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Best Feel Good Fantasy Books

Best Feel Good Fantasy Books

Tired of grim dark stories where the nastiness of humanity is gleefully celebrated; where heroes and villains are often one and the same? Want a fantasy where good things are celebrated,...

Best Sellers in Sword & Sorcery Fantasy

Best Sellers in Sword & Sorcery Fantasy

Sword and sorcery fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literature and media that focuses on action-packed adventures featuring sword-wielding heroes, mystical elements, and a gritty, often dark tone. It originated...

Top 25 Best Gritty Fantasy Books

Top 25 Best Gritty Fantasy Books

Fantasy books can transport us to bright, wondrous worlds filled with magic and heroism, where heroes always survive unscathed, and the villains are cartoonish. This list is not about those...

Best Grimdark Fantasy Books

Best Grimdark Fantasy Books

One of the more popular subgenres of Fantasy now (there’s debate as to whether it’s a legit subgenre or just an artistic category) but one can hardly argue its prevalence...

Top 50 Best Epic Fantasy

Top 50 Best Epic Fantasy

Epic fantasy is arguably the father of all fantasy subgenres. It's also the most popular fantasy genre, with hordes of new epic fantasy books being released each month. Unfortunately, the...

Best Anti-Hero Fantasy Books

Best Anti-Hero Fantasy Books

Tired of fantasy where the hero is always noble and good and the perfect gentleman? Want a hero that's a bit of a dick, occasionally selfish or maybe even a...

Vampire Books for Young Adults

Vampire Books for Young Adults

The interest in vampire fiction has reached a fever pitch and one of the most popular subgenres of fantasy has fast become the Paranormal Romance genre, which is stacked with...

Best Fantasy Series

Best Fantasy Series

Do you love those fantasy novels with many kingdoms, protagonists, politics, and cultures? Do you like the epic struggles between small bands of heroes against impossible evil? Do you eagerly...

Best Fantasy Books of the 70's

Best Fantasy Books of the 70's

The 70's saw us Afro hairstyle, the Me generation, the continuation of the Cold War, the end of the Vietnam war, and death of the hippy trail.  It was also...

Top 25 Best Fantasy Books

Top 25 Best Fantasy Books

This is a list of books that are the crème de la crème of the fantasy genre. I've carefully chosen the top 25 fantasy books from hundreds of series and...

Best Sword and Sorcery Books

Best Sword and Sorcery Books

Before I recommend the best sword and sorcery books, it's important that you, the reader, understand exactly what classic sword and sorcery really is. Sword & Sorcery is a complex...

Best Fantasy Books of 2014

Best Fantasy Books of 2014

These our our picks for the best fantasy books of 2014. 2014 was a phenomenal year for fantasy and there was a stack of highly anticipated book released by some of...

Top 25 Best Fantasy Books of the 90's

Top 25 Best Fantasy Books of the 90's

Ah the 90's. Bad fashion, bad hair and Nickelback.If fashion and hairstyles (and arguably music) took a hit, fantasy certainly did not. The 90's saw the emergence of some of...

Best LITRPG Books

Best LITRPG Books

LitRPG an emerging subgenre of Science Fiction & Fantasy and, arguably, the fastest growing new speclatutive fiction genre, if you look at the sheer number of LitRRPG indie fiction being...

Top 25 Best Heroic Fantasy Books

Top 25 Best Heroic Fantasy Books

Heroic Fantasy is perhaps the most iconic of its class. It carries the flagship heavyweights like The Lord of the Rings; hefty not only in size but in imagination. We...

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Heroes Die

Heroes Die

The Acts of Caine series takes adventure fantasy and drags it sixteen miles through the mud, and then tortures what's left. In a dystopian future, humanity has discovered a way...

Stover, Matthew Woodring
Heroes & Fools

Heroes & Fools

Presents a collection of stories centering on the Fifth Age, including "Boojum, Boojum," "The Road Home," "Much ado about Magic," and "Gone."

Mathias, M. R.
The Heroes

The Heroes

The title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, as Abercrombie himself describes it this way: "Three men. One battle. No heroes." It was designed to be a standalone novel, but is set...

Abercrombie, Joe
Hell's Heroes

Hell's Heroes

Bec, Kernel, and Grubbs gear up for the fight of their lives as the final battle between Earth and the hoardes of the Demonata draws near.

Shan, Darren
Quest For Lost Heroes

Quest For Lost Heroes

"Quest for Lost Heroes" by David Gemmell is an epic and exciting fantasy novel that follows a group of warriors as they embark on a perilous journey to rescue their...

Gemmell, David
A Land Fit For Heroes

A Land Fit For Heroes

Subversion gone over the edge is how you can describe Richard Morgan's anti-fantasy series A Land Fit For Heroes. Morgan writes some of the blackest grimdark you'll ever read and...

Morgan, Richard K.
The Shattered Crown

The Shattered Crown

Heroes must rise ...The King is dead. His daughter, untested and alone, now wears the Steel Crown. And a vast horde is steadily carving a bloody road south, hell-bent on...

Ford, Richard
Newton's Cannon

Newton's Cannon

A world where the heroes of science are literally the masters of the world. Enter Benjamin Franklin and Isaac Newton, masters of the new science of…magic? The basic premise to...

Keyes, J. Gregory
River Of Blue Fire

River Of Blue Fire

A group of unlikely heroes goes up against the ruthless Grail Brotherhood, who are exploiting Earth's children.

Williams, Tad
Legend

Legend

If you like stories about grand heroes who stand up for the downtrodden, who fight for a righteous cause, then Legend is a shining beacon of this sort of fantasy....

Gemmell, David
Kane

Kane

One of the original anti-heroes in the fantasy genre; together with the Conan stories by Howard, Wagner's Kane helped shape (even start) the Sword and Sorcery genre.Kane is arguably one...

Wagner, Karl Edward
A Conjuring Of Light: A Novel

A Conjuring Of Light: A Novel

Witness the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in the heart-stopping conclusion to V.E. Schwab’s New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic trilogy. *Kirkus\' Best Fiction of 2017*As darkness...

Schwab, V. E.
Redwall

Redwall

Action, sword fighting and adventures but with the heroes and villains of the tale mice, badgers, and other talking animals. Redwall is a fast-paced action series for kids that’s wonderfully...

Jacques, Brian
The Gate Of Gods

The Gate Of Gods

Tremaine Valiarde and a small, brave band of heroes ventured into a wondrous new realm on their desperate mission to save Ile-Rien from the conquering Gardier. Now, as a relentless...

Wells, Martha
Shadows Return

Shadows Return

With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies. But in a world of rivals and charmers,...

Flewelling, Lynn
Sandworms Of Dune

Sandworms Of Dune

As the no-ship Ithaca flees through space, the heroes of HUNTERS OF DUNE finally meet the Enemy who followed the violent fanatics, the Honored Matres, back to their universe. The...

Herbert, Frank
Blood Bound

Blood Bound

“Kick-ass were-coyote auto mechanic Mercedes Thompson” (Publishers Weekly) has leapt to the forefront of today’s urban fantasy heroes, thanks to bestselling author Patricia Briggs. Now, Mercy finds herself in the...

Briggs, Patricia
Age Of Swords: Book Two Of The Legends Of The First Empire

Age Of Swords: Book Two Of The Legends Of The First Empire

A Goodreads Choice Award Nomination for Best Fantasy Novel of 2017  The gods have been proven mortal and new heroes will arise as the battle continues in the sequel to...

Sullivan, Michael J.
The Dark Defiles

The Dark Defiles

The Dark Defiles is best of the series. Morgan built a fascinating world, dirt and all, and populated it will heroes that were also real people. Morgan dissects the idea...

Morgan, Richard
Devil Said Bang

Devil Said Bang

Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim—aka James Stark—is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-anti-heroes ever to kick serious butt on this or any other world or dimension. In his previous...

Kadrey, Richard

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