![]() Sorry to ramble on - I can never resist a chance to share admired books. In the young people’s division, kudos goes to Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain series, and C.S. There’s something to be said for Kathryn Kurtz’s Deryni books, though they may not be quite the epic you have in mind Elizabeth Moon’s The Deed of Paksenarrion Sheri Tepper’s weird but fascinating True Game series Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber (epic in their own way) Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword and various treatments of the Arthurian legends (I have a pair of old blog posts describing those). ![]() I assume you’ve already read LotR, since that’s THE seminal epic fantasy (of the modern era). I read The Sword of Shannara, but it seemed so complete a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings that I never went any further. ![]() Over the years, I’ve been adding books to my TBR but sometimes never get to them or lose interest, but I’ve been too lazy to actually take them out of my TBR shelf. From the above list, I’d endorse The Wheel of Time - though it’s REALLY long and unfathomably complicated and the Dragonriders of Pern (though it’s actually science fiction, not fantasy it just feels like fantasy). Recently, I’ve been seeing a couple people going through their TBR on Goodreads and deciding which books to keep and which books to take out as a sort of clean-up. ![]()
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