Novels wanted. Fantasy with Magic, wizards, swords and sorcery

[Edward]

Hi, Looking for heroic sword and sorcery fantasy novels. NOT looking for urban fantasy. Best if they were D&D like or Conan like. Wars and long drawn out political stories bore me to death. Looking for more action less talk.
What I've read so far Shinara series, Conan, Rift War, Salvatore's Dark Elf series, Dragonlance Chronicles, Most of the Pathfinder series, WOTC series.

[Gen]

Try the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. Its not urban fantasy like Dresden Files but maintains the action and pacing that he's good at.

[Edward]

Thanks!

[Ket]

My favorite swords and sorcery guilty pleasure is the Tiger and Del series by Jennifer Roberson. The first one is Sword-Dancer.

[Edward]

Thank you!

[MJ]

Katherine Kerr, Daggerspell

Dragon Prince

[Michele]

Sam Sykes has a trilogy that starts with Tome of the Undergates (ignore the awful cover lol)

and he's got a new book out that you can read without knowing the first trilogy The City Stained Red

And check out Steven Brust's Taltos series - starts with Jhereg

[Scott]

I'm currently enjoying Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & Gray Mouser series, beginning with Swords and Deviltry.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Elric of Melniboné whole series that, after a while gets majorly angsty, but the first ones are really good.

I'll second the Leiber series.

Nine Princes in Amber is a series I'm not entirely certain you will like, but thought I'd throw it out there any way.

The Black Company is another one that you might like.

The Misplaced Legion is another possibility. (Places a Roman Legion in another world, one where magic is commonplace.)

[Zombieslayer⚡Alienhunter]

Ignore this if comics aren't your thing, but Pathfinder Volume One: Dark Waters Rising Hardcover had a lot of action.
I didn't love it, but I'm not heavy in fantasy.

[A.M.]

Juanita coulson wrote two good ones. The Death Gods Citadel was the title of one but I dont remember the other

[Britney (BookDrunkSloth)]

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Theft of Swords

Eragon

[Tathariell]

Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Sword and Sorceress" series might be good. Collected volumes of short stories by various authors.

[Michele]

Try the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, starting with The Dragonbone Chair.

[Kimber]

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

[Annie]

Everything by Tamora Pierce

[Michele]

oh also the Belgariad starting with Pawn of Prophecy

[Jeremy]

You might also like the Vows and Honor books by Mercedes Lackey (they are a subset of her Valdemar series, but "By the Sword" is the only one that is strongly connected to the books about the Heralds).

1. The Oathbound (1988)
2. Oathbreakers (1989)
3. Oathblood (1998)
4. By the Sword (1991)

[Jeremy]

Here's a few more recommendations:

The War God series by David Weber
The Drenai series by David Gemmell
The Forest Kingdom series series by Simon R. Green

[Scott]

For D&D-like, Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame is about a group of RPGers who are transported into their game reality. Begins with The Sleeping Dragon.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Try Quag Keep and Return to Quag Keep for the RPGers who are transported into a gaming world.

(And I'll second Scott's suggestion of Joel Rosenberg's series)

[Tracy]

Slightly different approach to a quest, Jig the Goblin series by Jim C Hines, first is Goblin Quest

[SarahBeth]

You might like Mickey Zucker Reichert

[Ibn_shisha]

Forbidden Magic: The Godwars Book 1 by Angus Wells - older less well known fantasy, but focused almost entirely on 'The Quest' - politics largely restricted to when 'our heroes' are directly involved so it doesn't bog things down.

Wizard's First Rule - you might eventually get bored if you read the whole series but it starts strong

[Avaminn]

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (though you might find that one long and boring)
The Belgariad by David Eddings
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini