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  • A Storm Of Swords

    "A Storm of Swords" is the third book in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, and it is widely regarded as one of the best books...

  • A Court Of Thorns And Roses Series

    For romantic fantasy fans, A Court of Thorns and Roses has it all: mysterious men, tension, romance, magic, and steamy sex scenes. By the end of book one Feyre is...

  • The Way Of Shadows

    The Night Angel trilogy is the story of a young, abused street-thief's transformation into a badass, magically-enhanced assassin. As one might expect from a story about learning to kill people...

  • Fledgling

    For a powerful vampire novel that tackles some of life’s important issues. Fledgling is not your standard vampire novel. So if you are expecting Twilight 7, don’t waste your time....

  • Harry Potter

    Most of you will have read it already, some of you will be sick of it, but you can't do a coming of age list without mentioning it. Harry Potter...

  • The Curse Of Chalion

    Lois McMaster Bujold is famous for her very atypical characters. She demonstrated this with her Miles Vorkosigan character, and she does the same thing with the Curse of Chalion. The...

  • Half A King

    If you don't know who Joe Abercrombie is, then shame on you. His other work is at the forefront of gritty fantasy (hint: you might spot him further down this...

  • The Book Of Joby

    Oh this is a clever one. The premise is that God and Satan make a bet, a bet they have made countless times. But this time, the cards are stacked...

  • The Book Of Lost Things

    This book makes the list for its unique focus on psychology inside of the sub-genre. Connolly tells the story of a child so lost in books and darkness that he...

  • The Book Of Merlyn

    T.H. White's masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that...

  • The Book Of Sword

    A great tale that doesn’t take itself too seriously and one that doesn’t get bogged down with the little details. This fantasy marks the heyday of the 60s and 70s...

  • The Book Of Atrix Wolfe

    Patricia McKillip is one of the most eloquent fantasy writers in modern fantasy. She combines great characters with epic adventures to create books imbued with mystery. Why it's on this...

  • The Book Of Kane

  • The Book Of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!\"Too few things in our world are worth a seventeen year wait: The Book of Dust is one of them.\" —The Washington PostPhilip Pullman returns to...

  • The Plague Of Swords

    Book 4 in the fantastically awesome Traitor's Son Cycle This series is currently my favorite new fantasy series and it's the next best thing since Malazan Book of the Fallen....

  • 1981: The Shadow Of The Torturer

    'The Shadow of the Torturer' is the first book in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun tetralogy. Narrated by Severian, a member of the Guild of Torturers, the...

  • Chronicle Of The Unhewn Throne

    One of the best fantasy books (this book and the sequel book too our best fantasy book of 2014 & 2015) is made even better by a perfect performance by...

  • The Chronicles Of Prydain

    You might call this a more focused, mini version of The Lord of the Rings and one that most of you will probably never have heard of. It's an older...

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  • The Worst Fantasy Books Ever

    This list contains the books you should generally, in my opinion, avoid. Some of the authors who published this crap should never have been published, while the others should be...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Top 25 Best Fantasy Books Since 2010

    Sometimes you don't want to wade through older books when picking out your next selection of best fantasy to read. As impacting and awesome as some of the older 'greats'...

  • Top 25 Best Fantasy Audiobooks

    Listening to an Audiobook is a popular way to 'read' a book these days -- especially for those who are always on the move and don't have time to site...

  • 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 Dragon Fantasy Books

    One subgenre that hasn't really formally been defined is “dragon fantasy” – those books in which dragons feature as a major part of the book, even being cast as one...

  • 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 Fantasy Mystery Books

    If you like mystery books and fantasy books, then you are going to love this list: a selection of fantasy books that double down as a mystery tale. Now mysteries...

  • 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...

  • Best Non-English Fantasy Books

    English literature has many great works of fantasy -- Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, The Chronicles of Narnia. But there's an entire body of literature -- and...

  • Best Literary Fantasy Books

    If you're tired of those same old boy villager finds magic sword / talisman / super power, meets a company of sidekicks (with the requisite princess in disguise and old...

  • Good Fantasy Reads

    This section lists fantasy books that are definitely worth reading. While they aren't the best of the best, these books are still very enjoyable. If you've read all the books...

  • Top 25 Best Children's Fantasy Books

    Fantasy books are great for younger children, because fantasy involves imagination and suspension of beliefs about reality -- a feat that children have a natural aptitude for. Fantasy literature is...

  • Fantasy Books That Will Blow Your Mind

    Occasionally, there are books that blow your mind; books that once you read, you never ever forget. Perhaps it’s because the startling new ideas in the book find fertile ground in...

  • The Best Fantasy Books of the 1960's

    The Swinging 60's. The Space Race. Martin Luther King JR. Vietnam. JFK. The Beetles Woodstock. Bonnie and Clyde. The Sound of Music. The Jungle Book. The 60's is an era...

  • 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...

  • Best Vampire Books

    We've completely updated this Vampire list for 2017, adding more books, updating the descriptions, and generally providing a deeper and more broad curation of the best the Vampire genre has to...

  • 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...

  • Best Fantasy Books of 2017

    We are mid-swing into the 2017 year and so far there's been quite a few standout fantasy book releases by some big-hitting authors. April, particularly, was a strong month with...