Favorite Fantasy Series of All-Time According to 50+ Booktubers 

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List of every booktuber's favourites, in order of mentions: Malazan Book Of The Fallen (Erikson) x6 Realm Of The Elderlings (Hobb) x5 The Faithful And The Fallen (Gwynne) x4 The First Law (Abercrombie) x4 The Lord Of The Rings (Tolkien) x4 The Stormlight Archive (Sanderson) x4 Discworld (Pratchett) x3 The Wheel Of Time (Jordan) x3 A Song Of Ice And Fire (Martin) x2 The Dandelion Dynasty (Liu) x2 The Dresden Files (Butcher) x2 The Green Bone Saga (Lee) x2 The Long Price Quartet (Abraham) x2 The Second Apocalypse (Bakker) x2 Threadlight (Argyle) x2 Ash And Sand (Nell) Book Of The Ancestor (Lawrence) Broken Earth (Jemisin) Burningblade And Silvereye (Wexler) Gaunt's Ghosts (Abnett) Gentleman Bastard Sequence (Lynch) His Dark Materials (Pullman) Memory, Sorrow, And Thorn (Williams) The Chronicles Of The Black Company (Cook) The Cycle Of Fire (Wurts) The Dark Tower (King) The Last King Of Osten Ard Series (Williams) The Legends Of The First Empire (Sullivan) The Runelords (Farland) The Winnowing Flame (Williams) The Winternight Trilogy (Arden) Wars Of Light And Shadow (Wurts)

So happy I got to be a part of this Matt! Thank you for inviting me!

*_Series with >1 mentions..._* *6 mentions* Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson *5 mentions* The First Law - Joe Abercrombie The Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb *4 mentions* The Faithful and the Fallen - John Gwynne The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien The Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson *3 mentions* Discworld - Terry Pratchett *2 mentions* A Song of Ice and Fire - G. R. R. Martin The Dandelion Dynasty - Ken Liu The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee The Long Price Quartet - Daniel Abraham The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan Threadlight - Zack Argyle

Holy moly, Matt. That's a LOT of booktubers! It's an honor to participate in this collaboration. Thank you! :)

So, If I didn't screw up, it goes like this (and I'm counting all the votes casted by Petrik): Malazan - 6 votes First Law - 5 votes Realm od the Elderings - 5 votes Lord of the Rings - 4 votes Stormlight Archive - 4 votes Faithful and the Fallen / Banished Land - 4 votes Discworld - 3 votes And then there were a lot of series with 2 or 1 votes. I'm really surprised that none voted for the Kingkiller Chronicle.

Thanks so much for having us on! Awesome seeing all of these brilliant booktubers gushing about their favourite books!

Thanks for having me, Matt! I loved the variety of channels and series represented. Fantasy is such an inspiring genre, and there's a series for every reader!

There is someting very inspiring about watching people talk about books they love with passion. I will never get tired of this :)

Me: taking notes Also me: *shouldn’t start new series until I finish the ones I’m currently reading*

Thank you for inviting me to participate in this massive project, Matt, and congratulations on putting it together -- excellent job!

I love these types of videos, they really show just how beautifully diverse this genre is, there's something to love for any kind of reader!! And it's just wonderful to see so many of my favourite people in the community all together in one video. Thanks so much for assembling this, I loved it!

Loved this so much - loved all the different perspectives! So wonderful

Thank you for inviting me on!!This is an incredibly impressive collaboration! I don't know how you managed to organise something this large!

Thanks for inviting me to be part of this! So great to see the favorite series from so many awesome booktubers!

Thanks so much for the invite Matt!!! Such an amazing cast in this short film that it needs to be submitted to Sundance. Lol. Thanks again man.

Awesome video, thanks so much for doing the hard work of compiling this, and thank you to all of the creators to take time to share their favorite series! Such a great idea👍

Bookborn, We are halfway through The Way of Kings. I'm hooked for sure! About a year and a half ago, we stopped watching tv at night before bed and started reading books together outloud, oftentimes, in our hot tub. It's a great way to chill and connect 😊

What an amazing video! Thank you so so much for inviting me! I guess I'll need to finally pick up Malazan...

I plan to make a fantasy comic book if i can, and i really needed a few inspirations because holy moly its so hard to make a fantasy world from scratch. Especially by myself. I will try to find all of the top rated recommendations in my native language :) thank you for the video!

Thanks so much for this! It's so great to be able to hear so many opinions because at the end of the day we cannot read everything so we need to help each other out

Thanks for having me, Matt. Loved to see the variety of series featured here.

I'm glad to see all these recommendations. I'm always on the look out for another great fantasy series. I guess I am in the minority when it comes to "The First Law" trilogy. I finished them, but I really didn't enjoy much at all about them. I don't understand all the praise, but different strokes for different folks. I will definitely be giving some of these others a try! My favorite series has to be R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt series in the forgotten realms. I think the characters are very well written and the fight choreography is some of the best I have read.

Glad to see you all here in one place, I hope all of you and your loved ones are in good health

Thank you for inviting me to this collaboration, Matt! As others have said, this is such an impressive list of amazing booktubers!

Thank you for inviting me to be a part of this! 50 booktubers must have been a lot to organise! 😍

Thank you for inviting me to take part in this incredible video! So many awesome recommendations for me to add to my TBR!

Great collaboration!! Awesome picks!

Thank you Matt for doing this epic rec list collab...and as someone who is relatively behind in the genre I am happy to add so many many books to my TBR!

What a brilliant video. As I've just gotten into reading in general, and fantasy being my favourite genre. It helps me to try some different types of fantasy books! Thank you Matt and book tubers 😄

I like how when you get to mine the audio immediately jumps out as amateurish and the video is hella out of focus. I would have it no other way. In fact I will create it no other way.

Wow what an undertaking and awesome final result! Thanks for inviting me to contribute, and it was great fun seeing everyone’s picks!

Very cool video idea I’ve read a lot of fantasy and I got introduced to some new series!

Hi Matt, I loved how you were able to band together so many fantasy lovers for this so-called collaboration. One person mentioned name of Greg Keyes in his comment (also comes from that country where I live), but I think Keyes is very rarely mentioned in these best fantasy series videos, but it is worth it. Especially his "Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" series. Not say it is my favorite of favoritest, but it has some good elements. Why do I think this series is special? I think the series has a very strong concepcition in depecting what kind of scams lie behind our myths and beliefs. He also turns the elf-like tropes out, here the other race does not yearn for wandering to "Happy Island", but recreate, moreover revideal and redefine themselves. His nature is also fresh in fantasy: here, behind the humanoid races and the various groupings, creatures which come from the magic of the world and the forces behind the visible world, there is also an another ancient elemental force, power, which is not essentially mythical, but almost like a natural cycle, that resurfaces from time to time, like the various great extinctions of Earth - this is no longer the final march of Treebeard and the Ents, but a far more vengeful, ruthless, truly subhuman reality. And I think this is a fresh, new approach to nature in fantasy. Here, it is not a companion, not an interplay of elemental forces, a system where mage can draw from, not a servant and a slave, but in some ways an enemy. I think purpose of Keyes was not grimdark, and his characters are not burned-out, dramatical, suffering heroes from their dark, tragic past, but they are also not two-dimensionals, black and white hero types. Keyes approached the chevalier novels from a different angle compared to Martin. He seeks, that those kind of persons who believes in classical values how react when their world, which based on false foundation is shaken, and how their beliefes will be changed, because this faith is based on that foundation. Most of times says that Martin's saga is like Druon's "The Cursed Kings" series, but from my point of view, Keyes's novels are more similar. So, I think this is a very good series. Greetins, Daniel from Hungary

Great video. Wouldve love to see Mike from Mikes book reviews on here but loved the entries.

Wow. Over 50 booktubers! Well done on putting this together (and thank you to all the participants). It felt like I was watching all the latest videos from my favourite booktubers all in one go lol.

This was such a great compilation. Thanks for putting this together!

Thanks for doing this, it was very interesting! I will say, I was kind of surprised at how often the big series were said, but it’s good that some were telling about some lesser known ones as well haha.

I am BAFFLED that no one definitively chose Mistborn! I also figured Kingkiller would get a mention too. So many great series mentioned here, and I'm excited to read those mentioned that I've yet to get to!

Thank you so much for asking me to be a part of this! What an amazing video.

This is amazing Matt! Thank you so much for including me and thank you for putting all the work into this epic collaboration!

Keep doing these Matt! They bring book tube together and we get to see so many different great books! :)

Epic mash up!! Thanks for making this video :)

Thanks Matt, for including me in this stellar line-up with lots of great recommendations!

I think this might possibly be the biggest fantasy collab in booktube till date ! Thanks for this Matt.

Interesting to hear everyone's thoughts. I'm a fan of almost every series listed. Shout out to those who said R Scott Bakker's The Second Apocalypse. I grew up reading The Wheel of Time starting in the early 90s to 2013s A Memory of Light. It has too much sentimental value for me to ever be dislodged as the best but The Second Apocalypse is sure close

This was fantastic - thanks for including me! Honored to be in a video with so many of these great people.

This was really great Matt! Thanks for putting it together, and including me in it.

This was such a great video, Matt! Thanks for inviting me to participate in this awesome collaboration!

Been binging your videos over the last couple weeks and had finally started to run out so this came at the perfect time! Keep up the high-effort content and keep being authentic to your own tastes, we all appreciate it.

Thanks for putting this together Matt. I pretty much subscribed to every person who collaborated with you, if only to ogle at their bookshelves. My biggest take home was definitely to move Malazan up higher on my TBR but I also loved hearing about a few series I've never seen mentioned before. Appreciate everyone's time and effort.

Thanks so much for inviting me! This was a ton of fun to watch. -T

Matt you are maybe my fave booktuber! Every your video is joy to watch! Bright future is ahead of you!

What an incredible video Matt! My TBR just got ridiculously large...

Absolutely brilliant video, appreciate the effort in putting this together

I was happy to see "His Dark Materials" mentioned at least once here, I read it when I was quite young, maybe 13 or 14, and it may be for younger audiences, but never has a book made me feel so hollow as I did back then when I ran out of pages.

WOW ! What a collab !! Thank you so much.

Wow great video! I found so many new to me fantasy booktubers!

You know what's cool? It's fun to listen to people talk passionately about their favourite books even if they aren't series i am not particularly fond of.

I love these videos Matt! Thank you!

This was amazing, Matt! And everyone! Thanks y’all! I really love a lot of fantasy series and my favorite changes all the time… but at times I can be completely honest with myself… my answer is always “The Wandering Inn”

Honored to be able to put in my two cents alongside such legends

Great here that there is so much variety in what was chosen- not everyone choosing the same series

Great video! And new recommendations for me :)

Thanks so much for including me

Dope list..here’s mine #1. Wheel of time (far in the lead for me) #2.Stormlight Archive #3. The first law

This is such an awesome video! Thanks for including me in it 😊

I literally only just heard of you a few days ago, and it’s from seeing the last huge collaboration. How the fricc did I miss you all this time??

Wow what a giant line up of incredible booktubers ❤ thanks again for having me and I'm glad it seems I'm not the only person who pick there favourite "today" series 😂😂

It's always fun to be mentioned among all of these other awesome booktubers and people! Thanks for including me 😊

The ultimate recommendation video! Thank you for asking me to be a part of this :)

What a great video, thanks Matt. Hats off to @bookswithzara and @blacknbluecollarreader for picking R. Scott Bakker's amazing Second Apocalypse series, so amazing and criminally unknown. I am almost done with it and wonder of you have read it Matt? I only recently discovered your channel (which rules) but I couldn’t find any videos of yours on Bakker despite the fact you seem to have read everything.

Matt, great video as always. I do have one gripe though. I have three favorite booktubers…it’s you, Durfee and the only one that was missing from this video Alex from ‘Tall Guy Reads’. I am hoping that he was invited but for some reason was unavailable. The three of you almost perfectly match my reading tastes and I count on you for new recommendations. It would be great if someday you guys could get together and talk about your favorites. Thanks again Matt.

Thank you for inviting me. This is an awesome video!

You really went all out reaching to every fantasy booktuber imaginable! And, considering how hard it is to choose just one series, everybody did great. Many great choices. Just grateful I don’t have to choose myself.

I think I'm going to have to put this video in a playlist on it's own so I can find it! There's a LOT of books, as well as channels, for me to dive into in the future.

Surprised I wasn’t the only giving Discworld the thumbs up and also how many people chose Faithful and the Fallen. Glad to be among so many Booktube luminaries. Thank you Matt!

This is awesome. Thanks 🙏

So many people said Malazan and Storm Light Archive... I need to do some shopping!

I'm impressed by the depth here. If you are too, a book on a similar note comes recommended. "Moonlit Shadows" by Olivia Whitestone

A great undiscovered sci-fi fantasy writer is Saje Williams who has written over ten plus books and my favorite book he wrote is Tales from the Magitech Lounge.

Amazing video, Matt! Thanks

loved this - so awesome

This is awesome! thank you so much for letting me be in this video! it feels great to be in a video filled with amazing booktubers!

This has been beautiful! So many eloquent, passionate people with awesome taste! My personal choice then would be The Fantasy Series, by All Fantasy Authors :)

I'm LOVING these crossovers!!!

I just found this corner of youtube looking for people talking about the wandering inn, since I paused reading and following as the story was written when pirateaba was halfway through the 7th volume online. Now the story has ran away from me and is milions of words longer lol. I'm looking into rereading the whole thing from the start because I can't even remember where I stopped. The story with the most breadth I’ve ever read, and easily my favourite series of all time. To me, it's special because it depicts what feels like very human and microcosmic stories together in a fantastical epic. Sad it’s not here. It’s fascinating watching people talking about so many different books. I mainly read webnovels because I can’t afford to buy books. Glad there are people who share their love of stories in the written word online.

Cool you had all of them on and that they dropped in to add comments. Seems like a great corner of RU-vid.

Jacqueline Carey series of books around Kushiel is one I think people should read. It’s not your typical fantasy series but it’s got a very interesting premise from the start.

My favorite is one your probably haven't heard of, but should definitely check out: the Ryiria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan. I especially recommend the audiobooks narrated by the extremely talented Tim Gerard Reynolds. The series was fully written before the first book was published, allowing for a very well told story with some of my favorite characters ever written. It skillfully balances darkness and light to tell a fun but believable story. Worth checking out!

Thanks for your hard work, Matt. You produce some of the best Booktube content yet.

Thank you matt bro im so hyped

Thanks for having me! Wait, i was not there. Thanks for the video!

Love to see my boy Daniel and WoT

Awesome video! And I discovered some new booktubers to follow :)

I don't think you got nearly enough booktubers, Matt, there are so many more! (I'm sorry I'm a contrarian at heart and saw all these great comments I totally agree with, thanks!)

Thanks for including me, this video is epic!

Does anybody have an opinion on which of these series has a great audible version? I finished the gentlemen bastard series performed by Michael Page, he did an excellent job narrating for me. Maybe too good. My brother got me on the Mistborn series and the performer is super monotone it’s hard to get into. I’m a heavy equipment operator so I spend a lot of time by myself and love a good audible while working! Thanks to all the authors who took time to be in this video!!!

Not only does this video feature so many diverse, awesome people talking about diverse, awesome books - but one persons favourite series might be another readers least, but that’s what’s great about the community - everyone’s opinion matters:)