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Any good, fairly clean fantasy fiction reads?

I'm looking for some good fantasy fiction novels. Does anyone know any good YA reads? I mark these because sometimes they have less sexuality than those intended for adults. I'm bored of reading about bare bodies and lusting in those books.

I'm open to adult fantasy fiction, too, but only if I can be assured that the sexuality is kept to a minimum. I'm not a prude or anything, but, really, I want to read about magic and action. If I wanted to read porno, I'd tune my reading accordingly.

Update:

Thanks, all. And thanks, bekajwp, for pointing out about reading the question carefully. Please, folks, I'm looking for books with the LEAST amount of sexuality possible! The cleaner the better, thanks.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Whoaa, did the guy above me really read ALL of those?

    Anywho, read Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. Or Book of A Thousand Days by Hale as well. And I admire your want to read clean, nice books :)

  • 1 decade ago

    The Five Hundred Kingdom Series by Mercedes Lackey

    The Retriever's Series by Laura Anne Gilman

    The Chronicle's of Elantra by Michelle Sagara

    The Study Series and Glass Books by Maria V Snyder

  • 1 decade ago

    The Chronicles of Prydain

    Lloyd Alexander

    The Book of Three (1964)

    The Black Cauldron (1965)

    The Castle of Llyr (1966)

    Taran Wanderer (1967)

    The High King (1968)

    The Foundling and Other Tales (1970)

    Incarnations of Immortality

    Piers Anthony

    On a Pale Horse (1983)

    Bearing an Hourglass (1984)

    With a Tangled Skein (1985)

    Wielding a Red Sword (1986)

    Being a Green Mother (1987)

    For Love of Evil (1988)

    ...And Eternity (1990)

    Black Jewels Trilogy

    Anne Bishop

    Daughter of the Blood (March 1998)

    Heir to the Shadows (April 1999)

    Queen of the Darkness (January 2000)

    The Original Shannara Trilogy

    Terry Brooks

    The Sword of Shannara (1977)

    The Elfstones of Shannara (1982)

    The Wishsong of Shannara (1985)

    Kushiel's Legacy

    Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Dart (June 2001)

    Kushiel's Chosen (April 2002)

    Kushiel's Avatar (April 2003)

    The Black Company: Books of the North

    Glen Cook

    The Black Company (May 1984)

    Shadows Linger (October 1984)

    The White Rose (April 1985)

    The Dark Is Rising Sequence

    Susan Cooper

    Over Sea, Under Stone (1965)

    The Dark Is Rising (1973)

    Greenwitch (1974)

    The Grey King (1975)

    Silver on the Tree (1977)

    Year's Best Fantasy & Horror

    Ellen Datlow, et al

    Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003)

    Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004)

    Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005)

    Ninteenth Annual Collection (2006)

    The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

    - The Unbeliever

    Stephen Donaldson

    Lord Foul's Bane (1977)

    The Illearth War (1978)

    The Power that Preserves (1979)

    The Wayfarer Redemption

    Sara Douglass

    The Wayfarer Redemption (1995)

    Enchanter (1996)

    StarMan (1996)

    Sinner (1997)

    Pilgrim (1998)

    Crusader (1999)

    The Belgariad

    David Eddings

    Pawn of Prophecy (1982)

    Queen of Sorcery (1982)

    Magician's Gambit (1983)

    Castle of Wizardry (1984)

    Enchanters' End Game (1984)

    The Malloreon

    David Eddings

    Guardians of the West (1987)

    King of the Murgos (1988)

    Demon Lord of Karanda (1988)

    Sorceress of Darshiva (1989)

    Seeress of Kell (1991)

    Malazan Book of the Fallen

    Steven Erikson

    Gardens of the Moon (1999)

    Deadhouse Gates (2000)

    Memories of Ice (2001)

    House of Chains (2002)

    Midnight Tides (2004)

    The Bonehunters (2006)

    The Riftwar Saga

    Raymond E Feist

    Magician: Apprentice & Master (1982)

    Silverthorn (1985)

    A Darkness at Sethanon (1986)

    Thursday Next

    Jasper Fforde

    The Eyre Affair (2001)

    Lost in a Good Book (2002)

    The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

    Something Rotten (2004)

    First Among Sequels (2007)

    Outlander Series

    Diana Gabaldon

    Outlander (aka Cross Stitch) (1991)

    Dragonfly in Amber (1992)

    Voyager (1994)

    Drums of Autumn (1997)

    The Fiery Cross (2001)

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005)

    An Echo in the Bone (2009)

    Drenai Series

    David Gemmell

    Legend (1984)

    The King Beyond the Gate (1985)

    Quest for Lost Heroes (1990)

    Waylander (1986)

    In the Realm of the Wolf (1992)

    First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (1993)

    The Legend of Deathwalker (1996)

    Winter Warriors (1996)

    Hero in the Shadows (2000)

    White Wolf (2003)

    The Swords of Night and Day (2004)

    Sword of Truth

    Terry Goodkind

    P: Debt of Bones (novella 1998)

    1. Wizard's First Rule (1994)

    2. Stone of Tears (1995)

    3. Blood of the Fold (1996)

    4. Temple of the Winds (1997)

    5. Soul of the Fire (1999)

    6. Faith of the Fallen (2000)

    7. The Pillars of Creation (2001)

    8. Naked Empire (2003)

    9. Chainfire (2005)

    10. Phantom (2006)

    Anita Blake Series

    Laurell K Hamilton

    Guilty Pleasures (1993)

    The Laughing Corpse (1994)

    Circus of the Damned (1995)

    The Lunatic Cafe (1996)

    Bloody Bones (1996)

    The Killing Dance (1997)

    Burnt Offerings (1998)

    Blue Moon (1998)

    Obsidian Butterfly (2000)

    Narcissus in Chains (2001)

    Cerulean Sins (2003)

    Incubus Dreams (2004)

    Micah (2006)

    Danse Macabre (2006)

    The Harlequin (2007)

    Blood Noir (2008)

    The Rhapsody Trilogy

    Elizabeth Haydon

    Rhapsody: Child of Blood (1999)

    Prophecy: Child of Earth (2000)

    Destiny: Child of the Sky (2001)

    The Farseer Trilogy

    Robin Hobb

    Assassin's Apprentice (1995)

    Royal Assassin (1996)

    Assassin's Quest (1997)

    Redwall Series

    Brian Jacques

    Redwall (1986)

    Mossflower (1988)

    Mattimeo (1989)

    Mariel of Redwall (1991)

    Salamandastron (1992)

    Martin the Warrior (1993)

    The Bellmaker (1994)

    Outcast of Redwall (1995)

    The Pearls of Lutra (1996)

    The Long Patrol (1997)

    Marlfox (1998)

    The Legend of Luke (1999)

    Lord Brocktree (2000)

    The Taggerung (2001)

    Triss (2002)

    Loamhedge (2003)

    Rakkety Tam (2004)

    High Rhulain (2005)

    The Wheel of Time

    Robert Jordan

    P: New Spring (1 January 2004)

    1. The Eye of the World (15 January 1990)

    2. The Great Hunt (15 November 1990)

    3. The Dragon Reborn (15 October 1991)

    4. The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)

    5. The Fires of Heaven (15 October 1993)

    6. Lord of Chaos (15 October 1994)

    7. A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

    8. The Path of Daggers (20 October 1998)

    9. Winter's Heart (7 November 2000)

    10. Crossroads of Twilight (7 January 2003

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Woah, whoever recc'd Anne Bishop, Diane Gabaldon, Anita Blake and Jacqueline Carey didn't read the question o.0 Sex is a major part for all of those series.

    David Eddings - Belgariad and Mallorean books, good reads and clean.

    Piers Anthony - The early Xanth books, say 1-8. If sex is mentioned it's in a 'teehee panties' way.

    Naomi Novik - her Napoleonic-dragons series is clean as I recall

    Garth Nix - Abhorsen trilogy, excellent books and also clean.

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  • 1 decade ago

    First of all, several of Ashley's suggestions have substantial amounts of graphic sex and BDSM.

    Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey

    Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop

    Anita Blake Series by Laurell K Hamilton

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    My suggestions for YA are:

    The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane

    Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan

    The Once and Future King Trilogy, by T. H. White

    The Earthsea Quartet, by Ursula Le Guin

    Watership Down, by Richard Adams

    Dragonriders of Pern series, by Anne McCaffrey

    Harper Hall Trilogy, by Anne McCaffrey

    Beauty, by Robin McKinley

    His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Phillip Pullman

    The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones

    Source(s): wikipedia.org
  • 1 decade ago

    Try the Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix...first book is Sabriel

  • 1 decade ago

    >the Hunger Games

    >The Mortal Instruments

    >The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica

    >The Unwritten Rule

    >Maximum Ride

    this is a site where it gives recommendations based on what you like to read!

    http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

    My book blog also gives info and review on teen/YA books!

    http://iliveforreading.blogspot.com/

    Source(s): ME
  • 4 years ago

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  • Henry
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    There are various many reviews out there that don't have movies. Catalogs can explore ideas and ideas and never have to fret about a special results budget.

  • 5 years ago

    good relevant answers, thank you

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