Found a good recommended fantasy list on BestFantasyBooks.com

[Bill]

Whether or not you agree with their rankings, it's well-written and thorough. And great food for your to-read list. :)

http://www.bestfantasybooks.com/top25...

[Brandon]

Thanks for posting this list!

I have read about half the series on the list and for the ones I have read I would agree they are excellent and well woth most peoples time.

[Janny]

NO GUY KAY? No Patricia McKillip?!!! No Carol Berg??? No Elizabeth Moon, Juliet Marillier and (yes she does superb fantasy) C J Cherryh? No Barbara Hambly? R. E. Howard?

I could go on.

Suffice to say, nice list, with some great names I loved, however, to my taste, too many quality authors and favorites left out.

[Bill]

Janny wrote: "NO GUY KAY? No Patricia McKillip?!!! No Carol Berg??? No Elizabeth Moon, Juliet Marillier and (yes she does superb fantasy) C J Cherryh?

Like I said, the list is good food...not the whole supermarket. :)

And thanks for the mentions, I'll look them up and hopefully add them to my list.

And, BTW, I found the list more helpful than 2010 GoodRead's Choice Awards. Looked like a lot of duds. Seems like while I can and do trust Sword and Laser readers, I can't trust GoodReads readers as a whole.

I think I'm going to cut and paste the Fantasy and SF winners in a separate post and solicit some opinions.

[Boots]

I'm pretty surprised Terry Brooks didn't make the list.

[Bill]

Boots wrote: "I'm pretty surprised Terry Brooks didn't make the list."

I agree. Along with David Eddings. I was going to mention Terry Goodkind, but, in my opinion, he only shone in his early books.

[Alexander]

Very biased list. It seems that the author of it likes "gritty" stories and shows disregard for the rest of the genre. This is like making a list of best cars and include only sports cars (and they do it!).
In my opinion the best list should include the best examples of different kind of fantasy stories - classic epic fantasy, like Brooks and Eddings, Young Adult stuff, Urban fantasy, Science Fantasy, and so on. This list is worth exactly as much as a list of best fantasy made by a vampire fangirl, which includes only paranormal stuff.