Curious: do you include Earthsea novels in that tier?
Maybe it was just me not trying hard enough at the time (a decade+ ago); I wanted to read LHoD but couldn't get my hands on it. I know it's now available as an ebook more easily, but I remain a bit peeved about how it was the one thing I couldn't buy legitimately at the time.
That combined with not enjoying Earthsea (I read two or three books?), makes me biased to keep reading any online recommendations but Le Guin.
Maybe it was just me not trying hard enough at the time (a decade+ ago); I wanted to read LHoD but couldn't get my hands on it. I know it's now available as an ebook more easily, but I remain a bit peeved about how it was the one thing I couldn't buy legitimately at the time.
That combined with not enjoying Earthsea (I read two or three books?), makes me biased to keep reading any online recommendations but Le Guin.