Best Book/Series of 2016

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Happy New Year everyone! Big question for all of you: what was your favourite book or series of the year?

[Tammie]

Probably Age of Myth.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I cannot possibly choose just one. XD It's like apples to oranges trying to decide between top books of each sub genre. Lots of good ones!

[Dani]

Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire - Rod Duncan

[Scott , Karsa Orlong]

Malazan is the best series. Of the 8 books I read for Book of the Fallen these three are the best and it's impossible to choose one over the other.

Deadhouse Gates
Memories of Ice
The Bonehunters

[Jarek "the Mistborn"]

For a book i'd have to go all the way with words of radiance book 2 of the stormlight archive series by Sanderson. As for a series iam giving the riyeria revelations the top spot. I was so engulfed I read all six in just under a months time:)

[Margret, Caladan Brood Face]

Lightbringer for this gal. Top book hmm I'll have to look back at what I read this past year

[Margret, Caladan Brood Face]

Ok I really can't decide. I read Gardens of the moon, first two gentleman Bastards books, Morning Star, finished the Wheel of Time (those last 3 books holy shit), read Lightbringer, the Bands of Mourning, and A Gathering of Shadows, and and and....How can I choose!

[Angela, I'm Silverfox lost]

In Fantasy I had two favourite books this year. Two earlier to tell if they will be favourite series or not.

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. Just a brilliant book and that world building blew my mind.

The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks. I can't say it was a favourite series yet with finding the last book less than stellar.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Margret wrote: "Ok I really can't decide. I read Gardens of the moon, first two gentleman Bastards books, Morning Star, finished the Wheel of Time (those last 3 books holy shit), read Lightbringer, the Bands of Mo..."

Ooooh that really is a tough choice.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

My favourite series of the year is also Malazan. My top three are the same as Scott's, but I think after those three we start to differ in opinion.

[Scott , Karsa Orlong]

Jenna wrote: "My favourite series of the year is also Malazan. My top three are the same as Scott's, but I think after those three we start to differ in opinion."

After that for me it's:

Midnight Tides
Reaper's Gale
Gardens of the Moon
Toll the Hounds
House of Chains

Toll the Hounds has the best ending of any of the 8 books but the first 75% was a bit all over the place with stories not interlocking like we are used to.

House of Chains had the worst ending of the 8 books and it's not even close.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Scott wrote: "Jenna wrote: "My favourite series of the year is also Malazan. My top three are the same as Scott's, but I think after those three we start to differ in opinion."

After that for me it's:"

After the top three, for me it's:

Gardens of the Moon
Toll the Hounds
House of Chains
Midnight Tides
Reaper's Gale

For Toll of the Hounds, I think I had a bit more hope because I saw you freaking out over the later chapters so I enjoyed the individual stories a lot more before they all connected.

House of Chains didn't have the greatest ending, but I think I liked the first half of the book a lot more than I liked some of the other beginnings.

Midnight Tides and Reaper's Gale just didn't have characters I was super interested in so that's why they fall to the bottom for me.

[Scott , Karsa Orlong]

Midnight tides has the best prologue of the series, perhaps the best prologue ever and the ending is awesome. It did start slow and Bugg and some of the other characters I loved.

[Scott , Karsa Orlong]

TTH's ending was unreal.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Scott wrote: "Midnight tides has the best prologue of the series, perhaps the best prologue ever and the ending is awesome. It did start slow and Bugg and some of the other characters I loved."

Yes Midnight Tides had a great prologue.