Me, Myself and my fantasy challenge!

Hi people! Today I’m really excited to be here because today I would present you my personal reading challenge for this year (and this would be the biggest challenge I’ve ever tried… and I am really curious to see if I can manage it and be constant with my reading! It’s a way to challenge myself and to try and finish or continue some good series!).

I found a wonderful list on Booknest with a lot of fantasy books. It was a list for their 2017 award and was so rich of interesting titles that I couldn’t resist. Most of them were on my wishlist and some of them were unknown to me, so I had to check them out, but in the end, I am willing to try and read them. It would take me some years, that’s for sure, but I love fantasy and I really, really, really couldn’t resist. Mind you, the list you’ll find here it’s not their original list (you can find it here), it’s a little bit adapted: I removed a couple of titles because I’ve read them in 2017 and a couple because I wasn’t interested in them. And they nominated a lot of series that I have to start or that I’ve started but I am way behind with them. So when they put in a book part of a series I just put the first book of it (or the book that I have yet to read). And at the end of this list I made some addition, with series that I’ve started and I want to finish. These additions are about series or author that I loved a lot and that I simply couldn’t leave out of this!

Best Traditionally Published

1. A gathering of Ravens by S. O. Oden
2. The Red Knight by M. Cameron
3. Age of Assassins by RJ Barker
4. Age of Myth by M. J. Sullivan
5. The shadows of what was lost by J. Islington
6. Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hobb
7. Bane and Shadow by Jon Skovron
8. Blackwing by Ed McDonald
9. A promise of fire by A, Bouchet
10. Darien by C.F. Iggulden
11. Every Heart a Doorway by S. McGuire
12. Fool’s Gold by J Hollins
13. Skyborn by D. Dalglish
14. First Watch by D. Lucas
15. Gilded Cage by V. James
16. Godblind by A. Stephens
17. Untitled by J. Kristoff (Nevernight #3)
18. Kings of the Wyld by N. Eames
19. Princess of Blood by T. Lloyd
20. Red Sister by M. Lawrence
21. Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore (I don’t know about this one, but I’m not ready to dismiss it completely, yet)
22. Scorn by Paul Hoffman
23. Sins of Empire by B. McClellan
24. Skullsworn by Brian Staveley
25. Swarm and Steel by M. R. Fletcher
26. The Tiger and The Wolf by A. Tchaikovsky
27. The Black Prism by B. Weeks
28. The Daylight War by P. V. Brett
29. The Court of Broken Knives by A. Smith Spark
30. The Dragon’s Legacy by Deborah A Wolf
31. The House of Shattered Wings by A. De Bodard
32. Baptism of Fire by A. Sapkowski
33. The Waking Fire by A. Ryan
34. The Ninth Rain by J. Williams
35. The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S: Belcher
36. The Vagrant by P. Newman
37. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
38. The Judging Eye by R.S. Bakker
39. The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
40. The Witchwood Crown by Tad Williams
41. Traitor’s Blade by S. de Castell
42. Twelve Kings in Sharakhai by B. P. Beaulieu
43. Malice by J. Gwynne

Best Self-Published Novel

1. Nice Dragons Finish Last by R. Aaron
2. A Keeper’s Tale by J.A. Andrews
3. Akiri: Dragonbane by B. D Anderson
4. Darkmage by M.L. Spencer
5. Benjamin Ashwood by A.C. Cobble
6. The Long Way Down by C. Schaefer
7. Faithless by G. Austin-King
8. Touch of Iron by T. Whitecastle
9. Revenant Winds by Mitchell Hogan
10. Sufficiently Advanced Magic by A. Rowe
11. The Crimson Queen by A. Hutson
12. The Exercise of Vital Powers by I. Gregoire
13. Where Loyalties Lie R. Hayes
14. The Heart of Stone by B. Galley
15. Beyond Redemption by R.M. Fletcher
16. The White Tower by M. Wisehart
17. The Reborn King by M. R. Miller
18. They Mostly Come Out At Night by B. Patrick

Best Debut Novel

1. Dreadnought by A. Daniels
2. Frostblood by E. Blake
3. Rotherweird by A. Caldecott
4. Soul of the World by D. Mealing
5. The Bear And The Nightingale by K. Arden
6. The Black Tides of Heaven by J. Yang
7. The Shadow Crucible by T.M. Lakomy

My Adds to this lists

1. Sworn in Steel by D. Hulick
2. Red Seas Under Red Skies by S. Lynch
3. Rise of Empire di M. J. Sullivan
4. The Liar’s Key by M. Lawrence
5. The Alloy of Law by B. Sanderson
6. The Holy Road by G. Hale
7. The Prophecy Con by P. Weeks
8. The Bone Palace by A. Downum
9. Queen of Fire by A. Ryan
10. Tricked by K. Hearne
11. Traitor of the Throne by A. Hamilton
12. Crooked Kingdomn by L. Bardugo
13. Words of Radiance by B. Sanderson
14. Marked in Flesh by A. Bishop
15. The Blade Itself by J. Abercormbie

Ok, this is a veeeeeeeeeeery long list, but I’ll try it anyway. I don’t plan to read all these books in one year, and a lot of them are part of a series, so I have to go on with that (if I like them), but I think it’s a good point to start!

Wish me good luck! And if there are some titles in this list that you loved, well recomends them to me!
Happy reading!
S.