Urban fantasy must be set in a specific, contemporary city in which the flavour of that city strongly influences the story. They should be added to the sisterlist best uf standalone novels. Download unabridged audiobook for free or share your audio books, safe, fast. See more ideas about fantasy books, urban fantasy books, funny urban. That means it got even harder to get an agent to guide you in publishing your books. The 50 best fantasy books of the 21st century so far paste. It was probably a silly accoutrement for a treasure hunter who rarely crossed pits of. Mar 21, 2014 lighthearted reading for urban fantasy fans. Esslemont have also written a number of additional stories set in the malazan empire. This series will appeal to fans of pretty little liars, legacies, and the vampire diaries. Im fairly bored with my personal library at the moment and am looking for some suggestions of humorous fantasy scifi books.
Ive read and enjoyed four of her other fantasy novels, even if i admit her series. The proven final expense insurance sales and lead generation system. As long as you dont take it too seriously its a lot of fun. I think we have a problem in fantasy and science fiction when it comes to books that make us laugh. There are many authors in different genres to date, and still counting. Discover the best humorous fantasy in best sellers. If you like your bog standard spoof novels, then theres bored of the rings and the soddit, and i believe a third book called the sellamillion, but dont quote me on that one.
Theres a scene in game of thrones im talking the television show, an unrelentingly dark fantasy epic, in which a disgraced knight enters a roadside inn demanding chicken. It includes original television movies, miniseries and television serials in the fantasy genre and its various subgenres. Not quite as engaging as some of lindseys other books but still a fun read. Fantasy novels with humor science fiction and fantasy world. The best urban fantasy novels youve never read author. Bryan thomas schmidt is an author and editor of adult and childrens science fiction, fantasy and humor books, short stories and articles. Fantasy books take us to magical places and tell stories of adventure and quests and great battles.
Authors with their ebooks will benefit greatly from the large community of readers and the readers will in return, of course, will have lots of materials to read to their hearts content. The overlying them though is that humor and comedy are used to help convey the authors direction. Peter davids sir appropos of nothing series is also technically comic fantasy, but might meet your requirements. Fantasy doesnt come much bigger or more epic than this tenvolume series, which starts with gardens of the moon and deadhouse gates. Twenty mustread finished fantasy epics the ranting dragon.
A site that brings both authors and readers into the world of free legal ebooks. I sometimes struggle with tolkien and rothfuss types due to sometimes how serious they are taking their writing no less good books, just less consistently funny. Prevented from invading the fhrey homeland by the tower of avempartha, the western army seeks a way across the. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon kindle store best sellers. Welcome to the scifi and fantasy corner of book riot, where we discuss the best fantasy book series and best fantasy books that standaloneyes, those do exist, military scifi, science fiction books for kids, cozy scifi also a thing. Most of the time, authors have difficult times reaching literary agents, or even finding one thats presently accepting queries.
Damaged or defective mp3 discs from recorded books will be replaced free of charge for up to one year after the date of purchase. My time as the young adult and middle grade shelver at work and as a middle school reading tutor showed me how hard it is for parents to find ageappropriate material for their kids. Brain lobes, eye sight test, lab humor, work humor, sleep lab, sleep medicine, sleep. The myth series gets somewhat less interesting at the end, and he goes for low hanging fruit with his puns, but the humor is there, and should not be discounted. His black company series is very serious but also has his trademark humor.
If you insist on the 10year limit, you can start with the last five books in the series, they dont have to be read in order. Fool moon by jim butcher, gods just want to have fun by dylan perry, trolls in the hamptons by celia jerome, power. I love the hitchhikers guide, have read just about every david and leigh eddings book, enjoy anne bishops black jewels and tir alainn books. If a replacement for a title published by recorded books is unavailable, a. This list excludes fantasy films originally made for the cinema, which are listed at list of fantasy films.
Searches related to urbanbooks total verified torrents. Jl madore is a multigenre romance author of fantasy, paranormal, and timeslip. Torrent, the first book in my new contemporary urban fantasy series. Multigenre romance author of fantasy, paranormal, and timeslip. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Obviously, this novel doesnt neatly fall into urban fantasy, since its a mashup of scifi and high fantasy. Kate daniels series, written by a husbandandwife writing team ilona andrews, has everything i need in urban fantasy. But what i think is most important when putting a list like this together is the quality of the books that make the cut.
This short list of fun urban fantasy books and series blurs the lines a bit between a strict definition of urban fantasy and say paranormal or supernatural fantasy. Urban fantasy is a slippery sort of subgenre, but to me, calling a book urban fantasy means it is set in a modern, urban society with an overlay of fantasy elements e. Audio books online download, free unabridged audiobook torrent. An urban fantasy dragon series death before dragons. Funny, sexy urban fantasy books author deborah wilde. Im not too picky about subject matter, just looking for something new and different. Genres like science fiction and fantasy are two of the. Urban fantasy series recommendations and the difference. In the 2000s, the harry potter novels became the rare series read by fantasy fans and non fantasy fans, book lovers and nonbook lovers, basically everyone on.
Rowling is often lauded for her talent for world building and plotting, but personally i dont think she gets enough credit for how funny. The discworld is, of course, a flat disc being carried on the back of a. Often set in a world very different from our own and inhabited by not only humans but perhaps dwarves, elves, orcs, goblins, paranormal and ethereal beings. Torrent introduces us to a geeky, gritty, funny young woman who is still trying.
Lee martinez and jasper fforde write in this style. The story is set in a futuristic, postapocalyptic version of atlanta. The best humorous fantasy doesnt merely mask problems with hilarity or shy away from earnestness, thoughit uses the quips to cut through to the characters deeper emotions, explore their heroic journeys in greater detail, and make the whole ride as humanly or superhumanly, depending on the extent of the protagonists fantastical abilities entertaining as possible. Funny science fiction grapples with a broad range of themes relating from time travel, to space travel, aliens, or even armies of nba sized insects. The complete official guide collectors edition the official guide to selling final expense insurance. I like both paranormal romance and urban fantasy and my main criteria for any genre is good writing, with humor as icing on the cake. And, here are two bonus books that dont fall squarely under the urban fantasy category, but nevertheless are great, underappreciated novels. In film, a movie like the guardians of the galaxy comes along and not.
Today i am hear to recommend some of my favorite funny fantasy books. Rowling even when the books are nowhere near my person, ive been known to laugh out loud at the mere memory of arthur weasley. Hole lotta shakin when tony is shaken out of bed by an earthquake, he has no idea that the day will bring with it a trip into the past and an entirely new danger to the future. Tens of thousands of free ebooks on science fiction and. They are humorous, light hearted private eye stories the writing is excellent in terms of spelling, grammar, syntax and sentence construction refreshingly so for kindle. Though the novel sometimes feels just a little too jampacked with plot points and adventures, its witty, fun, and full of vivid characters, and the plot twists will keep. Thankfully, there are plenty of fantasy books for kids out there. Unseen academicals 2009, i shall wear midnight 2010, snuff 2011, raising steam 20, and the shepherds crown 2015.
The characters are great, the plot races and the writing is great. This may include dark scifi humor or that of a lighter nature. Exclusive to amazon, her books are actionbased, characterdriven novels. When smexy books invited me to blog on incorporating the supernatural into my magic in manhattan series, the first thing i thought of was my recent privilege of speaking to author dana stavess class about my still very new. Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iphone, ipad, or android. Terry pratchett is the master of the fantasy humor genre, so its hard to go wrong with any book from his discworld series. Blog posted on thursday, jan 24 20 addictive urban fantasy books urban fantasy is no doubt one of the most fascinating genres in modern literature. Winter blankets the land, and more than just hope has died. Romanov, new adult, urban fantasy, samaire provost books to buy, i love. For anyone interested in checking out my fantasy novel aidans shadow, please enjoy the free sample on amazon. I probably only finished this book, because i have read 2 other series from. The castle perilous books are all about comedy of situations. When hes denied his meat, he declares he will eat every fg chicken. Im a sucker for stories that combine the fantastical with the humorous.
I love seeing epic quests laced through with wit, demon attacks dealt. Fantasy is my jam so of course now that i have a child, i want her to have all the fantasy things. Most humorous or witty fantasy books i already know about pratchett, lynch and abercrombie and quite enjoy each of their types of humor sprinkled in their writing. Initiate witches of coventry house book 2 by christina garner. I got this book not realizing how deep, funny, and absorbing this story was. A global wanderer, hopeless romantic, and total cynic with a broken edit button, deborah writes adult urban fantasy romance to satisfy her craving for smexy love stories and tales of chicks who kick ass. Free science fiction books for kindle freebooksy free. I tend to prefer urban fantasy, so i figured i would love this even more than the aforementioned series. For those who may not know what it is, you can head to this post for a great guide on what is urban fantasy but, in a nutshell, i t consists of fantasy plots that play out in modern settings, for a great mix of enchanting and accessible. Initiate is pageturning urban fantasy with compelling heroines and a touch of romance.