For a stranger kind of fantasy: Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake
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I feel like the Destroyermen series would fit a tv show format pretty well.
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Realm of the Elderlings.
Fitz, Althea, or the entire series as a whole with all the casts?
I feel like it'd be hard to adapt Robin Hobb's work, mostly because it'd be so easy to get the wrong tone. She has a very specific tone with her work, and I have no idea how one would work it for TV without making the entire series too light or too dark.
Technically a book series, warhammer 40k. It's being made too and I'm as excited as I'm afraid.
For the longest time, I wanted to see the Percy Jackson series adapted. (I'm not counting those movies!) Thankfully, it is and the first book/first season will be coming out in December. I hope they are able to expand to the entire universe that Riordan made. There are so many stories that would be great to see.
Becky chambers wayfinders
Locked tomb
Mark Lawrence's book of the ancestor.
The polity series would be really cool. It's a great universe with lots of options for storytelling (which the diversity of the books demonstrates). Starting with prador moon and then following the war with the prador for a while would be amazing to see.
If I had another choice I'd pick the Children of Time series.
The uplift war by David Brin
seveneves would make a banger series.
The Honor Harrington series. Would have to be 3d animated IMHO- One major component of the books is humans have received lifespan extension treatments which greatly slows down human aging. So you would need a ton of 18 to 25 year-old actors who can pull off playing 50 and 100-year-old characters.
Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series could be a fun series/world to adapt to a series, but also infuriating if they cut it short after two seasons.