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.

  • AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml
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    NK Jemisen’s The Fifth Season has some of the most beautiful prose I read in the genre. Stunning and intimate.

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      Came here to recommend this.

      Amazing series. Totally out of the norm scifi-fantasy that’s beautifully written. The kind of books you can’t put down and then once you hit those last 200 pages you get anxiety about what life is going too bed like without this story on it anymore.