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(Anonymous) 2023-01-20 05:48 am (UTC)(link)1) website that is actually about SFF. you can't be on tor.com for 5 minutes without finding 20 books that look wildly intriguing with all kinds of different settings and tones, including high fantasy. try author blogs of authors you like also instead of 'look how much I read that's trendy' blogs
2) an actual bookstore. ask a staffperson if they have high fantasy recs, or just browse that section
3) ditto library. i went to my local library for ONE book I had on hold, based by the New Acquisitions shelf and left with 6 books including some high fantasy
4) get the shortlists for the Hugos/Nebulas/World Fantasy Awards for the last few years and comb through the summaries for anything that catches your interest. this is extremely easy to google.
5) if you do anything at all through amazon, once you've bought a few high fantasy books through the above method, pretty soon you'll get SO many recs you will be desperate
6) unless you think anything harrowing than squeeze cheese and unicorns counts as grimdark, we are living in a goddamn golden age of lush high fantasy worlds and I cannot get them into my brain fast enough. if you do think most of it is grimdark read, idk, Eragon. that's as classic high fantasy as you can get, completely undiluted by an original thought.
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(Anonymous) 2023-01-20 05:50 am (UTC)(link)7. sign up for Bookbub.com with your ebook vendor and genres of choice, get emails regularly for huge sales tailored to your interests
Chirp for audiobooks same deal
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(Anonymous) 2023-01-20 07:52 am (UTC)(link)I know that there's lots of SFF books out there and those are definitely very helpful tips for finding new ones. But I was thinking more about discussion of books - even when I find books I want to read, once I've read them, it's often quite difficult to find active discussions and content about them, outside of a few hyped books and some classic mainstays.
In other words, there's absolutely a huge diversity of books *out there*, and you can find recs if you look for them (and I do!). But I haven't seen a wide range of books actually getting actively talked about and engaged with. On Tiktok, or in other places. (and then the other thing is that for both recs and discussions, there's just always much more fantasy than there is science fiction, but that's just other people having different preferences than me and liking fantasy more than SF)