krwlz

I read a ton of these type books, and Im always looking for new authors... WHo are your favorites?

I have read, and still read, Weis and Hickman, Feist, Slavatore, Tolkien, Jordan, and Goodkind.

Im probably missing a few... But thats most of my collection.

Any suggestions?

mystmarimatt

George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire." It's still going, there's only been like 3 books, but it's quite good.

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Redlemon

David Eddings: the Belgariad (5 books), the Mallorean (5 more books), and three more assoicated books after that. One of the most immersive worlds ever created.

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Charlatan

Sara Douglas: The Wayfarer Redemption

The Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
not exactly medival fantasy but it works... get this book, seriously.

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A friend of mine got me onto a trilogy by JV Jones that I really enjoy. It's called the "Book of Words".

I am not a huge fantasy reader, but I'm on the third book, and it's been a great trip through and through.

If you're at all interested, here is the prologue to the first book.
http://jvj.com/bakerpro.html

I'll be looking up some of the provided suggestions here, as I have a difficult time sorting through the massive amount of books at the store

Thanks !

Redjake

I take it you've read all of the Dragonlance books? Hence the Weis and Hickman reference? Or at least some of them? I just finished the last book in the main storyline. Good stuff, sad though (plotwise).

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I like all of Stephen Lawhead's books, his Taliesin - Merlin - Arthur trilogy is my favorite. I would recommend those to anyone.

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archer2371

T.H. White-The Once and Future King
Sir Gawain the Green Knight (author unknown)
Beowulf is good too.
yeah, I'm a dork.

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MPower

The george martin fire and ice series
greg keyes briar king books
jv jones ice books
terry brooks shanara series
d eddings had a good run on the first series
ray fiest riftwar series
tad williams thorn series

krwlz

All of the ones (I think) they wrote... Chronicles, Legends, Soulforge, and a few of the preludes.

Ill have to check these out, thanks for the recomendations.

I love Beowulf!

And should any of you get the chance, check out the authors I mentioned... PM me for specific books, I can tell ya which books comes first... etc.

Jesus Pimp

The Deathgate Cycle by Tracey Hickman and Margaret Wise is very good.

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mercury-hg

Robin Hobb - Assassin series, Mad Ship series
C.S. Freidman - Coldfire trilogy

both these series have very realistic character development, something often missing in modern fantasy. it's for that same reason that i dis-recommend the dragonlance/D&D derivative novels (not to piss off those who recommended them ) i feel that it's much more involving to read about a world and characters who seem like they were generated by rolls of dice and a book of fantasy standards.

Pellaz

Bone Dolls Twin
Kushiels Dart
Dragon Prince
The Magic of Recluse

Those and their sequels are all excellent offerings in the fantasy genre, but I'm not sure what medieval fantasy is, so may or may not be up your alley.

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krwlz

Anything with swords, magic, dragons, castles and the like is medieval fantasy. Anything that seems like it could have taken place in the "Dark Ages" or "Medieval Age" on some other world, or even this one. Hell Arthurian legend is medieval fantasy.

Phaenx

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is totally awesome, not everyone likes it, but those who do are complete rabid fanboi's. It's basically all about Martin emotionally skull fucking you.

The Legend of Huma is good too, that's a Dragon Lance book.

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Lasereth

I've heard really, really good things about the Deathgate Cycle as well. I've never read it, but a friend of mine said it was simply amazing.

I guess all I can add is more Dragonlance books (I'm another huge fan). Make sure you've read at least the main storyline! After the Legends, there's The Second Generation, and then Dragons of a Summer Flame. If ya wanna go past that, I'd read the War of the Souls trilogy as well (Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Dragons of a Lost Star, Dragons of a Vanished Moon).

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krwlz

I got the chronicals (main story) legends, summer flame, second generation, preludes, soul forge, brothers in arms, but yet to read war of the souls

the_marq

After I saw LOTR I had a few "medieval fantasies" about Liv Tyler.

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Fionavar Tapestry, by Guy Gavriel Kay

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Date the Banana

Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Best I've read in a long, long, long, long, long time. Maybe ever. Massive scope, superlative writing style, great characterization and an amazingly complex world history.
It's not available in the US yet, but order it (first four books out in the UK/Canada) online, you won't be disappointed. Each book runs about a thousand pages, and you will not be able to stop reading until it's done!
God I can't wait for book five........

EDIT: The day I post this I get an e-mail from Amazon to tell me they've shipped it. Yay!

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mystmarimatt

Man, i'm just getting into "the once and future king" by T.H. White. It's a comical, hitchhiker's guide-esque take on the arthurian legend. It's the schnizzle.

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Sparhawk

Another two thumbs up for this series. Very entertaining books - something for both the sci fi and fantasy fan in me. Loved 'em.

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Piers Anthony?

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dy156

I know they're kid's books, but when I was young I read Lloyd Alexander's books about the Black Cauldron, Gwydion, and Taran, the assistant pig-keeper. My wife teaches 5th grade reading, and a few months ago, I found them in her classroom and reread them. It was pretty cool.

Found a description of them on Google here

I know, they was alot of LOTR imitation, (can't tell you how without spoiling it, ) but it was still pretty neat, and the inspiration was from Welsh legends, which kind of form a backdrop to the story, and predate Tolkien.

VF19

Im not a big reader, but the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
is pretty good. Suprised it hasnt been reccommended here yet.
Then again it is about mice and rats and squirrels with swords (basically)

BuddyHawks

Gotta love Wheel of Time.

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Date the Banana

When I started gettting hooked on Wheel of Time, I was worried that Robert Jordan wouldn't live long enough to finish it.
Now I'm worried that I won't!

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MPower

You could also do some old classics:

the Fritz Leiber Fafhrd & Grey Mouser series

Howard/Carter Conan books