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Some of my favorite books available on Kindle Unlimited:
They Mostly Come Out At Night and Where the Waters Turn Black by Benedict Patrick
Paternus by Dyrk Ashton
Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
The Half Killed by Quenby Olson
A Star Reckoners Lot by Darrell Drake
Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
Jaeth's Eye by K. S. Villoso
Here are some that I haven't read, but have heard mostly positive things about:
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
Revenant Winds by Mitchell Hogan
Ghosts of Tomorrow by Michael R Fletcher
A Warrior's Path by Davis Ashura
Valley of Embers by Steven Kelliher
Faithless by Graham Austin-King. He also has another series, The Riven Wyrde Saga, beginning with Fae - The Wild Hunt
Ours is the Storm by D. Thourson Palmer
Path of Man by Matt Moss
Threat of Madness by D.K. Holmberg
To Whatever End by Claire Frank
House of Blades by Will Wight
Path of Flames by Phil Tucker
The Woven Ring by M. D. Presley
Awaken Online: Catharsis by Travis Bagwell
Wolf of the North by Duncan M. Hamilton
Free the Darkness by Kel Kade
The Cycle of Arawn Trilogy by Edward W. Robinson
Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw
Benjamim Ashwood by AC Cobble
The Crimson Queen by Alec Hutson
The Queens Poinsoner by Jeff Wheeler
Stiger's Tigers by Marc Alan Edelheit
Rise of the Ranger by Philip C. Quaintrell
Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron
Devil's Night Dawning by Damien Black
Here are some older fantasy and sci-fi books that I enjoyed:
Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany - African inspired S&S by an extremely talented writer.
Witch World as well as other good books by Andre Norton
Swords and Deviltry The first volume of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Leiber - Many of the tropes of the rogue/thief came from this legendary duo created by Leiber. And it's worth noting that Leiber actually coined the term Sword & Sorcery. This collection contains 3 stories, two average origin stories for each character and the final story is the Hugo and Nebula winning novella "Ill Met in Lankhmar" detailing the first meeting of Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser.
Swords Against Darkness - A '70s S&S anthology. It has few stinkers, a few mediocre stories, and a some really good ones. Poul Anderson and Ramsey Campbell both have awesome stories in this anthology that are well worth checking out. For some reason, there were quite a few typos in this book, it was slightly distracting, but may have been fixed since I read it.
The Best of C. L. Moore by C. L. Moore. I read this earlier this year and I absolutely loved it. The collection is all sci-fi and one Jirel of Joiry story, which is her famous female Sword & Sorcery character. I was suprised by how well her sci-fi stories held up, often times pulp sci-fi doesn't age well, but this collection was great. Moore was married to the writer Henry Kuttner, and up until his death they wrote a bunch of great stories together. Both of their collections are basically collaborations, although I'm sure a few stories were done solo. His collection The Best of Henry Kuttner features the short story that the movie The Last Mimzy was based on. And, if you are into the original Twilight Zone TV series there is a story that was adapted into a memorable season 1 episode entitled "What You Need". Kuttner and Moore are two of my favorite pulp authors and I'm not even that into science fiction, but I really enjoy their work.
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The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes is chock full of witty banter and odd but lovable characters.
I don't think many (if any) of the big traditional publishing houses are on board. At least not yet.
I have heard good things about The Palace Job, but I have not actually read it myself.
I might as well recommend MY OWN one. It ended up in KU of its own accord, and will probably be there until I take it out of Select in a couple of months. Might as well check it out at the cost of nothing.
For the "ludicrous" side of that, maybe The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes.
For something D&Dish with a mega dungeon involved, maybe Mother of Learning. The magic is very D&D inspired. The dungeon is a major part of the plot, but not the main focus.
If you like graphic novels, I strongly recommend Tower of God. The series takes place inside a gigantic uber-dungeon with tons of adventurers and entire cities inside.
If you're in the mood for something a bit more light and fun, the Rogues of the Republic series- currently just The Palace Job and The Prophecy Con- are good.
They're about an Ocean's Eleven or Mission Impossible style team of thieves who include a unicorn and a prophesied chosen one (whose mission to save the world is an unrelated minor sub-plot to the first novel's main story about a heist). They're witty enough to border on pure comedy, but have some good, fast-paced action, and generally likable characters.
Perhaps these might be your thing. "Best" is subjective.... so you are subject to my opinion, heh. They ought to keep you warm for a bit.
Phil Tucker's Path of Flames series
Benedict Patrick's Yarnsworld series
Patrick Weekes' Rogues of the Republic series
Tad Williams, A Stark and Wormy Knight
Mike Shel's Aching God
Brett Herman's Chaos Trims My Beard
Evan Winters' Rage of Dragons
Krista D. Ball's The Demons We See was inspired by Dragon Age's Templars vs. Mages stuff, irrc.
There's also some stuff by actual Dragon Age writers, like Rogues of the Republic by Patrick Weeks.
For The Legend of Heroes, maybe Arcane Ascension. People go do dungeon crawls, get magic, then go to a magic academy. It's basically Trails of Cold Steel as a book, complete with the international politics and some gem-based magic. Some parallels with FE:3H as well.
I have this book I've been itching to read on my kindle list.
Thanks for the contest!