What books can I read LIKE Malazan?

[James]

I've read all of Malazan, most of Brandon Sanderson (I don't read series till they've finished, usually), Patrick Rothuss, The black Company series, The wheel of time, LOTR, Asimov, Game of Thrones, Lev Grossman - Magicians, A blood Song, The Mallorean and the Belgariad.

Any advice on other books?

[Hector]

I've been reading fantasy for a few years only and I've read most of the books you've read . Nothing it's like the malazan series I'll give you a few series I liked . The riyria revelations by Michael j Sullivan , the black prism and the night angel by Brent weeks , the first law trilogy by joe Abercrombie , the broken empire by mark Lawrence , the gentleman bastards by Scott lynch and the farseer trilogy by robin hobb wich have two more trilogy's following the first .

[James]

Ah I did the First law and Mark Lawrence. Both of which were brilliant!

[Hector]

Check out the black prism by weeks I love it, very cool sort of magic system and world .they are 3 books out with the last coming out this year

[James]

Many thanks, will do.

Keep them coming please folks. I've run out of decent fantasy (I also love epic sci-fi but not found anything that's as gripping as this new generation of fantasy)

[Stan]

Steven Erickson has said that "The Black Company" series by Glen Cook greatly influenced him, and after reading all of that series, I highly recommend the books. They are easier to read than the Malazan books, but you'll find similar relationships between the characters.

Hector's recommendations are pretty good, but I couldn't read past the first books in Abercrombie's or Hobb's series.

[Daniel]

It seems you have read quite a few good series already :)

You might be interested in these series:

1) The Gentleman Bastard sequence by Scott Lynch

2) Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams

3) The Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan

4) The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks

5) The Broken Empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence

6) The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie

7) Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abrahams

8) Drenai saga by David Gemmell

9) The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski

10) Farseer trilogy by Robbin Hobbs

11) Kane saga by Karl Edward Wagner

12) Elric saga by Michael Moorcock

13) The Shadow Campaign by Django Wexler

14) The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell (this is historical fiction, but it feels like epic/grimdark fantasy)

[Hector]

Daniel wrote: "It seems you have read quite a few good series already :)

You might be interested in these series:

1) The Gentleman Bastard sequence by Scott Lynch

2) Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Wi..."

Hey Daniel , I've been wanting to read the Long price quartet but haven't pick it up yet. If you had to compare to any of the series that has been mentioned what would be your choice?

[Rob, Quick Ben]

I enjoyed Long Price, but I like his newer series, Dagger & Coin a bit better. That finishes up this spring. Both deal with the economy far more than any other fantasy I've read.

I'm hard pressed to compare it to something though. Off the top of my head, maybe Hobb's Liveship trilogy, but that has boats and pirates, so they are still quite different.

You can't go wrong with either series though.

[Hector]

Rob wrote: "I enjoyed Long Price, but I like his newer series, Dagger & Coin a bit better. That finishes up this spring. Both deal with the economy far more than any other fantasy I've read.

I'm hard pressed ..."

Thank you. I'll pick up next, right now I'm trying to finish Thomas covenant the unbeliever and it's dragging .

[Daniel]

Hi Hector,

I think Long Price falls in the category of grimdark fantasy, I find it hard to compare it against other fantasy series because there isn't one quite like it. Long Price focuses very heavily on character development, politics and intrigues, and VERY LOW focus on actions.

In other words, Long Price, unlike most books mentioned, doesn't have a lot of fight scenes. I've heard some readers said the pace in Long Price too slow for their tastes.

The setting for Long Price is very interesting and refreshing. It is set in a medieval, pseudo-Japanese world. I guess this change of scenery offers fantasy readers something new.

[Hector]

Thanks Daniel. A different setting and good character development , I can deal with a slow pace as long as I feel I'm getting to " know" the characters.

[Ben]

I very much liked the Long Price Quartet as audio-book.
The concept of the andat was very strange at first.

There is a good no-spoiler review here : http://www.tor.com/2011/04/19/fantasy...

I recommend Joe Abercrombie and Patrick Rothfuss books. They are too good not to read.

[Rob, Quick Ben]

I've done both Long Price and Dagger & Coin in audio. Both have good narrators.

[Kim]

How about the Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker...

[Kevin]

Also anything by Stephen R. Donaldson, which was also one of the big influences for Erikson.

[Kevin]

I would also highly recommend more people to pick up Cook's Dread Empire to see where and how his writing developed before Black Company. It does not help that most people have not read that series at all even if their a huge Cook fan in part due to the series reprinted by Night Shade, which in my opinion has bad discount and marketing. I can't believe the series has the lowest number of ratings of any series I have ever seen of any series on Goodreads.

[Genevieve]

Yeah R. Scott Bakker his book series is good

[Paul]

One of the most underrated series has to be The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gywnne. Read the first two books, going to start the third soon but I'd highly recommend it over a lot of the more popular series (although most of those mentioned above are awesome).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Is it similar to Malazan? No, but nothing is unfortunately.