Favorite Stand-Alone Fantasy list

[Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽]

My favorite stand-alone fantasies of 2016:

Guns of the Dawn
Children of Earth and Sky

[Hillary]

& based on the ones I've read, the books in Max Gladstone's Craft series can each stand alone

[Shaitarn]

War for the Oaks, an urban fantasy by Emma Bull
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers (don't be put off by the film!)
And I would argue Taltos by Steven Brust can be read as a stand alone novel (it's actually book 4 of a series, but I started with that one).

[Andrea]

G33z3r wrote: "Hey, Jessie, Dreaming the Serpent Spear is listed as the 4th book of the Boudica series. (Igno..."

I'll reply for Jessie and no, I wouldn't read it standalone, it's really one long 4 book story. I wouldn't really call it fantasy either, though there are dream sequences/visions (all that druid stuff) but there's no proof that it was magic versus smoking some interesting herbs. But if you still want to call it magic, it's a very minor part of the story and fantasy fans might be disappointed at the lack of it. It's a good historical series though.

[NekroRider]

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Ysabel also by Guy Gavriel Kay are two that come to mind. Also makes me realise most fantasy I've read seems to be a part of a series.

[Jon]

I apparently don't have much in the way of stand alone fantasy, most are part of a series.
Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold comes to mind.
I have also really enjoyed Guy Gavriel Kay's books.

[Davy]

Jon Gray wrote: "I apparently don't have much in the way of stand alone fantasy, most are part of a series.
Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold comes to mind."

While Best Served Cold (and The Heroes and Red Country for that matter) can be read as a stand alone, I would argue that they are far more enjoyable after having finished The First Law trilogy. It's in the same world, and it has a lot of recurring characters from that series.

[Jon]

I had a hard time coming up with stand alone fantasy books in general. You're right about the First Laws Trilogy.

[Andy]

The Golden Key is worth a read. It is a stand alone book but there has been talk of additional ones.
To Ride Hell's Chasm - Janny Wurts
Eyes of the Dragon - SK

[Jon]

I'll look for it. Thanks

[Luiz]

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. It makes you laugh, it makes you feel and it makes you think.

[Jon]

I have enjoyed quite a few Terry Pratchett books but I haven't come across this one.