Fantasy Book Club discussion

Hello everyone,

It's that time of the month again! Place your book suggestions here, one nomination and one second per person. Do read through the rules first, please. Feel free to nominate books that have failed selection previously.

1. All nominations must be shelved on GR as fantasy primarily.

2. All nominations must be linked to their book page, or they'll be ignored.

3. All nominations must be seconded.

4. Check our group bookshelf as we won't be including books we've read since January 2015. Check here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5. No self-nominations.

You have a week to nominate, then I'll set up the poll.


Have at it, Helen

Sorry I'm late setting up, I'm marking SATs and its basically logged into a computer 12+ hours a day. Other screen time just isn't happening!

NPCs by Drew Hayes

Can I cheat by nominating an omnibus edition of a two-volume story?

The Dreamblood Duology by N.K. Jemisin.

The Silvered by Tanya Huff if it has to be a standalone. :)

The Barbed Coil by J.V. Jones

Interesting challenge to find a standalone. How about something new. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

I'll second Priory of the Orange Tree.

I'll second NPCs. I'm not going to make a nomination because I really hopes it wins.

I'll second The Barbed Coil

Hmm, you fancy a standalone? What do you think about Imajica? Worth the time? Aside from Weaveworld (which is also an interesting take on the grim dark fantasy) it's possibly the only book by Barker that's tagged as Fantasy more often than horror. Sure, it gets SF tagged as well, but nobody's perfect ;) Were it not for the standalone suggestion and one book limit I'd have suggested something more of a classic exotic ;)

It doesn’t have to be a standalone... but it’d be nice ;)

I Second NPCs

Marcin wrote: "Hmm, you fancy a standalone? What do you think about Imajica? Worth the time? Aside from Weaveworld (which is also an interesting take on the grim dark fantasy) it's possibly the only..."

Helen wrote: "It doesn’t have to be a standalone... but it’d be nice ;)"


Well, I was thinking of proposing to read India's great classic of Mahabharata, but it has so many versions/translations that it's hard to decide which one would be best suited for us... A colleague of mine from India suggested The Mahabharata : A Modern Rendering which is a combined 2-volume version of The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, Vol. 1 and The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, Vol. 2 as an alternative to Bibek Debroy's arguably better but 10-volume edition... Perhaps someone who's more in the know can point us to even better single volume version if such exists... But for this moment, I'll stay with my first proposal of Imajica, though I would seriously consider that Indian classic sooner or later...

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the NOOB question but is it possible to link a book in the comments in the Goodreads app (IOS)?

If Imajica is nominated I'll second it.

Sorry Darren, I don't use the app so I don't know. Maybe someone else will chime in here.

Darren, no it isn’t. You’d have to go onto the internet and sign in to goodreads through the website on your phone, not the app.

My main reason for never getting one in!

I like the challenge of finding a standalone. This one has been on my shelf for a while, so I'll throw it in the mix and nominate The Bards of Bone Plain

The Emperor's Soul is one of my favorite stand alone fantasy books. It is connected to other Sanderson books, but doesn't require reading them.

I've read Emperor's Soul, it's really good.

Joseph wrote: "Can I cheat by nominating an omnibus edition of a two-volume story?

The Dreamblood Duology by N.K. Jemisin."

Course you can! If it lists as a book it's totally good.

I'll second The Dreamblood Duology

I’ll make a poll later.