How to Start Reading Fantasy! 🐉 🧙‍♂️

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I finished my first book after a yearslong dry spell yesterday and told myself "I should go back to reading fantasy but picking a new series is going to be difficult". Your timing couldn't be better 🙏

"Have you heard about Brandon Sanderson?" - me just meeting someone for the first time

Goblin Drug Dealer voice You wanna read some books?

"He can publish faster then you can read" gave me a good laugh.

Holy shit! You finally mentioned the Belgariad!! This was my re-introduction into fantasy, back in highschool when I decided to start reading again. I had listened to my father’s copies of the Zanth series by Piers Anthony back in middle school and knew I liked fantasy so when a friend put the Belgariad into my hands it was a perfect match. Super great recommendation for a newbie reader into fantasy. 10/10

I swear that Daniel’s book premise readings (also referencing Fantasy News self pub promos here) are specifically calculated to test his viewers to see who likes his content enough to stick around. It’s a test, a trial, and some may not survive.

Step 1, pick up book Step 2, read book Step 3, don't stop reading Step 4, finish book Step 5, move onto next book, and continue till death.

Sanderson should always enter rooms with a walk-on song like a WWE wrestler.

Sir Pratchett as a whole is a great intro to fantasy with Discworld (worked for teenage me lol). He combines genuine love, talent and earnestness in delivering inventive, rich, whimsical fantasy characters and elements but with that absurdist edge that is more palatable to fresh readers unaccustomed to a lot of fantasy's loftier, sometimes daunting scope, lore-dumps and verbage

As a German (that probably taught herself to read at age 5 mainly to read fantasy): My first two books (that my mom gifted me when she noticed I could read) were "Die kleine Hexe" and "Das kleine Gespenst", both classic children's books by Ottfried Preußler. (They're still really cute to read as an adult though, a bit like The Little Prince.) What really got me sold on fantasy (and dragons) for good though was Cornelia Funke's Drachenreiter, I loved that book to pieces, and can recommend it to anyone who likes stories with a dragon companion.

Saw a tweet about the way of kings a few weeks ago and it resparked my reading kick, havent read fantasy since the inheritance cycle in middle school and now im halfway through the cosmere

So glad to see Belgariad mentioned. By sheer happenstance this was my childhood and intro to fantasy. Much appreciation for this vid ❤

YouTube started playing the video before I opened it, and without actually looking at it I thought that was a wall of funko pops behind you and was worried that was some subliminal message for help

I'm really glad you included The Belgariad, it's one of my favourites and it definitely does not get enough love!

A really big comedy author for me growing up was Diana Wynne Jones. Would highly recommend and Howl's Moving Castle might still be my favorite book of all time.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. The Belgariad was the series that hooked me on fantasy in the early 80s. I had already read Tolkien and liked it well enough but it was Eddings who drove me to the bookstore and library looking for more. Ironically one of those I found was Raymond E Fiest. Both authors are part of the core authors I read through the 80s, 90s and beyond in Fiest’s case. Both are excellent recommendations.

I'm so glad to see the Belgariad on this list! My parents are also huge fantasy fans, and when I was a kid they read stuff to me every night before bed. They DID start with the Hobbit, and followed it with Narnia and the Chronicles of Prydain (I think I had watched the Black Cauldron movie and my Dad was like "THE BOOK IS MUCH BETTER!" lol) BUT "The Belgariad" was another very early one that DEFINED my love of fantasy in so many ways. It's also one of my Dad's favorites, and as a kid I related a lot to Garion but my absolute FAVORITE will always be Silk. I'm a huge fan of charming and witty rogues, but he was the one who made me start writing my own little stories about heists and capers.

I also always recommend NE Davenport (The Blood Trials), Mercedes Lackey (One Good Knight is a good starting place standalone but she has a TON more if you enjoy her), Naomi Novik (Uprooted is a great standalone and Temeraire is there if you want to commit), CE Murphy's The Negotiator Trilogy, Tasha Suri's Burning Kingdoms Trilogy, Sue Lynn Tan's Daughter of the Moon Goddess duology, Gabi Burton's Sing Me to Sleep, anything Tamora Pierce has ever written, Patricia C. Wrede's The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, and Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath. Just more rep for women and BIPOC fantasy authors in general

Decided to start reading fantasy this year and bought my first few books because of your channel. Thanks!