10 Fantasy Books I Couldn't Stop Reading

These are 10 fantasy books that I couldn't stop reading, kept me up all night! Perfect to DESTROY your reading slump, or if you are seeking 5-star reads! In this curated list, you'll find standalones and completed or ongoing series that I couldn't put down!
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[@Tetsujin-28]

Isa: She must burn 1200 calories just filming these videos. Great content. A wonderful channel.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahahah thank you!! This is my kind of exercise 😂! Ahh I love that you enjoy the channel! Thank you for saying it!!

[@lorenzohc4l178]

​​@@FunFantasyBooksi love the way u talk about books in your video , it totally reminds me of myself when talking about books i love especially the ever moving hands 👌🏻 Its so pure and full full of passion 💯

[@AnnaRak423]

Hi Isa, I am currently reading The Sword of Kaigen and have already ordered Blood Over Bright Haven as I am enjoying this book so much!!

[@celinelamyendu2614]

Guns of the dawn, Foundryside, Blood over bright haven, the will of the many, so many great books!!!

[@Dpal9959]

Thank you for all the great recommendations! My TBR is growing by the minute! 💜🤗

[@JAKandtheBookStack]

Great recs! I loved The Will of the Many too, but the politics/magic were so complex, I need a cheat sheet! I can’t wait to read book 2

[@FunFantasyBooks]

hahaha absolutely! happened the same for me at first!

[@fithfath3615]

You have many excellent suggestions there, plenty to add to my wish list. For a 5 star book I can recommend Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood. If you enjoy urban fantasy, then I can also recommend anything written by Charles De Lint.

[@zuzanaochmanova2652]

uuh, great video! Have been considering readin some Tchakovsky for a while (not sure which one to start with) but Guns of the Dawn does sound very interesting! Foundryside also sounded very interesting :O God damn, I have put book buying ban in December :D Malice, Stardust, WIll of the Many and Nettle and bone are on my physical TBR waiting for me to pick them up very very soon! Soo great choices, makes me happy about my new books !! :D And I completely agree with Blood over Bright Haven and Psalm for the Wild Built (such different books :D)

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahaha ohh those are some amazing reads right there!!! I definitely believe that Guns of the Dawn is a great Tchaikovsky starting book!!

[@KristinKravesBooks]

Great lost of recommendations! T. Kingfisher and Becky Chambers are definitely two of my autobuy authors.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you!! I have been obsessed with Becky Chambers this year, I am so happy I discovered her!!

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Let me know what fantasy books kept you up all night reading! ⬇️

[@estercastedo372]

The last fantasy trilogy that kept me up all night reading was The Dark Gifts saga (first book called Gilded Cage) by Vic James. It has some years. It’s a pity that in Spanish only were translated the two first and not the last one! The edition was so beautiful.

[@swetharaman1256]

Winternight Trilogy Katherine Anderson. Very atmospheric and beautifully written

[@elizabethc3744]

I started reading the Throne of Glass series last month and even with 4-5 other books interspersed, I’m already on books 5&6 -tandem reading them which I honestly think is one of the best reading experiences I’ve ever had-and I’ve been late to work 3 times because I wake up thinking about them and HAVE to read

[@paulas.6517]

Perfect recommendations ❤ I've read a few of these and they were all fastpaced and really entertaining! In my last reading slump I've read Red Rising. It was the perfect pick and I read the hole trilogy in one week 😅

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Ahh thank you! ❤️ I hoope you are already out of that reading slump!! Definitely red rising is great for that!! Try The Will of the Many!!

[@paulas.6517]

@@FunFantasyBooks The Will of the Many is on my wishlist for christmas!

[@ThePetiteReader]

Blood over bright haven goes right to my TBR!!! Fantasy and academia, you got me! The will of the many has been hyped and it seems to be great, goes to my never ending TBR!

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahaha yes!!!! Getting both Blood over bright haven and The will of the many to your TBR is 100% a success for me!

[@ThePetiteReader]

@@FunFantasyBooks great! I need 2024 to be a way more successful reading year than 2023...I didn't find many favorites this year 😒 but still grateful fro the ones I found.

[@laku_u]

I'm glad to hear Malice kept you up at night! Well, I'm sorry for your health, but I was thinking of picking it up relatively soon. The series I'm finishing right now is one of John Gwynne's favorites, so what better book to break the reading slump I'll soon find myself in? I'm not touching Will of the Many until we have a release date for the second one, everybody talking about the cliffhanger has scared me 😆

[@FunFantasyBooks]

What!!! I thought I answered this comment! So sorry Laura!!! Yeah, I understand, the cliffhanger is real! BUT ALSO I need you to read it so that we can theorize 👀✨

[@bobkeane7966]

John Gwynne's Hunger of the Gods trilogy is a can't miss story, still waiting on the third book to come out.

[@nazimelmardi]

I would add Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Also Name of the Wind. (I really hope we will get that 3rd book one day).

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you so so much for the recommendations!!

[@nazimelmardi]

@@FunFantasyBooks I would maybe mention that the Earthsea saga from Ursula Le Guin never gets enough credit. It’s starts as a book for children but by default it’s better than Harry Potter and it is the key book series between Tolkien and modern fantasy. The Wizard of Earthsea is the book that inspired Neil Gaiman to write Sandman in several ways so did Sir Terry Pratchett’s Equal Rites in the Discworld. And of course Harry Potter itself. Her books in fantasy and sci-fi are important enough and fortunately fun to read. I’m not sure if you read them. The sci-fi ones are also that important not just in the genre but for the recognition of female authors and also her work for lmbtq. It’s the text book how to do a representation without being bad in the story. And so on. Btw: the books in Earthsea are short so it’s a fast read good to catch back to read.

[@joelindley5113]

I found it hard to get into Malice at first but so glad I gave it another go. Gwynne is easily one of my top 5 authors now. Brian McClellan isn't far behind. The second Powder Mage trilogy is even better than the first and the first in his Glass Immortals series was brilliant

[@elnikhil]

Amazing recommendations. Thanks

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you!! It helps to know that you found it useful!!

[@danilegge527]

I often stop your videos in the middle so I can go to ebay and look for the books you have just mentioned. Just bought the first two books of the Powder Mage Trilogy!

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahaha that’s great!!! I love that you keep finding books that spike your interest! 🥹

[@sumanpani]

Guns of the dawn sounds so much fun. I have read most of the others or they are in my tbr.

[@bergy4367]

I agree with you on Malice the first like 300 pages are kind of slow but after that It's like a train that hits you and the ending is worth it soon to read Valor.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahaha absolutely! I will continue with Valor as soon as I can!

[@happily_ever_april]

totally agree with foundryside. I wish I had the hardcover of that book!

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Me too!! I have been seeking book 1 FOR YEARS it is incredibly expensive 🥲

[@happily_ever_april]

@FunFantasyBooks same. I ordered one of Amazon a long time ago but what came was a paperback arc copy! at least they gave me my money back and let me keep it.

[@BasicallyNeda]

Hi, These are great recommendations. The book that got me hooked this year was "The Judas Blossom" By Stephen Aryan.😊

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you so much! Love that you shared a recommendation!

[@missstarbuck]

I absolutely loved , The invisible life of Addie LaRue from V.E.Schwab. It was fantastic! And another one i absolutely loved was a thriller... but for me it was more a cozy mystery... The golden spoon by Jessa Maxwell :D

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Ahh!! I really need to read it!! It’s next on my TBR!!!

[@johnsparegrave5996]

That's a great suggestion.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you!!

[@BecxReadz]

Im currently reading Upon A Frosted Star historical light fantasy, and sucking me in.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Ahh really! It sounds amazing!!! Thank you for recommending it!

[@zem_fm]

Locklands actually has one of my favourite scenes ever, (I don't think it's a spoiler) it's the one where Sancia pokes Crasedes with a stick, it still has me cracking up months later 😂😂😂 Is it just me, or are sticks in fantasy books just incredibly funny?? Winter's Orbit had a hilarious stick scene too, I'm a fan 😂 I'll go with a very standard up-all-night book to start, Six of Crows! Also, Kingdom of Ash many years ago when it first came out, that book destroyed teenage me 😂 Also the last book in the Prison Healer series, I know you DNF'ed that one and not sure if I'd recommend it, but I sure was entertained 😂

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahaha I should give Prison Healer book 2 a try! I only read the first one and yeah, haha decided against it lol! But maybe I judged too quickly! Hard agree with Six of Crows and ToG!! Hahahahaha I also loved that scene from Locklands! Epic

[@moonstonepearl21]

A ton of people were talking about Foundryside when it first came out, a little bit with the second book, but by the time the third one came out, it seemed like the series got a bit forgotten about sadly.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Ahhh I didn’t know that! I was lucky enough to read the trilogy pretty close, in 3 months got the whole series done!!

[@liamcrawford9652]

Great recommendations! Tienes algunas recomendaciónes para libros españoles? :)

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you!! Uuuuuyy te has leído ya La sombra del viento? (O Marina?). También me gustó mucho Memorias de Idhun!

[@liamcrawford9652]

@@FunFantasyBooks Sí! Me encantan, especialmente la sombra del viento! Buscaré por Memorias de Idhun, gracias :)

[@jennd2100]

I always love your recommendations, but prioritizing all these great reads is tough. If you haven’t read Illborn by Daniel T Jackson… talk about addiction, I couldn’t let go of the book long enough to sleep until it was finished.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

I haven’t!!!! But gosh!! I should I know! Prioritized for 2024!!

[@SamHarrison2099]

Stop stop my TBR can't handle this

[@crazyforbooksandcoffee]

You tube is so bad for my bank balance 😂 some great sounding books here

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahahaha we can definitely have worse habits 🥹

[@NevsBookChannel]

Chipmunk Isa is funny!

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahahah thank you! 🐿️

[@cmeeki4]

More books to read in 2024

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hopefully yes!!!!

[@pollys6192]

Me he pasado todo el video mirando a la michi? SI... pero he tomado nota de los que aun no he leido eh XD

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Jajajajajajajaj se hace la tierna todo el vídeo. Eso o se aburre con el contenido; pero yo creo que lo primero

[@887frodo]

Neil Gaiman… 😂

[@FunFantasyBooks]

He is THE standalone king!

[@reine117]

You are so cute 🧡

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you!!