So I grew up very sheltered and isolated from society and as a result missed out on a lot of pop culture and other common things. I love to read, and I really enjoy fantasy and DnD and those types of things and I’m trying to find and catch up on the great fantasy books/series that every fantasy lover/nerd should know. I’m not as interested in sci-fi, but I’m willing to read the “great” ones too. What would you recommend?
Series I’ve read: The Lord of the Rings The Witcher The Dark Tower The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Dungeon Crawler Karl
Update to add also read: Wheel of Time Most of the Stormlight Archive The Hobbit
I’m just starting my first Discworld book.
Edit: Thanks everyone! Keep them coming, I’m going to make a list with all the suggestions and start working through them.
Honestly the Harry Potter series. The author is a piece of shit, so get the books from your local library, don’t support her.
Nah, there are so many better options out there than Harry Potter. Life is too short to read antisemitism.
Have you read The Gilded Ones, by Namina Forna? It’s the first book in a great series, and it kicks the shit out of Harry Potter.
The Sisters Avramapul series by Victoria Goddard is another one (along with everything else in her Nine Worlds universe)
Or the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune
Derring-do For Beginners by Victoria Goddard
Edited for a word and to add another rec
Alistar Reynolds. Revelation space. if you like hard scifi.
Have you read any Murderbot? All Systems Red got me hooked (Martha Wells)