Looking for an epic read

[Judgejudyandexecutioner]

Looking for a book/book series to get my teeth into.

Robin Hobb.

Start with Assassin's Apprentice. You're welcome 😉

Gormenghast! It's a trilogy but I can't remember the order now

Justin Cronin's 'The Passage' and it's sequels.

Cloud Atlas

Have you read any Naomi Novik? The Temeraire series is the Napoleonic war but with Dragons. Her Scholomance series is fantastic too. Magic school where everything tries to kill you.

Chronicles of St Mary's: exploration of historical events in contemporary time (do not call it time travel). Great fun.

Mantell's Wolf Hall without a shadow of a doubt.
I love King. it's not the same in many ways but the same ability to tell a story and make you believe the characters. Both authors work stay with me.

Or Katherine Arden.

Or Natasha Pulley. Definitely Natasha Pulley if you've not read her. Watchmaker is beautiful, then Bedlam Stacks I found less good but still enjoyable. It is set in the same universe but with different characters, just a little Easter Egg type overlap. Pepperharrow goes back to the Watchmaker characters. The Kingdoms is standalone and utterly beautiful and then Valery K is superb. She is like fusion of historical fiction with fantasy and sometimes a smattering of Sci fi.

Good choices.

If you like fantasy, and you want a series, how about Philip Pullman? Also, Lewis’s Narnia books are wonderful. I read them as an adult and thoroughly enjoyed them. C S Lewis also wrote a great science fiction trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, etc).

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

NK Jemisin!

Or Robin Hobb
Laini Taylor
Leigh Bardugo Ninth gate

Brandon Sanderson

Swan song by Robert r mccammon. If you can’t find a copy, just give me a shout. I grab it every time I see a copy in a charity shop forgetting I already have multiple one at home. First time I read it I phoned in sick to work so I could continue. 😳

Presumably you've read the Discworld series (Terry Pratchett) and A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin), i.e. Game of Thrones? If you haven't read the latter, you might get very lucky and find he actually finished book 6 by the time you've ploughed through the first five!

Definitely the game of thrones books if you haven't read them

I'm going through a "listen to epic audio books I've already read on audible"

So far I've done:
Name of the wind and sequel
Game of thrones book one
Jonathan strange and Mr norrell
The stand
Wild swans
Bonfire of the vanities

Would also recommend the magicians series by lev Grossman.

Bella forrest series are good.

the gender game series is great, then feeds into the girl who dared to think 🙂

Great minds on the username

Ursula le Guin. Some of the novels are very short, but they add up into a complete and engrossing picture of a fascinating universe ( she is a writer with a strong moral and feminist focus, but subtly, subtly).

When I read your post, I immediately thought ‘Shogun’. ( James Clavell). The more I find out about Japan, the more I admire his understanding of this complex and alien ( to the West) society…plus, it’s riveting!

Can’t get much more epic than The Wheel of Time series. Took me half a year to read all 14 books.