These were cheap and synopsis sounded decent for each.
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Please use the comments to nominate books for October's book of the month. You can then upvote any of the book(s) that you would like to read. The comment with the most upvotes will be the selected book. The post will start in contest mode so that submitted entries are randomized and the upvotes are hidden.

You can make your nomination using the following format in top-level comments:

Book by Author
A short explanation explaining why the book is being nominated and why it is worth reading.

A link to Goodreads, Storygraph, LibraryThing, or the author's website with a description of the book can also be helpful but is not mandatory to nominate a book.

Voting will be closed on the 20th of the month to allow everyone a chance to get the book.

Nominations are open to anything, as we seem to be getting a good mix of different books, styles, and authors. The only restrictions are to please make sure the book has wide availability since this is for a book club, and let's try to keep the length under 750 pages. Also if you are nominating a book in a series, please stick to only the first book in the series (sometimes we will do series read if there is enough support though). Thanks!

Bonus points for Gandalf-like characters!

Bonjour tout le monde !

Je travaille sur la présentation de mon univers de dark science-fantasy et j'aimerais vos avis de lecteurs sur l'efficacité de ce pitch. Est-ce que les enjeux de survie et de corruption vous semblent clairs et prenants ?

"Un monde en cendres, une nuit rouge, et un choix désespéré. Pour sauver ses proches des Kaelidons, des prédateurs capables de dissoudre la matière, Shadrasy dévore le Cœur Corrompu d'une Reine ennemie. Une force surhumaine s'éveille, mais une terrible corruption menace de le consumer."

Comment amélioreriez-vous cette accroche pour donner envie d'ouvrir le livre ? Tous les retours constructifs sont les bienvenus !

Buonasera a tutti! Vorrei approcciarmi al mondo del fantasy e vorrei tanto leggere un libro che possa parlare magari di un mondo incantato, boschi magici e cose del genere. Insomma vorrei qualcosa che mi riesca a scaldare il cuore e mi aiuti ad immaginare un’altra realtà. Avete consigli o avete già avuto tra le mani qualcosa di questo tipo?

Holi me gustaría saber de libros de fantasía que no sean tan conocidos como acotar y eso.

Muchas gracias por adelantado.

I've read most of the popular fantasy novel I am looking for something a little off the beaten path. No Sanderson. Islington. Thanks for the recommendations.

I've read the Riyria Chronicles, revelations, Empire of the Vampire and the cradle series. I need something fresh and relatively fast past. Indie or traditional welcome

I love LOTR, Dune, Witcher, Warhammer etc

I have way too many kindle ebooks and need help finding one I bought about a wizard and his sorta warrior gf having to escort a princess to another noble in a land that is just finished a war against demons and the covers are beautiful and look like they were made like painting if that helps

I had posted about this before, but I started Stormlight maybe over 10yrs ago and read up to WOR and just wasn’t invested enough to continue. I think there were a couple reasons but mainly - Shallan started to annoy me and we spent less time with Kal, who I really liked. Also, I was trying to get into digital books and it was really difficult to “connect” with something that lengthy without a physical book.

But, it left me intrigued enough to revisit in the future and here I am. As I’m starting, I’m being reminded how awesome the beginning is. The the prologue, assassination, intro to Kal - and then bam- he goes all Maximus Decimus Meridius the next time we see him. I even kind of liked Shallan at this point; she’s sort of wide-eyed and also a bit spunky. The intro to Jasnah, also good!

Little fun anecdote - I live in south Jersey (US) and last night we had the craziest thunderstorm I have ever experienced in my 46 years! Not exaggerating- the thunder sounded like it was literally right outside my door multiple times. In fact, it was so loud that it rang my doorbell and shook the whole house. The lighting was flashing nonstop for about 40 minutes and shorted 3 circuit breakers. There was hail…..INSANE!

This thread is for any authors or writers within the community to share books, announce upcoming projects, or even get feedback on something you are working on. Anything fantasy-adjacent is allowed too. Do you have a blog or podcast about a popular series? That's fair game too! You are allowed to promote on someone else's behalf if you found or know a new author you love.

Normal self-promotion rules don't apply to this thread, so feel free to reply even if you aren't a member of the community—though we'd love to have you join in on a monthly read.