Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast

Looking to expand your reading goals for 2023? Consider playing along with r/Fantasy's Book Bingo Challenge- an annual reading challenge designed to challenge readers to try books and authors outside their comfort zone with their comprehensive fantasy book bingo card. 

 

Completing some of the bingo squares can be though, which is why The Friends decided to go square-by-square to recommend their top fantasy books for each category.

 

Learn more about the r/Fantasy 2023 Book Bingo Challenge: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/128oxqt/official_rfantasy_2023_book_bingo_challenge/ 

 

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The Friends discuss New York Times best seller and winner of the 2021 Alex and Mythopoeic Awards, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.

 

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The Friends read one of the most popular fantasy books in modern history, #1 New York Times Bestseller and a USA Today and Indie Bestseller Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson, Book 4 of The Stormlight Archive. 

 

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SPOILER FREE! The Friends discuss the indie darling turned USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish in his grim dark, action-packed, Brent Weeks-esk fantasy book - A Dance of Cloaks. 

 

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Spoiler Free! The Friends recommend the 2019 science fiction epistolary novel This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction, the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2019 and the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

 

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With The Friends today is a mathematician turned best selling fantasy author MArk LAwrence. You may know him from his work on the ‘Star Wars’ missile defense program or perhaps from his Sunday Times Bestselling series The Broken Empire Trilogy. His other fantasy series include The Red Queen’s War, The Book of the Ancestor, Impossible Times, and The Book of the Ice. Collectively, his works have been translated into 25 languages and have sold over two million books worldwide. His newest series, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn, releases on May 9th and is available for pre-order now.

 

Support Mark Lawrence:

• Website: https://www.marklawrence.buzz/ 
• The Book That Wouldn’t Burn: https://www.amazon.com/Book-That-Wouldnt-Library-Trilogy/dp/0593437918  
  

 

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The Friends read-through of The Greenbone Saga comes to an end with Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee. Spoilers for the entire Greenbone Sage: Jade City, Jade War, and Jade Legacy.

 

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SPOILER FREE! The Friends recommend one of the top fantasy books of 2022 - The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez.

 

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The Friends deep dive into book 2 of the award winning Green Bone Saga- Jade War by Fonda Lee.

 

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SPOILER FREE! The Friends discuss one of their top fantasy books: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clark.

 

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