Dear Reddit, please help me pick my next fantasy or sci-fi read!
Some of the books that I loved or liked: DCC, Dune, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Combat Codes, RJB Ana and Din series + City of Stairs, the Culture books (Use of Weapons and Player of Games the most), The Works of Vermin, N.K. Jemisin books, Roger Zelazny, R.J. Barker books, Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace, Ann Leckie Imperial Radch series, Rebecca Roanhorse: Black Sun trilogy, Blindsight by Peter Watts, Name of the Wind, Blacktongue Thief + Thrice Bound Fool (but not Daughter’s War), Gideon the Ninth, Ursula K. Le Guin’s works, Murderbot, Terry Pratchett, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Stanisław Lem, Slow Gods, Steerswoman series, Stephen King, The Raven Scholar.
Some of what I did not like and/or DNF’d: Hyperion, Joe Abercrombie (except The Devils, which I loved), Brandon Sanderson, Malazan, Wheel of Time, Gideon’s sequels, Baru Cormorant, Octavia Butler, Throne of Glass, Neuromancer, Babel, Piranesi, Red Rising, The Expanse, Asimov, Dresden Files, Farseer.
I seem to like competent protagonists, who do not make too many emotional and illogical decisions. No K.J. Parker for me, though. It would be great if the protagonist wasn’t a teenager. Minimal to no romance and no historical fiction, preferably. I am also usually not that keen on stories where the protagonist starts as a simple person and ends with godlike powers or turns out to be a lost child of god, etc.
That said, shower me with your recommendations, please!