High fantasy

Recommend me some good high fantasy books. Already read everything from Tolkien, Pratchett, Lewis, and I'm finishing with Goodkinds The Sword of The Truth series

Need moar

>>2
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Are you happy now? I guess it is my bad habit to write like this...

>>3
Okay.

If by 'high-fantasy' you mean 'Sci-Fi' I'll gladly point you towards authors like Orson Scott Card, Ray Bradbury (Sci-Fi, fantasy, and fiction) and the like.

I wanna get high on your fantasy.

A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. First book is A Game of Thrones.

The Well At The World's End by William Morris

It spawned the High Fantasy genre, so it's some hardcore shit. Better hold onto your seat when reading this or you're going to be blasted off the fuckin' planet. Morris also wrote another, earlier book whose title I cannot remember but I haven't read it.
Seriously this is some deep shit so don't read it if you can't handle it.

MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN
Steven Erikson

Do it now. Or you will regret the time you have wasted not reading it.

Name of the Wind is really good.
Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara books inspired a lot of the modern tropes of high fantasy (eg, ripping off Tolkien). Though of course, because of that it feels really cliched and hackneyed now.
The Fionavarr Tapestry is a classic of the genre.
I like Codex Alera by Jim Butcher.
The Elabon books by Harry Turtledove are kinda unique for being set in a vaguely realistic bronze age.
The Rhapsody series by Elizabeth Haydon.
Fortress in the Eye of Time by CJ Cherryh is one of my favorites.
Birthgrave by Tanith Lee, along with her Unicorn books.
I don't really like his books, but a lot of people consider Raymond E Feist's Krondor world great high fantasy.

Most of the books I think of when I hear "High Fantasy", have a setting appropriate to high fantasy, but not the style I associate with it. So here are some that fit there:

All the fantasy books by Lois Bujold. Though I tend to think of those as almost more like romances set in a high fantasy world.
The fantasy books of Patricia Briggs are pretty good, though almost suffer from the same problems.
I have a soft spot for the Ethshar books by Lawrence Watt Evans, but really, they're mostly pretty bad. With a Single Spell, The Misenchanted Sword, and Ithanalion's Restoration are the ones I think are worth reading.
The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust.
I've read one book by L Sprague DeCamp. The Goblin Tower. Pretty good, if a bit long in the tooth in some ways.
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.

>>10
All the way. Best series.

ERAGON

Jennifer Roberson, the sword dancer saga

Vampire swords, high adventure, excellent and complete world building at it's best.

Harry Potter

>>16

oh you so cilly

WHEEL OF TIME by Robert Jordan, and later by Brandon Sanderson. ITS FUSKING AWESOME

I second the Wheel of Time, fantastic series.

If you're German, I can recommend "Die Elfen" by Bernhard Hennen.
I would compare it to the Lord of the Rings in some respects.

I guess the Twilight series?
Everyone is reading it.

Another Guy Gavriel Kay book: Tigana. And most of what he's written, for that matter.

Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana

Twilight: A girl's choice between Beastiality & Necrophelia.

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gotrek and felix by william king and nathan long

Heros Die by Matthew Woodring Stover - the sequels especially make it clear it's high fantasy, but the tone is a bit lower fantasy, and all the books are also partly science fiction (but socially fantasy).

"A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R R Martin.
'nuff said.

To be honest, it's the most amazing fantasy series I have ever read - but only having 4/7 books published - you will want to kill yourself or the author.

The series is insanely complex, and I have not yet met a person who was disappointed with the series.

If I had to recommend the top five in the current fantasy genre, I'd recc the following order:

Malazan
Song of Ice and Fire
Prince of Nothing (haven't read the sequel trilogy, sorry)
Acts of Caine (Matthew Stover, amazing action)
The Name of the Wind (book one of Kingkiller Chronicles)

Hmm, and as a bit of light reading - current favourites are Sanderson's Alcatraz series and Lorna Freeman's Borderlands, though this changes for me very frequently - about every quarter or so.

Current favourite standalone... would probably be Gene Wolfe's Ysabel. The feelings are still fresh from that one, and it's been a couple of months...