Here is a clickable list of recommended series let me know what I am missing in the comments. All the books are linked to the goodreads page for more info about them.
| Author | Book or Series | Start with | My Raiting |
| Alex Marshall | The Crimson Empire series | A Crown for Cold Silver | 4.25 |
| Anne Bishop | The Black Jewels | Daughter of the Blood | |
| Anne McCaffrey | Dragonriders of Pern | Dragonflight | 3.75 |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Saxon Stories | The Last Kingdom | 5 |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Arthur Books | The Winter King | 4 |
| Bernard Cornwell | Grail Quest | The Archer’s Tale | 4.25 |
| Blaise Corvin | Delvers LLC | Welcome to Ludus | 4 |
| Bradley P. Beaulieu | The Song of the Shattered Sands | Twelve Kings in Sharakhai | 4 |
| Brandon Sanderson | The Stormlight Archive | The Way of Kings | 5 |
| Brandon Sanderson | Mistborn | The Final Empire | 4.75 |
| Brandon Sanderson | Mistborn – Alloy Era series | The Alloy of Law | 5 |
| Brandon Sanderson | Reckoners | Steelheart | 4.5 |
| Brent Weeks | The Night Angel Trilogy | The Way of Shadows | 4.5 |
| Brent Weeks | Lightbringer | The Black Prism | 5 |
| Brian McClellan | Powder Mage | Promise of Blood | 5 |
| Brian McClellan | Gods of Blood and Powder | Sins of Empire | 5 |
| Brian Staveley | Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne | The Emperor’s Blades | 4.75 |
| Brian Staveley | Skullsworn | Skullsworn | 4.25 |
| C.S. Friedman | The Coldfire Trilogy | Black Sun Rising | 4.25 |
| C.T. Phipps | Cthulhu Armageddon | Cthulhu Armageddon | 4 |
| C.T. Phipps | The Supervillainy Saga | The Rules of Supervillainy | 4 |
| Cassandra Clare | The Mortal Instruments | City of Bones | 3.5 |
| Cassandra Clare | The Infernal Devices | Clockwork Angel | |
| Charles de Lint | Newford | Dreams Underfoot | |
| Christopher Paolini | The Inheritance Cycle | Eragon | 3.75 |
| D. Rus | Play to Live | AlterWorld | 4.5 |
| Dan Abnett | The Horus Heresy | Horus Rising | 3.5 |
| David Eddings | The Belgariad | Pawn of Prophecy | 3 |
| David Eddings | The Malloreon | Guardians of the West | 3 |
| David Farland | The Runelords | Runelords | 4.25 |
| David Hair | Moontide Quartet | Mage’s Blood | 4.5 |
| Davis Ashura | The Castes and the OutCastes | A Warrior’s Path | 4 |
| Diana Rowland | White Trash Zombie | My Life as a White Trash Zombie | 4 |
| Django Wexler | The Shadow Campaigns | The Price of Valor | 4.75 |
| Douglas Addams | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | 4.5 |
| Drew Hayes | Fred, the Vampire Accountant | The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant | 4.25 |
| Drew Hayes | Villains’ Code series | Forging Hephaestus | 4.75 |
| Drew Hayes | Spells, Swords, & Stealth | NPCs | 4.75 |
| Dyrk Ashton | Paternus | Paternus | 4.25 |
| Frank Herbert, continued by Brian Herbert | Dune series | Dune | 3.75 |
| Garth Nix | Abhorsen series | Sabriel | 3.75 |
| George R.R. Martin | A Song of Ice and Fire | A Game of Thrones | 4 |
| Glen Cook | The Black Company | The Black Company | 4.25 |
| Graham Austin-King | The Riven Wyrde Saga | Fae – The Wild Hunt | 4.25 |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven series | Begin with Under Heaven | 4.5 |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | The Fionavar Tapestry | The Summer Tree | 3.5 |
| J.P. Ashman | Black Powder Wars | Black Cross | |
| J.V. Jones | Sword of Shadows series | A Cavern of Black Ice | |
| Jacqueline Carey | Kushiel’s Legacy series ((Phèdre’s Trilogy) | Kushiel’s Dart | 3 |
| James Clemens | The Banned and the Banished | Wit’ch Fire | 3 |
| James Islington | The Licanius Trilogy | The Shadow of What Was Lost | 4.75 |
| Jay Kristoff | The Lotus War | Stormdancer | 4.25 |
| Jim Butcher | The Dresden Files | Stormfront | 4.25 |
| Jim Butcher | Codex Aleria | Furies of Calderon | 4.75 |
| Joanne Bertin | Dragonlord series | The Last Dragonlord | |
| Joe Abercrombie | Shattered Sea | Half a King | 4.25 |
| Joe Abercrombie | The First Law | The Blade Itself | 5 |
| John Gwynne | The Faithful and the Fallen | Malice | |
| Julian May | Saga of the Pliocene Exile | The Many-Coloured Land | |
| Julian May | Galactic Milieu Trilogy | Jack the Bodiless | |
| Justin Cronin | The Passage Trilogy | The Passage | |
| Katharine Kerr | Deverry series | Daggerspell | |
| Kenny Soward | GnomeSaga | Rough Magick | 4.5 |
| Kevin Hearne | The Iron Druid Chronicles | Hounded | 4.5 |
| Kevin J. Anderson | The Saga of Seven Suns | Hidden Empire | |
| L.E. Modesitt Jr. | The Saga of Recluce | The Magic of Recluce | 3.75 |
| L.E. Modesitt Jr. | Imager Portfolio | Imager | 4.25 |
| L.E. Modesitt Jr. | Corean Chronicles | Legacies | 3.75 |
| Lois McMaster Bujold | The Vorkosigan Saga | Shards of Honor | |
| Luke Scull | Grim Company | The Grim Company | 4.25 |
| Marc Turner | The Chronicle of the Exile | When the Heavens Fall | 5 |
| Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman | Dragonlance | Dragons of Autumn Twilight | 3.75 |
| Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman | The Death Gate Cycle | Dragon Wing | |
| Marie Brennan | The Memoirs of Lady Trent | A Natural History of Dragons | 3.5 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | Avalon series | The Mists of Avalon | 3.75 |
| Mark Lawrence | The Broken Empire | Prince of Thorns | 4.75 |
| Mark Lawrence | The Red Queen’s War | Prince of Fools | 4.5 |
| Mark Lawrence | Book of the Ancestor series | Red Sister | 5 |
| Matthew Woodring Stover | The Acts of Caine | Heroes Die | 4 |
| Mazarkis Williams | Tower and Knife Trilogy | The Emperor’s Knife | 4.25 |
| Melanie Rawn | The Exiles | The Ruins of Ambrai | |
| Mercedes Lackey | Valdemar | The Black Gryphon | 3.75 |
| Michael J. Sullivan | The Riyria Revelations series | The Crown Conspiracy | 4 |
| Michael J. Sullivan | The Legends of the First Empire | Age of Myth | 4.25 |
| Michael Moorcock | Elric | Elric of Melniboné | 3.75 |
| Michael R. Fletcher | Manifest Delusions | Beyond Redemption | 4 |
| Michael R. Miller | The Dragon’s Blade | The Reborn King | 4 |
| Miles Cameron | The Traitor Son Cycle | The Red Knight | 4 |
| Mitchell Hogan | Sorcery Ascendant Sequence | At the Sign of the Crow and Moon | 3.75 |
| Myke Cole | Shadow Ops | Control Point | 4 |
| N.K. Jemisin | The Broken Earth | The Fifth Season | 4.75 |
| Patrick Rothfuss | Kingkiller Chronicles | The Name of the Wind | 5 |
| Peter Newman | The Vagrant | The Vagrant | 5 |
| Peter V. Brett | The Demon Cycle | The Warded Man | 4.25 |
| Pierce Brown | Red Rising | Red Rising | 4.5 |
| Piers Anthony | Apprentice Adept series | Split Infinity | |
| Piers Anthony | The Incarnations of Immortality | On a Pale Horse | |
| Piers Anthony | Xanth | A Spell for Chameleon | |
| R. A. Salvatore | The Legend of Drizzt serie | Homeland | 3.75 |
| R. A. Salvatore | Saga of the First King | The Highwayman | 3.75 |
| R. A. Salvatore | The DemonWars Saga | The Demon Awakens | 4 |
| Rachel Aaron | The Legend of Eli Monpress | The Spirit Thief | 3.50 |
| Rachel Aaron | Heartstrikers | Nice Dragons Finish Last | 3.75 |
| Raymond E. Feist | The Riftwar Saga | Magician: Apprentice | 4 |
| Raymond E. Feist | The Empire Trilogy | Daughter of the Empire | 4.25 |
| Richard Knaak | Dragonrealm series | Firedrake | 3.75 |
| Richard Knaak | Black city | Black City Saint | 4 |
| Robert Asprin | Thieves’ World | Thieves’ World | |
| Robert Asprin | Myth Adventures | Another Fine Myth | |
| Robert Bevan | Caverns and Creatures | Critical Failures | 4.25 |
| Robert Jordan | The Wheel of Time | The Eye of the World | 5 |
| Robin Hobb | Farseer Trilogy | Assassin’s Apprentice | 3.75 |
| Roger Zelazny | The Chronicles of Amber | Nine Princes in Amber | 4 |
| Sara Douglass | The Wayfarer Redemption | The Wayfarer Redemption | |
| Scott Lynch | Gentleman Bastard series | The Lies of Locke Lamora | 5 |
| Scott Meyer | Magic 2.0 | Off to Be the Wizard | 5 |
| Scott Westerfeld | Leviathan | Leviathan | 3.75 |
| Simon R. Green | Deathstalker | Deathstalker | 3.5 |
| Simon R. Green | Hawk & Fisher | Hawk & Fisher | 3 |
| Simon R. Green | Forest Kingdom | Blue Moon Rising | 3.5 |
| Stephen King | The Dark Tower | The Gunslinger | 4.25 |
| Stephen R. Donaldson | The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever | Lord Foul’s Bane | 4 |
| Stephen R. Donaldson | The Gap series | The Gap Into Conflict | |
| Steven Erikson | The Malazan Book of the Fallen series | Gardens of the Moon | 3 |
| Susan Ee | Penryn & the End of Days | Angelfall | 4 |
| Tad Williams | Memory, Sorrow and Thorn | The Dragonbone Chair | 3 |
| Terry Brooks | The (original) Shannara Trilogy | The Sword of Shannara | 3.75 |
| Terry Brooks | Magic Kingdom of Landover | Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold | 3.5 |
| Terry Goodkind | The Sword of Truth | Wizard’s First Rule | 2 |
| Terry Pratchett | Discworld | The Color of Magic | 5 |
| Terry Pratchett | The Long Earth | The Long Earth | 3.75 |
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Great list!
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I was reading this in my email, and the format got a little wonky (lol)
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I know it did not paste from word well ill have to mess with it at some point
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Thanks for this! I have several of these here. I have the Black Jewels, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and several others. A great list 🙂
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Juliet McKenna should be on the list, you could also add my Nandor Tales duology
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Mark Barnes Echoes of Empire series, starting with The Garden of Stones.
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Paul Lavender’s The Eighth God series
Oh, and I’d remove MZB. What she did removes her from consideration on any list.
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