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Great Fantasy Books

Great Fantasy Books

This list is simply a list of great fantasy books. And by great, I mean books that nearly but didn't quite make the Top 100 Fantasy List. Likely, you'll some...

Best of the Tolkien Clones

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...

Best Fantasy Books of 2016

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...

Good Fantasy Reads

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...

The Worst Fantasy Books Ever

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 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 Early Modern Fantasy Books (1930's to 1950's)

Best Early Modern Fantasy Books (1930's to 1950's)

After the development of Fantasy in the early part of the 20th century, it truly seemed like the genre was moving towards a golden age. Then the real world became...

World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel

World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel

Each year the World Fantasy Convention awards the years best English language fantasy fiction with the respected World Fantasy Awards prize.The World Fantasy Awards are, together with the Hugo and...

Top 25 Best Pre-Tolkein Fantasy Books

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...

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...

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The Bitter Kingdom

The Bitter Kingdom

The New York Times‒best-selling series! "Carson joins the ranks of writers like Kristin Cashore, Megan Whalen Turner, and Tamora Pierce as one of YA's best writers of high fantasy."—Locus In...

Carson, Rae
Deep Wizardry

Deep Wizardry

A pact with a whale wizard named S'reee could mean danger for thirteen-year-old Nita when she and her partner, Kit, acquire magical powers after rescuing the creature.

Duane, Diane
Shield of Sparrows

Shield of Sparrows

#1 on the New York Times Bestseller list Now in development as a feature film with Amazon MGM Studios, with John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad attached to write the script!...

Perry, Devney
The Evernight Series

The Evernight Series

A combination of Mean Girls and Vampire Academy. Bianca is forced by her parents to attend a private school. What her parents don’t realize is that this private school is...

Gray, Claudia
Morning Star

Morning Star

The final volume in Pierce Brown's mega popular Red Rising trilogy. This book came out February 2016; it managed to impress us.So far, this has been our favorite read of...

Brown, Pierce
The Iron Tower Trilogy

The Iron Tower Trilogy

No saving this one from the fall. Unashamedly put in the Terribly Written Books category.A shameless rip from Tolkien. And I mean a really, really, really shameless rip. If Terry...

Mckiernan, Dennis L.
Dance With A Vampire

Dance With A Vampire

There's a new vampire in town. His name is Valentine Maxwell. Goth-girl Raven knows this latest intruder can only mean trouble—he's the younger sibling of two vampires she fought to...

Schreiber, Ellen
Deus Ex

Deus Ex

Perhaps my favorite game of all time. What can I say about Deus Ex, other than it did everything right. This game is old, like mega-over-a-decade-old, but it's still one...

Pc,
Beauty

Beauty

This rendition of the classic fairytale inspired the Disney cartoon of the 90's, and the live action film in 2017. The fairytale I grew up with featured the typical ugly,...

Mckinley, Robin
The Exiled Queen

The Exiled Queen

Haunted by the loss of his mother and sister, Han Alister journeys south to begin his schooling at Mystwerk House in Oden’s Ford. But leaving the Fells doesn’t mean that...

Chima, Cinda Williams
The Last Hero

The Last Hero

Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to...

Pratchett, Terry
The Last Watch

The Last Watch

The fourth novel in the blockbuster series from one of Russia's most popular authors, Last Watch returns us to the hyperimaginative world of Sergei Lukyanenko, where the endless battle between...

Lukyanenko, Sergei
Cold Days

Cold Days

After a brief interlude in the afterlife, Harry Dresden’s new job makes him wonder if death was really all that bad in this novel in the #1 New York Times...

Butcher, Jim
Choosen

Choosen

**Updated to include the short story Emergence.** Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase she moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five year...

Jacka, Benedict
Libriomancer

Libriomancer

Many feel a sense of wonder when they’re absorbed in a novel, but in Libromancerthis feelingtakes on a physical form. Mages are able to reach into works of fiction and...

Hines, Jim C.
The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

Told from the perspective of the unicorn herself, this novel is as much satire as it is fairytale. The journey begins when she overhears a conversation insinuating that the unicorns...

Beagle, Peter S.
The Chronicles Of Prydain

The Chronicles Of Prydain

Alexander's Wales-inspired epic fantasy offers little in the way of originality when compared to the novels of today. It's a simple tale of Taran, a pig farmer who has always...

Alexander, Lloyd
Half A King

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...

Abercrombie, Joe
Conan The Free Lance

Conan The Free Lance

Dimma, the Mist Mage, knows nothing of Conan, but the vile necromancer's plans require his death. Thayla, beautiful Queen of the Pili, would rather take Conan to her bed, but...

Howard, Robert E.
Hexed

Hexed

Popular cheerleader Indigo Blackwood, sixteen, finds her perfect life threatened when Bishop, a tattooed, leather-clad stranger, tells her the family Bible just stolen from the attic of her mother's occult...

Hearne, Kevin

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