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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8493668" data-attributes="member: 6871736">The Forgotten Realms novels I consider to be the best of the best—from the first fifteen years or so of the setting's novel line (I've been reading most of them in chronological order for a few years now):Azure Bonds, The Wyvern's Spur.Elfshadow, Elfsong, Silver Shadows.Daughter of the Drow, Tangled Webs.Elminster: The Making of a Mage.Crypt of the Shadowking.The Ring of Winter.War in Tethyr.The Shadow Stone.Shadow's Witness.The City of Ravens.Of these, I would go to bat for the first five listed as superior pulp entertainment, with the rest being merely enjoyable and competently made.That's not to say the dozens of other FR novels I've read were all bad—some certainly were, but most were at least passable or better. The ones I've listed here are the ones that I think might have a chance of persuading a skeptical observer that there's some value there.</blockquote>