Adult Fantasy I’m Excited to Read
Hey guys. I have recently been getting more into adult fantasy books. I’m still really new to the genre, but I have been really enjoying what I have read so far, and I’m really excited to read more and discover all this genre has to offer. Here are some of the adult fantasy series I’m really excited to read. Enjoy!
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (and all his books)
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed.
For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear while the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, a divinely invincible leader. Hope is long lost, until a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa in the depths of the most hellish prison and discovered he has the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, Kelsier will turn his talents to the ultimate caper: one with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Only he’s not just planning the greatest heist in history, he’s plotting the overthrow of a divine despot.
Kelsier recruited the underworld’s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel’s plan looks like a long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she’s a half-Skaa orphan, but she’s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.
The Books of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of airships and steam engines, of unusual animals and mysterious machines.
Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.
Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so he’ll have to navigate madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassins, and the long guns of a flying fortress. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just endure.
This quiet man of letters must become a man of action.
The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for . . .
The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze — the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization’s bedrock for a thousand years — collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman’s vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.
Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She’ll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.
Have you read any of these series? Do you have any recommendations?


11 Comments
dinipandareads
I loved the Mistborn series! I had no idea who Sanderson was when I read it and I really didn’t have much of a clue about fantasy either, but it was just so good! I’m also excited to read the Daevabad Trilogy and Broken Earth series. I’ve heard lots of good things about them! Hope you enjoy these books 😀
alexhale3
Thanks! I’m going to read Mistborn this month, and I’m so excited!
The Tsundoku Chronicles
YAS! I’m so excited for you to read the Daevabad trilogy! It’s my all time fave! I also really loved the first mistborn book and I really need to read the rest of the trilogy!
alexhale3
I’m so excited to read it! It sounds so good, and the covers are amazing!
geekylorraine
Mistborn is really good, and the rest are on my TBR! Hope you enjoy your reads!
alexhale3
Thanks! I’m starting Mistborn this month and I’m so excited!
Beth Jones
I really want to read City of Brass, so excited to hear what you think!
Holly
I’ve been meaning to read something by Brandon Sanderson for YEARS. Hopefully I’ll get around to it this summer! Great post 🙂
alexhale3
I read Elantris last year and it was so good! I highly recommend checking out his books 🙂
Amy’s Bookish Life
I don’t read much adult fantasy but I am tempted by Mistborn! Great post! Thanks for sharing 🙂
ashortbooklover
I definitely need to try out more adult fantasy!