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00:00 – Top 20 fantasy series (BookTube edition)
00:26 – The scoring system (points)
02:26 – Honorable mentions start
02:28 – #85 Dungeon Crawler Carl (1 point)
02:52 – #57 Memory, Sorrow & Thorn (4 points)
03:03 – #43 The Hierarchy Series (5.5 points)
03:41 – #36 Richard Swan (Empire of the Wolf / Great Silence)
04:27 – #32 The Kingkiller Chronicle (why it fell off BookTube)
05:34 – #20
08:00 – #19
08:28 – #18
09:25 – #17
10:14 – #16
11:02 – #15
12:02 – #14
13:23 – #13
14:32 – #12
15:35 – #11
17:17 – #10
18:16 – #9
19:21 – #8
20:42 – #7
21:55 – #6
23:19 – #5
24:27 – #4
26:02 – #3
26:56 – #2
27:34 – #1
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Its a bit saddening that the only old work (apart from Tolkien) is basically Memory, sorrow and thorn.
I have never even heard of a lot of the books on this list. My SF/Fantasy list would include authors C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Robin Hobb, Kelley Armstrong, L. Frank Baum, J.K. Rowling, Ray Bradbury, Lois McMaster Bujold, Tamora Pierce, Lesley Livingstone, Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, Mary Stewart, Maggie Stiefvater,
I recently read The First Law trilogy based on YouTube reviews. I thought it was just ok until the final book, then I thought it dragged and left a completely unsatisfying ending. My time would have been better spent rereading LOTR.
The best fantasy series is the 13th paladin absolutely superb
Ha. So Booktubers don't read very well do they? Some excruciating choices here.
I looked up the Patrick Rothfuss comment and loved how Googles AI summarized it: "The controversy reflects broader tensions between fan entitlement, author autonomy, and the pressures of publishing in the digital age." I love Fan Entitlement, yea I can see that..I will stop before I say more.
how can you have fraction points if you add up integers? Also, you should talk slower so as not to swallow half the words you speak. Nice list otherwise.
Red Rising???
Thank you
Malazan is the most rewarding read you can make. If you didnt make it to book 3, you must do yourself a favour and read through it. Book 1 was the authors first novel, and with book 2 having a completely new cast essentially it turns people off. By book 3 it becomes as good as it gets.
Mistborn should definitely be its own. The storm light series was ruined by the last book. I couldn't even finish it. Mistborn was amazing !
Great video. Where is the download link for the complete list?
Age of madness definitely SHOULD be counted separately from the first 6 books, age of madness was definitely a step down and by the end of book 3 of age of madness you can start to see how Joe Abercrombie has sold out, now in the devils it’s obvious I couldn’t take devils seriously just regurgitated parts of nine fingers for the werewolf and some parts were as if it was written by ai in the style of a worse Abercrombie
People keep saying "The wheel of time gets good after book 4."
So it takes a million words to get good?
Is Red rising sci fi? Thought it would be mentioned at least
the video I needed! thank you
Wheel of Time is too low.
The Green Bone Saga being ranked so highly is wild to me. I read through the series over the course of three months with three of my friends who’re also avid readers and we were sorely disappointed in it. Amazing concept, extremely unsatisfying execution. Our opinions, of course.
Nearly done catching up on the Cosmere and loving it, just started First Law (really enjoying it) and several other great series here (Red Rising, Dresden, LOTR, Dark Tower etc).
Different stories hit us differently I guess!
yeah dive into A song of Ice and Fire
It pisses me off the series isnt finished. Same with GOT.
So disappointed that Dresden isn’t higher…it’s soooooo great!
Read Berserk! It will change your life.
I hadn't heard of most of the series mentioned. I suspect some recency bias at work. I was surprised that Earthsea hadn't made the top 20. Anyway, I shall see if there's a list for best fantasy books.
Cosmere at no#1 is a joke. Sanderson is really not that good. Original Mistborn is great if you like literature made up for movie adaptation with every movie cliche involved, but next four books are really awful. And look at what he did with Wheel of Time.
Greenbone Saga and Cosmere are epic (Honorable mention – The Power Mage Series)
there is no list of books in the description, so thumbs down
I love Sanderson, but there's no way he's the greatest fantasy writer of all time. He hasn't transformed the genre in the way that Tolkien, Martin or even Fonda Lee now has. He dominates the genre because he writes really good accessible fantasy, but he's not the greatest ever.
I think Gardens of the Moon is the reason Malazan is thought of as difficult. It really does not do a great job of explaining magic or factions. Love the book, but Deadhouse Gates is much better.
An older series I would HIGHLY recommend is The Obsidian Chronicles by Lawrence Watt-Evans, severely underrated. It's only 3 books too, if you like the idea of revenge stories in a fantasy setting you'll enjoy it.
LoTR not being first ruins any and all credibility of anything related to "book tube"
Harry Dresden > Harry Potter
Momory sorrow thorn not being top 10 completely discredits this video and all the videos you got your information from sorry but this is true
I mean you did this with AI right lol
Malazan isn’t hard. I read this at like 13, people just over think it. People should just get better and read better
Harry Potter should be disqualified and discarded. Every penny given to Rawling goes into a pot that she is using to marginalize communities in England. People really should stop separating the art from the artist because that’s harming people
I think the Green Rider series by Kristen Britain is underrated and belongs in this list. It's my favorite these days.
The video and comments made me want to check out these series: Memory, Sorrow and Thorne, Sun Eater, The Dandelion Dynasty, The Dark Tower, Green Bone Saga, Farseer, The First Law, Mistborn, and Stormlight Archive. I've read LotR and ASOIAF, and am currently reading book 12 of The Wheel of Time.
I love A Song of Ice and Fire, but I just can't recommend it to people, because it will never be finished. That's the reason I won't start a series until it's complete.
Jim Butcher is great but his other series involving magic and fantasy is phenomenal…
Rothfuss is a tool to his fans, just like Martin. 2 peas in a pod…
ASOIAF was always my favorite… Malazan is quickly replacing it.
I read a lot of books and comics (including manga), especially fantasy and sci-fi, and I think you should give manga a chance.
Berserk, even though it’s still unfinished, is the most beautiful dark (grimdark) fantasy story I’ve ever read (it makes The First Law by Abercrombie—which I love—feel like a kids’ read by comparison). The early chapters might not be exceptional, but once the protagonist’s flashback begins, it becomes one of the most beautiful and emotionally powerful fantasy works ever.
One Piece, on the other hand, despite its endless length and a very childish beginning, grows rapidly and, for me, offers the best world-building ever.
Of course, reading a comic is different from reading a book, but I assure you that the two works you mentioned are outstanding (and there are many others just as good in the comics/manga universe) and truly worth it.
people that put the cosmere over lotr are people that thank the pilot that crashed their plane for the clean takeoff
Read ASOIAF..
The Dresden Files is awesome. Storm Front and Fool Moon maybe are early efforts but they are still enjoyable and they set the early tone for the series before it starts gradually changing into something more. The audio books are well done too. Grave Peril, Book 3, is pivotal and it's then that bigger things begin to be visibly set in motion. After that it just starts getting better and better overall.
Why does no one talk about the Dresden series by Jim Butcher. It may be modern fantasy but it is Fantasy
Malazan isnt even that complicated or difficult , you probably just have the attention span of a goldfish
The best series I’ve ever read is the bound and the broken. Read it ❤ epic af
#18 YOU WILL LOVE THE DRESDEN FILES!