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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...

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,...

Top 25 Best Fantasy Audiobooks

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...

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...

The Best of the Dresden Clones

The Best of the Dresden Clones

All these books are in some way similar to The Dresden Files while still being completely unique.  Butcher's Dresden seemingly created an entire subgenre of Urban Fantasy -- one of...

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 Dragon Fantasy Books

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...

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...

Beginner Fantasy Books

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 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 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...

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...

Top 25 Paranormal Romance Books

Top 25 Paranormal Romance Books

Bare chests and muscles. Tattoos and fangs. Bad boys and shapeshifters. Paranormal romance is fantasy heavy petting lite. It's the genre millions of people turn to when they're looking for...

Top 25 Paranormal Fantasy Books

Top 25 Paranormal Fantasy Books

Bare chests and muscles. Tattoos and fangs. Bad boys and shapeshifters. Paranormal romance is fantasy heavy petting lite. It's the genre millions of people turn to when they're looking for...

Best Non-English Fantasy Books

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...

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 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...

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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Night Watch

Night Watch

The origin story of one of fantasy's move loved characters, Sam Vimes and arguably the best Pratchett book out of the entire Discworld canon.  There is always an underlying rage...

Lukyanenko, Sergei
The Crossing Of Ingo

The Crossing Of Ingo

The breathtaking conclusion to the critically-acclaimed Ingo series, by prize-winning novelist Helen Dunmore. Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo...

Dunmore, Helen
The Stone In The Skull: The Lotus Kingdoms, Book One

The Stone In The Skull: The Lotus Kingdoms, Book One

Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of the Eternal Sky with a brand new trilogy.Best SFF Books 2017―The GuardianKirkus Best Science Fiction and...

Bear, Elizabeth
Conan The Barbarian

Conan The Barbarian

When someone mentions Sword and Sorcery, what comes to mind is Conan the Barbarian, arguably the greatest representation of the genre. It’s true that the story of Conan has been...

Howard, Robert E.
A Game Of Thrones

A Game Of Thrones

Because, duh, it was going to be on here somewhere. I almost feel as if it isn't worth writing an entry on this one, because everyone knows it so well,...

Martin, George R. R.
Tigana

Tigana

Tigana is both a sweeping epic and a look into human nature – flaws and all. The characters and plot exist in an area of grey where good and evil...

Kay, Guy Gavriel
Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

Caught up in the politics of the vampire world, psychic Sookie Stackhouse learns that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human in this novel in the...

Harris, Charlaine
Destiny: Child Of The Sky

Destiny: Child Of The Sky

A FELLOWSHIP OF THREE To stand against the F'dor-- an ancient, vile being intent on destroying the world-- a fellowship has been forged: Rhapsody, a Singer of great talent and...

Haydon, Elizabeth
Equilibrium

Equilibrium

Clearly drawing influence from George Orwell's famous dystopian novel 1984, Equilibrium is a thought-provoking look at a dystopian future where human emotion is repressed in exchange for peace and harmony....

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City Of Ruin

City Of Ruin

City of Ruin is the second book in Mark Charan Newton's Legends of the Red Sun fantasy series. Villiren is a city of sin that's being torn apart from the...

Newton, Mark Charan
Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser

Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are the titular characters of a collection of sword-and-sorcery stories. Originally they were created as more human counterpoints to larger than life characters like Tarzan...

Leiber, Fritz
Child Of Prophecy

Child Of Prophecy

Magic is fading... and the ways of Man are driving the Old Ones to the West, beyond the ken of humankind. The ancient groves are being destroyed, and if nothing...

Marillier, Juliet
Dragon Champion

Dragon Champion

Unlike the other entries on this list, Age of Fire actually stars dragons as the characters. It’s an interesting twist with the story being solely about dragons. This carries on...

Knight, E.e.
I Am Legend

I Am Legend

This is the story that influenced the zombie genre and popularized the concept of a worldwide zombie apocalypse. Robert Neville is the last human on the earth. He is immune...

Matheson, Richard
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
The Desert Spear

The Desert Spear

"Books with Bad Sequels" and for part of the book due to the absolute ridicious plot threads and characters the Terribly Written Books category.I absolutely loved the first book --...

Brett, Peter V.
Lord Loss

Lord Loss

This is the opening to a 10-book series for young adults, and holy shit is it heavy for something supposedly aimed at young people. It's urban dark fantasy rather than...

Shan, Darren
Watership Down: A Novel

Watership Down: A Novel

Yes, we're talking about that book about bunnies. No, we haven't lost our minds. Take note: This isn't a children's book, despite it being about fluffy animals. If you've read...

Adams, Richard
Going Postal

Going Postal

Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be...

Pratchett, Terry
Tricked

Tricked

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the fourth novel of the Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan must pay his debts to cunning trickster god Coyote, a task that...

Hearne, Kevin

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