Recommended Reading

[Treamayne]

17 minutes ago, NotLiamRoss said:

Urban Fantasy

Added, but to Epic Fantasy, based on Author's quote:

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Lee has stated that one of her goals for the novel was to "write an epic fantasy that was not set in medieval Europe," featuring "the scheming and politics and clash of noble houses elements" in a "different cultural setting but also different time period."

Though the description retains your Urban Fanatasy description, for context. 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

I have one. It is slightly... uncoventonal.

Spoiler

• Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (ORV)
  • 551 chapters in the original book, Ongoing side chapters.
• Sing N Shong (originally Korean Webnovel)
• Apocalyptic Fantasy
• A normal webnovel reader, Kim Dokja, is reading his favorite serialized webnovel, Three ways to survive in a Ruined World, on a subway. He is about to read the final chapter, and is super excited. Being the only reader, the author sends him a suspicious message about a present and the webnovel becoming paid content. At the exact time the novel becomes paid content, the subway stops. And right before his eyes, Kim Dokja's favorite novel starts happening. Strange occurances happen around him as he progresses throught the story of the novel.Currently also a english Webcomic on Webtoon called Omniscient Reader
• Link to book

edit: added link

edit edit: @Treamayne?

Edited May 28, 2025 by CoderDrag0n8
Sing N Shong not Shing N Song

[Treamayne]

5 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

edit: added link

Added, in new SF WebSerial Category

Wonder if it is avilable in the original Korean. . . I'm probably too rusty to read it though

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 minute ago, Treamayne said:

Added, in new SF WebSerial Category

Wonder if it is avilable in the original Korean. . . I'm probably too rusty to read it though

You can read Korean? That's cool!

It is. It was originally posted on a korean webnovel site (I forget the name) and is still being posted there! It has the full original story (I think it is being revised), the side chapters, and the 'sequel'.

[Treamayne]

3 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

You can read Korean? That's cool!

I spent a semester in Seoul (way way back in 2001), and I have an associates degree in Korean. Unfortunately, I haven't had much practice in the last two decades or so. . . But I have ready the Korean translation for Harry Potter 1 (never quite finished the Korean Translation for Angels and Demons I bought though).

The alphabet is easy enough to teach in a few days - everything else is the hard part.

Edited May 28, 2025 by Treamayne
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[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

2 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

I spent a semester in Seoul (way way back in 2001), and I have an associates degree in Korean. Unfortunately, I haven't had much practice in the last two decades or so. . . But I have ready the Korean translation for Harry Potter 1 (never quite finished the Korean Translation for Angels and Demons I bought though).

The alphabet is easy enough to teach in a few days - everything else is the hard part.

That is really cool. *applause*. That is a really cool skill to learn.

*cough cough* speaking of korean webnovels

Spoiler

• The World After The Fall
  • Complete
• Sing N Shong
• Apocolyptic Fantasy
• Jaewhan climbs the strange Nightmare Tower that appeared on Earth so that he could protect humanity. However, on around the 77th floor, the Regression Stones appeared. Almost everyone who could get their hands on one used it. Jaewhan hates Regression. He despises it. He is one of the last human left in the tower and the outside world. Everyone else either regressed or died. However, the end of the tower brings a strange revelation to Jaewhan. "The... Tutorial Tower?"
• Available on webtoon as The World After The Fall, unknown where an english translation of the novel can be found.

Also, just looked, and the author is Sing N Shong for ORV. Just so you can change it.

[Treamayne]

3 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

speaking of korean webnovels

Thanks

3 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

the author is Sing N Shong for ORV

I took the author credit (with Hangul) from Goodreads for the first page post. . .

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

2 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

Thanks

I took the author credit (with Hangul) from Goodreads for the first page post. . .

Oh, Ok!

Oh also, forgot to add, it was also originally a korean webnovel (wow i keep on messing up)

[Treamayne]

2 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

(wow i keep on messing up)

Any recommendation is fine, the suggested format in post one is just to limit how much I need to search to fill in the blanks.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 minute ago, Treamayne said:

Any recommendation is fine, the suggested format in post one is just to limit how much I need to search to fill in the blanks.

Alright! Thanks!

5 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

I have one. It is slightly... uncoventonal.

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• Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (ORV)
  • 551 chapters in the original book, Ongoing side chapters.
• Sing N Shong (originally Korean Webnovel)
• Apocalyptic Fantasy
• A normal webnovel reader, Kim Dokja, is reading his favorite serialized webnovel, Three ways to survive in a Ruined World, on a subway. He is about to read the final chapter, and is super excited. Being the only reader, the author sends him a suspicious message about a present and the webnovel becoming paid content. At the exact time the novel becomes paid content, the subway stops. And right before his eyes, Kim Dokja's favorite novel starts happening. Strange occurances happen around him as he progresses throught the story of the novel.Currently also a english Webcomic on Webtoon called Omniscient Reader
• Link to book

edit: added link

edit edit: @Treamayne?

Did you see the added link? It is for the english translated Webnovel.

Edited May 28, 2025 by CoderDrag0n8

[Treamayne]

7 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Did you see the added link?

Did you check the page 1 post?

Edit: Fixed

Edited May 28, 2025 by Treamayne

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

5 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

Did you check the page 1 post?

Edit: Fixed

Thanks!

Note: The link is for the webnovel version and is not the download for the webcomic version. I just wanted to make that clear because it seemed slightly unclear in the post. You can download from there, but it is also available there undownloaded.

[NerdyAarakocra They/Them]

Whelp time to recommend a fantasy series I suppose.

• Founders Cycle
  • Foundryside
  • Trilogy, complete (Foundryside, Shorefall, Locklands)
• Robert Jackson Bennett 
• Urban Fantasy
• Blurb on the back of Foundryside: 

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  Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle.
  
  But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic--the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience--have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can unlock the artifact’s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims.
  
  Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne, there’s nobody with the power to stop them.
  
  To have a chance at surviving—and at stopping the deadly transformation that’s under way—Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact’s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined.

• Some additional info, as well as my personal thoughts:
  • Given the audience of this recommendation, it seems worth noting that Brandon Sanderson was blurbed for Foundryside:

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    The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heists.

  • As much as my opinion counts for anything, Foundryside is a really good novel. It has great worldbuilding mixed in with a hard magic system, with just enough new mechanics introduced to keep things interesting. Characters are relatable, the plot is enjoyable, and reading is just plain fun. The rest of the series lives up to book one.
    An interesting (positive) trait of the series is that everything about it just gets exponentially more... extra. At the beginning of Foundryside, it seems like a normal heist novel. Within thirty minutes of reading time, everything you thought you knew has been completely overturned. By the end of the novel, the relatively low stakes of "Sancia trying to steal things to get money" have been replaced with a battle of world-ending importance. This is just the first book.
    
    Seriously, it's a joy to read.

[Treamayne]

12 hours ago, NerdyAarakocra said:

Whelp time to recommend a fantasy series I suppose

Added to Urban Fantasy section

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Alright I've got one thing.

The Red Rising Series currently has 6 books. Back when the recommendation was made, there were only five. Very minor, it won't really impact anyone as anyone who decides to read it will eventually know that there's a sixth book. But I wanted to point it out anyway.

[al_lan_mandragoran]

The Binding of The Blade by L. B. Graham

[Treamayne]

3 hours ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

The Binding of The Blade by L. B. Graham

We need more information than that, please. From Post One:

On 5/16/2023 at 9:41 PM, Treamayne said:

If possible, I would like entries to have this information (you can copy this format, but info trumps bullets):

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• Book (or Series Name)
  • Name of first book if a series
  • Number of entries and "Complete" or "Ongoing"
• Author
• Genre (generic - doesn't have to be super specific - i.e. Hunger Games - Dystopian SF vs "Alt Earth Future Dystopian War Sci-Fan"
• Spoiler-free Summary (either for the series or book 1 - can be copied from a bookseller's synopsis or your own)

Preferably, some reason why you recommend this book to other. 

Edited July 31, 2025 by Treamayne
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[al_lan_mandragoran]

Right.

The Binding of The Blade series, by L. B. Graham. 5 books.

Book one is called Beyond the Summerland.

The series is fantasy, and is a solid good vs evil story.

I like this series because it is rich in meaning, and has incredible characters, who make realistic and identifiable decisions. Even the traitors do it for understandable reasons. It has a well written history that constantly relates to the story, and the only faults I found with it were editing errors.

Hey @SpartanBrigade, you should read these.

[Treamayne]

1 hour ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

Right.

The Binding of The Blade series, by L. B. Graham. 5 books.

Added to Adventure Fantasy (based on Goodreads description). 

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

8 hours ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

Right.

The Binding of The Blade series, by L. B. Graham. 5 books.

Book one is called Beyond the Summerland.

The series is fantasy, and is a solid good vs evil story.

I like this series because it is rich in meaning, and has incredible characters, who make realistic and identifiable decisions. Even the traitors do it for understandable reasons. It has a well written history that constantly relates to the story, and the only faults I found with it were editing errors.

Hey @SpartanBrigade, you should read these.

I will thanks for recommending them man

[al_lan_mandragoran]

Hopefully you can find them - I'm not sure if they're easy to find

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

42 minutes ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

Hopefully you can find them - I'm not sure if they're easy to find

The good news is I found it

The bad news is our library hasn’t got it

Why it’s listed on the catalog if there are no copies at the library is beyond me

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

4 hours ago, SpartanBrigade said:

The good news is I found it

The bad news is our library hasn’t got it

Why it’s listed on the catalog if there are no copies at the library is beyond me

holds

all hail the power of holdsssssssssss

[Honors Spectral Image She/her]

Heh may I recommend the poppy war (warning this book is not for the faint of heart there’s a lot of drugs and dead people)

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

4 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

holds

all hail the power of holdsssssssssss

Yeah but there’s nothing to hold

Its just not there at all