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@Feeee23 Nice, I'm probably gonna add a bunch of these to my list as well. I started and ended this year with Brandon Sanderson and I'm looking for more books enjoyed by people with similar tastes.
(would it be weird if I follow you on The Story Graph?)
Hey Tbh ive only disoverd Sanderson this year and im very excited. Do you have an recommendation what to read after the 3. Mistborn?
Of corse you can follow me :) Ill follow you back
4, Secret History, then the rest of Era 2. Then Stormlight 1-5. Then reread everything to pick up all the little bits you didn't know to look for before
Don’t read Secret History until after Bands of Mourning. There’s always another secret
And then after stormlight v its time for secret projects, tress,yumi, sunlit man and emberdatk and enjoy all the glimpses of the future
I didn't think the Wax & Wayne books were nearly as good as the Mistborn books. They are not really part of the Mistborn story. They take place in the same world 200 years later (or something like that). There are a few callbacks to the trilogy, but mostly it's its own thing. Waxillium is kinda dull (he's a worse Elend in every way), but Wayne is a lot of fun. None of the stories excited me at all, even after reading the short story and learning the "one more secret."
I don't regret reading them though and I wouldn't tell someone else to not read them. Just that the quality is not the same.
You still have the third Mistborn to read and while it's not the best, it has a great ending that wraps everything up well. I loved the ending, and I can't say that as much as I'd like to.
It's not Mistborn but it's similar, the relatively new Hierarchy series is kinda similar to Mistborn, but with the magic system toned way down. The first book The Will of the Many came out a year or two ago, and the second one, The Strength of the Few, just came out. I think there are going to be three? Maybe four? It's kinda like if Harry Potter were set in Roman times. They have magic, but it's Roman themed and it's based on Will being ceded from people below you. If you're at the bottom, you get none, but you give up like a third to half of your willpower each day to the person above you. They have Will-powered airships, traps, devices, but no big explosive/bombastic magic, per se. And the first book was just twist after twist. Lots of fun to read.
Other than that, I'd tentatively recommend the Silo series by Hugh Howey, though the Apple TV series is kind of rewriting them, with the author's blessing. The books were good (there are 3 of them, so the series is done) but they were kinda rushed and it's nice that Apple is letting him revisit and revise his story in the series, which is very much worth watching. The series may be better because he's constantly improving his story, but the books are not bad at all. It's kind of like Fallout if they never left the Vault (called a Silo in this case), and it's much bigger, something like 150 storeys underground, with each level having many homes and businesses. In fact, most people only ever go up or down a few storeys in their lifetime because they don't have to go farther to get all they need. The story commonly refers to the big cafeteria/meeting place on the first floor, but ostensibly they would have a place like that every 5-10 floors. Things like that, and a Sheriff responsible for all 150, are things that don't quite add up — if he/she and others can go up and down all 150, why don't more people? "Just because"? Either way, it's still a fun little puzzle to get through.
@Feeee23 Cool, well, I'm not the greatest expert on Sanderson's works but I think you could either go on to read the rest of the Mistborn series (books 4-7), which is what I did, or if you're interested in his epic series, The Stormlight Archive, you could start that after book 3 of Mistborn and then roughly interleave books of Mistborn and Stormlight, which I think I would have slightly preferred in retrospect. If you take the latter approach, I definitely recommend finishing Mistborn books 4-7 before starting book 5 of The Stormlight Archive, because that book references some things introduced in Mistborn. (Even book 4 of Stormlight obliquely mentions a couple things from Mistborn, but that's not quite so important.)
And no pressure to follow back BTW - I mean, of course you can if you want to, but it's not expected. 🙂
Some similar things in my mental graph include Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard series and Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles.
I'm unsure I'd recommend everything on the list of stuff I read this year, but there might be some stuff you'll enjoy!
Lynch ... Rothfuss
I would recommend waiting another 20 years, to see if they manage to actually publish the next book in the series. It's been, what, 10? 15 years?
I don't recommend Kingkiller to people anymore since we're clearly never getting the rest of it.
To be fair to them, this is coming off recommendations based on The Cosmere which has an almost infinite amount of content still to come 😅
(Though obviously there'll be more available to read overall)
In any case, the books are good enough that I recommend them to read despite them not having fully complete series.
How did you find Murtagh? I never read it because I was so annoyed at the end of Brisignr
I quite liked it. But i haven't read anything from the eragon world since it came out and then i was pretty young. I liked it then but i dont know how it holds up. I liked that he is a powerful character but not the over powered caracter Eragon would have been at this point which gives it real stakes like it could all go wrong. The ending to be honest suprised me (dont wanna spoil) but either it is a litte out of the blue or there were details in the original series i overread/ have forgotten. All in all, i liked it but maybe there are nostalgic reasons playing into it :). Would like to hear your opinion when you decide to read it.
Yeah, I haven't read anything since I was younger either. They annoyed me because I felt like Paolini 'cheated', like, he built up the bad guy (oh god, I don't even remember his name anymore!) so much as so powerful and undefeatable and then just gave Eragon some extra magic out of the blue. It felt very Deus Ex Machina.
Galbatorix I think? I remember liking the books, then partway through brisingr he just had like ten pages of forging the sword and it's literally just explaining how to make a katana and it made me realize he's not that good at writing. Setting, and magic system? Great. The prose? Ouch.
I tried reading one of his sci-fi novels recently. It was incredibly intriguing but led, literally nowhere. There was no resolution whatsoever.
I see your point but to be fair it was his first book series. I think he startet writing them in his teens, i would say knowing what i kown now he didn't planed it thru and also its like a mashup of other popular things like Lotr but reading them in my early teens i was really invested and loved them :) I also read 'to sleep in a see of stars' and there the plot was definitely more coherent but it also had some stretches. But i took my nostalgic glasses out of a box and read Murthag and at least with them it was really good
No, I get that. I think, similarly, I read them in my early teens, and absolutely loved the early ones (My copy of Eragon is really battered) and they were quite special books for me, which is probably why the ending upset me so much!
What's Der Schrecksenmeister like?
I also read it in German but i found it a little bit flat. It was more like a 'normal' Fantasy book not like the other that are like really over the top and stuff. Maybe im also a little bit older then when i read but i enjoyed it less than every other book i read from walter moers
Great in German, no idea if the English is as great. There are a lot of puns, as is Walter Moers style, which probably are hard to translate into English. So I can say for the story itself: it's a wonderful fairy tale atmosphere with a lot of great chemistry between the protagonist, a speaking cat, and the antagonist, a mad alchemist. You do not need to have read any of the other Zamonia novels to understand it, but you will get some small references that are worked into the story.
I can read German, though when I read Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher I don't remember understanding many puns, so it might make little difference.
Omg we do have a bunch in common! Stealing this reading list for when I need a new book to read.
Feel free :) Glad to inspire you
I have read the Achilles and the Circe books from Madeline Miller and highly enjoyed them. Is Galatea similar to those two in style?
I really liked it but its really short. Like 50 small pages (nit small printed but physically small ~din a5) and especially in the hardcover version not cheap.