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Best Fantasy Books of 2015

Best Fantasy Books of 2015

The year 2015 was a landmark moment for fantasy literature, delivering a dazzling array of novels that captured the imaginations of readers around the world. From sweeping epic sagas and...

Best Fantasy Books of 2014

Best Fantasy Books of 2014

The year 2015 was a landmark moment for fantasy literature, delivering a dazzling array of novels that captured the imaginations of readers around the world. From sweeping epic sagas and...

Best Romance Fantasy in 2025

Best Romance Fantasy in 2025

Dive into 2025’s most spellbinding romantasy — where love and magic collide! This curated list celebrates the Readers’ Favorite Romantasy books from the Goodreads Choice Awards, showcasing stories that blend...

Most Influential Fantasy Books

Most Influential Fantasy Books

An alternate "Best Fantasy Books List" for those of you who prefer the more "high brow" fantasy books.You might call this list the fantasy books that have influenced the genre...

Top 25 Best Indie Fantasy Books

Top 25 Best Indie Fantasy Books

Welcome to our new, and long-overdue list: The Best Indie Fantasy Books. It's been years in the making, but I've finally put my best efforts into giving a good guide...

Best Fantasy Books You've Never Read

Best Fantasy Books You've Never Read

Most astute fantasy readers have heard about the hyped-up authors – those authors who are often touted as the “best” in a genre; they are quite often the first fantasy...

Top 25 Fantasy Books for Women

Top 25 Fantasy Books for Women

Some women want fantasy books that are different from those for men. Now, I know many women read the same fantasy as the boys and are fine with that, but...

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Heart Of Veridon

Heart Of Veridon

The city of Veridon is one built of machinery; the city is built on technology which often floats down the river, with the pieces being salvaged. The city itself cannot...

Akers, Tim
Forests Of The Heart

Forests Of The Heart

In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...only...

Lint, Charles De
Agents Of Light And Darkness

Agents Of Light And Darkness

“Simon Green’s Nightside is a macabre and thoroughly entertaining world.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher John Taylor works in the Nightside—the gaudy, neon noir, secret heart of London,...

Green, Simon R.
War Of Light And Shadow

War Of Light And Shadow

This series is epic in every sense of the word. It takes place over many generations, its world is complex and detailed and the quest at the heart of the...

Wurts, Janny
Book Of A Thousand Days

Book Of A Thousand Days

Based on an obscure Grimm fairytale, Hale weaves her magic here. If you've ever read original Grimm in all its glory, you know it's pretty harsh and cold. She stays...

Hale, Shannon
Alchemy of Secrets

Alchemy of Secrets

The HOTLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel by the beloved, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series: a contemporary fantasy kicking off...

Garber, Stephanie
House Of Chains

House Of Chains

In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for...

Erikson, Steven
The Fortress Of The Pearl

The Fortress Of The Pearl

This fantasy story tells of Elric, the albino warrior prince, who quests in search of the mysterious Fortress of the Pearl, wherein is hidden the prized pearl at the heart...

Moorcock, Michael
Blood Of Amber

Blood Of Amber

Pursued by a fiendish enemy, Merle must battle through an intricate web of vengeane and murder that threatens more than the San Francisco Bay area. For Merle Corey of California...

Zelazny, Roger
Words Of Radiance

Words Of Radiance

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began. Expected...

Sanderson, Brandon
First King Of Shannara

First King Of Shannara

Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from...

Brooks, Terry
Mountain Of Black Glass

Mountain Of Black Glass

The third book in New York Times-bestselling author Tad Williams's cyberpunk fantasy series • “Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists.” ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods...

Williams, Tad
The Citadel Of The Autarch

The Citadel Of The Autarch

Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, a journey as fraught with peril as it is with wonder. Exiled from his guild he is an...

Wolfe, Gene
The Lord Of The Rings

The Lord Of The Rings

Before J.R.R. Tolkein, there really was no "fantasy" genre of literature at all. All dragons, dwarves, and wizards belonged to folklore and fairy tales of former centuries. We can't really...

Tolkien, J.r.r.
Last Arguments Of Kings

Last Arguments Of Kings

The final novel in the First Law Trilogy by New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him -- but it's going to...

Abercrombie, Joe
The Lion: Son of the Forest: Warhammer 40,000

The Lion: Son of the Forest: Warhammer 40,000

he Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and Primarch of the Dark Angels. Awakened. Returned. And yet...lost.LISTEN TO IT BECAUSEWitness the Emperor’s First Son make his dramatic return...

Brooks, Mike
The Bloody Crown Of Conan

The Bloody Crown Of Conan

In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery—and brought to life one of fantasy’s boldest and...

Howard, Robert E.
The Last Argument Of Kings

The Last Argument Of Kings

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of...

Abercrombie, Joe
Avilion

Avilion

At the heart of Ryhope Wood, Steven and the mythago Guiwenneth live in the ruins of a Roman villa close to a haunted fortress from the Iron Age, from which...

Holdstock, Robert
The Emperor's Knife

The Emperor's Knife

There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that attacks young and old, rich and poor alike. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until...

Williams, Mazarkis

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