Fantasy/magic recommendations please

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A little while ago I posted here to ask for fantasy/ magic recommendations and someone suggested the October Daye series. Thank you! I absolutely loved them, even going so far as to buy the last one in hardback because it’s not out in paperback yet.
Does anyone have any similar suggestions? I really need my escapism at the moment.
I’ve read and enjoyed:
Rivers of London series
The Magicians ( my favourites!)
The Sharing Knife series
The Time travellers Wife
Game of Thrones (natch)
The latest Phillip Pullman books ( not disappointed)

Would love to hear your ideas.

OP. I read lots of free amateur work online at Royal Road. Lots is pure dross but there are many stand outs just look the popular listing for decent ones. The best are as good or even better then some published work I have read.

Stories I have enjoyed.

Trailer trash
The mother of learning

There is a web story called Worm which is good.

Oh yes, Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere and Stardust are lovely but American Gods and Anansi Boys are great too. And if you’ve not read it yet, Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett) is one of the loveliest, most comforting fantasy books you’ll ever read

Kelley Armstrong. The otherworld series starts with Bitten, and there are 13 books in the main series, plus add-ons. It's set in the real modern world but is about werewolves, witches, necromancers, demons, warlocks, etc. I love this series, and she's got other series as well which are just as good.

The witcher series. Appears to be your standard medevil swords and sorcery fantasy but has a deep lore and refreshingly grey morality.

Thiefs magic, and it's series. Think it's by Trudy Caveran

The Incryptid series is very good fun (ame author as Tony Daye) - Discount Armageddon is the first book. The Curse of Chalion and the other books in Lois McMaster Bujold's World of the 5 Gods are a delight.

I read Inkheart - kind of by accident as it was in a mixed box of books I bought at a school fair. Not meant for adults but I loved it. First book in a trilogy:

Inkheart
Inkspell
Inkdeath

Ursula le Guin's the Wizard Of Earthsea (4 books I think although it started as a trilogy). It is probably aimed at older teens but to be honest there is enough mysticism and magical lore in there to appeal to adults readers of more weightier tomes.

I've got out of the habit of reading, except on holiday - I started Neverwhere on the last one and it's sitting on my bedside table half read. I really must finish it rather than MN'ing at bedtime and then I can get on with rereading discworld.

Final book of the trilogy due out fairly soon Is it actually or is that just a vicious rumour to punish rothfuss fans? (I'm pretty fed up of waiting now)

Well it's listed on Amazon as being published in August 2020, so I sincerely hope it's not a vicious rumour! I'm sick of waiting too!

One series that never seems to make the lists is Memory of Flames by Stephen Deas: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BHN/memory-of-flames.

There is a triloogy then a second trilogy and they're linked by a book called The Black Mausoleum.

These books are reminiscent of The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. I'd also recommend that but it might be too dark for some tastes. However, Abercrombie also wrote a YA (-ish) series called the Shattered Sea trilogy that is less bleak while still being satisfying enough for adult readers.

Joe Abercrombie - all books, set in different times and parts of the same world

Sarah J. Maas - YA, Fae and magic plus romance. Sounds twee but really got into it!

Medieval Viking Saga Brendan Cornwall - The Last Kingdom series

I hate threads like this - they cost me a fortune 😂😂

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence - must read the next two
Firethorn by Sarah Micklem

Not sure if you are reading sci fi, but I've just read "a long journey to a small angry planet" by Becky Chambers and I loved it.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is amazing.

I love Uprooted and Novak's most recent one, Spinning Silver!

The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black. Begins with The Cruel Prince. Quite enjoyable.

Kelly Armstrong
Patricia Briggs
Ilona Andrews
Naomi Novik

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is one of the few books I have ever given up on. I couldn't get into her writing style at all but I did enjoy the TV Adaptation

Ooh, I'm really enjoying The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern atm. Natasha Pulley's first two novels, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Bedlam Stacks, are a similar style and very good.

The Nightside.

Total trash and very enjoyable.

Love the Nightside!

Would agree with Benedict Jacka, also Patricia McKillip, Diana Wynne Jones, Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor, The Unspoken Word by A K Larkwood and War for the oaks by Emma Bull (a great urban fantasy from before it was a thing)

Second many of the books recommended especially the Robin Hobb series and Neil Gaiman's books. I also loved Jeff Wheelers's Harbinger series. Justin Cronin's The Passage series are good, but dystopian (with vampires, but not the Twilight kind!) so may not be your cup of tea.

I loved the Maria V Snyder study trilogy, she has written more but I couldn’t put that trilogy down.

My top 3 authors 👌

Robin Hobb - start with Assassins Apprentice.

Brandon Sanderson - Start with Mistborn: The Final Empire.

Ursula K. le Guin - Start with A Wizard of Earthsea. (It’s a smidge YA, I first read it aged 10, but the world and the rest of the series add up to incredible)

Wizards' First Rule by Terry Goodkind it's the first of about seven books, all are incredibly richly written and very enjoyable.