November book study- What fantasy book shall we read?

A Dresden! ooh ooh, Miss! A Dresden. Pwease?

I might be up for a Dresden. One of the guys I work with says he knew the guy that wrote the series in high school. I presume we are talking about the Dresden files.

I'm going to hold up Graveyard Book (Gaiman) because it just got released this week, and it's awesome.

(That and I'm currently on Blood Rites so shhhhh...)

I second The Graveyard Book.

It's a standalone book, an homage to The Jungle Book about an orphaned boy who is raised by the occupants of a graveyard.

Gaiman is actually on a book tour right now to promote it, and he's reading a chapter aloud at each stop. The cool part? The video clips of each chapter reading are posted online. So you can go ahead and listen to the first couple of chapters right now if you want.

Tachyon said:

I second The Graveyard Book.

It's a standalone book, an homage to The Jungle Book about an orphaned boy who is raised by the occupants of a graveyard.

Gaiman is actually on a book tour right now to promote it, and he's reading a chapter aloud at each stop. The cool part? The video clips of each chapter reading are posted online. So you can go ahead and listen to the first couple of chapters right now if you want.

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Yeah, I'm going to see him today and tomorrow.

And yes, The Graveyard Book completely stands alone.

Auralia's Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

You wanted a linky Baha so here we are: Storm Front is the first Dresden. It's definitely stand alone - in fact I'd go as far to say that most of them could be read in isolation.

Magic. It can get a guy killed. Think Sam Spade meets Gandalf. A really great voice.

I hate Gaiman's writing, personally, so that's a no from me. I love Dresden, and plowed through all ten in a week and a half, so that's a yes. The rest I'm not familiar with, but I'm always up for reading new stuff.

I'll vote for any Dresden novel, or even any of Butcher's Codex Alera series ( Furies of Calderon is the first one )

I'm new here, but I thought I might as well throw out a couple suggestions and see if either of them stick with you guys

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson and The Runelords: The Sum of All Men by David Farland are two great examples of how to handle a magic system in heroic fantasy. Magic is a great thing to examine if you ever want to write in the genre, and they're just generally good books (fairly stand-alone as well).