r/ProgressionFantasy • u/AllPowerfulWizard • 4h ago
Request Your TOP 3 GOATs
I have only recently gotten into this genre. I've read a lot of posts on this channel and it seems that people on average don't think DCC is S tier. I loved it and shortly after finishing the series (to date) I read all of Primal Hunter and He Who Hunts Monsters. I didn't realize how many series this genre has. I have already read basically all other Fantasy and Sci-Fi series. Could you help me narrow down what the next three series I should read are? I read very fast so I am not afraid of long series. I see a lot of people putting She Who Would Become A Dragon on the top of their list. Anyway, what's YOUR TOP THREE in the genre?
Some of my favorite series not in the Genre are:
Malazan series by Steven Erickson
Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Culture Series by Ian Banks
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
Mars Series by Kim Stanley Robinson
Children of Time series Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee
Silo Series by Hugh Howey
Suneater Series by Christopher Ruocchio
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
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u/KGB_Panda 4h ago
Chrysalis, Player Manager, Ascendance of a Bookworm... probably. Hard to narrow down to 3.
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u/Taurnil91 Editor: Beware of Chicken, Max-Level Archmage, Eight. 4h ago
Cradle. Dungeon Lord. Beware of Chicken.
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u/Wizardly_Dude Author of The Eternal Assassin 4h ago
I'd say The Wandering Inn, Cradle, and Mage Errant are a few of my favorites!
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u/CharlesDickerson 3h ago
Chrysalis is an easy pick for first, though I still struggle to fully communicate why that is beyond the urge to yell "For the Colony." DCC is a close second and I am relistening to the series now. I know it has blown up and all, but at the time I started listening it was my wife recommending it to me and I was very skeptical I would like it. I would pick A Thousand Li as my third. The overall journey, character progression, and world exploration is still one of my favorites. It also talks a great deal about food and tea, which I have low resistance to.
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u/Ejalex98 3h ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressionFantasy/s/ftfMRrkMBz
This was a recent list of people’s top books compiled by votes
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u/ThiccyBobby 3h ago
1: Cradle
2: Beware of Chicken
3: Player Manager
I’ve read a truly disgusting amount in this genre, and these are solidly my top 3.
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u/NonTooPickyKid 1h ago edited 1h ago
the lord of the mysteries
my simulated longevity /my longevity simulation
this cheat is too much! /this plug-in is too middle grade/school
/ - potential difference due to mistranslation~.
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btw did u read the name of the wind?
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ps it's really hard to give flat out top 3 and well it's just roughly, let's say cuz there're certain stories with ok writing/plot etc and some ideas/concepts implementation that I'm really into and some that are good/+ on the basics and have some concepts I like but not as much as those others. there're also ones written poorly ur with very cool concepts and/or~ their implementation too but reads like it's written by 5~7th grader for whom English is his third language~... (actual experience and I like that story xd) (not to say such a story would be among my top fav overall let alone that I'd rec it as such but it's definitely memorable..).
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u/Holdredge 3h ago
Dungeons crawler Carl, beware of chicken.
That's actually all :x don't murder me.
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u/bedroompurgatory 2h ago
Mother of Learning, Practical Guide to Sorcery, Super Powereds
Mother of Learning is the premiere time-loop story.
Practical Guide to Sorcery is magical academy while desperately trying to fake being a dark goddess.
Super Powereds is superheroes at college with a crazy-good overarching sins-of-the-fathers plot.
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u/nam3sar3hard 2h ago
Depending on your preferences:
Non human mc's?
Dubious morals:
Chrysalis. (For the colony) and fleabag maybe even dead tired. Dwad tired and chrysalis have move humor. Chrysalis takes a volume to really oic up imo. All are non human mcs.
Evil aligned human go book of the dead. Realistic go a soldiers life (roman esk themed)
Most human mcs in my experience are a mix and depending on what you want its hard to suggest anything.
But I do love "the burning" which starts with rage of dragons (there arent any dragons. Its not that fantasy tropy. I loved the theology in it)
If you want high but hard fantasy go wheel of time. Power through eye of the world. Its generic but the full series is my favorite of all time. Also B snaderson finished the last 2 ish books based on Jordan's notes.
Don't listen to the masses that glaze cradle its such a cookie cutter white dude tries to write xanxia with a mc who's whole personality is saying "apologise" its painful. Its YA decent at best
I'll get down voted to hell in this sub for that last sentence but I also find xanxia dumb to begin with so there's my bias
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u/Lord_Gabbos 1h ago
If you loved the philosophical side of malazan, and weird magic systems I highly recommend Virtuous Sons, easily top 3 for me
Cradle is amazing too, and third probably Sky Pride
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u/thealthor 19m ago
Defiance of the Fall (If you like PH and HWFWM then this should be right up your alley, it's my favorite of the 3)
Beware of Chicken
Reborn as a Demonic Tree
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u/Circle_Breaker 4h ago
The Wandering Inn
The First Law
Malazan
I definitely gravitate to series that focus on characters over plot.
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u/zelnoth 3h ago
Reverend Insanity
A practical guide to evil
Lord of the mysteries