Hello, book friends!
Once again I took to my Book Twitter to get an idea of what fantasy books you all thought should be listed.
As you can see I asked the twitter community to give me the books they thought were classic, renowned in the genre or a must read for my Book Bucket List Poster.
A book bucket list poster is a poster that has some form of pictures representing a selection books on it and you scratch off the cover when you have read it, kind of like a scratch card. Now, most of the ones I have seen are books in general and have all the classics on rather than being genre specific. I obviously want a fantasy specific one, so I thought to make my own but still needed to come up with the books and Twitter did not let me down!
I had over 100 suggestions and nearly all fell into the criteria I wanted!
So, while I go through the books a little bit more and select the books I want to use for the poster I’m going to draft up this list of all the suggestions that came from the thread!
Without further ado, please see the fantasy books you all said were classic, renowned or a must read for the fantasy genre…
** In no particular order, well I suppose there is an order, just the order I wrote them down from the Twitter thread 🙂 **
Please note I have only written the first books of the series as this will be a bucket list. If you like the book continue the series, if you don’t like it then don’t continue it 😀
| 1. THE HOBBIT by J. R. R. Tolkien | 2. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Lord of the Rings) by J. R. R. Tolkien | 3. PAWN OF PROPHECY (The Belgariad) by David Eddings | 4. LEGEND (The Drenai Saga) by David Gemmell |
| 5. THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis | 6. THE WAY OF KINGS (Stormlight Archive) by Brandon Sanderson | 7. MAGICIAN: APPRENTICE (The Riftwar Saga) by Raymond E. Feist | 8. THE SWORD OF SHANNARA (Shannara Trilogy) by Terry Brooks |
| 9. WIZARD’S FIRST RULE (Sword of Truth) by Terry Goodkind | 10.Dragonsbane (Winterlands) by Barbara Hambly | 11. THE FIFTH SEASON (The Broken Earth) by N. K. Jemisin | 12. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle) by Ursul K. Le Guin |
| 13. The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan | 14. Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven) by James Barclay | 15. Blood of Elves (The Witcher) by Andrzej Sapkowski | 16. Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson |
| 17. GOOD OMENS by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | 18. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman | 19. Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini | 20. Traitor’s Blade (Greatcoats) by Sebastien de Castell |
| 21.Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey | 22. Blackdog (Gods of the Caravan Road) by K.V. Johansen | 23. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip | 24. The Colour of Magic (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett |
| 25. Blood Song (Raven’s Shadow) by Anthony Ryan | 26. The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss | 27. The Rage of Dragons (The Burning) by Evan Winter | 28. The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy) by James Islington |
| 29. The Magicians’ Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy) by Trudi Canavan | 30. The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations) by Michael J. Sullivan | 31. American Gods (American Gods) by Neil Gaiman | 32. The Way of Shadows (Night Angel) by Brent Weeks |
| 33. Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen) by John Gwynne | 34. The Black Prism (Lightbringer) by Brent Weeks | 35. The City (The City) by Stella Gemmell | 36. The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard) by Scott Lynch |
| 37. The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns) by Django Wexler | 38. Promise of Blood (Powder Mage) by Brian McClellan | 39. The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander | 40. The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing) by R. Scott Bakker |
| 41. Blackwing (Raven’s Mark) by Ed McDonald | 42. The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall) by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 43. Neverwhere (London Below, The World of Neverwhere) by Neil Gaiman | 44. Kushiel’s Dart (Phèdre’s Trilogy) by Jacqueline Carey |
| 45. Elantris (Elantris) by Brandon Sanderson | 46. Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel) by Josiah Bancroft | 47. Stardust by Neil Gaiman | 48. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn) by Peter S. Beagle |
| 49. The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow) by Janny Wurts | 50. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R.R. Martin | 51. The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn) by Tad Williams | 52. Black Sun Rising (The Coldfire Trilogy) by C.S. Friedman |
| 53. The Warded Man (Demon Cycle) by Peter V. Brett | 54. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll | 55. The Blade Itself (The First Law) by Joe Abercrombie | 56. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy) by N.K. Jemisin |
| 57. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay | 58. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman | 59. Sabriel (The Old Kingdom) by Garth Nix | 60. The Sword of Kaigen (Theonite) by M.L. Wang |
| 61. Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor) by Mark Lawrence | 62. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley | 63. Elfsorrow (Legends of the Raven) by James Barclay | 64. Mage’s Blood (The Moontide Quartet) by David Hair |
| 65. Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt) by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 66. The Sword in the Stone (The Once and Future King) by T.H. White | 67. The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga) by Mary Stewart | 68. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson |
| 69. Prosper’s Demon by K.J. Parker | 70. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke | 71. Weaveworld by Clive Barker | 72. Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising) by Susan Cooper |
| 73. Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle) by Stephen R. Lawhead | 74. Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead | 75. Green Rider (Green Rider) by Kristen Britain | 76. Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker) by Orson Scott Card |
| 77. Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness) by Tamora Pierce | 78. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon | 79. The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor) by Katherine Addison | 80. Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga) by Michael Moorcock |
| 81. The Diamond Throne (The Elenium) by David Eddings | 82. Spellsinger (Spellsinger) by Alan Dean Foster | 83. Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb | 84. The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm |
| 85. Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle) by Margaret Weis | 86. The Magic of Recluce (The Saga of Recluce) by L.E. Modesitt Jr | 87. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende | 88. Redwall (Redwall) by Brian Jacques |
| 89. A Time of Dread (Of Blood and Bone) by John Gwynne | 90. Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions) by Michael R. Fletcher | 91. Guardians of the West (The Malloreon)by David Eddings | 92. Dragons of a Fallen Sun (Dragonlance: The War of Souls) by Margaret Weis |
| 93. Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles) by Kevin Hearne | 94. The Court of Broken Knives (Empires of Dust) by Anna Smith Spark | 95. Age of Assassins (The Wounded Kingdom) by R.J. Barker | 96. Prince of Fools (The Red Queen’s War) by Mark Lawrence |
| 97. The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle) by Miles Cameron | 98. The Shadow of the Wind (El cementerio de los libros olvidados) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 99. Killer of Men (Long War) by Christian Cameron | 100. Talion: Revenant by Michael A. Stackpole |
There we have it 100 books that I will slowly draw up icons for and put on my book bucket list poster!
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