Dan's A-Z Challenge

[Dan]

I'm going to attempt to read solely fantasy and epics for this challenge (95% of what I'm reading these days anyway) but I may need to make some compromises come X.

A - Joe Abercrombie Before They Are Hanged
B - Peter Beagle The Last Unicorn
C
D - Samuel R. Delany - Tales of Nevèrÿon
E
F
G - David Gemmell Legend
H - Robert E. Howard The Hour of the Dragon (next on deck)
I
J - John Jakes Brak the Barbarian
K
L - C.S. Lewis The Silver Chair
M
N - Edith Nesbit The Enchanted Castle (currently reading)
O
P - K.J. Parker - Blue and Gold
Q
R
S - Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish
T
U
V
W - Tad Williams The Dragonbone Chair
X
Y
Z

[Dan]

Just finished The Dragonbone Chair and starting up The Last Wish today! I have a few more authors lined up.

[Dan]

Added a couple more to the list! Making progress!

[Robin]

Dan wrote: "Just finished The Dragonbone Chair and starting up The Last Wish today! I have a few more authors lined up."

How did you like it? The series is one of my favorites.

[Dan]

Robin wrote: "Dan wrote: "Just finished The Dragonbone Chair and starting up The Last Wish today! I have a few more authors lined up."

How did you like it? The series is one of my favorites."
Which The Dragonbone Chair or The Last Wish? Either way I can confirm that I quite enjoyed both, and for very different reasons. I probably won't continue The Witcher series posthaste, as it is not as much a defined series and The Last Wish was a pretty self-contained series of shorts, but I will most likely be picking up Stone of Farewell soon enough. Hopefully I'll get the trilogy done by end of year.

Here's my review for The Last Wish:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And my review for The Dragonbone Chair:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dan]

Finished Blue and Gold, very fun and quick read.

[Dan]

Finished Tales of Neveryon, and the review is up!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Onto Brak the Barbarian for my J selection.

[Dan]

Finish Brak, here's the review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Onto Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, forB.

[Dan]

Finished off The Last Unicorn, and wrote up my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I think next I'll pick up Robert E. Howard's The Hour of the Dragon after I finish Tad William's Stone of Farewell.

[Jenna]

Great review :)

[Dan]

Thank you kindly!

[Dan]

Still haven't started up The Hour of the Dragon (so much in the TBR pile!) but I did start up The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit for N.

[Scott]

It's fun to see a list so different than my own. I'll have to give a few of these a shot.

[Dan]

I'm trying to stick to the fantasy genre, though I may end up with some epics or mythology mixed in, but I like to have a varied selection and explore many of the roots of the genre.

[Jenna]

Scott wrote: "It's fun to see a list so different than my own. I'll have to give a few of these a shot."

I would definitely agree; I don't have a single A-Z book in common with Dan yet, but a lot of them look interesting. It's a great way to find new books to read.

[Dan]

Yeah it's great see the variety of different books people in this group have tackled completing this challenge.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Interesting list Dan.