My Top 10 Favorite Fantasy Series

This is some of the best fantasy storytelling you're going to get.

The Realm of the Elderlings is the book series that really for the first time made me think that perhaps going forward as a reader, I can find new favorite things.

But, I've read 15 of these books so far, and the collaboration between Feist and Wurts is clearly a cut above all of them.

I'm only eight books into this 10-book series, and that's Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I'm pretty sure this is destined to be in the top 10, maybe even top five, depending on how it ends, because the highs in this series are incredible.

This is a series that I loved when I first read it as a 14-year-old, but I did reread it a few years ago, and I think it still holds up.

First Law is one of my favorite works of modern fantasy, and I just adore the series and can't wait to reread it at some point in the future.

This is an urban fantasy series. I think there's 18 or 19 books at this point, and it's a series that started slow for me, but man, the last half of this series has been absolutely incredible.

And this is a story that starts with the very famous memorable line, "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed." It sucked me in right away and kept me all the way to the end of the series.

It is four books and it is non-epic fantasy, but it's non-epic fantasy with a level of world building and especially of culture that is just as good as the big epic tomes that we're used to reading in this genre.

So, for me, my number one favorite fantasy series is The Lord of the Rings because Tolkien is fantasy.

The Sarantine Mosaic for me is a really important text.

But, Sanderson did a great job finishing the series, and it remains one of my favorite series of all time.