CBG Fantasy Book Rankings

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Did you get my two newest votes?

[Matt Larkin (author)]

You know, I was thinking.... this may be the single best list of fantasy works to be found on the net.  GOOD JOB PHOENIX!!!!

Thanks, that's always nice to hear.

Now, I expect all guilders to have read this reading list by the start of the new semester. There will be a test on your summer reading list.

And in place of a captcha, we will now use a reading survey to filter out which members/bots we really want ;)

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Cochran, Molly & Warren Murphy - The Forever King 10 (Phoenix)

It was just one of those I never wanted to put down even when it was desperately past time I went to sleep. And that's a good thing. Somehow the style just drew me in so much.

[SDragon]

Am I the only one here that has read, let alone enjoyed, Lewis Carrol?

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Definitely on my list of things to read :)

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Some of my newer reads:

Stoker, Bram - Dracula 5
(good potential, but kind of slow for my modern tastes)

Carroll, Lewis - Alice stories 7
(way better than his other works)

Barrie, J.M. - Peter Pan 7
(more fun than I expected)

[Llum]

Anthony, Piers - Xanth series 3
Bradley, Marion Zimmer - Darkover series 5
Brooks, Terry - Shannara series 1
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game 7
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow series 9
Orson Scott Card - Homecoming series - 1
Cook, Glen - The Black Company - 9
Donaldson, Stephen R. - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (I've only read the first book so far) 6
Eddings, David - The Dreamers - 6
Erikson, Steven - Malzan Book of the Fallen  - 9
Farland, David - The Runelords - 8 (for the first trilogy) and 5 (for the later books)
Gaiman, Neil - Good Omens - 8
Gaiman, Neil - Neverwhere - 9
Gaiman, Neil - Stardust - 8
Gaiman, Neil - American Gods - 9
Gaiman, Neil - Anansi Boys - 7
Goodkind, Terry - The Sword of Truth - 4 (It only gets this high of a rating because the first and second last books)
Hobb, Robin - Assassins Trilogy - 8
Hobb, Robin - Fool's Trilogy - 7
Jordan, Robert - The Wheel of Time 7 (would be higher but he should have finished it in the last book)
King, Stephen - Dark Tower - 8 (I've only ready the first four)
Martin, George R.R. - Song of Ice and Fire - 9
Anne McCaffery - Dragonriders of Pern - 5
Naomi Novik - Temeraire - 8
Paolini, Christopher - Inheritance - 7
Prachett, Terry - Discworld - 8
Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials - 9
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter - 7
Salinger, J. D. - Catcher in the Rye - 6
Salvatore, R.A. - Drizzt Saga - 4
Shelly, Mary - Frankenstein - 8
Stroud, Jonathan - Bartimaeus Trilogy - 7
Weiss, Margarett - Deathgate Cycle - 5
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance series - 3
[ooc]
The best books I've ever read are all science fiction, Under the Skin by Micheal Faber, Blindsight by Peter Watts, When the Wind Blows/The Lake House by James Patterson or contemporary fiction, The Butterfly Revolution, I forget who wrote this, but it is by far the best book I've ever read.[/ooc]

[Matt Larkin (author)]

I'll finish updating the list with Llum's picks soon. Thanks for the votes Llum.

By the way, there is a separate sci-fi book ranking thread (not maintained by me) for choices like:

Sci-Fi
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game 7
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow series 9
Orson Scott Card - Homecoming series - 1

[Llum]

Right sorry, my bad I got a little distracted >_<

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Updated with all of Llum's picks. This added a few new entries to the table, too!

[Steerpike]

Already on the main ranking...

Song of Ice and Fire 9
Stardust 7
Neverwhere 8
His Dark Materials 9
American Gods 7
Chronicles of Amber 7
Chronicles of Narnia 5
The Dark Tower 7 (I'd give Gunslinger a 9, but Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower, book 7, more like a 5 or 6)
The Lord of the Rings 7
Cthulu Mythos 7
Harry Potter 5
The Wheel of Time 5
Belgariad 3
Dracula 7

And on the longer list... (and one or two that aren't yet on it)

Alexander, Lloyd '" Prydain Chronicles 6
Brooks, Terry '" Word and Void 5
Eddings, David '" Mallorean 2
Friedman, Cecilia S. '" Coldfire Trilogy 7
Lieber, Fritz '" Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser 8
Mieville, China '" Bas-Lag Series 10
Mieville, China '" King Rat 9
Paolini, Christopher '" Inheritance Cycle 2 (I usually abstained from ranking series I hadn't finished, but I feel passionate about the Inheritence Cycle... it really, really annoys me)
Vance, Jack '" Lyonesse 9
Vance, Jack '" Tales of the Dying Earth 9

[Matt Larkin (author)]

I, on the other hand, am sometimes willing to rank a series having read only a couple of books from it.

My latest:
Bach, Richard - Illusions 7
Prachett, Terry - Discworld 5 (I feel like I was missing something as to why everyone thinks it's so wonderful)

I'll probably update the rankings tonight or tomorrow.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Updated with new votes.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

So some reading from my trip.

Milton - Paradise Lost 4
Anthony - Xanth 4
Lisle - Secret Texts 5
Sharon Shinn - Archangel 6

[SDragon]

Everworld series, K.A. Applegate - 6 for an adult read, 9 for a YA read, so I'm giving it a 8, seeing as it was intended for YA.