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

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I have had a scan through the other thread, but its mostly stuff i have already read.. i am a bookwork in need!

My library includes
Katherine Kerr
Mercedes Lackey
Raymond E Feist
David Eddings
David Gemmel
Brent Weeks
Anne McCaffrey
Trudi Canavan
Jenny Wurts
Robin Hobb
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett

I have read some Terry Goodkind and also the Wheel of Time (author escapes me)

I've just bought Brian Sandersons Mistborn Trilogy to try and i do have a Patrick Rothfuss novel somewhere i haven't dipped into yet properly. Game of Thrones doesn't really grip me to be worth trying.

Can anyone suggest anyone else?

I'm not keen on science fiction, space ships bore me.

Is there anyone i've over looked?

Terry Brooks - lots of books, some stand alone, some series and some loosely linked. Start with the Sword of Shannara and the Elfstones of Shannara, and work from there.

Tad Williams is good.

Just thought of another one - Stacia Kane.

Her 'Downside Ghosts' series is set in an urban dystopia where ghosts have risen in a zombie-apocalypse-type scenario, and the established church has got the [unspecified] country in an iron grip in the fight against them. Our heroine, Chess, is a super-charged psychic-ghost-fighter from the wrong side of the tracks with a taste for hard drugs and highly unsuitable men.

'S good. In a low brow way.

Have you read any Lois Mc Master Bujold? Everyone thinks of her sci fi stuff (which I adore) but she's also done a few superb fantasy books. Start with A Curse of Chalion.

The echorium sequence by Katherine Roberts. Technically for young adults but a great read

I echo Tinkly - Joe Abercrombie I think would be up your street..
I also really like Jasper Fforde - particularly Shades of Grey (not to be confused with 50 shades of..)
Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London series is good for a light read

I'm new here and I appreciate all the suggestions - I need some different authors too!

Marking my place with nothing to offer

I am currently reading the first three books of The Dragon Blood Collection which was a Kindle "box set" on Amazon. I thought it was from a recommendation here but I can't find it! Lyndsay Buroker is the author.

Nothing too deep but very engaging and easy to not-put-down!

At the moment I'm rereading Hugh Cook's Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series (favourites of mine since they were published in the 1980s). They're out of print sadly, but used copies can be bought for a couple of pounds on eBay or Amazon, they may be in libraries as well.

Cook was a prolific author who wrote the whole series in just a few years and originally planned a massive sixty-book series. Sadly the first ten didn't sell as well as expected so no more were published; and very sadly he passed away from brain cancer at a young age. But the ten books that made it to publication are absolutely brilliant; set in the world of Amarl during a time of war and upheaval with plenty of wizards, warriors and dragons for fantasy fans but a lot more intelligent, funny and insightful than your average swords'n'sorcery saga. The books are set at about the same time but featuring different characters so as such are self-contained, but there are recurring characters and overlapping story lines so they definitely benefit from being read in order.

There's no justice at all in the fact that Cook didn't become as well-known as (say) GRRM so it would be great if more people read his books!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kelley Armstrong yet - very much urban fantasy, both the Women of The Otherworld or (even better IMO), the Cainsville trilogy.

I've also been reading Keri Arthur recently, which is fun (but even more lowbrow than Kelley Armstrong ).

The Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix is also very good - he writes only fantasy really, all YA but very readable nonetheless.

Stephen King is great for fantasy, too, and not just horror:

The Dark Tower Parts I to VIII
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Talisman, co-written with Peter Straub

All of these are superb.

Chris Wooding? I first read his YA stuff, but I think the Braided Path trilogy is aimed at adults.

I'm bumping this to say: not only did this thread cost me a bloody fortune in Kindle books, I'm also loving the Jodi Taylor series - I'm actually re-reading the boxset at the moment because they're so much fun.

And also, by bumping this I've found a whole load more authors who are just going to have to wait until I get paid on Friday...

I followed the Jodi Taylor suggestion here, and have now read all the St Mary's books, including the short stories. I loved them - and they are good for re-reading in much the same way as Terry Pratchett. Once for the story, then again and again for the scene setting, the language and the jokes. There is a new one coming out soon and I am really looking forward to it.

Seconding a lot of recommendations here, particularly Stephen King's fantasy-horror stuff (love "The Talisman" and "The Dark Tower" series), Piers Anthony (try his series "The Adventures of Kelvin of Rud" co-written with Robert E Margroff), Diana Wynne Jones, Tanith Lee and Ursula Le Guin (she has such a way with creating whole worlds and cultures). On the mystery side, you might enjoy "The Eight" by Katherine Neville. Ooh, and James Herbert's "Dune" series for something old school.

Forgot to say Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" and some of Gregory Macguire's retellings of children's fairy tales.

My suggestions are a bit obscure, so apologies in advance.

"The Long Ships", by Frans G. Bengtsson - sort of low fantasy (no magic etc) based around real world history, specifically the Vikings. If you liked Michael Crichton's "The Eaters Of The Dead" aka "The Thirteenth Warrior", then you'd probably like this too

"The Seventh Magpie", by Nancy Chase - indie author, but it's a truly lovely little fairy tale, in the proper sense of that term. Really well written; the blurb lets it down somewhat. I reviewed it and was pleasantly surprised.

"Tailchaser's Song", by Tad Williams - traditional sort of hero's journey/fairy tale told via cats. In the vein of "Duncton Wood", etc.

"The Wild Road" and "The Golden Cat", by Gabriel King - these two are more magical realism than fantasy. They sort of bridge the gap between myth and science fiction, so might not be the OP's cup of tea.

I have a new recommendation!
Starting with 'first grave on the left' (or it might be on the right)...
All 8 of the series of books by Darynda Jones.

Just marvellous.