Cool, thanks!

Sounds great :) Thanks!

Wow, thank you! :)

If you somehow haven’t read them already, pretty much anything by Tamora Pierce. They’re YA, but I know people of all ages who read them and I didn’t pick them up until I was an adult. Her Tortall books are definitely aimed older than her “Circle universe” books overall. Most of her books are in quartets or trilogies. You can pick up any set and start, but I tend to recommend starting either with the Song of the Lionness Quartet (her first published books) or the Becka Cooper trilogy (earliest in the chronology of the Tortall universe).

I saw someone else on your older post suggested LE Modesitt. I actually can’t get into his older series, but really like his Imager books (I suggest starting with Imager).

I also like all the original fiction I’ve read written by Brandon Sanderson. He’s probably better known for being the person who finished Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, but I really like his own series. The trilogy that most people know are the Mistborn books.

Lois McMaster Bujold is better known for her sci-fi (which is incredibly good), but her fantasy books are also good.

It’s a bit more dense, but the original trilogy of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel books (I know people who love the rest of the books in that universe, but I can’t get through them).

Catherine Valente (pretty much anything)

Diana Wynn Jones (again, just about anything, even the bits aimed fairly young)

Patricia Wrede

Caroline Stevener

If you like short stories at all, there are a whole bunch of fantasy collections pulled together on specific themes. For example, The Coyote Road is all trickster stories and The Green Man are all fantasy stories inspired by a sort of personification of nature/the natural world. The two Firebird anthologies are good sets of YA fantasy. One includes possibly my favourite short story ever “In the House of the Seven Librarians” by Elen Klages.

You might be interested in just checking out the Firebird imprint. It’s all fantasy and mostly books that are arguably both YA and adult. The majority of the Firebird books are new editions/reprints of books that are out of print in the US (or haven’t been printed in paperback in the US), but there are a few original works.

She’s not very well known, but I’ve liked what I’ve read by Nnedi Okorafor (my favourite of hers is Akata Witch)

If you like books that are more creepy, Nina Kirki Hoffman is good

Pamela Dean

Sarah Beth Durst’s Into the Wild and Out of the Wild are fun takes on fairytale characters fighting for control in their stories (not in the same way as the tv show Once Upon a Time).

In case you couldn’t tell, I can probably go on for days on fantasy books (sci-fi as well, but mostly fantasy). Feel free to poke me if you have questions on any of my recommendations or other book things :) Another way to find book recommendations is to see if authors you like have lists of books they recommend on their websites. If you can figure out if the same editor worked on several books you like (some Tor books have the editor on the copyright page, otherwise you generally only find out if it’s mentioned in the acknowledgments), some editors have lists on their websites, wider than just the books they edited, as well. (Sci-fi and fantasy editors are some of the ones that are most accessible to readers when it comes to websites, blogs, etc.)

Awesome, picked up Sandman Slim and The Gunslinger :)

Thanks, picked up Lord Foul’s Bane :)

..which brings me to, gosh, why does so much fantasy come in multiple volumes?

Cool, you’ll have to let me know how they turned out, I’ve never heard of ether!

Thanks!