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So I grew up very sheltered and isolated from society and as a result missed out on a lot of pop culture and other common things. I love to read, and I really enjoy fantasy and DnD and those types of things and I'm trying to find and catch up on the great fantasy books/series that every fantasy lover/nerd should know. I'm not as interested in sci-fi, but I'm willing to read the "great" ones too. What would you recommend?

Series I've read: The Lord of the Rings The Witcher The Dark Tower The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Dungeon Crawler Karl

Update to add also read: Wheel of Time Most of the Stormlight Archive The Hobbit

I'm just starting my first Discworld book.

Edit: Thanks everyone! Keep them coming, I'm going to make a list with all the suggestions and start working through them.

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[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Didn't spot the chronicles of amber by Roger Zelazny in the thread, so that's my recommendation if you want a long one!

EDIT: seems somehow no one actually recommended the Foundation/Robots series by Isaac Asimov, that's the base..

[โ€“] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That are titles I haven't heard in a long time! Literally my childhood.

Great to know there are still people of culture around!

From Zelazny, Damnation Alley is one of greatest self contained stories

I'd aslo add Dune by Frank Herbert. Out of recent two movies only first one is truly faithful to the books. They didn't do the justice in second one.

Edit: Also Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. One of the best books in my life