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Should I read 30% of a book or watch a single youtube video telling me that I should read books ?

In case anyone is interested, here's the ordering of the S tier books: #1 -- 0:53:00 -- The Crippled God Malazan Book 10 #2 -- 0:21:48 -- The Wall of Storms The Dandelion Dynasty Book 2 #3 -- 0:21:48 -- The Grace of Kings The Dandelion Dynasty Book 1 #4 -- 0:53:00 -- Memories of Ice Malazan Book 3 #5 -- 0:02:10 -- A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 3 #6 -- 0:41:35 -- Last Argument of Kings The First Law Book 3 #7 -- 0:53:00 -- The Bonehunters Malazan Book 6 #8 -- 0:14:53 -- Of Darkness and Light The Bound and the Broken Book 2 #9 -- 0:21:48 -- The Veiled Throne The Dandelion Dynasty Book 3 #10 -- 1:18:10 -- Words of the Radiance The Stormlight Archive Book 2 #11 -- 0:39:46 -- Wrath The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne Book 4 #12 -- 0:41:35 -- The Wisdom of Crowds The First Law #13 -- 1:12:11 -- Ship of Destiny The Realm of the Elderlings Book 6 #14 -- 1:18:10 -- Way of Kings The Stormlight Archive Book 1 #15 -- 1:22:49 -- The Wandering Inn Book 5 #16 -- 0:43:16 -- Lonesome Crown The Five Warrior Angels Book 3 #17 -- 0:02:10 -- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #18 -- 0:44:45 -- Lies Loke Lamora Gentlemen Bastards Book 1 #19 -- 0:53:00 -- Deadhouse Gates Malazan Book 2 #20 -- 0:53:00 -- Reapers Gale Malazan Book 7 #21 -- 0:53:00 -- Midnight Tides Malazan Book 5 #22 -- 0:25:11 -- Discworld - Guards! Guards! 1989 #23 -- 1:00:16 -- Mistborn Book 3 #24 -- 0:41:35 -- The Trouble With Peace The First Law #25 -- 1:19:32 -- Lesser Devil The Sun Eater Book 2 #26 -- 0:41:35 -- A Little Hatred The First Law #27 -- 0:53:00 -- Toll of the Hounds Malazan Book 8 #28 -- 1:22:49 -- The Wandering Inn Book 3 #29 -- 1:12:11 -- The Mad Ship The Realm of the Elderlings Book 5 #30 -- 1:12:11 -- Ship of Magic The Realm of the Elderlings Book 4 #31 -- 0:25:11 -- Discworld - Small Gods 1992 #32 -- 1:12:11 -- Assassins Fate The Realm of the Elderlings Fitz and the Fool trilogy Book 3 #33 -- 1:21:26 -- Bone Ships Wake The Tide Child Book 2 #34 -- 0:46:25 -- Jade War The Greenbone Saga Book 2 #35 -- 0:46:25 -- Jade Legacy The Greenbone Saga Book 3 #36 -- 0:53:00 -- House of Chains Malazan Book 4 #37 -- 0:41:35 -- Before They Are Hanged The First Law Book 2 #38 -- 1:23:38 -- The Wolf Under the Northern Sky Book 1 #39 -- 1:17:36 -- How to Rule and Empire and Get Away with It The Siege Book 2 #40 -- 1:00:16 -- Mistborn Book 1 #41 -- 0:05:16 -- Kings of the Wyld The Band Book 1 #42 -- 1:17:36 -- 16 Ways to Defend a Walled City The Siege Book 1 #43 -- 0:02:10 -- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #44 -- 0:25:11 -- Discworld - Men at Arms 1993 #45 -- 0:43:16 -- Blackest Heart The Five Warrior Angels Book 2 #46 -- 1:12:11 -- Fools Fate The Realm of the Elderlings Book 9 #47 -- 0:38:16 -- Tyranny of Faith Empire of the Wolf Book 2 #48 -- 1:12:11 -- Fools Assassin The Realm of the Elderlings Fitz and the Fool trilogy Book 1 #49 -- 0:41:35 -- The Blade Itself The First Law Book 1 #50 -- 0:53:00 -- Malazan Return of the Crimson Guard #51 -- 0:39:46 -- Ruin The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne Book 3 #52 -- 1:12:11 -- Fools Quest The Realm of the Elderlings Fitz and the Fool trilogy Book 2 #53 -- 0:48:26 -- The Wise Mans The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 2 #54 -- 1:21:26 -- Bone Ships The Tide Child Book 1 #55 -- 1:22:49 -- The Wandering Inn Book 2 #56 -- 0:25:11 -- Discworld - Feet of Clay 1996 #57 -- 1:18:10 -- Rythmn of War The Stormlight Archive Book 4 #58 -- 0:39:46 -- Hunger of the Gods The Bloodsworn Trilogy Book 2 #59 -- 0:53:00 -- Malazan Orb Sceptre Throne #60 -- 0:38:16 -- The Justice of Kings Empire of the Wolf Book 1 #61 -- 0:46:25 -- Jade City The Greenbone Saga Book 1 #62 -- 0:48:26 -- Name of the Wind The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 1 #63 -- 1:19:32 -- Empire Silence The Sun Eater Book 1 #64 -- 0:48:57 -- The Captain The Last Horizon Book 1 #65 -- 0:37:13 -- Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 #66 -- 0:43:16 -- Forgetting Moon The Five Warrior Angels Book 1 #67 -- 1:08:21 -- Magician Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga Book 1) #68 -- 1:02:21 -- Mother of Learning Book 3 #69 -- 0:18:12 -- Cradle Book 10 Reaper #70 -- 1:02:21 -- Mother of Learning Book 2 #71 -- 1:08:21 -- Magician Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga Book 1) #72 -- 0:06:38 -- The Black Company The Black Company Book 1 #73 -- 1:12:11 -- Royal Assassin The Realm of the Elderlings Book 2 #74 -- 1:24:26 -- Memory of Light The Wheel of Time Book 14 #75 -- 1:24:26 -- Towers of Midnight The Wheel of Time Book 13 #76 -- 0:50:27 -- The Blinding Knife Lightbringer Book 2 #77 -- 1:24:26 -- Gathering Storm The Wheel of Time Book 12 #78 -- 0:39:46 -- Shadow of the Gods The Bloodsworn Trilogy Book 1 #79 -- 0:53:00 -- Malazan The Wurms of Blearmouth (2012) #80 -- 1:24:26 -- Knife of Dreams The Wheel of Time Book 11 #81 -- 1:02:02 -- Eleventh Cycle (Mistland Book 1) #82 -- 1:24:26 -- Fires of Heaven The Wheel of Time Book 5 #83 -- 0:06:38 -- Soldiers Live The Black Company Book 9 #84 -- 1:12:11 -- Fools Errand The Realm of the Elderlings Book 7 #85 -- 1:24:26 -- Path of Daggers The Wheel of Time Book 8 #86 -- 0:53:00 -- Malazan The Lees of Laughter's End (2007) #87 -- 1:22:49 -- The Wandering Inn Book 1 #88 -- 0:53:00 -- Malazan Deadhouse Landing #89 -- 0:53:00 -- Malazan Kellanved's Reach #90 -- 0:06:38 -- She is Darkness The Black Company Book 7 #91 -- 1:09:15 -- Age of Myth Riyria Legends of the First Empire Book 1 #92 -- 0:06:38 -- Shadow Games The Black Company Book 4 #93 -- 0:18:12 -- Cradle Book 9 Bloodline #94 -- 1:12:11 -- The Realm of the Elderlings Book 1 #95 -- 1:05:57 -- The Autumn Republic The Powder Mage Book 3 #96 -- 0:18:12 -- Cradle Book 7 Uncrowned #97 -- 1:24:26 -- The Dragon Reborn The Wheel of Time Book 3 #98 -- 1:24:26 -- Lord of Chaos The Wheel of Time Book 6 #99 -- 1:24:26 -- The Shadow Rising The Wheel of Time Book 4 #100 -- 1:05:57 -- Crimson Campaign The Powder Mage Book 2 #101 -- 1:15:31 -- Secret Projects 1 Tress of the Emerald Sea #102 -- 1:16:42 -- Umbral Storm The Sharded Few Book 1 #103 -- 0:17:27 -- Rage of Dragons The Burning Book 1 #104 -- 0:39:46 -- Valor The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne Book 2 #105 -- 0:39:46 -- A Time of Courage (Of Blood and Bone Book 3) #106 -- 0:05:16 -- Bloody Rose The Band Book 2 #107 -- 0:37:47 -- Empire of the Vampire Book 1 #108 -- 1:21:26 -- Call of Bone Ships The Tide Child Book 3 #109 -- 0:39:46 -- Malice The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne Book 1 #110 -- 0:22:47 -- Orconomics The Dark Profit Book 1 #111 -- 0:06:38 -- Bleak Seasons The Black Company Book 6 #112 -- 0:39:46 -- A Time of Blood (Of Blood and Bone Book 2) #113 -- 0:44:01 -- The Forsaken Trilogy Book 1 #114 -- 0:18:12 -- Cradle Book 6 Underlord #115 -- 0:25:11 -- Discworld - Monstrous Regiment 2003 #116 -- 1:12:11 -- Blood of Dragons The Realm of the Elderlings Rain Wild Chronicles Book 4 #117 -- 0:18:12 -- Cradle Book 4 Skysword #118 -- 0:18:12 -- Cradle Book 3 Blackflame #119 -- 1:19:32 -- The Sun Eater Queen Amid Ashes

My biggest complaint with tier lists is that they often don't have enough items on the list... 😂 Let's go!!!

Very first book, and one of my top five all time is in D tier. Never change Matt.

I haven't watched the whole video yet but it's already a lot of fun. You should make this a yearly thing where you either add all the new books you read over the course of the year to this existing tier list or make a new tier list for the year

The Drawing of the Three was AMAZING 😭

What a huge tier list, The Dandelion Dynasty is now top priority on my TBR pile, I already had planned to read it but seeing 3 books on the top of your tier list made me so hyped to start.

Respect for doing this. I haven’t read epic fantasy in a while now and I’m looking to get back into the genre again soon. This should help me a lot 👍🏻

Even thinking about synthesizing that much information makes my head hurt. I love it.

Always wanted one of these videos! Matt never dissapoints

I'm currently reading Magician now, as one volume, and I am really enjoying it, and I just recently started book two of Wandering Inn. Impressed you're up to 4.2

Bit interesting to see your spread of Black Company books, unlike most people we both like the back half quite a bit, but our opinions on the front half could hardly be more different. Shadows Linger and Silver spike are my favourites with Black Company itself closely following. Didn't love White Rose as much.

this is amazing, gonna keep this one as a reference when I'm looking for what to read next, thanks Matt!

Oh dang!!! I wasn't ready for this gonna have to watch the rest tomorrow haha. Can't wait!

Can't believe you rated all these books lol. Honored to be among them!

Loved see your Malazan ranking. Wonder how it may change on the re-read 1. The Crippled God 2. Memories of Ice 3. The Bonehunters 4. Deadhouse Gates 5. Reapers Gale 6. Midnight Tides 7. Toll of the Hounds 8. House of Chains 9. Gardens of the Moon 10. Dust of Dreams

Love the thumbnail

Matt always wrecks my tbr!!! He not only adds countless books to my list, but also sucks away my reading time with videos, discord, and competitions haha 😂

Yes!! Love these videos!

Great video as always! How the heck do you read so many books!? It takes me a month just to finish one, granted those are Malazan books. I'd have to thank you for making me start the series! XD Also, I just finished House of Chains.. and I'm loving the series till now!

It's list is incredibly, I didn't thought that someone would have read so much. I recommend you read more webnovels, try to read: The Beginning After The End, The Oracle Path, Shadow Slave, Birth of the Demonic Sword and Author's POV ;)

I’ve just found your channel and this is the first time I’ve ever related to someone’s taste so perfectly. I am 50 pages into Dragon Haven and you suddenly putting into the D tier while other Hobb books are rated so much higher makes so much sense because I am struggling. But seeing you put the other two in the RWC much higher is giving me motivation to persevere and get it done so I can crack on with the final trilogy 😂👍🏼

I like how of darkness and light is top8 according to this list, knowing how big of a step up the third book is

Thanks so much for putting in all the time stamps. These kind of videos can be huge slogs to read, but this made it much easier to consume.

woah okay Matt, this is gold

Do you have any recommendation for a first fantasy book ? that isn't a slow paced book or a bad one xD, I'm scared to start reading a fantasy book and get bored on the first 150 pages, even tho is a genre that i really enjoy in movies and video games.

holy moly the work that went into this video! so much fun to watch 👏🏻

You’re going to LOVE The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence whenever you get to it.

Next time you read ASOIAF you should do the Feast with Dragons combo read. It really improves the two books greatly. I did it on audible and it was kinda crazy hopping around but man I loved it. I ranked all (5) of those the same as you.

Glad to see Black Company on there. Been thinking of starting it soon and wondered what you thought. Is that a read before or after Malazan series?

The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jamison was really good.

First time viewer and haven’t read nearly as much as you but I think Red rising and its sequels are all high B or higher, just a phenomenal series to me

Love your content Matt. You've inspired me to read more.

I liked Goblin Emperor. It was sweet.

Agree heartily with "Guards! Guards!" and the Night Watch. Sam Vimes and Sybil Ramkin are among my favorite fantasy couples. "The woman was a city" -- just a beautifully romantic line of prose, a standout since, I swear, 90% of writers who attempt romantic plots or subplots get it horribly wrong. Happy to hear the love for Monstrous Regiment. Such an amazing book. I'm commenting as I watch, and I agree that Hunger of the Gods is better than its predecessor, although I love both books. In the first book, Elvar got on my last nerve; in the second, we're actually starting to see her learn and grow. By the end I was fully invested in all three of the main POVs. When it comes to creating complex and interesting female characters in epic fantasy, I can't think of many writers who have upped their game as splendidly as Joe Abercrombie, between the original First Law trilogy and the Age of Madness. I would never have imagined Abercrombie would be to my taste -- I tend to prefer more heroic, "noblebright" epic fantasy -- but reviews of the audiobooks made me curious, and now I'm addicted to both Abercrombie and Steven Pacey. Go figure.

The way you ranked the Disc World books , the series would rank much higher than a B series for you. It would be closer to S or A series for you judging on your rankings. Most of the books you ranked in S or A tier.

Ranking all books of a particular author deserves dedicated videos.

The S tier was already bursting at the seams.... and then Malazan arrived 😆

Matt have you ever reviewed legend of drizzt ra salvatore?

Yesss been waiting on this video lol

When you read the 4th and 5th books I suggest doing the Boiled leather version that combines both books, it's a bit of a pain to do. But it's really worth it. Makes an AMAZING book

My favorite booktube channel because....Matt doesn't cater to the authors, he's honest about his opinion and they are usually good recommendations.

This is amazing.

The Stand - Stephen King's attempt at TLOTR. A journey across the landscape that has the ultimate battle about 4/5 of the way through the story and then the last 1/5 is everything settling into place and concluding. It wasnt a bad ending. It's just not the big standoff battle that people get excited for.

You should also do a version of series and another for standalones in the future!

I may or may not screenshot the final list later use....🤣 good work sir 🤘

Appreciate the video Matt, most try to fit tier lists into shorter videos. No no no this is what we need!

Check out a book called four wings of the dragon goddess. It's got dragons and time travel which is an interesting concept.

Hey matt! Just wanna say i just read Promise of Blood (powder mage) and its genuinely in my top 3 favorite books of all time. Super under talked ahout for how good it is!

Do you have a written summary of this tier list somewhere I can reference next time I'm looking for something new to read?

You are crazy Matt! In the best way possible ofc :) See you 1H and 27 Min later!!

Wow! What an impressive list! Do you ever plan on reading The Belgariad series by David Eddings?

Surprised to see the sequel trilogy of the First law as higher than the original. Personally having a really hard time getting into the sequel. I've put it down and having a hard time wven wanting to go back. I guess I just hate next generation stories.

I laughed out loud when you got to The First Binding

Sad to see you didnt like night angel, currently on a reread of it and I still think its great. A solid 4 stars for the first 2 books and 4.5 for the 3rd. Night Angel Nemesis just came out this year so its my next read once i finish the last 100 pages of Beyond the Shadows.

Matt I think you should read mistborn secret history, its amazing, how so you didnt read it before? Or i missed it in a video?

i’m new to fantasy and the only series I have read of the genre is the dark tower. however ive heard all the hype about the faithful and the fallen series and bought all 4 books. is it too complex for a fantasy newbie?

I do recommend you read the last two Broken Earth books, though; I thought the first one was easily the weakest of the three and I didn't care for it much besides the gripping introduction, but the last two get a lot better!

Thank you so much!

Love scope and honesty. Carfeful on spoilers though...you gave a huge Ambercrombie plot moment away

Malazan goated

The drawing of the three was an amazing book

Oh boy, that is the largest S Tier I've ever seen, followed by an equally large A Tier. This ranking scoffs at those that are scared of your tough critiquing 🤣

I just love this video I'm going to read all fantasy books 😊

"Kings of the wild" and "bloody rose" Rank S???

Matt, you are truly outstanding. No kidding, I used to think fantasy gendre as childish, but you showed me otherwise. My favorite writer in the past, Dickens. Now, Steven Erickson. By the way, I am a mexican fan, and I try to improve my english so I dont have to read translations of your favourite authors

Matt I predict when you read Dark Age it'll be your favourite of the series and an S tier read

Do you intend to do a read along when you re-read Malazan?

We may not agree on the S, A, and Bs, but we definitely agreed on the Cs and Ds.

Is there enough time in the universe to read all these books

Remember the first one you did probably year ago or even more. That’s when I was like damn this guy knows what he is talking about and started following you 😂

Man I'm in the same boat about hating Tigana. I wanted to read GGK because I loved Farseer so much and the prose played a big part for me to appreciate it, so I looked up the best prose inside the genre and got recommended GGK. All this whining about how sad it was that Tigana was forgotten by everyone almost made me throw up. Can't deny the fact that the prose is very flowery and beautiful but the plot was just not good enough for me to complete it, and the characters bored me to death. DNF and not planning to read it again.

Find it very amusing how many times Dungeon Crawler Carl is used as the scale in different tiers. I agree with practically everything (that I've read), wish I had the time to read more of your S tiers but can't commit to all that. Only thing is for me Goblin Emperor was really good but I read it after a long hiatus from reading. It was what I needed to dip my toes back in, not too committal or epic. Just a simple fantasy to dip my feet back into the water.

Some Heartbreakers in here, but at least you didn't shit on "the slog" (which supposedly is books 7-10, not 9-10).

I can believe you made this, and I can't believe I watched it all 😂.

perfect video while cooking

Tier S is HHhuge!!!

Omg almost my EXACT thoughts on Babel

I know The First Binding really bothered you. So I wondered if you felt anything like that from book 1 of B&B (Of Blood and Fire). I definitely would never state its a copy, it just felt so much like that of other works, like Gwynne, Eragon, WOT, etc.... Did this not bother you or is The First Binding wayyyyy more of an exact stealing of works? I have read Rothfuss but stayed away from TFB because of you, haha! I am going to read Of Darkness and Light, so it bothered me on book 1 but obviously not enough to put me off the whole series.... Cheers

My favourite Malazan books are Midnight Tides and Bonehunters but Crippled God ain't far behind.

i took a screenshot of the S tier going to use that as my tbr😂😂

Brust? Chalker? C. J. Cherryh? De Lint? Donaldson? C.S. Friedman? Heinlein? Le Guin? Leiber? McCaffrey? Moon? Moorcock? Morgan? Powers? Swanwick? Tepper? Vance? Walton? Wolfe? ZELAZNY?! Ya' know, just to name a few you may have overlooked ;-)~

Hated Tigana? Wow! I expected either indifferent or liked haha

Why is Brian Lee Durfee books not famous??

I'm surprised secret project 2 was in C tier after the review.

Dresden is incredible!!!!

Good video but maybe you should break it up a bit more. You have half the tier list in S. Lol your tier list not mine but I would only put like 10 in S

“Shits on Dresden files” I’m out! 😂

Lord of the Rings only in the A's. .FAIL! Tolkien set the table for everything else that follows. Apart from being an amazing story in it's own right, it is owed respect for really grandfathering the genre. It suffers from being so well known, and being a victim of it's own success. That should not invalidate the quality of the story, or the respect it should be shown.

American Gods is S tier to me

God damn you've read em all

Now do a sub ranking of you s-teir choices 😅

I would like to love Mistborn as much as everybody else, but is nobody else bothered by the cringe YA dialog and bland characters?

I cannot believe you like WoT to that extend, even the slog. I guess I just have no patience for filler, moaning and repetition.

You must have great memory. I can remember books I love and books I hate. The rest rest I can basically just tell you I read them.

Oh, good. An hour and half of entertainment.

Great video Matt! I always enjoy when you get to talk about how bad the fifth season is. There are not enough of us who think its bad lol.

INCREDIBLE! A Greta list, a pity you Don’t like DRAGONBORN Chair seire, it’s classsicl epic, very Good); Earthsea of LeGuin? You put it? I Don’t see right, sorry;) However, you are very a man of culture;)😎👍

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