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.
I’m not sure if you are wanting suggestions of series to be caught up on the zeitgeist or actually just good stuff to read or not. If you want good things to read that are free I recommend my two favorites. The Wandering Inn and Worm. They are both very long web serials and that is not in a lot of peoples wheel house but if you are the sort that is reading wheel of time and Stormlight Archives, then these are going to be your jam.
Worm The Wandering Inn
Just be aware that The Wandering Inn turns into the absolutely longest rambling mess of dozens of viewpount characters.
It’s often lovely, but sometines it just goes on and on and on… It is roughly three times longer than the entire Wheel of Time series, and its word count surpasses War and Peace, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hunger Games combined and it is still unfinished. Pirateaba writes like a mad person.