Farseer Trilogy

Oh, boy. The Fool is one of my favorite characters in fiction and poor, poor Fitz. I picked the original series up on a recommendation from a college friend. I went in thinking I was too old for a "YA Fantasy" book to make my heart ache. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Took me right back to bawling over Feist's Riftwar Saga as a young teen.

Farseer trilogy, by Robin Hobb. I often read fantasy fiction and someone recommended Hobb for having a joker/fool character along the lines of Wit in Sanderson's Cosmere universe. Well, it turns out Hobb is brutal when it comes to writing stories that destroy people. I finished the trilogy, but I was more impacted by it than any other work of fiction I've read in years.

The Ego and its Own, by Max Stirner. The Open Society and its Enemies, by Karl Popper. The Illuminatus! trilogy. Robin Hobb books (with special mention of the farseer trilogy), Neal Stephenson, Alan Moore, Terry Pratchett.