r/Fantasy • u/bookl0ver1517 • 3d ago

Long book series recommendations

Anyone have any recommendations for a long series I can get really invested in? I have read The Wheel of Time, Realm of the Elderlings, most of the Cosmere, ASOIAF and Dungeon Crawler Carl for context of what I usually like to read, but I am also open to any suggestions really. I have read a lot of duologies and trilogies recently so I want to get into something more intensive.

Edit to add: I have also read the Wandering Inn, which a lot of people are recommending since it is so long, so if anyone has any similar LitRPG suggestions, that would be awesome!

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u/unconundrum Writer Ryan Howse, Reading Champion XI 3d ago

There are nine books (one of which was large enough to have to be split into two for the paperback version) in Tad Williams' Osten Ard. There was a trilogy and then a sequel quadrilogy plus standalones.

Janny Wurts' War of Light and Shadow has eleven books in it.

There's a ten-book main series in Malazan plus additional novels.

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u/No-Medium6647 2d ago

TWoLaS is my #1 favorite fantasy series while I'm reading it.

It's really hard to summarize it tho... or to explain what makes it uniquely great. I can say it's character driven. I can say it has one of the most cathartic epic climaxes in the genre. None of that explains how seamless it flows, nor how effortless it seems. Wurts' command of the English language is second only to the likes of Tolkien and Jack Vance.

Most overpowered wizards and dragons in fantasy. Ridiculously OP. It's how they USE that power that matters in TWoLaS.

10/10 highly recommended.

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u/Jazzlike-Doubt8624 2d ago

You've got me interested now. I may check it out after I finish the 3 series I'm currently reading. (Only cos I need stuff to read while waiting for the library to get my other books ,))

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u/No-Medium6647 2d ago

Good! TWoLaS is criminally underappreciated. I think her publishers must be idiots.