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The QQ Thread for Book & Audiobook Recommendations

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In this thread, we want your best books and audiobooks. Give us a list, a deep review, or just a spare thought or two.

To start, I would certainly recommend both of Jim Butcher's more well known series; Codex Alera, and The Dresden Files. These are pretty well known to many of you, but maybe a greenhorn or two haven't seen them mentioned yet.

Also, I am absolutely not making this thread because I want audiobooks to listen to at work.
 
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In this thread, we want your best books and audiobooks. Give us a list, a deep review, or just a spare thought or two.

To start, I would certainly recommend both of Jim Butcher's more well known series; Codex Alera, and The Dresden Files. These are pretty well known to many of you, but maybe a greenhorn or two haven't seen them mentioned yet.

Also, I am absolutely not making this thread because I want audiobooks to listen to at work.
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The spellmonger series by Terry Mancour has like 13 books average 20 to 30 hours per book

TLDR: retired warmage turned spellmonger (guy who sells magic for money, ie anti-pest /fire wards, finding lost sheep, general village handiman type stuff)
Has to deal with goblin invasion thats led by a goblin super shaman that wants to genocide everyone, i dont mean a few hundred gobbos i mean millions, said warmage is quite fond of living so fights back i cant say much more without spoilers but its a great series,

no lit rpg or system or isakai nonsense the magic system feels scientific and the MC is not a omni-competent gary stu
 
[NSFW] Beware Of Chicken (xianxia): https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.13790/
It is on audible as a SFW audiobook series with 4 books so far. properly the highest quality slice of life chill isekai I know of. it avoids most of the common problems, like the MC seeming discontented from the world, everything always going their way, harems (cause they often lacks substance) and lack of plot progression.
it actually feels like the books end where they should, instead of just being a random cut in the story as happens sometimes where webfiction is published in book form.
Edit: also on kindle.
 
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The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski is the greatest modern fantasy you can find. The books were so good they were adapted into the phenomenal game series and incredibly bad Netflix show. Also Jay Kristoff Empire of the Vampire is quite a nice high fantasy and of course I would lie if I said that Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere wasn't a masterpiece.
 
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[NSFW] Beware Of Chicken (xianxia): https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.13790/
It is on audible as a SFW audiobook series with 4 books so far. properly the highest quality slice of life chill isekai I know of. it avoids most of the common problems, like the MC seeming discontented from the world, everything always going their way, harems (cause they often lacks substance) and lack of plot progression.
it actually feels like the books end where they should, instead of just being a random cut in the story as happens sometimes where webfiction is published in book form.
Edit: also on kindle.
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I saw that one, and wasn't too sure about it. I'm not generally fond of stories where a protag's power is via a creature and not their own power.
 
Anything by:
Roger Zelazny
Jack Vance

The master and commander books by Patrick O'Brian, yes of Russell Crowe movie fame, there's an entire series of books. 20 of em in fact.

Steven Erikson's Malazan, its book dark souls basicaly, and by that I mean the style of how it presents the world, throws you in the middle of it and lets you figure things out.

Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy.

Janny Wurts Mistwraith series.

As an aside for those looking to jump into 40k books,
most anything by Chris Wraight, Dan Abnett, and Adp (aaron bowden) is usualy a solid choice.

Oh, the Dune books up and including God Emperor of Dune are also a good if somewhat tragic/bitersweet tale.
 
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