Chaotically Tier Ranking Every Fantasy/Sci Fi Series I Have Started (91 series) 

Alphabetizing including “A” and “The” at the start of the series names!?!? Chaotic indeed!

You seem very naturally charismatic. Talking off the top of your head seems natural.

You are very entertaining! I am at work and need something on my ears. Found this, and 1. Very good list! 2. Your voice is just so chill. I could listen for ages!

Oh nice! This is actually a really respectable list. While I haven't read every series here, I have read more than half of them and there's only a few I found to be largely out of place (for myself). You've got me very excited to read Realm of the Elderlings, by the way. I've tried starting it in the past but the length of the series, as a whole, is daunting to me. Love the channel!

Some excellent takes 👏

Sees runtime, this is gonna be a good one!

Doing a Cosmere reading order this year. I've already re-read everything I'd read already, so I'm on a first read of The Way of Kings right now. I think it's starting to get good, closing in on 20% through it.

Heck of a lineup mate!

I watched this whole video so hopefully this blesses your analytics with the algorithm. I’m glad you also loved Children of Time and having Murderbot over Ender’s Game is a wild take haha

Excellent list man ! Really interested in picking up Codex Alera just to see what it's like.

Absolutely love these tiers, this is one of my favourite ranking videos now 🤣 It's interesting to see how we agree very hard on some (Dandelion, Fitz & the Fool, Stormlight, Greatcoats, Daughter of the Moon Godess, and honestly manyyyy more), but also wildly disagree on some others (Gideon, Red Rising, Wheel of Time, Rage of Dragons). Also, now I want to reread RotE and Stormlight, thanks :))))

Oh hell yeah, this is ambitious. Let's see how it plays out 👀

I haven't read anywhere close to this many series but this was really fun to watch!

I'm a little sorry to see Earthsea get the score that it did, but tastes vary, and it's a very specific kind of fantasy. (edit) I'd strongly suggest you seek out Bujold's Sharing Knife series. It's sort of a hybrid of the adventure narrative and the romance novel (done well), and I'd be curious to see what you think of it. It's a tetralogy with an additional sequel novella from a different perspective.

Jake add Wyrd Sisters to your TBR, its a one of the good Disc World books!!

As should be expected from any such list, I would rate many series wildly differently. But it's entertaining to watch and make note of those disagreements. Really entertaining stuff. It's difficult to fairly rate books that you read when you were a very different reader. When I was young, Doc Smith's Lensman series and Weis and Hickman's Dragonlance series were both favorites. I read part of Dragonlance to my son when he was young, and while he loved it, I cordially disliked it. And they don't make an ink purple enough to do justice to Doc Smith's prose. Is it appropriate to rate such work as you first perceived it, as you see it now, or somewhere in between? FWIW, I don't think there's an obviously correct answer to that question, I just find it an interesting one. I don't think I could possibly do a list like this. I've been a heavy reader since the early '70s, with much of that SF&F. Just too much stuff. That said, if I were to try this, my categories would be something like: Love, Will Recommend, It's Fine, I Admire This but Never Again*, Soft DNF**/Momentum Finish***, and Hard DNF****. There would be a lot of stuff in It's Fine. Most fiction is entertaining, workmanlike storytelling that's in many ways interchangeable with thousands of other books. I don't mind spending money on books like that, but it will never be the kind of thing that I remember forever. * I'm glad I read it, but I never want to read it again. (Thomas Covenant) ** I haven't made a firm decision to never read further in the series, but I have no desire to ever see the books approach the top of my TBR. (ASoIaF) *** I'm 11 books into the series and at this point I just want it to end. But I bought the whole thing, so I'm going to read it. (Cradle, Wheel of Time) **** You can't make me. (Discworld, Hitchhiker's Guide (neither of which worked for me at all, though I recognize that they are favorites for many people), and a variety of absolute dreck.)

You've read a lot of cool shit. Thats Awesome. Don't stop. And I love the Black Company but I wish more people would check out Cook's Garrett P.I. series. Best fantasy detective. And I always try to recommend the Red Knight series by Miles Cameron.

Thanks and great to see this..one question...Whats the difference between "I do not like these" and "I dislike these" ? To me these both mean the exact same thing... Maybe a harsher phrase for the latter would have been better. :) But we can all get that you dislike the orange row more than the yellow. Maybe it should have been "I dislike these more" Thanks for the great video. Song of Ice and Fire is top tier for me. Peace!

Pretty good video from A Jake Bishop. Malazan vs Book of the New Sun is a tough one. I think Gene Wolf is better at the crazy ideas than even Steven Erikson, Urth of the New Sun was nuts, plus that whole inverse Frankenstein thing. But Malazan is a lot more funny and has so many good action scenes. But Book of the New Sun doesn't take months to read. Regarding The Culture, I feel like as a Malazan fan you'd like book 3, Use of Weapons, my favorite. Those books have a lot of cool sci-fi ideas and can go dark without being boring or unfunny like a lot of sci-fi authors do. Book 6 is also pretty solid, it's like "how would The Culture try to help a European medieval society without revealing their presence," and does a real good job on the recurring "intervention vs self-determination" theme.

* Taking notes for the TBR * :D

Amazing video! I haven't yet read a number of your favorites but overall I think we have decently similar taste in books. Also just random fyi Daniel Greene said he forgot a bunch of series that he had read even when he made his tier list video. And just to be annoying, I'll ask why you put the first book of the series as the picture for like everything except Stormlight.

I probably haven’t even read half of these series, but I would have Dune, Red Rising, Harry Potter and The Faithful and the Fallen way higher. But I respect it. Every time I hear you talk about Hobb it makes me want to pick up Realm of the Elderlings.

Awesome list. I'll yell at you for a good pick......ready? RAGE OF DRAGONS IS ABSOLUTE FIRE!!!! lol. I just started it this past weekend and I'm blowing through it. Pacing is level 11. Did you read the second book?

Good list, mostly. What in the name in all that is holy does stephatting mean?

IMO, Parable of the Talents is worth reading. Sower-->Talents has a similar dynamic to Dune-->Messiah, with the main difference being that Talents is a very good book beyond just the ideas and interactions with its predeccesor.

I read Children of Time and liked it. I read Children of Ruin, the first sequel, and it disappointed me so much that I won't be continuing with the third, Children of Memory. I hope you enjoy it more than I did lol

did not expect dresden not being in the highest tier damn

I enjoy Greatcoats but you're not wrong...

Realm of the Elderlings should be considered 3 different series and not lumped together, imho....All the Fitz and Fool stuff can be considered 1 series essentially, but Mad Ship stuff is separate as is the Rain Wild stuff All the First Law stuff can be considered 1 large series...standalones included Faithful and Fallen and Of Blood and Bone can be considered 1 large series Cosmere stuff should NOT be lumped together as 1 thing....they are all different series.

Gideon 😞

I’ll yell at you in agreement about Elderlings and Sarantine being spiritual experiences. Also-you should continue on to Endymion and Rise of Endymion at some point. I had a similar experience to yours with the first two, but was really glad I came back for books 3 and 4.

I accept your placement of Ender's Game but not your placement of AoM over ASOIAF - get that reread back on its tracks, fam

not revisiting the enders saga is a BIG MISTAKE. speaker for the dead is one of my all time favorite books.

Restrict yourself to popup books. You will find everything you need in them. Everything else is vain

Are you nuts?