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Find out what the must-read fantasy books are over the 2017 year! 2017 looks to be an interesting year for fantasy book releases. Truth be told, it looks to be a much stronger year for fantasy than 2016 was (see our best fantasy books of 2016 list). Some of the most anticipated fantasy books (Winds […]

Note: this has been updated as of August 2016 There’s a lot of fantasy books released every year — too much in fact to keep tabs on. But we give it our best attempt with this huge list of the most anticipated fantasy books of 2016. This comprehensive list is NOT a list of every […]

2014 was a great year in fantasy, lots of big names came to play. The likes of Lynch were back, Hobb brought back Fitz and a new epic fantasy and new player called Brian Staveley emerged. Fast forward to the present day and I would say that 2015 was a fizzer compared with 2014. Besides […]

Note that this isn’t the official BFB top 2015 list. A lot of the staff don’t read 2015 published books, so don’t be frustrated that your favourite is not on here. What this is, is a good indication of what books are probably worth reading and what is not. @sneakyburrito In no particular order: The Vagrant […]

Something we’ve done this year is to keep a record of the 2015 books that forum members have read. If they feel so inclined, they give the book a rating. Note that some forum members who have read the book, decided not to vote but wrote a review instead, as they don’t like giving books […]

**(Minor spoilers for the first book)** Firefight is the second book in “The Reckoners” trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, which is a young adult series. The series protagonist David, is a normal person, inhabiting a world in which Epics rule. Though David is normal and powerless, he still rises up to defy the Epics. Firefight continues […]

If you didn’t know, Firefight, the sequel to Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson came out this morning (6th Jan). If you like superheroes, then this is a great book that twists the genre on its head. Imagine a world where there are no superheroes and there are only supervillains. What would that world be like? If […]

This year we are going to break down fantasy into a number of different categories and pick a winner and list the runners-up. I think is a good way of putting in a list of good reads because when you do a top down list, it doesn’t promote great books that are near the bottom […]

  Been a while since I’ve done one of these. Hopefully each month I can let you readers know some of the amazing books that are coming out. Most of these that I note are from the major publishers and what I know. I’ll also do a small list down below to state some other […]