CBG Fantasy Book Rankings

[Stargate525]

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien = 4
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling = 5
Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis = 7
Discworld - Terry Prachett = 8   
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly = 6
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien = 7
Inheritance - Christopher Paolini = 3   
Shannara - Terry Brooks   = 5
Vlad Taltos - Steven Brust = 7

new ones (not explicitly fantasy, some of 'em.):
Temeraire series - Naomi Novik = 9
King Raven Trilogy - Stephen R. Lawhead = 8
Bazil Broketail Series - Christopher Rowley = 6
Stardust - Neil Gaiman = 9

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Please keep the voting to whole numbers, guys. I'll average those, but I don't want to start averaging .5 and .25 and .3333 bars. Thanks ;)

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Definitely very cool to see the rankings coming out more - I like the placement of a lot of those, and dislike others, but that's how the real world works.  Neat to see what people really think of fantasy books.  I wish I had read Gene Wolfe and Discworld, now.  As well as Song of Ice and Fire, but I will NOT read that until it's done - I'm not having anymore Jordanic experiences with endless waiting for a book to come out so I can see if my character lived or died on that last page...

[Higgs Boson]

The Oddessy - Homer - 8
The Illiad - Homer - 3

[Nomadic]

Just doing ones from memory right now (may well have read others I can't recall).

Tolkien
Lord of the Rings - 9
The Hobbit - 8
The Silmarillion - 8

Paolini
Inheritance - 5

Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia - 7

[snakefing]

This is just crazy, but somehow I forgot to include:

Soldier series - Gene Wolfe - 9

Really, the best of Wolfe's writing I think. Wolfe's use of the unreliable narrator is particularly compelling here.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Some additional votes for me (mostly stuff that got added after I voted):

Iliad 3
Odyssey 4
Tempest 4
Gilgamesh 4
Anansi Boys 8
Elantris 8 (just finished it last night and I really enjoyed it, especially the second half when it picks up speed)

[khyron1144]

Discworld 10
American gods/ Anansi Boys 10
Vampire Chronicles 6
Conan 8
Elric 8
Corum 8
Harry Potter 6
Lord of the Rings 5
Alvin Maker 7
The Tempest 7
Belgariad 6
Cthulhu Mythos 8
Xanth 6
Incarnations of Immortality 7
Blue Adept 7
Chronicles of Narnia 4
Word and the Void 5
Circle of Magic 5
Dark Tower 6
Prydain Chronicles 6
Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 8
Oz by L. Frank Baum 5

By the way:  It should be Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card not Alvin Amker.
Also, the series title for Blue Adept by Piers Anthony is The Apprentice Adept, or at least that's what I remember being in the books or on them as far as a series title.

Is there a reason that Lloyd Alexander's Prydain chronicles (The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron) hasn't come up yet?   How about Oz?  Midsummer Night's Dream?

[Ishmayl-Retired]

khyron, you can add any books you want that are fantasy, and anyone else that has read them, hopefully that will jar their memory and make them vote.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Is there a reason that Lloyd Alexander's Prydain chronicles (The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron) hasn't come up yet? How about Oz? Midsummer Night's Dream?

By the way: It should be Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card not Alvin Amker.[/quote]
Thanks. I didn't know the work and found nothing when I tried to look it up.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Darkover series - Marion Zimmer Bradley - 5
Dark Sun - Tribe of One series - 5
Deathgate Cycle - Margarett Weiss - 4
Dragonlance (original series, can't remember name) - 4
Riftwar Saga - Raymond Feist - 6

Thanks Ishy. I'm continuing to compile a list of fantasy novel series or noteworthy individual books. Any others I've missed?

[Kindling]

what's the lowest possible score? Cause I want to give that to the Belgariad.

PS. and the highest possible score, or near enough, for the Bas-Lag books.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

what's the lowest possible score? Cause I want to give that to the Belgariad.

PS. and the highest possible score, or near enough, for the Bas-Lag books.

The lowest is 1 - unreadable.
The highest is 10 - pinnacle of the genre


What is Bas-Lag? Who is the author?

[Kindling]

It's the world in which most of China Mieville's books are set.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

I added it to the list.