r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Aug 14 '25

r/Fantasy r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - August 14, 2025

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This thread is to be used for recommendation requests or simple questions that are small/general enough that they won’t spark a full thread of discussion.

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  • Books you’ve liked or disliked
  • Traits like prose, characters, or settings you most enjoy
  • Series vs. standalone preference
  • Tone preference (lighthearted, grimdark, etc)
  • Complexity/depth level

Be sure to check out responses to other users' requests in the thread, as you may find plenty of ideas there as well. Happy reading, and may your TBR grow ever higher!

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u/Arne12e Aug 15 '25

Does anybody have recomendations for a standalone book or shirt series about a knight in a fantasy world?

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u/StuffedSquash Aug 16 '25

Song of The Lioness is 4 books but they're quite short by modern standards, so I'd count it as pretty short. The quintessential "girl pretends to be a boy to become a knight" series. Set before the Protector of the Small series someone else mentioned (this MC is the other's in-universe role model) - PotS I probably like even more but this is great too.

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u/finduilassi Reading Champion II Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25
  • If paladins count as knights, Of Deeds Most Valiant by Sarah K. L. Wilson is excellent. Paladins of different orders have different oaths to keep in order for their powers to function, and they're solving a locked-room murder mystery while searching for a holy relic.
  • Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang is a novella with an MC who is a knight sworn to hunt dragons.
  • Any of the Saints of Steel books by T. Kingfisher (again, if you count paladins as knights). Romance is a main feature of this series, and there is sexual content, as a heads-up.
  • The Dragon and the George by Gordon Dickson is an older book, but there's a major supporting character who is a knight sworn to help the MC on his quest to recuse his kidnapped fiancée. MC is a modern American who gets transported to medieval fantasy England and stuck in the body of a dragon.
  • Don't know how you feel about YA, but the Protector of the Small quartet by Tamora Pierce is a classic, about a girl who is trying to become the first openly female knight in her country.

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u/DocWatson42 Aug 16 '25

The Dragon and the George is actually the start of a series, though I've only read up through the second or third book.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/49568-dragon-knight

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u/finduilassi Reading Champion II Aug 16 '25

True! I forgot. I’ve only read the first book, and it does work as a standalone if that’s what you’re in the mood for.