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.

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[–] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Series?

  • Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy

  • Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain

  • Discworld, especially the Night Watch books

  • Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series

Individual Books:

  • Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown, or anything else she wrote

  • Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock and Howl's Moving Castle, or anything else she wrote

  • Philip K. Dick, "Galactic Pot-Healer" (Dick straddles the line between science fiction and science fantasy, but this one's firmly the latter)

  • Madeline L'Engle, Many Waters

I'm sure I'll think of more but my break is up.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wait wait. You’re starting with Engel’s “Many Waters?” Isn’t it book 4 in a series where book 1 (“A Wrinkle in Time”) is considered a classic?

    It’s been a long time but I remember liking book 2 a whole lot. I never did get book 5, though I think there is one?

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