Nominations for 2015 reads

[Ian]

Il second tower and knife trilogy

[Todd]

I second Drenai/Legend books I've read half, but go off task.

[Cameron]

I'll nominate the Sovereign of the Seven Islands series. Last book came out this year. I just started on the first, so I can't say whether it's really good or not, but it has been entertaining so far.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/8425...

[Helen]

Chad wrote: "As long as the poll is open, might I humbly put forth Return of the Wizard King? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Book two and book three should also be out b..."

Isn't that your own book?

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

heres where we are at then....

Nominated and seconded:
Mordant's Need
The Emperor's Knife
Black Sun Rising
Promise of Blood
Shadowmarch
The Sword of Shannara
Prospero Lost
Kushiel's Scion
Legend
Rules of Ascension
The Broken Crown
The Demon King
The Diamond Throne
Thinblade

Nominated needing seconds:



Dance Of The Goblins
City of Saints and Madmen

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

we need some more seconds here!

[Antonis]

If it's that important then I can use my seconding vote for one. Rules of Ascension looks the more interesting to me compared to the other 4 so it gets my second.

[Keith]

I'll nominate Michelle West's The Sun Sword series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4135...
Very good series I read about 10 years ago. It's similar to Malazan in scope and some of it's concepts, subject matter and world-building. It's an unsung/under-appreciated series imo that's hard to find in depth discussion of, so I'd definitely like if more people started reading & discussing it

[Gabriel]

I second sun sword series.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

okay-Post 60 is up-to-date, and we have 11 series nominated--most of which look pretty interesting!

I will leave this up until this afternoon to see if we have any more response, and then start the poll.

[Spencer]

I would like to second shadowmarch. I've been meaning to reading this series recently, but would love to have others to read it with!

[Jon]

Janny wrote: "I'd like to nominate the Mordant's Need duology by Stephen R. Donaldson. It's two very long books, The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through.

Sever..."

This is my all-time favorite work by Donaldson. One of my top ten books I've ever ready (if you take them as a duology together).

[Kerry]

I'd really like to see Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn in the poll. I know that will put two series by Williams in the list, but can I use my nomination for it?

[Jakub]

I recommend "Elenium" trilogy by David Eddings: The Diamond Throne, The Ruby Knight and The Sapphire Rose.

[Kevin]

I will second Thinblade

[Cameron]

I'll second Kushiel's Scion.

[Wastrel]

I suppose I'll second the Elenium, then! It's a limited series in many ways, but it's also an important part of the history of the genre, it has good elements, and I recently re-read it. I think it would be interesting to see what people these days thought of it.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

Kerry wrote: "I'd really like to see Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn in the poll. I know that will put two series by Williams in the list, but can I use my nomination for it?"

I already threw out another 'double', so I cant make an exception

[Eugene]

I second the Rules of Ascension.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

ok-closing thread and creating poll now!

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

well, we have winners!

Promise of Blood-Powder Mage trilogy
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy and
Legend-Drenai -9 books

so since the drenai is longer, if we start Drenai in January, and do the powder mage after long price starting in March, followed by Shannara in June we will be set with reads up until September.

Does this sound good? Anyone have other options/ideas???

[Antonis]

Sounds good to me! A nice mix of new and traditional fantasy! If I find the time I will try to read all of them.

[Helen]

Sounds like a plan. When I read Legend with a group just over a year ago, I decided to read the whole lot. I never did!

[Wastrel]

I'm curious to see how many people actually survive 11 volumes of Drenai novels... even I-as-a-teenager couldn't do that!

Unfortunately, as the series goes on... it's not so much that they become worse (maybe they do, I don't remember) but that they get more and more repetitive...

...then again, hats off to anybody who can make it through the whole Shannara trilogy. Teenage me did, but only due to a holiday stuck where no other books were available. It's the same book written three times... and that book is a sparknotes commentary on the Lord of the Rings.

[Helen]

I've not read all of Gemmell, but enjoyed reading all of Shannara back to back a few years ago. There must've been at least eleven.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

Wastrel wrote: "I'm curious to see how many people actually survive 11 volumes of Drenai novels... even I-as-a-teenager couldn't do that!

Unfortunately, as the series goes on... it's not so much that they become ..."

I know, it's very unfortunate. I don't plan to read any of these, so we are actively looking for people willing to moderate. Please message me if anyone is willing!

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Maggie wrote: "The Sword of Shannara Trilogy"
So this is The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, and The Wishsong of Shannara, and not any of the other Shannara books, right?

[Brenda ╰☆╮ , In Memoriam]

Think I can safely say, yup!
The original trilogy.

[Kevin]

Could we read Promise of Blood after the Shannara books? That way I may actually be able to get it from the library. What does the moderator have to do? I may be willing to do the Legend books.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

Kevin wrote: "Could we read Promise of Blood after the Shannara books? That way I may actually be able to get it from the library. What does the moderator have to do? I may be willing to do the Legend books."

sorry about that-sometimes newer series are hard to get for library users. This series 3rd book is out in February, so its all pretty new.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

Kathi wrote: "Maggie wrote: "The Sword of Shannara Trilogy"
So this is The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, and The Wishsong of Shannara, and not any of the other Shannara books, right?"

right Kathi. Do you want to moderate? lol

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Maggie wrote: right Kathi. Do you want to moderate? lol "

Nope, thanks. If we were reading all the related books, I would probably reread the original ones to remind myself about them so I could go on to the other related series, but since it's just the originals, I doubt if I'll even reread them at this time.

[Helen]

Drenai and continuing with book 3 of Daniel Abraham Long Knife.

[Joey]

I nominate Legend by Gemmel, and second Black Sun Rising.

[Michael]

mistborn trilogy by brandon sanderson

[Helen]

The voting finished some months ago.