. they just re-released the best as a compliation: The Brother's War and The Thran as Artifact's Cycle 1.
Here it is on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Artifacts-Cycle-Magic-Gathering-Omnibus/dp/0786953055/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Other good places to start are the comics of the new planeswalkers:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/multiverse/planeswalkers.aspx?x=mtg/multiverse/webcomics/main

And if you want summaries of books and things, there's a blog that does chapter by chapter coverage daily:
www.mtgfiction.com

That's a good start. If you want a more comprehensive explanation/summary, there's the mtgsalvation wiki:
http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Category:Storylines

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-First-Law-Trilogy-Boxed/dp/0575092963

I'm halfway through these at the moment and really enjoying them. I think they seems to tick all your boxes

Edit: Except grimdark, though if you like Mark Lawrence, I'd say you'd enjoy the first law

Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen

Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn

Brandon Sanderson - The Stormlight Archive

Peter Brett - The Demon Cycle

R. Scott Bakker - The Second Apocalypse

Joe Abercrombie - The First Law

Scott Lynch - The Gentleman Bastard

Patrick Rothfuss - The Kingkiller Chronicle

All excellent. Some slightly more excellent than others.

I am a fan of this style also.

The Novice: Summoner: Book One (The Summoner Trilogy 1)

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Opening Moves (The Gam3 Book 1) This series takes place in a school like environment.

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The Hound of Rowan: Book One of The Tapestry Very YA, but Fun.

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The Emperor's Blades: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book I A lot of the book takes place in a "school"

It wasn't Elantris, was it? That was his first book, and his later ones are much more exciting/able to hold your interest.

Try War Breaker--it's available for free on his site, and is a better representation of his writing, I think.

You mentioned dragons, so u/JDHallowell's Dragon Fate and Dragon Blade immediately spring to mind.

Some of the most enjoyable traditional-style modern fantasy you're likely to run across comes from u/MichaelJSullivan - the Riyiria books.

U/BrianStaveley's work, while not exactly "stereotypical fantasy", has a lot of what makes those old books great reads. Worth checking out.

I recently finished both Eric Uggland's "Good Guys" series and Dan Sugralinov's "Level Up" series (or perhaps caught up is more appropriate, as at least one of those is still going). I really enjoyed both series, and the latter left me with a desire to check out some more slice of life types.

I'm currently reading Dakota Krout's "Divine Dungeon" series. I had initially passed over it, having no real desire to read about a dungeon crawl (which I mistakenly believed to be what it was about), but decided to give it a shot after reading his Completionist Chronicles series.

I had initially planned to go with ten realms before divine dungeon, but there was a bit too much cussing for me to listen to it with little kids in the car, but it will likely be next.

2 other great ECG books

ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy!

http://www.amazon.com/Interpretation-Made-Incredibly-Easy-Series/dp/1608312895/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1377718462&sr=8-2&keywords=ecg+made+easy

12-Lead ECG: The Art of Interpretation

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0763712841/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire series, Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. If you like Hobb there are other overlapping series. You might also like V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series. Personally, I didn't care much for the third, but the first two were great.

Check out Ren of Atikala some time, it's free on Kindle. It focuses on a Kobold sorcerer named Ren for the most part, but gives a great description of how Kobold kingdoms work, the class division, who is picked for what, and so on.

I'd sugguest The Galactic Mage by John Daulton. It's a perfect mixture of pure fantasy (magic, dragons, and orcs) with Sci-Fi (space expeditions and exploration). It's an amazing series, and I think it'll be right up your alley!

Whole lotta reading recommendations in this thread. May as well throw my two cents in.

The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. If you're into Guts' introspective-man-of-violence-looking-for-his-place-in-the-world-thing I'd think you find Logen Ninefingers to be an interesting character. If you're into audiobooks then I highly recommend checking out the audiobook versions. The guy reading them is practically a voice-actor.


The original trilogy:

• The Blade Itself.
  
• Before They are Hanged.
  
• The Last Argument of Kings.
  
  The standalone novels (available as a single volume in The Great Leveller):
  
  
• Best Served Cold (my own personal favorite. Imagine the mercenary-army warring states stuff from the Golden Age meets Kill Bill/Lady Snowblood).
  
• The Heroes.
  
• Red Country.
  
  And the most recent Sharp Ends (short story collection).
  
  The Witcher books by Andrezj Sapkowski. Already spawned a popular video game franchise (I've only played the third one and enjoyed it tremendously, but still prefer the books). They're planning to adapt the books into a Netflix series within the next few years.
  
  Short story collections:
  
  
• The Last Wish.
  
• Sword of Destiny.
  
  The novels:
  
  
• The Blood of Elves.
  
• The Time of Contempt.
  
• Baptism of Fire.
  
• The Tower of Swallows.
  
• The Lady of the Lake.

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Like /u/truthisoutthereabout said, the World of Ice and Fire is a great gift for a ASOIAF nerd.

I would also recommend Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy if he/she hasn't read it yet, though it's not very obscure.

I fucking loved those books. I also really liked the short story collections that he put out. He just came out with a new series, or I guess two series in parallel.

Boop

My personal favourites are;

• The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon sanderson; A fantastic trilogy with interesting characters, set in a world where the 'bad guy' won, it features some amazing plot twists and great character development as well as an interesting magic system.
  
  
  
• Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss; Quite possibly my favourite fantasy book, focuses on an individual character called Kvothe and his time at University whilst trying to uncover the reason for his parents death.
  
  
• Lies of Locke lamora by Scott lynch; I would regard this as low fantasy, similar to Game of Thrones - it revolves around a group of thieves and their exploits - what makes this interesting is that the main character, Locke isn't special at all - he's small of stature, weak but he's incredibly cunning. Imagine Ocean's Eleven set in a fantasy version of renaissance Venice.
  
  
• The First law series by Joe Abercrombie - this series is full of interesting characters, painted in shades of grey; there are no 'good' or 'bad' characters, each one has their own flaws. A great read which makes the characters of other books pale in comparison.
  
  
  
  Links to the aforementioned books;
  
  
• mistborn trilogy http://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Trilogy-Boxed-Hero-Ascension/dp/076536543X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371035188&sr=8-1&keywords=mistborn+trilogy
  
  
• Name of the wind http://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicles-Day/dp/0756405890/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371035226&sr=1-1&keywords=name+of+the+wind
  
  
• Lies of Locke Lamora http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Locke-Lamora-Scott-Lynch/dp/055358894X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371035255&sr=1-1&keywords=lies+of+locke+lamora
  
  
• The first law trilogy http://www.amazon.com/First-Law-Trilogy-Boxed-Set/dp/0575092963/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371035287&sr=1-2&keywords=first+law+trilogy

It's Andrew Rowe! I just bought your new book! Haven't gotten around to leaving an Amazon review yet though. Enjoying it so far!

Edit: The book is Six Sacred Swords. If you've read Sufficiently Advanced Magic, you've already been introduced to the protagonist: Keras Selyrian (The mask-wearing Swordsman Corin meets towards the beginning of the first book).

Edit Edit: I am not Andrew Rowe, Salaris, who I replied to, is Andrew Rowe.

Ren of Atikala is about a Kobold. It's free on Amazon and was was a good and quick read.

Check out Dawn of Wonder by Johnathan Renshaw

It's basically about the resurgence of the golden age, book 2 isn't out yet but should be soon. It's awesome and plenty to theory craft on.

My favourite by far is the 50th anniversary edition of the LOTR. I have this copy of the Hobbit and love the art direction in it, that alone makes it a safe purchase.

Just make a clear contrast and distinction between magic and science should do you just fine. Galactic Mage is a good example of that imo.

If you aren't Familiar with Brandon Sanderson... I'd check him out immediately!

His Mistborn series is amazing and finished (At least the first Trilogy), his other series are just as amazing, but no where close to finished so could be a long wait if you get as engrossed in them as I have.

Books are:

• The Final Empire -- First book in Mistborn Trilogy
  
  
• Way of Kings -- First book in Stormlight Archive Series
  
  
• Elantris -- Standalone novel he plans to write more in this world
  
  
  He also finished Robert Jordan's epic tale Wheel of Time when Mr Jordan passed away before completing the last 2 or 3 books.
  
  

http://www.amazon.com/Artifacts-Cycle-Magic-Gathering-Omnibus/dp/0786953055/ref=sr_1_sc_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412578674&sr=8-3-spell&keywords=magic+the+gathering+Artefacts+book

These are by far my favorite books of Magic. The Brother's War is an amazing novel, and The Thran gives you the origin story of the Phyrexians and Yawgmoth, which later on develops into an important plot piece in other books.

Hello all! Day is going OK so far. Football season is finally over, so I finally have a bit of time at night now. Not spending it going back and forth, to and from practices.

QOTD: Actually in the middle of a series right now. The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik, the first of which is His Majesty's Dragon. It can be described this way: Think of the Napoleonic Wars...with dragons. The main protagonists are Captain William Laurence, a ship's captain that gets imprinted on a dragon, the egg of whom was captured from a French ship after a battle. He names him Temeraire. Dragons are brought into the Air Corps, and are used similar how fighter planes and such are used today.

If you like history, as well as a dash of fantasy, this alternative history is a great read. The first is about Temeraire becoming a fighting dragon, second is about a grand journey to find Temeraire's origins, and I am only a bit into third, but another big journey so far.

Nice!

The " Add Audible book to your purchase for just $8.89 " option also adds up to less of the cost of the average credit for people wanting the audibook.

I started with Shera's side of the story Of Shadow and Sea and immediately switched to Calder's perspective Of Sea and Shadow. I kept alternating between the two points of view to get the whole story before moving forward. Enjoy reading them! They are worth every penny!

Do you like fantasy/sci fi? If so, check out Elantris and Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Two of the most enjoyable standalone fantasy novels I have ever read.

[Cradle]
[Mother of Learning]
[Sufficiently Advanced Magic]
[Street Cultivation]
[The Land]
[The Divine Dungeon]
[The Dark Herbalist]
[Ascend Online]
[The Way of the Shaman]
[The Wheel of Time] (Low Quality)
[I Shall Seal the Heavens]
[A Will Eternal]
[Coiling Dragon]
[Patrick Rothfuss] (Author)
[The Thousand Li]
[Savage Divinity] (Low Quality)
[The Dao of Magic]
[Dante's Immortality]
[Forge of Destiny]
[Veilverse]
[Way of the Immortals]
[Sundered Soul]
[Edge of Eons]
[Soulship]
[The Wandering Inn]
[Delvers LLC]
[Dodge Tank]
[World Tree Online]
[Life Reset]
[Viridian Gate Online]
[The Crafting of Chess]
[Reverend Insanity]
[I Eat Tomatoes] (Author)
[Er Gen] (Author)
[The King's Avatar]
[Against the Gods]
[Martial World]
[Dragon Heart]
[Purple Days]

I enjoyed "Time Enough for Love"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long

Also:

"Elantris" and "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson

Oh! Also check out "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned" by Anne Rice!

To add to other's comments, I've enjoyed "12-Lead ECG, Art of Interpretation". They have practice EKGs at the back as well as discussion EKGs in each chapter highlighting various topics.
https://www.amazon.com/12-Lead-ECG-Interpretation-Tomas-Garcia/dp/0763712841

An author I would encourage you to check out right now, today, do not pass go, do not collect $200, don't wait to get home from work, seriously, open up your smart phone right now, and look up Brandon Sanderson.

Start with either Elantris or Warbreaker as they are standalone novels. I'd personally recommend Elantris as that is the first novel he ever published (and anything else you read by him can only get better)

Elantris https://www.amazon.com/Elantris-Tenth-Anniversary-Authors-Definitive-ebook/dp/B003G93YLY


Warbreaker https://www.amazon.com/Warbreaker-Brandon-Sanderson-ebook/dp/B002KYHZHA

Warbreaker https://brandonsanderson.com/books/warbreaker/warbreaker/warbreaker-rights-and-downloads/ (free, author's website)


Sanderson tends to hit the nail on the head in regards to capturing the essence of character and what would be going on in the situation rather than worrying about attempting to get a character hot and bothered at all times of the day or night.

If you've never heard of him, you owe it to yourself to check him out.

Copying this from an earlier, similar post:

Here you go.

Of these, the following on available for e-book:

• Moons of Mirrodin, Darksteel Eye, The Fifth Dawn
  
  
• Outlaw, Heretic, Guardian
  
  
• Ravnica, Guildpact, Dissension
  
  
• Alara Unbroken
  
  
• Zendikar
  
  
• Scars of Mirrodin
  
  
• Agents of Artifice, Test of Metal, The Purifying Fire
  
  In addition to the Secretist books.
  
  Prior to Alara, each set had a matching novel, so each set had a triology. They never sold well, so Wizards eventually condensed them into single books for each set, but also added in single books for the new generation planeswalkers (the ones we have now). The Secretist is a revival of the book series, since no book was published for Innistrad, but using a different format: one short novella for each set, which should all together add up to a whole novel, similar to the Alara-era books but with a more encompassing feel. They're using it as a test.
  
  You can also find the Artifact Cycle collections in physical copies, which are very worth the read and extra cash.
  
  The Zendikar, Scars, and Innistrad stories happened mostly via a now-happened abandoned-by-Wizards medium, webcomic. You can find the relevant stories here.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shoulders-Titans-Arcane-Ascension-Book-ebook/dp/B07D3C3RX4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3FZUV739L81E0&keywords=sufficiently+advanced+magic&qid=1564756957&s=gateway&sprefix=suffi%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-2

Book two is free in the UK if you have Prime. Two book series for the price of a can of coke. Can't go wrong with that

To add onto that, his latest book Ritualist is a great book aswell

Came out few days ago. Currently reading it and loving it as much as the first one.

And oddly enough his website doesn't actually include the links. So to make it easier i've included the Amazon links for both below.

Of Sea and Shadow

[Of Shadow and Sea] (http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Sea-Elder-Empire-Book-ebook/dp/B00RE68P8C/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1419952365&sr=8-3&keywords=will+wight)

I'm going to suggest Beyond Redemption. It's currently on sale for a $1 and is getting a lot of end of year buzz. I just bought it yesterday and it seems great so far.

As for violent fantasy, try The Red Knight by Miles Cameron ($10) and The Emperor's Blades which is on sale for $5. Both are fantastic.

On a quick note, this book is truly awful. The plot is a convoluted mess, the characters are shallow, flat, or completely unrealistic, and the language switches from 'overly verbose English major' to 'under medicated pre-teen'.

If you're looking for good Magic novels, go for the Artifacts cycle of books.

If you want something more recent, I would recommend the recent Planeswalker novels.

There are 2 books that are a great start to the book series artifact cycle 1 and artifact cycle 2. They are the first 5 books in the whole series. The first one is the Thran and the brothers war. The second one is Planswalker, time stream, and bloodlines. They are a good read if you can find them for cheap.

I read Harry Connolly's The Great Way series. It was decent but not super memorable. Probably going to try this series (Brian Staveley) next for no reason other than good Amazon reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Galactic-Mage-Series-ebook/dp/B006VCZMVS was a fun read

Book 1 is also free:

https://www.amazon.com/Zeroth-Law-Digitesque-Book-1-ebook/dp/B01GT90JB0/ref=pd_sbs_351_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PWXQQWCFNZ696S5CKJYG

I second this. It was released as The Warded Man in the US. Very good series so far.

I really liked Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw. Unfortunately, the author seems to be taking years to publish the continuation. Still, I would recommend it.

The Galactic Mage was ok but the rest of the series gets weird.

Definitely second The Starhip's Mage.

The Pillars of Reality series mixes steampunk and magic.

Awaken Online,
Life Reset,
Dungeon Born,
Dodge Tank,
Sufficiently Advanced Magic,
and I believe Ready Player One also fits the LitRPG description.

Interestingly, I found that Phyrexia (Magic: The Gathering) has a decent example of Eugenics - especially when it goes too far (and how could you prevent it from going that far?). Book Here

That's the name of the original book. They compiled the earlier books into an omnibus. Which is this

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showpost.php?p=4774046&postcount=52

This is order that I'm using to read the books. I'm also going to go with the crowd and say that The Brother's War is a very good book, and the best place to start. It was recently reprinted in the Artifacts Cycle I omnibus, but don't read the first book until much later.

Well, there's The Galactic Mage Series by John Daulton.

And you can also try The Two Space War by Dave Grossman and Leo Frankowski.

Non-Affiliate Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Titans-Arcane-Ascension-Book-ebook/dp/B07D3C3RX4/ref=pd_sim_351_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=74MTESEHWGTJKFY8YRCJ

Link to Andrew Rowe's Blog: https://andrewkrowe.wordpress.com/

The Magic Artifacts Cycle 1 and Artifacts Cycle 2 are great, just skip the Thran novel in cycle 1 to read once you finish Brothers war and cycle 2. Brother War in cycle 1 is probably my favorite book.

There's a lot of good ones, but I'll mention two I haven't seen in here yet,

Dawn of Wonder by Johnathon Renshaw

Contractor by Andrew Ball.

Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003G93YLY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_rpbBybZXR7N2E

Is this what you are looking for? I just looked on amazon but I don't know if this is what you want

One of my favorites this year, and a revelation, was Dawn of Wonder


From the OP's list, I only read The Three Body Problem, which I thought was incredible!

The Thran is not available for kindle, unfortunately. It is however in the Artifacts cycle omnibus, which I highly recommend. It has the story of the thran and then the story of Urza Vs the Phyrexians.

http://www.amazon.com/Artifacts-Cycle-Magic-Gathering-Omnibus/dp/0786953055

http://www.amazon.com/Artifacts-Cycle-II-Gathering-Omnibus/dp/0786953063/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=15M4GBD41KKZJWQTVT90

My ex boyfriend bought it for me as a present, but I'm assuming this is where he got it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lord-Rings-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0007182368/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371810900&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=lord+of+the+rings+50th+anniversary+edition+hardback

The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007182368/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_NkETDb81S69PP

The Warded Man(Demon Trilogy) -Brett

The Demon cycle
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0345518705?pc_redir=1409138339&robot_redir=1