ranking best of the best downwards to tenth place.

1st. Blackbird series (Freda Warrington)

2nd. Song of Albion trilogy (Stephen Lawhead)

3rd. Jewel-fire trilogy (Freda Warrington)

4th The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R Tolkien)

5th. His dark materials (Philip Pullman)

5th. Boudica (Manda Scott)

6th. The Cleric Quintet (R.A. Salvatore)

7th. Pendragon Cycle (Stephen Lawhead)

8th. Dragon King Saga (Stephen Lawhead)

9th. Abhorsen series ? (Garth Nix)

10th Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling)

^Whoops, don't know how to edit so move boudica 1 down and move Harry potter out of the top 10.

id throw chronicles of narnia in there...


living life for its random experiences and their consequences

If you like fantasy series you should read Thomas Covenant Series by Stephen Donaldson. Its my favourite.


Do you know what your fate is?
And are you trying to shake it?
You're doing your best
and your best look
You're praying that you make it

The DragonLance books.

The Dragonlance Chronicles and the series that followed grew out of the Dungeons & Dragons role play game, taking the story and characters from one of their most epic games Weis and Hickman created a whole world of fantastic creatures, wonderous adventures and unendng excitement.The adventures are gripping with excellent settings and fabulous background characters, you feel like you are along on the adventure.

The heroes include a troubled half elf, a sickly magician and his warrior twin, a grumpy dwarf, an uptight knight and a comical if light fingered kender(a race only found in Dragonlane, small child like creatures with pointy ears, long hair gathered in top knots and an amazing ability to get into trouble) along the way the encounter others including goblins, gnomes, draconians, gully dwarves, dark dragon riding knights, a confused wizard, majestic elves and of course dragons.

The first 3 books are the Chronicles series(in my eyes the best as they were the first) "Dragons of autumn twilight" starts the story setting the scene as the hero's leave on an almost impossible quest to save the world from the dark queen Takhisis.

My hubby does not read books...however somehow he read the first one and ended up reading the series...literally one after the other. They are excellent and less confusing or long winded as Lord of the rings.

Thanks for the reccomendation I'll definitely check them out.

For me Warrington's blackbird series beginning with a blackbird in silver, I cannot reccomend them strongly enough.

The Valdemar Series by Mercedes Lackey
EarthSea Trilogy by Ursula LeGuin
Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Phule series and the M.Y.T.H. series by Robert Asprin
Magic Kingdom series by Terry Pratchett

A long time ago I read a few books in a series, but there were a lot more, and they were really long, and my life became to busy to keep up. I can only remember one title- "the wizards first rule". Did anyone else read any of those books? I really loved them, I read about 3 of them.

here's my top 10

1. A Song of Fire and Ice. George R.R. Martin

2. The Prince of Nothing. Scott Bakker

3. Dune. Frank Herbert

4. Fionawar Tapestry. Guy Gavriel Kay

5. Imajica Clive Barker

6. The Death Gate Cycle Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman

7. The Elric Sagas Michael Moorcock

8. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. Tad Williams

9. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Stephen Douglas

10. Runelords David Farland

1. Lord of the Rings - Tolkein
2. The Elenium and The Tamuli - David Eddings (two trilogies)
3. Battle Axe series - Sara Douglas (two trilogies)
4. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Douglas ?? (two trilogies)
5. The dragon Jousters series, The heralds of valdemar series - Mercedes Lackey
6. All Tamora Pierce series
7. Eldest and Eragon - Paolini
8. The wheel of time - Robert Jordan (just watch this one it is good but unfinished and he died but I think he left notes to finish it)
9. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia C. Wrede (if you want twisted fairy tales you have it here!)
10. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
11. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

And the list goes on and on and on and I am sure I have missed a couple I really enjoyed!!! Also they are not in any particular order, that's just how they came out they are all as good as each other and all completely different!

Stile,I really enjoyed the first few books, although they were a bit too long. I am sorry to hear they became a bad read.