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 books you’ll spot when browsing for fantasy books, displayed prominently to catch your eye. Yes, by now most of us have heard that A Game of Thrones is good stuff; The Name of the Wind is a must-read fantasy, and the Malazan books are some of the best in the fantasy genre. But what about those lesser-known works of fantasy that are often overlooked but quite often just as good as the “well known” ones. For whatever reason, these are the books that have not received the attention they deserve – maybe because the book was released a couple of decades ago or the publisher did not have the marketing pull of some of big named ones. Or maybe it was that the public was not yet quite ready to receive that work as a more modern audience would. Whatever the reason, these are books and authors that are underrated and quite often ignored by most of the people who offer up fantasy book recommendations. You might also call this list the “best underrated fantasy books.”