What I remember:

All the cliches! Medieval sword and sorcery! A conversation with an armour maker about bust armour. A liberal use of sinister apostrophes in names to make them sound exotic and alien.

• Pawn of Prophecy
• Queen of Sorcery
• Magician’s Gambit
• Castle of Wizardry
• Enchanters’ Endgame

What I remember:

A white gold wedding ring. A main character stricken with leprosy. A fantasy world which felt very different to others and which may or may not have been real or symbolic or… just a dream. Replying to a request to tell a story with “I used to”, and being told that that was the saddest story of all.

• Lord Foul’s Bane
• The Illearth War
• The Power That Preserves
• The Wounded Land
• The One Tree
• White Gold Wielder

What I remember:

Necromancy, and a very different magic system. A school girl returning a dead bird from death to life. And… a disreputable dog?

• Sabriel
• Lirael
• Abhorsen
• Clariel
• Goldenhand

• Camber of Culdi
• Saint Camber
• Camber the Heretic

What I remember:

Oh look, another western European medieval setting – but with a level of detail that felt convincing to a tender and impressionable me! Two human races, one with magical powers (the Deryni), one without. Ritual.

What I remember:

A fairly traditional girl-from-lower-classes-discovered-to-have-massive-magical-gifts – so far, so Star Wars! Forbidden blood magics. A big twist at the end: is our big-bad actually our one-last-hope?

• The Magicians’ Guild
• The Novice
• The High Lord

What I remember:

A heavily Celtic style of world building. An immortal sorceror – was their magic called… dweomer? – and reincarnation as characters were born and reborn into different bodies and repeated echoes of previous lives…

• Dawnspell
• Darkspell
• Dragonspell
• Daggerspell

What I remember:

ALL the tropes, once again! Elves. Dwarves. Barbarians. What else would you expect from novels based on Dungeons and Dragons? Yet also given quite considerable charm: Tanis, Raistlin, Tika, Sturm… And the Draconians

• Dragons of Autumn Twilight
• Dragons of Winter Night
• Dragons of Spring Dawning