Can someone recommend a good fantasy book?

Game of Thrones - George Martin

Inkheart Series - Cornelia Funke

The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Well, if you want a really great fantasy book, any book from the Redwall series (I would recommend the first book, Redwall, if you have not read it yet.) Redwall (Written by Brian Jacques) focuses a lot on the characters and how they develop throughout the course of the novel.

Redwall takes place in a land where many creatures live in fear of Vermin (Stoats, Weasels etc.) The Redwall Abbey stands as a beacon to the innocent woodlanders (Mice, Moles etc.)... a safe haven, where the creatures live in peace. Other locations include the mighty fortress of Badger warlords (Salamandastron) and the Otter villages, and the locations of the rafts of bands of warrior shrews.

All the books will, at some point, include redwall. However, some focus on Salamandastron, and others on the lairs of various different villian. Each book will focus on one or two main characters, and the chapters will switch from different viewpoints with everything coming together at the end. It includes a lot of simple wit, and many different poems and ballads.

the Redwall series of books is definitely a very good read, even if you are reading it for English class ^^

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin has a lot of great characters. If you have to write a paper on it, a lot of options could present themselves in this series since there are multiple 3rd person narrators.

If you are looking for a story that focuses on one character rather than many, Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is a good bet. Kvothe is one of the great new characters in fantasy literature. He is the protagonist, but he is really more like an examination as to how heroism went wrong.

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Honestly, one of the best fantasy books I can recommend for guys (one of the best I can recommend for anyone) is The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. It starts a little slow but gets amazing pretty quickly:

My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as "quothe." Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to. The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it's spoken, can mean The Flame, The Thunder, or The Broken Tree.

"The Flame" is obvious if you've ever seen me. I have red hair, bright. If I had been born a couple of hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon. I keep it short but it's unruly. When left to its own devices, it sticks up and makes me look as if I have been set afire.

"The Thunder" I attribute to a strong baritone and a great deal of stage training at an early age.

I've never thought of "The Broken Tree" as very significant. Although in retrospect, I suppose it could be considered at least partially prophetic.

My first mentor called me E'lir because I was clever and I knew it. My first real lover called me Dulator because she liked the sound of it. I have been called Shadicar, Lightfinger, and Six-String. I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.

But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant "to know."

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

So begins the tale of Kvothe—from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But The Name of the Wind is so much more—for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's legend.

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Good luck finding a book, and happy reading!

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

One of the best books i've ever read.

Graceling

OR- The Tamora Pierce books I find quite enjoyable and involve issues such as female/male equality in the Middle Ages. I'd recommend the first few though, such to do with "the Lioness", as the rest might go a bit too far into the realm of fantasy than you'd enjoy.

House of nights series. That is pretty good. One bad thing, a girl is the one telling the story until the fifth book.

Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs. Perfect mystery/fantasy book.