Some repeat read books:
#Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erickson. IYKYK.
Steven Brust first set #Jhereg in #Dragaera, featuring assassin/witch/cook Vlad Taltos. The Khaavren Romances, his delightful homage to Dumas, followed.
Naomi Novik’s #Temeraire #HisMajestysDragon I read aloud to my sons. (And as #topshelf as this series is, everything she’s done since is even better!)
Everything of Heinlein’s.
Martha Wells #Murderbot books are probably heading there.
@sarantium I hear ya, tbh it is true that the Malazan series *is* hard to get into, in large part I think because the story is SO vast he drops you in to just one corner of the world, and it's not until the third book that you begin to see just how broad the scope of the story actually is.
There's plenty of other epic fantasies, but MBoTF's key theme is compassion - and Erickson makes you care so much, and to such powerful effect, that reading is heartbreaking, funny, horrific, and beautiful.
doofusdan
sarantium
Harv