Night Watch

The origin story of one of fantasy's move loved characters, Sam Vimes and arguably the best Pratchett book out of the entire Discworld canon.  There is always an underlying rage to Pratchett's writing, a boiling anger at the injustice of the world (Neil Gaiman himself points this out in an essay). Night Watch is one of those books that seamlessly juxtaposes darkness and humor, using each of these to accentuate the other. This is one of Pratchett's best. And when nearly every novel is at the top, the best is the best indeed. Why it's a feel good fantasy: Because it's one of his best; and despite the darker humor of this book, there's a sort of gallows comfort you can find between the covers of a Pratchett novel even when you know the world is pretty fucked up, Pratchett elucidates it in such a way you can have a grand old laugh at the absurdity of being human.