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Fantasy novels

[badass_tiger]

Anybody got any recs? I usually like children's books and I don't like the high fantasy genre at all. I'd also prefer to avoid sad endings but as long as the book is a good ride and the ending is justified, I probably won't mind too much.

My favourites are Diana Wynne Jones' stuff of course, particularly The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, but I quite adore her other works that take huge inspiration from myths and folklore. In the same vein, I also liked Christopher Healy's first A Hero's Guide book, though there was one part towards the ending that made me go 'Ugh oh no' and dampened my enjoyment of it so I didn't pick up the rest of the series.

Re: Fantasy novels

[(Anonymous)]

Yangsze Choo's the Ghost Bride? It draws heavily from Chinese folklore (though it's sort of a supernatural/fantasy/romance mix?).

Re: Fantasy novels

[(Anonymous)]

She writes YA fantasy and not children's, but you should check out some of Maggie Stiefvater's stuff. She's cited DWJ as an inspiration several times.

Re: Fantasy novels

[(Anonymous)]

Always always always Patricia McKillip. Very capital-R Romantic fantasy, really well done and beautifully written.

Re: Fantasy novels

[(Anonymous)]

Patricia C Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles are a great, fun, Ya fantasy option.

Robin McKinley does a lot of stories based of fairy tales; Beauty is her YA retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Rose Daughter the adult version of the same story. Sunshine is an amazing vampire novel by her (vampires that are SCARY AS FUCK with some great worldbuilding of a society where magic and supernatural creatures are a given), Chalice a similarly fairy tale-feeling story but one that I believe isn't based on a preexisting tale. People tend to love or hate her writing; I love her long winding sentences and asides but YMMV.

George MacDonald. Just...George MacDonald.

Re: Fantasy novels

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read any of Diane Duane's So You Want To Be A Wizard books?

Re: Fantasy novels

[(Anonymous)]

It may be out of print, but one of my favorites from childhood was Grace Chetwin's Gom on Windy Mountain and the rest of that series. Really lovely fantasy, and while it might technically qualify as high fantasy it's written in a very homey, approachable style.

Re: Fantasy novels

[(Anonymous)]

Anon from above. I remembered another one: Meredith Ann Pierce's Darkangel Trilogy. It's YA, very rich world building and a great heroine.