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  • What Lies Beyond the Veil (Of Flesh & Bone Series)

    Once, we’d worshipped them as Gods.For nearly 400 years, the Veil has protected us from the Fae of Alfheimr. In their absence, our lives have shifted from decadence and sin...

  • Salem's Lot

    Coming in at a close third, well-known thriller and fantasy author, Stephen King, shocked readers with another enthralling fantasy novel, inspired by Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’. In his 1975 novel, Salem’s...

  • The Shadow Of What Was Lost

    "Love The Wheel of Time? This is about to become your new favorite series." --B&N SF & Fantasy Blog A young man with forbidden magic finds himself drawn into an...

  • The Shadow Of What Was Lost

    Fans of the Wheel of Time, you've found your new Jordan in the form of Islington.The Shadow of What Was Lost has been the closest thing I've read to The...

  • Death And What Comes Next

    The first career-spanning collection of short fiction by Sir Terry Pratchett—one of the most beloved and bestselling writers of our time—A Blink of the Screen charts the development of Pratchett’s...

  • Through The Looking-glass And What Alice Found There

    In The Idiot, 27-year-old Prince Lyov Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after a long absence. He suffers from epilepsy (just like Dostoyevsky himself) and is prone to seizures, though they...

  • The Color Of Magic

    What would a list of best fantasy books be without mentioning Terry? Not that Brooks dude who wrote an entire series about glowing pebbles. The other one. The funny one....

  • Mortal Instruments

    What Twilight really should have been. Think of this as a more adult, more complex vision of Twilight. Basically, on every single level, this series supersedes Twilight.

  • Guards Guards

    What best list would be complete without throwing on something funny: a book that fully critiques the very archetype carrying the story forward. If you were to toss in Terry...

  • Contact

    What would happen if we were contacted by an alien intelligence? This movie presents the most realistic first contact scenario and its ramifications for human society I've yet seen.

  • The Truman Show

    What if your entire life was a scripted event and you were the unwitting star of the biggest reality TV show on earth? What's really disturbing about this movie is...

  • Peter Pan

    What can I say to introduce a character as renowned as Peter Pan? Originally Peter Pan was an ensemble character in "The Little White Bird". Eventually, Peter Pan grew up...

  • Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

    Say what you may, but on a list of fantasy books with female authors, J.K. Rowling, likely the most popular female fantasy author of all time, can hardly be left...

  • The Broken Sword

    The Broken Sword explores what happens when a human child is exchanged at birth and taken and raised by the elves. It is a solid bit of writing and a...

  • A Gathering Of Shadows

    If you like what Schwab did in her first book, A Darker Shade of Magic, then you'll definitely like what she does in the sequel. I had mixed feelings about...

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  • Best Fantasy Books of 2016

    If you look at what's being released by the Big Six publishers, small press publishers, not to mention the hordes of indie fantasy releases, then there would be hundreds (maybe...

  • Beginner Fantasy Books

    If you are new to the genre of fantasy, it can be confusing deciding what books to read. There are seemingly endless fantasy books -- most are bad, some are...

  • 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...

  • Best Urban Fantasy Books

    This is perhaps one of the more difficult sub-genres to place books in simply because it’s so open-ended in terms of what can be included. The one quintessential element of...

  • Best Young Adult Fantasy Books

    Young adult fantasy targets readers between the ages 12 to 18 and typically feature a young adult as the main character of the story. Because of the protagonist's age, coming-of-age...

  • 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 Romantic Fantasy Books

    Romance in fantasy is a common theme. But what differentiates romantic fantasy books as a subgenre is how romance is a major part of the plot and the complexity of...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Top 25 Best Pre-Tolkein Fantasy Books

    When writing any list detailing the best pre-Tolkien fantasy it is difficult, to say the least. I started creating this list quite easily...then the questions began: How do you determine what belongs...

  • Best Stand Alone Fantasy Books

    Most of the books listed on this website's top fantasy lists have been part of a series, either because of the financial incentive behind publishing multiple books in the same...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 Military Fantasy Books

    If you like fantasy with plenty of epic battles where the battle scenes and strategies are well-defined (you are immersed in the happenings on the battlefield), then this list of...

  • Best of the Tolkien Clones

    Tolkien is considered the founding father of the modern epic fantasy. Thus, it’s no surprise that many fantasy epics give a heavy nod to Tolkien, through some of the plot...

  • The Best Sci-Fi Movies

    The Sci-Fi genre is arguably one of the most exciting in the film industry. The freedom of Sci-Fi allows almost endless subject matter possibilities. Hence, Science Fiction movies, unlike other...

  • Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies That Make You Think

    You want to find those science fiction movies that make you think? I'm not talking about those over-the-top action flicks full of force powers, wookies, and Terminators. I'm talking about...

  • 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...