Update - Choice of magic is no longer S. Due to the terribly written book 5 its now a B or C.

This video was awesome! Thanks for the Battle Mage recommendation 🤙🏻

Thanks for the reviews! I’m off to read Battlemage now. Have you read Jack Vance’s “Dying Earth” stories? They inspired so many other writers and are really great fantasy. Cugel is one the best anti hero’s in fantasy. And, as a bonus, the author did not drag the writing out in a series of progressively worse over long series of novels.

*sees alloy of law in S* *sees mistborn in B* *sees WoT in C* *clicks off the vid*

Good video thank you for all the recommendations. I want to try Dragon of Autumn Twilight and the mistborn series. I don't generally read fantasy books but I have also never really given it a try. Also maybe golden compass I always hear so much about this one and truth be told I am a bit of a child when it comes to books so maybe this will appeal to me more.

Alloy of law in S is one of the biggest jump scares I have experienced

There is no book or book series ever that you could skip hundreds or even thousands of pages and still understand the plot, politics, and character development

Thank you for adding a bunch of books to my miles long TBR list :D I would recommend Joe Abercrombie First law serie if you haven't read it. It's awesome.

Great video! Also, you're the only person I've watched that has mentioned Choice of Magic. I thought it was amazing.

It's hard reviewing GOTM as a single entry considering the series spans 10 books but as a standalone I would probably agree. Fortunately books 2-8 are exceptional.

he's just like me for REAL.... assassin's apprentice (RotE) deserves an S on trilogies 1 and 3, A on all the other trilogies

lol I love your flagrant disrespect of the Internet. We can classify that as punching up, on a jerk who had it coming. I was disappointed to not hear what you thought of The Witcher, as in my quite limited experience it stands out (at least the first couple books). I have now added Lies of Locke Lamora to my queue, and I may return here for more later. Thank you for the great vid!

I was intrigued by your rating of battle mage so I got it from Amazon good quality book love the cover can't wait to read it

Been watching you play Go for years and I liked hearing your perspectives on books. I love WoT so much but I don't actually disagree with your C tier. Gardens of the Moon however is the best series ever written! Ok, but that's mostly just me. It's a unique series. Thanks for the recommendation of some books I hadn't heard of!

Have you read SCI-FI? And/or maybe some "modern era fantasy" like the Dresden Files or the Pendergast series? How about combinations of the two, like Starship Mage?

I Was interested in your opinion but had to stop watching after you put Wheel of Time so low. Skip books?? It was a long series, I will give you that, but excellent and I would never skip any of the books they were all great!!!! Just my opinion.

Second comment, not gonna say that you're wrong in your opinions, but a lot of the time something you'd criticize one series for is the exact thing you'd praise in another series. Made your reviews seem rather disingenuous. And I definitely feel like you should have at least done a summary review or something for all the series you talked about because some of them you seemed to know or remember very little of. Made the vid very frustrating to watch

Songs of chaos is epic easily “A tier”. I do agree that the second book was more of a set up for things to come. But defiant was worth the pay off. Next, to me Inheritance cycle is the best fantasy of all time. Don’t agree with Dark Elf being s-class to me that is barely a B deftly a top C. Game of thrones is definitely a C. Hobbit is a A-class. As lord of the rings as a whole is S-class. But fellowship was the only one that was C to me. There are 5 books there that I didn’t read. But everything else looks right.

The Memory, Sorrow & Thorn series is awesome. I will admit To Green Angel Tower ate my life!!!!!!!

Tigana Finally! I LOVE this book and never see it on any best-of lists.

no David Gemmell Books? that's kinda SAD

Well you are clearly a lot more experienced than me but I loved the Stormlight archive book 3 and the side arc you said it was not needed it’s the story of one of the most important character in the series, I actually loved the book because of the side arc ( dalanar origin story)

The name of the wind is criminally underrated here...

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin is a series I don't see recommended very often that you might enjoy. Jemisin is a great author, the book has strong female characters, and it is quite unlike most other fantasy novels.

The Acts of Caine by Matthew Woodring Stover. You'll like it.

Hi, big thank you, I really think this is the best documented non spoiler tier list on the web today. For sure , you're missing big names like Abercrombie or Gwynne. But listening to why Eragon, Harry Potter and Wheel of times are where there are on this list is spot on. Even Lightbringer I can understand you point of view. I also like that you class them in a tier instead of classing them by rank, because the next one on the lost goes at the end of a tier, except a few. But seeing where you class Red Sister, and Name of the Wind, I see that you really read them, and that we have the same taste. Also, for the 25% on your list that I did not read so far, this will be good for my tbr. And I could suggest that you put some David Gemmel on your tbr, pretty sure you will like all his characters (Druss, Waylander and Skilgannon). Yep .. very nice way to spend a hour listening to this fantasy tier list. Keep up the good work, you got a new subscriber. Cheers

Overall not the worst list I’ve seen but it’s pretty bad. For the most part you are ranking the longer series lower just because you don’t have the attention span to fallow the storyline. Even so I know tier lists are subjective.

Should do more book stuff

Didn't know you were a fantasy nerd like me. Color of magic isn't for me either. Agree on Way of Kings. Robin Hobb is always S tier for me personally though

I was missing Trudy Canavan on this list. No love for the black magician trilogy?

For the first time, someone gave Wheel of Time series a proper ranking. Thank you!

Highly disagree that mistborn era2 above Era 1. Great analysis of WoT

I would say you can't give game of thrones higher than wheel of time if you have similar complaints and it's an unfinished series which I would say drops it even lower

Hi, great vid. Are you maybe on a Goodreads, would like to follow you. Thanks

Really enjoyed this except for all the repeating sentence.

read suneater if you need good sci fi

Well at least you put that Goodking crap at the bottom. Got that right at least; other than that I don't see much that matches up to how I would rank things or how I ever see them ranked on Reddit either. Don't know why you named Reddit as a source because this is nowhere close.

I’m not sure how you give Game of Thrones a pass for not being finished while crushing Wheel of Time several tiers for having a few books you would skip

I would highly disagree ssioaf it’s one of the most reread able books ever!

terry goodkind on the list? Alloy of law S tier? The Malazan Book of the Fallen written by our one true God Steven Erikson, B TIER!?!?! Gave me a good chuckle🙂Thanks

Name of the wind in B is crazy. No book on this list is written as well as that book and I have read them all. The rhyme schemes the pacing the characters I think you need to re-read that book today.

hmm i don't see prince of nothing on here

You should put TRIGGER WARNING on this video, lol. Okay, I’ve stopped hyperventilating. Suffice it to say, I have to respectfully (though vehemently) disagree with almost every remark you made regarding the books on this list I’ve read. ASOIAF is S, period full stop, the entire series, it’s an objective fact known to all humanity, and even God agrees. But you knew that was coming. No books in WOT may be skipped. No sections may be skipped, no newbies may be advised to skip. Simply put, WOT is not for the weak. That’s why it is S, start to finish. Mistborn Era 2 better than Era 1? Elantris better than Mistorn? Broken Empire better than ASOIAF? I respect your opinions, even though I just had to do another breathing exercise to calm down. Wise Man's Fear is not just Kvothe doing nothing in the forest ... did we read the same book? I did not love or hate Assassin’s Apprentice, but I love both of the follow up books in Farseer and Liveship Traders even more than Farseer. I DNF’ed Gentlemen Bastards, but admittedly I just don’t like “heist” tropes. At this point, if there is anything that might save us from being mortal enemies for all eternity, I actually agree with you that Oathbringer is weak. Still, it may not be skipped, nothing in it may be skipped. Nothing in any book may be skipped. Of any genre. DNF it, or burn it … but no skipping! Anyway, thanks for the vid!😊

Like your videos but you’re dead wrong about Eragon, you didn’t consider the genius of the entirety of the series, the majestic storytelling, life in the characters, my opinion but that hurt

A character dies so you can just skip anything written about that character. whew. What a rough way to judge a story. Im all for unique takes and different perspectives but these dripping in ego takes using pretty suspect logic are hard to watch.

Cant trust anyone that puts wheel of time in a C tier. I get its subjective but cmon.

If you are skipping pages reading WoT, why do you bother reading books at all? Just saying...

5:20 *puts the book in S* *lists all the reasons why isnt an S tier quality book* Lmao ok bro

Way of kings in B tier ? Just nope

Dune? Not fantasy?

At least you got Sword of Truth right. Other than that this list is one of the worst rankings I've seen on KZfaq. KC, SA, ASOIAF, Mal & WoT are all S tier masterpieces but you don't even have them in A.

shadow and bone is pretty shit but BRUHH READ SIX OF CROWS. don't let this trilogy get you off of all other book in the Grishaverse and since I've found that we have pretty similar taste, YOU'LL LOVE IT