Listmania: Goodreads Recommends--Fantasy!

[skjam]

Continuing my look at what the Goodreads site recommends to me based on books I've previously read. This time, we look at my fantasy shelf. You'll notice a lot of overlap with my children's shelf--not surprisingly given most of the children's books I've rated were also fantasy.

As always, some of these I've read before but don't remember well enough to rate them yet.



Air, Vol. 1: Letters from Lost Countries by G. Willow Wilson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-Up Adaptation by Robert Sabuda
The Antipope by Robert Rankin
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Hirakawa

Bedknob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Castle Perilous by John DeChancie
Children of the Sea, Volume 1 by Daisuke Igarashi
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 1 by Rei Toma
The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio

Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 1 by Hiroki Endo
Ender's Game: Battle School by Christopher Yost
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Flight from the Dark by Joe Dever
The Forgotten Realms: Boxed Campaign Set by Ed Greenwood

Hellboy, Vol. 8: Darkness Calls by Mike Mignola
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.

The Incompleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp

King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory
Kingdom's Dawn by Chuck Black

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede
Melusine by Sarah Monette
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Perrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Pixie Pop: Gokkun Pucho, Vol. 1 by Ema Toyama
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis

Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
Thief! by Megan Whalen Turner
Transformation by Carol Berg
Tuesday by David Wiesner

Urchin of the Riding Stars by Margaret McAllister




The Wheel of Time books didn't show up as I have finally placed them on the "to read" list.

So, your thoughts and comments on any of these?
SKJAM!

Comments

[firedreamer]

Over Sea, Under Stone is part of the Dark is Rising series.

Melusine - Other friends like it. I couldn't really get into it.

Mairelon the Magician is a fun light read. I actually like most of her writing, so long as you're not looking for deep sweeping adult epic fantasy.

Lucifer Vol. 1 - that's the graphic novel right? I like Mike Carey's books okay. He writes interesting urban fantasy/horror with the Felix Castor novels.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight - first book in the main dragonlance trilogy. Classic fantasy..hell metal bands sing about the characters, even if they don't do it as often as they sing about Lord of the Rings and such.

I read the blue sword...when I was in middleschool so I do not remember it. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a childs book though I read a lot of not-childrens books when I was a child. I don't remember anything at all about it except that there is a sequel to it.

Sorry, there are a lot of these I know the authors but I've never read that particular book. Though I might point out you have the D&D forgotten realms playing kit in there and an artbook for anime which can't really get a recommendation either way I suppose. (I'm not a forgotten realms fan. Drizzt is a pain in the ass super special snowflake and salvatore doesn't even try to hide that. ...And everyone loves it when there are so many other D&D settings that are more fun.)

[skjam]

I too run into the "I know the authors but never read that one book" thing.

Not sure how the anime artbook got involved.