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<blockquote data-quote="ART!" data-source="post: 8112618" data-attributes="member: 79926"><p>I'm reading it now, and having read Heaney's and others', this one is as good as any of them.</p><p></p><p>I think it's <em>John Carter of Mars</em> but sort of reversed, liberated, and with cool medical and historical details. So basically it's good pulp historical romance.</p><p></p><p>These kinds of lists are almost always weighted toward recent successes, which is annoying. It seems sort of lazy. </p><p></p><p>And there's so many ways to rate this: best <em>written,</em> most influential, most diverse, etc. Any list is going to have some bias.</p><p></p><p>I'm okay if some good, recent, more-diverse stuff squeezes out some historical landmarks whose influence could maybe be represented by something "just as good or better" that's still included.</p><p></p><p>I was wondering what the best-<em>selling</em> fantasy books/series of all time were, and <a href="https://moneyinc.com/best-selling-fantasy-books-of-all-time/" target="_blank">found this</a>. Even this, though, includes things which I think a lot of us would not put in the same genre as LOTR, for instance. Also, some of these are very long series, so it doesn't seem fair to rank them with works that have only one volume...but then of course <em>The Hobbit</em> is #2, so...</p><p></p><p>From best-selling to less-best-selling, by # of copies sold:</p><p>Harry Potter series</p><p>LOTR</p><p>The Hobbit</p><p>The Little Prince</p><p>Narnia </p><p>Twilight</p><p>Vampire Chronicles</p><p>Wheel of Time </p><p>Discworld </p><p>ASoI&F </p><p>Watership Down</p><p>Shadowhunter </p><p>Inheritance </p><p>The Dark Tower</p><p>The Wind in the Willows</p><p>Outlander</p><p>Sword of Truth </p><p>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</p><p>Artemis Fowl </p><p>Shannara </p><p></p><p>Looking for some other best-of fantasy lists online, they all seem skewed in their own ways, and many of them include science fiction. None that I looked at included Conan or Elric stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ART!, post: 8112618, member: 79926"] I'm reading it now, and having read Heaney's and others', this one is as good as any of them. I think it's [I]John Carter of Mars[/I] but sort of reversed, liberated, and with cool medical and historical details. So basically it's good pulp historical romance. These kinds of lists are almost always weighted toward recent successes, which is annoying. It seems sort of lazy. And there's so many ways to rate this: best [I]written,[/I] most influential, most diverse, etc. Any list is going to have some bias. I'm okay if some good, recent, more-diverse stuff squeezes out some historical landmarks whose influence could maybe be represented by something "just as good or better" that's still included. I was wondering what the best-[I]selling[/I] fantasy books/series of all time were, and [URL='https://moneyinc.com/best-selling-fantasy-books-of-all-time/']found this[/URL]. Even this, though, includes things which I think a lot of us would not put in the same genre as LOTR, for instance. Also, some of these are very long series, so it doesn't seem fair to rank them with works that have only one volume...but then of course [I]The Hobbit[/I] is #2, so... From best-selling to less-best-selling, by # of copies sold: Harry Potter series LOTR The Hobbit The Little Prince Narnia Twilight Vampire Chronicles Wheel of Time Discworld ASoI&F Watership Down Shadowhunter Inheritance The Dark Tower The Wind in the Willows Outlander Sword of Truth Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Artemis Fowl Shannara Looking for some other best-of fantasy lists online, they all seem skewed in their own ways, and many of them include science fiction. None that I looked at included Conan or Elric stuff. [/QUOTE]
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