Fantasy Fans, i have run out of Authors... help!

I hate threads like this. It ruins my attempt to prune my Amazon wish list :)

I need to get up in the loft and dig out my Amber books. Amongst others.

House Atreides I've had her name on the tip of my tongue for hours! It was Glenda Larke's Stormlord trilogy that I was thinking of.

Have you read Havenstar by Glenda Noramly? She now goes by Glenda Larke IIRC. I haven't read any others by her but Havenstar is a perfect little fantasy book, well characterised and very very good. I really hoped she had used the characters again but apparently not :( Even dyslexic, one-book-a-year DH was glued to it.

Magical fantasy
Megan Whalen Turner- The Thief
I've recently discovered Kate Elliott in the library.
Michael J. Sullivan
Karen Miller- Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series. Also wrote some books as K. E. Mills, around a world with both magic and zeppelins, which I liked very much.

Jean M Auel - Earth's Children series - starts with Clan of the cave bear - kind of prehistoric historical/fantasy fiction.

Don't drag me into your snippiness, please, never! You will have noticed that I recinded my suggestion in my next post - people are allowed to have differing tastes!

Some people don't like reading fiction, some don't like crime, some don't like classics, some don't like poetry. It doesn't matter! The OP asked for fantasy but not SF - her lack of interest is not a judgement on your own preferences.

Personally, I like quite a bit of SF, but prefer it to be character rather than technology focussed. So Ender's Game I really enjoyed, but Peter F Hamilton bored me in under a chapter. That doesn't mean that I think Hamilton fans are somehow lesser!

I also found Jonathan Strange impossible to read.

As well as the Ice and Fire books.

I think everyone else has said what I would have said!

I found Jonathan Strange completely impenetrable.

Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, Patricia Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (the last 2 did some good collaborations), Diana Wynne Jones is essential, Anthony Swithin's Rockall books...Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell of course

More urban fantasy - Benedict Jacka, Ben Aaronovitch

I don't understand why people think they get to be pushy when people say they don't like or are uninterested in something. There are so many great things to read it's helpful to have a way to cut numbers.

Jim Butcher - both the Dresden Files and his 6-book series which I can never remember the name of. First one is called The Furies of Calderon.

In a similar vein to Dresden and the Rivers of London series is Benedict Jacka's series, starting with Fated.

The Eli Monpress series by Rachel Aaron.

Sorry haven't read the full thread but am similarly looking for a 'good' fantasy series to get into (fantasy is my guilty pleasure as dh looks down on it from a lofty height ...)

I loved LOTR as a teenager which got me started ..

My list of things I like includes a mix of fantasy and sci-fi/fantasy crossover:

Game of Thrones
Ursula Le Guin
Patrick Rothfuss
Guy Gavriel Kay
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
First few Dune books

I thought Robin Hobb was plodding and gave up halfway through the Assassins trilogy and do not want to read anything more about elves, dwarves and 'hey, we can't go round the mountains let's go through the ancient mines - I mean, no-one's ever done that before so what could possibly go wrong' storylines

Guy Gavriel Kay mentioned up thread, look at Tigana and the Fionavar trilogy.

Also Patricia Kenealy Morrisons Keltiad series, if you like Celtic they are a must.

Fritz Lieber's Fahfred and Grey Mouser series
Gordon R. Dickson's Dragon and the George series
Alan Dean Foster's Spell singer series

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Guy Gavriel Kay!

And Robin McKinley - a lot of those are more YA, but she has written two of my (still)-favourite books ever and is a good fit with other ones you said you'd liked.

Have you tried Game of Thrones? What did you think?

Takver mentioned the Parasol Protectorate series, by Gail Carriger; I would second this, she writes in a kind of feminist/dry humour way that I enjoy. Def worth a shot.

Or I have enjoyed Cherie Priest's 'Clockwork Century' books, starting with Boneshaker; they're set in an alternative-history American Civil War and each book follows different characters so quality/plot remains good IMO.

It's hard to know where to draw the line between SF and fantasy though. There is the whole sub genre of "planetary romance" with at one end CS Lewis's Pelelandra series, clearly fantasy with the slightest of SF trappings, or Lord Valentine where the telepathy has a vague hand-wavey SF justification, through some of Le Guin, Vance's Showboat World or Planet of Adventure where the spaceship is simply a vehicle to place the protaganists in a fantastical setting, to Niven's Ringworld which is clearly SF although fantastical in a lot of ways (vampires and other humanoid races, quest plot etc.). Sorry for the essay, the point is, someone who enjoys some of these books could well enjoy others even if they are ostensibly "SF" and not fantasy. If you definitely want elves and magic then something like Valentine would not appeal. But if you want stories exploring a well imagined fantasical setting even something like Weinbaum's Martian Odyssey could work.

Oh, just seen you don't like science/future books, so discount those last three!

For historical fiction, have you read Lindsey Davis' Falco books? They are Ancient Roman whodunnits, and very funny.