20 Must-Read Fantasy Books for Beginners in 2024

[@MsELaHood]

I’ve read almost every single one of these books. Great selections it’s like you know my exact taste! ❤ instantly subscribed

[@CanadaCalm]

Starter video is perfect for me. I just started reading fantasy at 50 yrs old. Love your channel.

[@hawk66100]

Oh boy! Welcome to the genre. I could recommend a ton of books/series.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Ohhh welcome!! I hope this video helps! But if you need anything else please let me know!

[@naomiodeyemi3768]

​@@hawk66100would love some recs

[@kerstinharold5420]

Such a great video! Anyone new to Fantasy and doesn't know where to start doesn't have any excuses anymore. I love all your effort to even divide your recommendations into different categories. And that you're so objective to include book(s) thay your didn't enjoy that much but admit, they moght suit for someone else.

[@alusarmiento]

Thank you so much for this video! Your channel has helped me massively to fall in love with fantasy. Discussing The Lies of Locke Lamora with you and the Patreon made all the difference!

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Ahh ana! Thank you so much!! It has made me so happy to see your transformation!

[@Mage-or-Dad]

Love the recommendations and definitely interested in getting outside epic fantasy with some of your cozy fantasy recommendations. I think it would be hard for me to recommend a series that may never be finished as an entry point for epic fantasy. Not saying they aren’t great or that anyone shouldn’t read them, they should. I would lean towards recommending First Law trilogy instead to get that closure but also the prospect of the following standalones and second trilogy. I also think the Riyria Revelations is a great entry point for someone just looking for fun characters and adventure.

[@baku2461]

percy jackson got me into fantasy. i used to find it too overwhelming or slow or too spicy, the riordanverse is amazing.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Shame on me I haven’t read Percy yet!

[@darrickdean1849]

For people wanting to try out epic fantasy, but not the epic length of some of the books, try some of the original Dragonlance (Chronicles Trilogy) and Shannara (The Sword, The Elfestones, and Wishsong) books.

[@revartillery9612]

Loved the video! Great recommendations across the board and you put a few on my radar that weren't there before. I'd like to say though, while I love "The Name of the Wind" and Patrick Rothfuss's writing, I'd actually recommend checking out one of the writers that inspired him: Peter S. Beagle and "The Last Unicorn". Beagle has a very satisfying prose writing style similar to Rothfuss and "The Last Unicorn" specifically can be a mix of Comfy Fantasy, Magical, and Epic. And all as a standalone. If you aren't interested in jumping into Rothfuss's unfinished series (even though I love the 2 books that have been released and the 2 Novellas) give Peter S. Beagle a try.

[@NatalyaVins-blueflower775]

I’m planning to read The Name of the Wind next month. I’ve been wanting to read it for years and recently hauled a copy from a little free library. I gave up on The Game of Thrones after a few chapters 😅. I was enjoying the writing, but I was so confused because it has so many characters and POVs.

[@Adityakumar-ms3pp]

The Aurelian cycle trilogy is soooo sooo underrated was so happy to see u recommending it loved it thoroughly when I read the books

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Oh yayy!! A fellow Aurelian cycle lover!!

[@heathiedoodle]

This is so helpful! Thank you!

[@anaxo28]

Oh man! Game of thrones is a courageos rec for beginners! While it is high quality writing and very epic fantasy, I do think that it could be rather intimidating for a new reader to embark on such a long and complex story! Not what i would recommend, but the rest of the books were great ❤

[@bagbagsbags7425]

I want to steal this puppy. Sooooo cute!

[@fredflintstone1485]

Almost anything by Robert E Howard. Conan, Kull, Bran Mak Morn. Etc. By Fritz Leiber, Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser series are lot of fun. And Karl Edward Wagner's series with Kane(yes, the Kane from Kane and Abel). But in this series since he can not die he has learned to become a dynamic warrior as well as a learned sorcerer.

[@missep1830]

great video! I have read and loved many of these so will add to my tbr the ones which I haven't tried!

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you so much!!

[@SenoritaTJ]

His Majesty's Dragon is my very first book about dragons that I have read. I loved it.

[@alanrussette2819]

While I enjoyed both the Kingkiller Chronicles and A Song of Ice and Fire, I wouldn't recommend either series to new readers UNTIL (and not before) the authors manage to finish their series. I don't like being left hanging. At this point, I've forgotten almost everything that happened in both series.

[@IanTerronesReads]

As someone who needs to read more fantasy, thank you for making this! I have the way of kings but i need to read mistborn first.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Ahh I am so happy you find it useful!!

[@SimplementInefable]

If you want to read Mistborn first go for it! But I wouldn't say that you necessarily have to

[@SimplementInefable]

IT HAS SENTIENT DRAGONS, what else do we need? I love how there is at least a book in three of the 4 categories with this trope. Dragons are truly the best 🤣😍

[@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels]

Interesting recommendations! Some of these I have yet to read, a lot are favorites 😁

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Thank you! Hopefully are useful for other readers! Feel free to also recommend if you feel like that!

[@ericmason8087]

And the follow up to The House on the Cerulean Sea comes out next month 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@sararodrigues3315]

Finally i found a youtuber that recognises the genitality of acotar and sarah j maas. This series, second to lord of the rings, are the best fantasy series i've read. the world building, the romance and the plot are brilliant!❤

[@rogerhuggettjr.7675]

I read Piranesi a year ago and still can't say if it was interesting or a waste of time. I was just hoping for more as it resolved. But epics are more my style as I read it between Wheel of Time and Mistborn.

[@caitlinl2750]

I’ve read these all🎉❤

[@defiantaichi]

I LOVED seeing fireborne on your shelf. But yeah, seeing SJM, a little disappointed Wait fourth wing too? Na

[@ms.annaong]

Hi. Love ur channel. Can you please recommend books like The Green Bone saga. Thank you

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Oh gosh that’s so hard! But yeah- what did you like from green bone? Depending on what you’d like to read (like more from a similar urban fantasy setting, or more personal drama or character driven stories…) then I can recommend!

[@ms.annaong]

@@FunFantasyBooks i think i like the drama (and its character driven) and also its fast paced wo complicated magic.

[@witchyjewels7588]

Highly recommend Waterfall

[@bobkeane7966]

Game of Thrones is a bold choice for beginners.

[@Tetsujin-28]

The Good: Legends and Lattes/Bookshops and Bonedust: Both fun reads. I love Viv. No disappointments. The Bad: Both books are very similar and the fans want a warrior tale of Viv. I don't think the author can pull that off.

[@eveythingthatsadam]

I thought l&l was brilliant but B&B felt very flaky in comparison

[@hakomielashkarnasr8634]

Hi! I am sorry but i am trying to join the book club and it is not joining like when i am pressing join for free it is just glitching and staying on the same page! If you can please tell me what to do! Thank you! 😊🖤

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Oh hi! Sorry to hear that Patreon sometimes does that! For the book club I am afraid you’ll need to join one of the tiers! Being the Word Whisperers the most affordable 💕

[@jstones9872]

so here's a sincere question about your recommendations. Recognizing you're a woman , which of your recommendations would you recommend to guys? Would you change any of the recommendations or keep them the same.? thank you

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Umm i would say that instead of genre, it is more of what are you used to read and how can you transition from there! I would probably say that historical / magical realism and epic fantasy are pretty much safe bets. I also think cozy fantasy and fantasy romance are great but only if you are more into the romance side, or cozy mysteries!

[@thomasmurray3920]

Is it just me or is there some recency bias here? I started reading fantasy in the early 1970s, so started with the Ballantine Books fantasy paperbacks. (Love the Gervasio Gallardo art on many of them.) William Morris, Lord Dunsany, James Branch Cabell, E R Eddison, Peter Beagle, Clark Ashton Smith, etc,. then moved on to more modern, adult fare such as Gene Wolfe.

[@733khalil]

Mistborn 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Roxywilde82]

I think you're the only fantasy booktuber that has reccommended Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire) for beginners. Just this past Sunday I picked up Game of Thrones for a reread and I remember why I fell in love with it and agree that it's good for beginners. Martin's prose is just so compulsively readable and despite the multiple POVs, each one still feels different and easy to follow.

[@saadnizami1027]

are you sure bcz i am also a beginner book reader and a also want to read a song of ice and fire, but dont have guts to read bcz every one says its not for beginners..

[@zem_fm]

-slowly crawls out of the ground- IT'S BEEN 84 YEARS I'm honestly mildly surprised that I read 8 of these books, I thought I was going to do a lot worse here, and it's 2 out of every category 😂

[@Kialas]

No, Locke, no! 😂 Gaiman has contoversy now a days also.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Hahaha yeah Locke! Yeah I know- the video was filmed before I knew about the Gaiman controversy. Feels horrible!

[@Kialas]

@@FunFantasyBooks I guessed as much. Not your bad tho.

[@gachareptiles9437]

Highly recommend the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas it has a very vague simple magic system so far, and a decent world building. But it's easy to read and I love her descriptions, I suck as trying to imagine everything but Maas really has such a good way of describing things. It got me back into reading after YEARS and I'm surprised not a lot of people talk about it more. Feels like a perfect gateway Series action, romance, mystery it's a great read so far.

[@aroojnasir5622]

Read discworld, Malazan

[@SinghRohit007]

Recommending unfinished series such as the name of the wind is a crime at this moment.

[@laku_u]

Yay Fireborne 🔥🔥🔥! Great video as always! Ghost looks so fierce in that Spanish edition of GOT! Jon... a little weird 😅

[@theunknown21329]

I feel like a clown since I started with Wheel of Time🤡

[@edwardsjarje]

I really couldn’t get any traction with Martin. It’s one of those series that doesn’t resonate with me at all. I didn’t even watch the adaptation either. Just not my cuppa.

[@FunFantasyBooks]

Yeah that’s fair! It’s fairly grim and character driven! Lots of other stuff to discover 💕

[@edwardsjarje]

@@FunFantasyBooks I’m a huge fan of Robin Hobb, the queen of grimdark, so I’m not sure what it is, but you’re right, there is so much to explore. 🙂

[@SIVN89]

Do you speak spanish?

[@FunFantasyBooks]

I do! I am a Spaniard!

[@agnishom]

@@FunFantasyBooks your accent makes the presentation so good 🥺

[@FEPSO]

Lies.. Berserk is the best fantasy book for beginners

[@imeffaknight]

Couldn’t agree more. What a cozy intro to the genre

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[@52andtuck]

That sound effect u use for every single entry in every single top list video or practically whenever u hold up a book.. that vvvvvuuuuuuuuup sound. Cannot stand it. I love the lists and ur spiels but have to watch all the top list videos on mute with captions. Hahaha

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