Forests

Can any or all of you recommend stories set in or featuring forests such as Fangorn, Mirkwood and Garroting Deep? Thanks

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

I've always liked the forest in Morgaine saga it's mostly in the third book, although there's nothing special about it, it's just well described.

The Wood in Uprooted is sentient. I thought this story was satisfactorily, and unusually, complex.

There is a spiritual forest called Cabeswater in The Raven Boys and its sequels.

Well, of course Midsummer Night's Dream by old William himself.
George Macdonald's Phantastes
A collection of fairy tales (Grimm, for instance) is great fun, and among the other archetypes are any number of enchanted forests.
Some of Charles de Lint's fantasy novels feature magic forests, esp. the earlier ones like Greenmantle and The Wild Wood.
I feel like I'm missing all kinds of things, but that's what comes to mind now.

To switch genres, there's the magical nonfiction book by Stephanie Kaza: The Attentive Heart: Conversations with Trees. A short quote might give a feeling: "As I come closer to meet the tree, I experience a tension of boundary. To greet the mystery of the Other requires a conscious taming of fear, a willingness to be present despite the barriers of difference. It is easy to follow distracting detours away from the actual meeting place of mystery. But I did not come wandering to be distracted or entertained by my own thoughts. I came to meet a foreigner, to remember my own foreignness. I reach out and touch the tree. Here is the actual mystery -- the contact zone of questioner and question."

The forest in The magicians and Mrs. Quent play quite a large role...

On the translated front, there's The Forest of Hours, by Kerstin Ekman and The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk.

Patricia McKillip writes some wonderful forests - In the forests of Serre, Winter rose and Solstice Wood spring to mind but most of her books have some woodland settings. Also Robin McKinley. The outlaws of Sherwood is an obvious one but also Spindle's End.

I recently picked up Woodwalker by Emily B. Martin and am very curious to try it.

Thanks for your suggestions, I will check them out!

For a foray into science fiction, I'd recommend The Color of Distance, set in an alien rain forest.

Charles De Lint's Moonheart, Greenmantle and Spiritwalk are all set in forests.

The World Fantasy Award trophy has been redesigned in the shape of a tree. The announcement included a fine listing of tree appearances in fantasy fiction:

Trees bestride fantasy literature, from Roger Zelazny’s The Chronicles of Amber to Robert Holdstock’s WFA-winning Mythago Wood cycle, C.S. Lewis’ Narnia chronicles to Michael Sullivan’s Age of Myth cycle, the godswoods of Westeros in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ents and Enid Blyton’s Magical Faraway Tree.

But not all trees are nurturing: it’s the treatment of a Chora sapling which begins a bloody war in Jordan’s books. Tolkien’s Mirkwood is as evil as its denizens and Weasels and Stoats rampage around Kenneth Grahame’s Wild Wood; J.K. Rowling’s Whomping Willow has terrified millions, while Patrick Rothfuss’ Cthaeh, lurk unseen in the branches of a giant tree in the fae realm. There’s the baobab tree in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree, the apple tree in The Wizard of Oz, and many more.

http://www.sfwa.org/2017/04/new-statuette-world-fantasy-award/

I've just started The queen of blood, in which human communities are built in the trees. It's very good so far.

Brian Aldiss's early novel Hothouse has a far-future Earth covered by a single giant baobab tree.