I’m signed up to Imgur Secret Santa and my match has listed these authors I have never read:
Patrick Rothfuss
Samantha Irby
Robin Hobb
So I don’t want to get her a book she already has. Any suggestions for another author they’d like based on these three? I’m guessing fantasy and/or comedy?
She put “millenniel” in her bio so I’m assuming she’s already read the big name fantasy classics – LOTR, WoT, GoT, Witcher, etc.
by MelbaTotes
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Rothfuss and Hobb are fantasy. Not sure about Irby. You could get her the terrific fantasy trilogy Winternight by Katherine Arden, starting with The Bear and The Nightingale.
Blurb: “Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil.
Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring. And indeed, misfortune begins to stalk the village.
But Vasya’s stepmother only grows harsher, determined to remake the village to her liking and to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for marriage or a convent. As the village’s defenses weaken and evil from the forest creeps nearer, Vasilisa must call upon dangerous gifts she has long concealed—to protect her family from a threat sprung to life from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
The Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik and the Tamir triad by Lynn Flewelling for fantasy (along with Katherine Arden from a previous comment).
For books like Samantha Irby, I have enjoyed R. Eric Thomas and Zach Zimmerman for queer personal comedic essay collections.