Please suggest fantasy films and books for me.

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I need something to watch and/or read. It's been a while. Something like Merlin, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc. (As you can see, I'm stuck in the past. I've no idea of recent ones). The more unrealistic, the better.

When suggesting, could you please indicate if it's a book or film/TV show. Thank you.

Been enjoying Britannia (TV series) - it is enjoyably weird, a mash up of fantasy and history but without allegiance to either.

Oh yes, shadow and bone series! I really enjoyed that.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (book) - I enjoyed that too.

@Fashionablylate1999

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is brilliant, and there is a TV adaptation of it starting on Amazon Prime on Friday too

I was hoping there was at least one other fan here 😁

Wheel of Time followed by Discworld :)

To watch:
Good Omens,
Supernatural,
Once Upon a Time (hang in there, it gets better)

To read:
David Eddings (don’t bother with his Elder Gods series but everything else he wrote is good)
Mercedes Lackey, particularly her Valdemar books
Nalini Singh (Her Psy/Changling series is excellent as is her Guild Hunter books)
Patricia Briggs

I like Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, Naomi Novik, Jim Butcher. And Pterry obviously!

Dune

I enjoyed a Court of Thorns and Roses series.

Maybe also shadow and bone.

The sookie stackhouse book series is really good. Much better than true blood series.

@Fashionablylate1999

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is brilliant, and there is a TV adaptation of it starting on Amazon Prime on Friday too

Oooh I'm excited for this

To read:
Anything by Diana Wynne Jones but especially Charmed Life, The Pinhoe Egg, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Conrad's Fate, Hexwood, Deep Secret, The Merlin Conspiracy, A Sudden Wild Magic, The Dark Lord of Derkhelm, The Year of the Griffin, Enchanted Glass, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, House of Many Ways, Black Maria, Archer's Goon, The Ogre Downstairs, The Time of the Ghost, Fire and Hemlock, A Tale of Time City, Dogsbody, Witch Week.

Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke.

Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels, especially the earlier ones.

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.

The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

TV series to watch:
Gormenghast (BBC).
Farscape.
Sliders.
Roswell High.
Supernatural.
Sapphire and Steel.

Studio Ghibli films especially Spirited Away, My Friend Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle.

I loved Shadow and Bone on Netflix. Still waiting for a new season. Didn't realise it was a book. I'm excited, as I prefer reading stories to watching them, if I have a choice.

I've seen Supernatural.

Will be looking up every single recommendation. Thanks so much.

I would add Princess Mononoke to the studio Ghibli list

I haven't read any Maggie Stiefvater, I'll have to check them out.

There's a native American writer called Rebecca Roanhorse, I've really enjoyed some of her stuff- more post apocalyptic than high fantasy.

Neil Gaiman is good too - Stardust, American God's, Anansi Boys

Shadow and bone on netflix, discovery of witches, American gods, The magicians, Shannara Chronicles, Merlin, Outlander,

• Charmed or buffy for something retro perhaps.

Books wise : the shades of magic trilogy by V.E Scwhab, any S J Maas if you need ridiculous guilty pleasure type escapism, Six of Crows duology, The Hobbit, His Dark Materials, Robin Hobb books.

I got the box set of Shadow and Bone books in The Works recently, think it was a pretty good price 😊

More to read:
Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series - The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, The Woman Who Died A Lot.

Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood and Co series - The Screaming Staircase, The Whispering Skull, The Hollow Boy, The Creeping Shadow and The Empty Grave. Also his Bartimaeus series - The Ring of Solomon, The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, Prolemy's Gate. And the first in his new series - The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne.

Laini Taylor's Smoke and Bone trilogy - Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight, and Dreams of Gods and Monsters. And from her new series Strange the Dreamer ( I haven't read the latest one yet).

Elizabeth Knox's The Rainbow Opera, The Dream Quake.

Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned.

Clifford D Simak's The Goblin Reservation, Enchanted Pilgrimage, Where the Evil Dwells, A Heritage of Stars.

I second Robin Hobb I was genuinely sad when I finished all her books

The St Mary's series, totally sucked me in

If you don't mind Korean zombie film then

Kingdom (Netflix) series
Train to Busan

I would recommend to read it with subtitles and listen to the original Korean language

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams.

Spoilt for choice now. Thanks again everyone for your help. I'm starting today.

Robin Hobb's The Farseer Trilogy

Books:

Robin Hobb - start with Assassin's Apprentice
Naomi Novik for European folk story-inspired books. Uprooted and Spinning Silver are standalones; A Deadly Education is the start of a series.
Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series for Japanese-inspired fantasy
N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is incredible. Fantasy, geology, science - I haven't really come across anything else like it.

Definitely all the Terry Pratchett books, but I'm almost through the The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty and its epic! Also anything by Brandon Sanderson (especially Mistborn), Greg Keyes, Peter V Brett (Demon Cycle) also

Definitely Jodi Taylor’s ‘St Mary’s’ series. Also Ben Aaronovitch ‘Rivers of London’ series. Both are books.

I’ve just bought Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff which might fit your reading request.

I’ve also really enjoyed Star Trek Discovery series. I’m not really a Trekkie but this is different and just excellent, if you don’t mind science fiction.