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40. Kings of the wyld 39. The way of shadows 38. The prince of thorns 37. The baker's boy 36. Off armageddon reef 35. Legend - david 34. The last of the renshai 33. V.e schwab series 32. The dark tide 31. The mirror of her dreams 30. Shadowmarch - tad williams 29. Shadow and claw - gene wolfe 28. Thieves world 27. Black sun rising - 26. Chronicles of the cheysuli 25. Dragon prince 24. Kings dragon 23. The Golden Key 22. Michael moorcock series 21. Deryni rising - katherine kurtz 20. Nevernight 19. Robin hobb series 18. Jhereg - steven .. 17. The book of three - lloyd alexander 16. Dragons of autumn twilight 15. Harrypotter 14. Tigana 13. Magician apprentice 12. Lord foul's bane 11. Pawn of prophecy 10. The forgetting moon 09. The lies of locke lamora 08. Gardens of the moon 07. The name of the wind - patrick 06. The way of kings - brandon 05. The sword of shannara 04. The eye of the world 03. A game of thrones 02. The drangonbone chair - tad williams 01. J . R. R. Tolkien

I wish I could do lists this fast. I have to talk about each one for 5-7 minutes. Some good ones on here and a handful I haven't heard of.

No way can a Top 40 List exclude Joe Abercrombie! Great work man!

man i'm hyped up on caffeine in this video

I know I am really late on this vid but just wanted to say thank you for mentioning The Belgariad. No one ever talks about it and it's one of the best fantasy series of all time. Also, your books sound great, looking forward to getting and reading them soon.

Your taste is near perfection. So happy to see 80s/90s fantasy being recognized and recommended. I absolutely adore the Elric saga.

Very inspirational. Your enthusiasm has caused me to seek out several books on your list. Thank you for putting this together for all of us. 👏

Great list! Some other standout authors that could have been included: Ursula K. Le Guin, Mervyn Peake, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Lois Mc Master Bujold, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, R.A. Salvatore, C.S. Lewis, Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard.

Thank you for putting Tad Williams so high on your list. Haven't read Memory, Sorrow & Thorn for a long time but its stays with me as being one of the most amazing book journeys I have taken.

Man, I thouroughly enjoyed this video Brian! It feels like I opened a magical chest and discovered glimmering treasures inside. I love how you highlight the cover artists as well, thank you!

So happy I found your channel. Just getting into fantasy and you've given some great recommendations. Thank you!!!

Thank you for putting so many new series on my radar! Havent heard of many of them but going to chekc them out for sure!

I stumbled across your channel about a month ago, but haven't had a chance to come back until recently. I really love your energy. When I was a kid, I used to wander the fantasy and horror aisles of Waldenbooks as often as I was able in in the 80's. I remember seeing so many of these covers and I loved them all. The beautiful scenes on the cover really ignite the imagination and prime you for the fantastic worlds waiting for you inside. Your obvious love of books really resonates with me and I look forward to watching many more of your videos. Thank you for making them, they are a joy to watch. Dragonlance was the first "real" novel that I read that wasn't an assignment in school and I was amazed that reading to be so much fun. Larry Elmore is a legend and his work on those books...they still take me away.

Added so many books to my wish list.. your reading experience really shows. Lots of love. Can’t wait to get to your book!!

Thanks for putting this list together. It puts recommendations into better perspective when you have a better understanding of what the recommender really likes. Plenty to add to my purchase and reading list, including yours.

Great list. Definitely adding some of those to my TBR, including your book! I wish I could like this video 1000 times!

I love that you show such love to those who came before. Most KZfaq channels now a days only talk about what " new and hot" and it's so tiring. When I see people go I can't find any good fantasy to read I send them to your channel and their minds get bloen

It would be funny if Brandon Sanderson ends up finishing a song of ice and fire

I'm taking notes for books I may want to read. Thanks for the video, nice and swift too!

Thanks for the list, found a couple I had not read, including your book that are now on my to read list.

I am going to have to rewatch this and write these down. Some I have on my shelf but haven’t read yet. Great recommendations!

Great video! This helped me remember some book series I read in the '80's that I had forgotten! Also glad to see Belgariad so high.

I always enjoy your reviews.

I'm hyped!! Thank you for your videos, keep me going in these trying times💗

The moment you had Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn as #2 I knew I had to read all of your work. Haha. So good. Loving The Forgetting Moon so far, Brian!

I’ve watched a lot of your videos and this is your best one. Heavy hitting, enthusiastic recommendations. I’m in awe of your geeking out over books I’ve loved, ones I’ve seen, and some I’ve never heard of. Amazing collection and I’m jealous. I want to return to reading Feist and brooks now. I really loved Feist collaboration with wurts, daughter of the empire series. I was fully immersed. I like that you put your work at 10. I’ll buy the audiobook and physical copy. And you inspired me to finally read Crispin’s solo story. Excited for that. If you haven’t read ravens shadow series by Anthony Ryan, it’s great. First book is phenomenal. I need to grab more 80s fantasy novel. You made me love their covers all over again. Thank you!

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

awesome list ! I have read alot of stuff on the list. (the older fantasy doesn't get much love in the book reviews ) great video !

SO glad to see this list! I was yelling "YES!" at the TV screen when you mentioned the Mordant's Need duology ("Mirror of Her Dreams" is the first book) by Donaldson, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, etc. Oh, and Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books - no one ever mentions them and they are SO GOOD. I'd also recommend her Adept series if you haven't read those - really terrific! So many of my favorite authors, including these, seem to be missing from Booktube these days. It was awesome to see them finally get a mention! If you ever expand the list - can I recommend Andre Norton's "Witch World" books? Your SF list was great, too!

So many fantastic memories here and a few journeys that I have yet to embark! I seem to have similar fantasy tastes as you so I'm going to check the few out that I haven't. And yes, Tad Williams definitely deserved his two spots on this list. You really can't go wrong with any of your suggestions.

Man, thanks so much for this list, and for remembering things that were written before 2000! You're sending me back to all-nighters of magic and nail biting. I'm not debating you! I'm not debating you! Okay, I am debating you on Eddings and Zelazny, and Gavriel Kay has a trilogy, but that's not really debating, is it. It's just agreeing some more. Thanks for remembering Friedman and Kurtz! Nobody talks about them anymore. That's it for me. I'm subscribing :)

Great list. I am definitely going to use it for a must read while I might definitely argue with the order of some of the books none of the books that you mentioned that I have read don't deserve to be on a to fantasy list somewhere. So I look forward to trying out those on your list that I haven't read yet especially number ten

Great list! Thank you!

Brilliantly diverse list Brian, loved it. great hearing the artists getting a mention too. The best thing about this list is how unpretentious it is.

You gave me some good recommendations. Thanks

Thank you! I've got about 30 more series to add to my reading list (including yours, which I already own). I'm especially excited about some of the older ones that aren't talked about as much.

Love your taste. I like how you like all kinds of fantasy and are not snobby about it. You like complex stuff and simple fun fantasy that has tropes. Too many people on goodreads seem to knock anything with tropes or that isn’t dark and complex. I already have read many of these and have many on my to-read list . Now I’m adding the ones you mention to my list. I’m loving this channel , you seem to have the same taste as me. I’m going to have to check out your books . I’m going to buy the forgetting moon ASAP. Oh , and so glad to see ShadowMarch on here it’s so underrated and doesn’t get mentioned enough

Thank you for this! I'm getting back into fantasy and this gives me so much to read!

Amazing ranking. This list inspired me to read fantasy even more.

Props for putting Sword of Shannara on your list. Lotta fantasy readers like to bash Terry Brooks, especially Sword of Shannara. Sure, it's a straight rip of LOTR, but when it came out in the 80's it was the first things I found and read and went YES, finally something in the same vein as Tolkien, epic, fun, a total blast to read. I didn't care that it was basically the same story, it was great, and the sequels, even better.

Great list Brian! Love your enthusiasm 😉

Watched loads of best fantasy reads recently and yours is the only one that actually has stuff on I’ve read before (Eddings Gemmell Brooks ) and much more. I’ll definitely look at other authors on your list I haven’t read . Thanks 👍🏻

Wow, your joy when talking about your own book is infectious. Just the way you said “my own book!” with the biggest grin made me smile. Looking forward to reading your books

This was a WONDERFUL list! The nostalgia hit me and I need to go on a re-reading journey. I believe I have the full Belgiard series and A LOT of Raymond Feist!

I'm so glad I found your channel.

Nice plug! Never be afraid to pump your own sales.

getting into fantasy this season so thanks Subscribed 👍👍

Mirror of her dreams! Wow I don’t know anyone else who’s read it. Great.

This list brought me back to my youth. So many I remember reading and loving. I may get bog down with a lot of rereads coming soon. In the meantime I am glad that booktubers recommend your series. I just started and am already hooked.

I was trying to figure out what I like so much about your narrative style in these videos, and I just realized what it is: You could (perhaps even should) be a voice actor for the series Rick and Morty. Just wonderful :)

Thank you very much! Great memories of novels I forgot. Rewatching with a pen to revisit or try with major gems! I prefer the more fun but also get dark. That’s quite dark. Can’t wait!

I just bought JV Jones’ Baker Boy. And I’m continuing my Dragonlance read. I plan on picking up Melanie Rawn’s books too. This list is like a shopping list for fantasy novels. Love it!

Fantastic list and great presentation! And NO hurt feelings! I wonder how Stephen Donaldson made your list twice but you didn’t mention his Gap Cycle, his longest and most popular series -it immediately became one of my favorites! I have only read the Gap Cycle, so will gleefully anticipate the others you mentioned are even better! I can’t wait to dig into some of these other series I’d never heard of. thank you!!

Love the video, a lot of new great fantasy series that i did not known. And of course I became excited to read the Forgetting Moon a story that unfortunately we dont have in portuguese but its no going to stop me. Greetings from Brazil.

This was a blast- thank you.

Because you mentioned Lord Foul's Bane, The Belgariad and Magician's Apprentice, I will buy your book!! Thanks for your list!

Great video! Keep up the good work!

Pawn of Prophecy!!! I’ve been trying to remember the name of it for a couple decades!! Thank You!

Really nice! Thank you!

Awesome and fun video! No need to crush me since I have the same number 1 as you. In fact, I agree with the majority of your picks. Thanks much -- I learned about some titles to check out, and I enjoy how much you appreciate the art on the covers. It's also cool that you put your book in there!

Great list!!

Good list. I’ve been looking for a new book. Gonna order yours.

Awesome video Brian! I've found some incredible books here - looking forward to reading yours, too! 😉

Such a great list! I learned a lot from it XD Would you do something like it for Fantasy-Comics?

Love your recommendations, I'm only 17 so most of these are very new to me but all of them seem like very good books love that sindarin on your arm as well^^

This is a great list! I love the mix of all times !

love this list, i needed some new reads, now I've got lots of ideas

Wow, the memories, I was introduced to Tolkien in high school; the toughest, and best read ever to this day, but I also started with Salvatore and the companions have grown with me from high school to my age of 50 and they are like family to me. As well as Dragonlance, the fun I had growing with Raistlan and Caramon. I had trouble with Stephen Donaldson in the Covenent series, but the Mirror of her Dreams took me by surprise and I could not let that book down, read the two when I was in London. The Belgariad, though, bout that series in Germany when I was going on a week maneuvers, to this day one of the greatest reads ever. I just picked up Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress thrist shop and looking forward to diving in that world again. Finally, Jordan and Martin, still reading them and cannot wait to see how Sanderson wrapped up Jordan's books, and maybe just get me hooked on Sanderson himself than. Thanks for sharing and helping me relive my reading through the years.

The BEST list I've seen. Okay, part of that is because I agree with you - thanks for mentioning so many of the books I read in the 70s and 80s. David Eddings - I've re-read so many times I've had to repurchase the books. And Thieves World!!! Alexander Lloyd. David Weber.

I LOVE Memory Sorrow and Thorn and it makes me so happy to see it so high up your list. People don’t talk about that series enough.

Recently discovered your channel, because I was looking for some Deryni reviews. And now KZfaq suggests me every once in a while some of your other videos. You have a special kind of delivery, like those old NWA or Memphis wrestling promos hahaha. And you look like a grizzled version of Jason Tarpey, vocalist of Eternal Champion and author of The Godblade. Don't know if it's done on purpose, but the reflection of the blinking red light in the horse's eye is a great detail. But I almost forgot the best part: the fact that the fantasy saga I started out with is your number 2 and my favorite series of all time your number 3. I'm totally gonna add The Forgetting Moon to my reading list. Might take a while before I can actually pick it up though, cause I'm right in the middle of Paksenarrion. Anyway, great channel and unique approach. Don't change and I will pass by more regularly.

Dude. I dig your enthusiasim, I love how patioante you are about fantasy. One of my favourits is the Amber series by Roger Zelazny.

Amazing top.Wasn't expecting lotr on 1st place though.Thought it's gonna be either game of thrones or the way of kings and I had no ideea you are such a great author yourself. 😁

Haha loved this video, man. Dragonlance 'Chronicles' will always be in my top 5, dude. I'm sad the early Drizzt books didn't make the cut ;( I'm def gonna check out some of these...many I've seen around many time. Dave

People should pay attention to this list! Brian, I am impressed that you put Kathryn Kurtz's Deryni Chronicles on your list. This is a great older series that a lot of younger people will not know about. Also, you are correct that anyone that is into fantasy needs to read "the Lord of the Rings" and Michael Moorcock's "Elric of Melniboné" series. Another older series that is also excellent is the "Xanth" novels by Piers Anthony, starting with "A spell for Chameleon". A newer series that is only on Kindle and Audible is "the Spellmonger" series by Terry Mancour and it is fantastic.

My god those book covers! You are so lucky to have those classic editions! Great list too.

I appreciate you shedding light on mainly book series before my time. (Born in 2000.) I'm still surprised Narnia, Percy Jackson or The Sea of trolls series aren't in the top 40.

Great to see The Renshai Chronicles get some love. I thoroughly enjoyed them.

The advantage of a more 'mature' reviewer is that you've included many of my favourite series of the 80s and 90s that many of the good younger reviewers haven't discovered yet. Btw not all of Guy Gabriel Kay's works are standalone. Also some of his standalones are set in the same world but different eras.

Yup pawn of prophecy is amazing. I love your channel. When i was given these books i read the mallorean first. Didnt know what else was in the big box of books. I think it was my first Fantasy

great list. i havnt read most of them. would definitely take into consideration. i hope theres available audiobook.

WHAT A REFRESHING VIDEO! Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series so high up and I'm nodding my head in intense agreement. Thank you for this. There's no debating indeed.

I love that you have books that are so spread out in time & that there are so many women writers on your list! Your list is so different from others (outside of the top 10). I love that! There are so many great books out there, and it's a blast to see your enthusiasm for your favorites. Thank you for sharing! (I love Tad Williams!)

I watch this video like once a week. Love this list. I haven't heard of most of these but since watching this about two months ago. I have hunting down and bought about 15 of these. My bookshelf is really filling up. Have you ever gave Joe Dever's Lonewolf series a read? I came across 20 of them for a dollar a peice.

I startet to read your first book in german (Der Mond des Vergessens) and i love it! Your videos are fantastic😁 Greetings from Bavaria

Mate i had to give you a sub. You hit almost every series I read as a teen, Brooks, Eddings, Gemmell, Jordan. Sword of Shannara was my first fantasy novel i read after cutting my teeth on the Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone choose your own adventure books.

Hey brother. Just thought I should let you know just watched this review video fantastic set of books dude at least the ones I’ve read. Which means I have a bunch to read Hell yes! Also I just bought your book no joke. I have read literally thousands of books about one every two days for the last 35 years since I was about five. Listen to the preview dude you can write that’s awesome! Congrats good work keep it up!

Hey, love your vids my man. Do you buy your books laminated or do you get them laminated after purchase?

Great list!

You're enthusiastic about many of the series that I'm enthusiastic about. I intend to follow up on some of the ones you mentioned that I haven't read. In the mean time, I just ordered your book, The Forgetting Moon, as an ebook through Kobo (via your website).

Seeing how high you put the Belgariad on your list automatically makes me trust your judgement. David and Leigh Eddings were my introduction to fantasy and i haven't looked back.

Finally a top fantasy books list, with many great books in it.

I’m happy to see Stephen R. Donaldson included on this list. To me he should be in the top five.

You are a hoot. I love your energy. I'll buy your books.

Thank you, Brian! That is so cool of you to mention my series. And it's Chey-SOO-li. 8-)

Really loved the reread of the Belgariad I did last summer. Totally scratched that itch.

Great list but David Gemmell deserves to be in the top 10 IMHO.

been watching alol of these videos and finally some well-deserved love for David Eddings...bravo !!!

Feist, Weddings, Brooks, Gemmel and Donaldson. Great days! And thanks for mentioning the covers which I like to collect. So few reviewers point out cover art. Yet many of them like Geoff Taylor and Hypgnosis produced rock album covers