favourite books
Created by Hesperus, 7 mo 11 d ago.
if you like to read books which are your favorites?... here are my favorite books:
The Silmarillion | The Children of Húrin | The Book of Lost Tales | Morgoth's Ring | The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien.
The Dunwich Horror | The Call of Cthulhu | At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen" by Steven Erikson
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Stormlight Archive" by Brandon Sanderson
The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan.
Dracula by bram stoker
I've read and enjoyed many many of those, too. In addition to those you've listed - I haven't read all of them myself - here's some more of that genre which I did read and which I enjoyed enough to include in my favorite books:
(1) Journey to the West
Read this and you'll find many of its ideas being reused in modern (mostly Eastern - Asian) literature like manga, anime, video games.
By itself, it's a very good read, also one of the earliest novels which could easily be classified as "High Fantasy" thanks to its much magic, dragons / fantastic creatures, heroic fights etc.
(2) In addition to those you listed, The Dreams in the Witch House / The Whisperer in Darkness are two more of Lovecraft's best stories, in my opinon (I've read most of his works).
(3) A Wizard of Earthsea
The first good novel of the Earthsea cycle, about a young wizard studying at a school and later being chased by a kinda "scary" supernatural being. Probably a novel which inspired e.g. Harry Potter. The sequels are very good too.
(4) The NeverEnding Story
(5) Harry Potter
... + several Light Novels & Web Novels with a (High) Fantasy Setting (e.g. TenSura, Douluo Dalu, ...=
... + and innumerable number of books from and about most mythologies + fairy tales (arabian nights, grimm's) of the world (esp. Greek Norse, Mesopothamian, Egyptian, Christian, etc etc).
... + plenty of classic literature ofc (esp. Shakespeare, Goethe ...)
... + of course I also enjoyed Tolkien's Books & Chronicles of Narnia, like you did
I'm ALWAYS trying to add more and more works of all sorts of fiction to my knowledge.
The more I know, the more easily I can compare, and find similarities, and avoid bias for (and against) particular genres
High Fantasy is definitely also a genre I read & enjoyed A LOT.