Fantasy/Sci-Fi Tier List: EVERY Major Series Ranked (2024 update)
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00:00 | Intro
00:50 | Starts w/ "A"
01:18 | Starts w/ "B"
09:11 | Starts w/ "C"
11:04 | Starts w/ "D"
15:52 | Starts w/ "E"
17:51 | Starts w/ "F"
20:20 | Starts w/ "G"
22:44 | Starts w/ "J"
23:12 | Starts w/ "K"
23:34 | Starts w/ "L"
27:04 | Starts w/ "M"
30:13 | Starts w/ "N"
31:38 | Starts w/ "O"
32:02 | Starts w/ "P"
33:33 | Starts w/ "R"
37:07 | Starts w/ "S"
40:37 | Starts w/ "T"
42:35 | Starts w/ "U"
42:58 | Starts w/ "W"
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Also, just like last year...when I say "every" series ranked...what I really mean is every series outside of the one you came to this comment section to complain about that I didn't include.
Lmao 😂😂😂
😂
I knew it! You didn't rank Where's Waldo deliberately, just to spite me!
Jokes on you pal. 😂 your S and A tier is full of my favorites and ones I really want to read. However DiscWorld to A ( on book 8) and right above LOR ( on last book). as #1 B
😂 of course!!
You are the KING of making an hour long recorded video and making me watch the entire thing. As always, great work.
Totally agree with this statement
Yeah,this was fun to watch😊
Right now 'The Realm of the Elderlings' is my favorite series of all time but I haven't read any of Matt's top 3 series yet. I can't wait to jump into the Dandelion Dynasty and Malazan later this year to see if they become new favourites!
Thank you for your videos and I hope you have a great rest of your day :)
Always love this. Thanks for all the work.
I just finished the "Green bone saga" which I absolutely loved and have just started "The Faithful and the fallen". Thanks for doing these videos, so I have a good idea of what to read next.
Sun Eater will move up as you read the next 3 books and Dregs. You will see it above stormlight I think!
Love your videos ! Bound and Broken is best and most fun I have reading a book since I read first law!! It’s so damn good and reads like a lit fuse !
Matt might be the only person on the planet to think Dresden was at its best for the first 5 books haha. Always a great time watching these rankings!
Thanks for making this video. It gives me some more series to check out. Currently started reading The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Have you ever read The Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny? I finished the first 5 books but I don't think I will continue.
I’m in the middle of Wrath and I think Faithful and the Fallen will easily be one of my favorite series once I’m done with it.
I’ll be starting Black Sun soon, so I hope I like it more. Been wanting a Native American inspired fantasy and hope it can fill that.
Im in The Middle of Wrath too.Absolutely love John Gwynne ❤❤❤
Reading Grace of Kings and I can’t believe how good this book is. Can’t wait until I read the rest of the series since it only gets better. Great tier list.
You are in for a huge treat my friend! Enjoy!
How is this comment from a day ago if the video came out 8 hours ago
@@DustySmith1 Patreon subscribers are allowed early access.
I started grace of kings got about a 4th of the way but decided to hold off bc I’m reading way too many series rn and this is gonna be a series that I read all in a row
@@jaydenduncan8388 I totally understand. It definitely sucks you in
Just finished the bone ships and i absolutely loved it! The worldbuilding is so interesting, hooked me immediately
I know you said you wouldn't continue with Dune. However, I do recommend reading Dune: Messiah, as it it's the "true" ending of Dune. Herbert originality intended it to be one long book, but the publishers made it two. The themes/ideas behind Dune only really pay-off in Messiah
Ok, I’ve disagreed with you a lot on things, and even told you so on a couple. I don’t see why people can’t disagree without either threatening or being threatened. Lol. Your opinion isn’t negated because somebody doesn’t agree with it. Honestly, why can’t people act like adults? I can disagree with you intensely, and not wish any harm on you or your family. We can all have opinions, folks. You’re actually one of my favorite channels, because you’re honest, even if it’s an unpopular opinion.
Yeah, I know, people are so sensitive, like dang chill 😅. It’s hard to find booktubers with honest reviews. So booktubers that are honest and have similar taste to me are 2 total for me. I only agree with Matt 50% of the time but if he likes a book that the other 2 CZcamsrs I follow like as well, then I know the book will be excellent!
👏👏👏 exactly
Great video, Matt, as always. Thank you. I may be mistaken, but didn’t you also read The Warlord Chronicles (or Trilogy) by Bernard Cornwell? Or am I getting mixed up with another CZcamsr?
Yeah I have. But I don't really consider that fantasy.
always excited for these
Very interesting lists! Thank you!👍👍👍📚🤖🚀
I remember you mentioning that you’ve read the Redwall books in a previous video. I would be curious to know where you would you rank that series as a whole?
I was a young kid so I honestly couldn't rank them right now.
Really looking forward to trying some of your S-Tiers: Green Bone, Five Angels, Sun Eater, Gentlemen and Bone Ships. I used to think Dandelion would not be my cup of tea, but so many are saying how good it is that I feel I must give it a go.
I like how you pack a lot of analysis into your videos. We don’t always agree on favourites but like you say, that’s part of the fun.
Oooohhhhh a Malazan reread??? Fantastic. I know you typically don’t do reread videos but I beg you, make some videos chronicling your reread!!
Yes!
Love the video. Missing some classic fantasy serieses there: Dragonlance, Drizzet, Belgariad, Death gate cycle...
Tried Malazan this month, just couldn't get on board with the chopping and changing of so many characters, didn't really have a clue what was going on
Welcome to Malazan :D
Hi Matt, big fan of the channel. Can I recommend you read the Troy trilogy by Gemmell. I know you read a few similar books, and that was very much what he was going for in his early years, but the Troy trilogy was the last thing he wrote and he was very much at the height of his writing prowess. Also his first attempt at what I’d call epic fantasy, and genuinely one of the best series I’ve read. His take on Hector and Achilles and Odeyseus is brilliant. Anyway, sure you’ve got a huge read list, just hoping you haven’t shelved Gemmell for good.
If you treated Blood Song as a standalone, where would you have it? I plan on reading it this year and plan on just stopping there and not even bothering with any others...but everyone seems to think it can be a fine standalone, so how would that rank for you if you just considered it 1 book?
It's an incredible standalone - and one of the best books I've ever read.
I like Stormlight but I would personally put it in the A tier.
So happy once I saw the Malazan placement! About to start some of the John Gwyn books on this list
Other series to try that are under the radar mostly: The Others series and the follow-up series The World of the Others by Anne Bishop (elementals, shapeshifters, vampires, blood-prophets, mysterious and terrifying "others," science--alternative world on Earth); Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (kind of YA but so much better; an unusual mix of sci-fi, fantasy, horror and fairy tale; Cinder in the first book is sort of a cyborg who wants to be an engineer); Safehold series by David Webber (mostly sci-fi but takes place on a planet that's highly religious and where technology has been forbidden for centuries; too complex to explain the sort of medieval world at first, but each book is huge with so many characters and settings; lots of naval and land battles); Consortium of Chaos by Elizabeth Gannon (a ridiculously fun series in which the Supervillains come out on top of the Superheroes; theres pathos and trauma depicted by some of the villains but they are so funny with their individual quirks and dialogue; the so-called heroes are mostly bad people while the villains are not all that evil; really interesting superpowers displayed by each villain in their own books). Sorry, so long-winded..
OMG I also loved the Broken Earth! But I agree about the Poppy War, the first one good, the rest... Well.
Loved the tier list even if I definitely disagree on a few, our general rate of overlap is pretty absurd. Can’t wait to try some of your S-tier like Dandelion, Bound and the Broken, and Tide Child!
Word of advice. Don't do Tide Child in audio.
@@chrishenslick5482 thanks for the tip!
I wish I could understand what people saw in Faithful and Fallen that I missed. Except for some exceptional battle scenes and one very fun plot line, I felt it was a solid B and I had to drag myself through parts of it. It actually bums me out that I didn’t enjoy it more.
For some reason Bound and Broken is working so much better for me, and I think the two series have a lot of similarities in terms of what the authors are trying to do.
Im with you on the faithful and the fallen. i'll never understand how it gets so highly praised I'd probably have it in C tier.
It might be the writing style. I don't know about Ryan Cahill, but in the first two F and F books, Gwynne struggles with prose. If not, maybe it was not connecting to characters or the lack of originality. Gwynne didn't exactly reinvent the wheel. He uses a lot of tropes, but I think he did it pretty well. It might not have worked for you tho. At least you had some fun.
@@KALtheHighstorm117that was my issue with it. I still liked it, but I would constantly get annoyed at his quick paragraph breaks. I started to feel like he didn't have enough experience as a writer to have a long section of prose, which is fine but personally began to grate on my own tastes.
Regardless, every book was a solid 4 stars for me, but Wrath was a 2 for a certain character choice that made me almost DNF it toward the end.
@@WilliamMorrison-rp6ws Uh oh. I haven't read Wrath yet, so please don't spoil it. Personally, I'm loving the series, but I do understand your problems with it.
You could try out his Bloodsworn series. I've only read the first book, and I liked it quite a bit. The prose there is definitely more defined, though it still has short-ish paragraphs. The difference is that he manages to pack in a decent amount of description with just a couple sentences. There were several moments where I stopped and thought, "Wow, I can perfectly picture and even feel this, and he only used a couple dozen words." The characters, with the exception of Orka, aren't as good as Faithful and the Fallen's, but that's just my opinion.
Can't wait to add a bunch of books to my tbr that I'll never be able to read in my lifetime!
wandering inn climbing the ranks lets goo
I looooved the Red Sister trilogy. I was amazed at how well Mark Lawrence writes women. So rare in male authors.
I'm with you on those DNF's. I used to force myself to slog through, then at some point I just realized it's not worth it. Plenty of other books to try out, reading should be fun
I'm dnf-ing more as I get (ever) older too. Too little time, too many TBRs!
ASOIAF is my top fave too, but I am currently on book 5 of Malazan and it is quickly catching up as my new favorite
I don't get the down talking on the sequels of Ender's Game. They are tonally very different from the first book. But Card said he always wanted to write the story told in the sequels, but his publisher convinced him to write Ender's game as an introduction to this universe. And although I love Ender's Game, I think I love its sequels more. They are much more political and philosophical and deal with religion and guilt in very interesting ways. They are really good character studies. Really, don't believe the reviews and give the sequels, at least the first sequel, a try. They are very different books, but they are thought provoking and great. Much more than the first book.
Alright, this video convinced me to finally read The Dandelion Dynasty (After finishing The Eleventh Cycle).
My S tier is Wheel of Time, Stormlight Archive, First Law (all of them), Drenai Saga, Malazan and Kingkiller Chronicles (for now anyway). I only have one in the F tier and that's Sword of Truth. Too many to list in tiers A, B & C. The Band might have a shot at S tier if the 3rd book is as good as the first 2.
Hard to know yet how our tastes align - I think your on the money on Locke Lamora and Wheel of Time, but I put far more worth in Conan and Dresden and the Lord of the Rings. Edan I'd put higher also, but I might see the first book as a B.
Still many series ahead to try on yet.
ah, yet another list of books I haven't read which I will continue to add to my TBR. Matt, please, I can only read so many books in one year. lol
Currently reading the second book of the Divine Cities and I really like it 😊
The third book is so good.
I love the tide child trilogy about the finish the last book soon and has become one of my favorite books of all time
Malazan lovers unite!
I Got to say I really Like your reviews/ Channel - I am maybe 30-40 books into my Epic Fantasy phase and we have pretty similar taste ... But do yourself a favor and finish the Licanus trilogy. I read it because somewhere I heard that if you like Mistborn 1 read this.. the wrap up/ending is aaalmost as good.. *maybe not .. but amazing. Just Finished The Burning 1 and 2 can't wait for the 3rd *comes out this year, and Dandilion was on my next to read even before This review.📖 Thanks for all the great Recomendations .
i disagree so hard with the Dark Tower placement that i'm going to subscribe to you. Good list
LOL
Love that you read SJM so the rest of us don’t have to. A truly selfless act of goodwill! 😂
I haven’t read much of Sanderson but what I’ve read it seems he’s a very PG writer. Definitely doesn’t write anything too Adult or R-rated. There’s nothing wrong with that at all but I really like more adult oriented fantasy novels.
Red Sister in F tier is just crazy. One of the best opening lines ever.
Incorrect. That award goes to Robert McCammon's 'Gone South'.
Malazan is also my top series and am so sad that I might never read something as good in the future.
I found A Darkness at Sethanon the best of the Riftwar Saga. Fingers crossed you like it.
I love when you make these huge lists. I watch them while I cook and eat. Thanks for making such honest content!
I'm a (newer) huge fan of yours, and I'm a voracious reader of fantasy. I love Brian Staveley and David Estes - neither of which I've ever heard you mention. 🤷♀️ Just curious.... No one, of course, can read EVERYTHING! 😂 I'll just make it a goal to win your TBR contest (twice), and I'll assign one of them to you to read! ❤
Hahaha. Some things we agree on very much so but then like half my favorites of all time are d or bellow.
Empire of the Damned the second book after Empire of the vampire comes out in March.
Wandering Inn top 10! expecting top 3 by the time you catch up
I was a little shocked! Even though I began reading it because of his videos, and I've been watching ALL of them. I am completely hooked - but, still! I was still surprised it "came in" that high!
Malazan is my favorite of all time as well.
Another banger video Matt! My poor TBR list…
Next year I want to see the Silmarillion on the list.
Dandelion dynasty so high? Hmmm
I dont believe anything is better than ASOIAF, but im intrigued nonetheless
Not gonna lie at the beginning when you said you will see faithful and fallen later in F, I was thinking no way he thinks that is an F!
this is probably the worst video of this kind I have ever watched compared to what my list would be lol, but I respect the fact that this one is yours and you can keep it for sure :) I didnt get reminded about or learn about a couple new series during the video that I will have to check out
An older series that you haven't tried but should. The Rune Lords - David Farland
Apart from Conan, I very much agree with you on your F tier choices 👍
Maybe all the die hard Conan fans thought you were dissing their favorite late night host!!!!!!!!!!! 😂😂
Well, we broadly agree on at least three series. 8-)
Fortunately, I like your reviewing style even though I mostly disagree with your ratings.
What's actually surprising to me is that there is so little overlap between the series that I've read and those you've read (and I've read rather more than you have, in part because I've had more time). Only maybe 1/4 of the series you have here are ones I've even started.
I just finished wrath in the malice series and that book was a dissapointment there were alot of errors throught the series which is fine the the last book was quite rushed and brought the series down a few pegs for me. Really annoyed me how long it took for a particular charactor to jpin the right side. Seen it coming from book1. Book2 in price of nothing is great , book3 was a tuff read
Senlin Ascends is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It was so new and different than anything else. Then the Arm of the Sphinx and book 3 were still pretty good, I quit book 4 halfway through. I’ve never seen a series fall apart in such a terrible way.
Over half of these series I have never and probably will never read. Many of those I've never even heard of. Based on what I have read, our reading tastes could not be more dissimilar. With the exceptions of TGBs and ASoIaF.
Lord of the Rings in the B-tier? Isaac Asimov an F-tier writer?? Seriously???
Seriously. You'll be okay.
He feels how he feels.
He didn’t say he’s an F tier writer just the specific series lol
I agree with you alot but i dont get what you liked so much with Patrick rothfuss books.. the first one was ok with badly written characters and the second one was just a mess
I enjoy your work and definitely enjoyed this video. Took away a bunch of great ideas for my future reads so thank you. I don't think, however, you can have an all encompassing fantasy series list without R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt books, Terry Brooks' Shannara series or the Hickman/Weiss Dragonlance series.
This is certainly a fun list! Where I (respectfully) disagree with you the most is Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn--I *loved* the slow burn, slice of life material at the beginning of The Dragonbone Chair, and I'm devouring that book! On the other hand, you've sung the praises of my favorite series of all time, The Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker! I can't wait to get your take on book 2, The Warrior Prophet!
Thanks Michael! I really do need to try Memory, Sorrow and Thorn again with a different mindset. I've heard a lot of my problems are fixed by me just reading more!
That's a very open-minded and charitable stance,@@MattsFantasyBookReviews. Either way, happy reading to you!
I very nearly walked away from TDC, but I went back and read a bunch of reviews that encouraged me to "tough it out." I was so glad I did!!
The main saga of Ender’s Game (I think 6 books) is actually really good. The second book, Speaker for the Dead, is arguably better than book one.
Bean > Ender
Well, no one can accuse you of being wishy washy on your thoughts lol
Wait did I miss something, what does the "S" stand for?
Just a rank above A. Like A+.
Jorg from broken empire is my favorite character
Lol who says "A Darkness at Sethanon" is not great? It has epic battles and an epic showdown to that plotline.
You're the most straight up don't care what the community bandwagons. You and I relate a lot, accept the sexist part, all history was that way, deal with it . Keep up the incredible work
This video was awesome. I'm gonna rewatch it again right now. lol. Perfect video to watch during work. lol. Prince of Nothing will definitely creep into that "S Tier" as soon as you finish Warrior Prophet. I stand by this statement. Great video Matt.
Cold fire series?
I like some of the series that you have in the A and B tier a little better than you did--but agree with the S tier, and the C, D, and F tiers. Your reviews steer me in the right direction and make my read list better!
Brian Lee Durfee is so underrated. Such a great guy in general, but it’s just about criminal how little respect his books get. I feel the same about Ryan Cahill, but I do feel like his books are gaining traction. Dandelion Dynasty is right at the top for me also, but Bound and the Broken may surpass it when the next book comes out. His storytelling just gets better and better and better.
Thanks for this. I don't agree with all of your takes, but nobody agrees with all my takes either ;) How boring would it be if everyone loved the exact same things. Introduced me to some series I wasn't aware of and reminded me of some I'd totally forgotten about.
Martin in the S Tier... Wolfe in the D tier... okay
Martin is firmly S tier. He explained why Wolfe was in D tier for him, and it's totally understandable.
Love your videos! Have read a few great books from some of your reviews, including The Will of the Many I'm genuinely curious to know where The Hierarchy series will fall on this list in the future. I literally can't put it down, even when I try to.
I absolutely hated the Tide Child series but I love that you enjoy it so much 😂
PLEASE READ ALL OF BOOK OF THE NEW SUN WHENVER YOU HAVE THE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT EXTRA
I really respect your honesty on books you really didn’t like. A lot of booktubers tier lists seem to avoid it. Great video as always Matt.
What people see about Malice...for me it was just an utter mess, jumping here and there all the time. Nice list though.
I don't know why I enjoy watching your list videos so much. Maybe because you're just so frank, and I appreciate that even when I disagree.
It does feel really good when we do agree. Seeing Three Parts Dead and Fifth season in F. Yes. Absolute boring garbage.
If I had only one thing to say that I hoped you would hear, it would be: read Ender's Game again. And then read Speaker for the Dead. Yes, the rest of the Ender adjacent books are mediocre at best, and terrible at worst, but those two are solid and Speaker is better than Ender's game.
That’s awesome how many series you have read
Dark Tower is an F? Nah. I’m out. Our tastes must be wildly different.
Dune was great when I read it in the 70’s, but I’m onboard with your B after reading it again a couple years ago.
Also for dune, probably my favorite book of all time is a later dune book. You would despise it.
You should at least try N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy. I couldn't put it down. It's about a pantheon of gods who have been enslaved by the royal family of an empire. The character work is amazing for the gods and the humans along with the world building.
He did and he didn't like it
He already tried it, glad somebody enjoyed that crap.
No need to be so mean. Plus, I've never seen him mention this other trilogy.
@@lissavanhouten6628 Nobody is being mean you are just hyper sensitive and protective of things you enjoy.
conan/howard books are good if you are eleven or twelve years old
How dare you put The Dark Tower in F!!! 😂😂😂😂
That pisses me off too has he read wizard and glass and drawing of three?
@@Gamin-yyd I read the first two.
I cant stand the characters in the broken and bound, all the characters are so emotional. Dan is the character i like the most, hate calen
finally, someone who agrees with my view on Red Rising, though I think the first one is the best of the 3.
I found it very YA. 🤷♀️
very much so
10:00 I sympathize. The Conna fans I've encountered are also obnoxious to some reasons. They often appear to be very pretension and condescending toward fans of more 'modern' fantasy.