Request for Opinions re Fantasy Novels

[Look_a_Unicorn]

Hi everyone,
Here's the situation- my sister works in a smallish book store & has been put in charge of stocking the Fantasy section & she's asked me to make some recommendations.
I was hoping that ENWorld might be able to offer some suggestions as to what books you would recommend putting in stock. I can inform her of most of the current must-stock books (Jordan, GRRM, Hobbs, Fiest, Goodkind, etc) but I don't really have much of a clue about what new series have been released in the last year or so that are worth reading.
So has anyone picked up a book recently and been really happy with it?
Thanks

 

[CCamfield]

I wonder what the priorities are of the store? Sales of course are important, but a lot of the best books written weren't published in the last year. (I'm too tired right now, but I will try to think of recent books that I really enjoyed. Tomorrow.)

For perennial great books, you might try the thread "Fantasy and Sci-Fi favorites" which as I type this is on page 3. I don't agree with everyone's recommendations but I do with my own

The one book in my list which was published within the last year was Ilium, by Dan Simmons.

P.S. Locus magazine's website has a listing of the top-selling SF/fantasy novels, I believe.

 

[drothgery]

Probably the most important thing I'd recommend is keeping a pretty diverse section. Keep around some classics of the genre, and some things that were released last week; dark fantasy and very light-hearted works; multi-volume epics and 300-page standalones; young adult-targetted stuff and things you really don't want a twleve year old to read; quasi-Medeival European settings and anything different.

 

[Swoop109]

If her store currently does not carry this, "The Coming of Conan the Cimerian", it is my first recommedation.
A unedited collection of the first several Conan stories, illustrated, and includes excerpts from some of Howard's letters, story outlines and maps.
A couple of the bookstores in my area are currently goiing through their second orders of this book.

 

[Look_a_Unicorn]

Thanks to everyone who offered their advice, I've passed on a link to this thread to my sister. Maybe she'll become an ENWorlder as well

 

[Look_a_Unicorn]

Thanks to everyone who offered their advice, I've passed on a link to this thread to my sister. Maybe she'll become an ENWorlder as well