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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...

Best Fantasy Books of 2018

Best Fantasy Books of 2018

The finest works of fantasy literature have the ability to transport readers to distant realms, such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth or Homer’s ancient Greece. In 2018, avid readers of fantasy...

Best Anti-Hero Fantasy Books

Best Anti-Hero Fantasy Books

Tired of fantasy where the hero is always noble and good and the perfect gentleman? Want a hero that's a bit of a dick, occasionally selfish or maybe even a...

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...

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...

The Best Sci-Fi Movies

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...

Best Fantasy Books of the 70's

Best Fantasy Books of the 70's

The 70's saw us Afro hairstyle, the Me generation, the continuation of the Cold War, the end of the Vietnam war, and death of the hippy trail.  It was also...

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...

The Best Fantasy Books of the 1960's

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 of the 80's

Top 25 Fantasy Books of the 80's

The 80s wasn't just a period of Hammertime(!) and big hair. It was also a revolutionary decade for fantasy. a revolution in the marketplace that helped make fantasy the pop...

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...

Top 100 Fantasy Books

Top 100 Fantasy Books

This list continues directly from where  the Top 25 Best Fantasy List ends, starting from #26 and ending at #100 (yes, I know the list shows #1, but 1 = 26).Frankly, there are...

Top 25 Best Fantasy Books Since 2010

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

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...

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 Fantasy Games with a Story

Best Fantasy Games with a Story

There are plenty of Fantasy and Science Fiction video games out there. Here is my list of the Best Fantasy Games ever. These games all range from first person shooters...

Best Sci-Fi Games with a Story

Best Sci-Fi Games with a Story

Are you a science fiction fan who loves video games with a rich story? There are a gazillion sci-fi themed games out there, but few of them actually deliver a...

World Fantasy Award Winners

World Fantasy Award Winners

A list of all the books that have won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, from the first (1975) to the newest 2014.The award is given out for the...

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 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...

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The Kingdoms And The Elves Of The Reaches Ii

The Kingdoms And The Elves Of The Reaches Ii

"Riveting. Well-written. A must read. Reminds me of the best of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Paolini, and George R.R. Martin." -- Emily Asimov, author of Torn. An epic adventure...

Stanek, Robert
The Kingdoms And The Elves Of The Reaches Iii

The Kingdoms And The Elves Of The Reaches Iii

The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches series is a reader favorite, also recommended by The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves and Fairies, The Ancient Art of Faery Magick...

Stanek, Robert
The Kingdoms And The Elves Of The Reaches Iv

The Kingdoms And The Elves Of The Reaches Iv

The #1 bestselling series finally back in print for the 20th Anniversary has been translated into 12 languages and sold over 5 million copies worldwide! Vilmos finds himself lost to...

Stanek, Robert
The Bugville Critters Explore The Solar System

The Bugville Critters Explore The Solar System

Robert Stanek, the author of more than 75 books for young people and adults, including Journey Beyond the Beyond and The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches, has selected...

Stanek, Robert
The Bugville Critters Go To Camp

The Bugville Critters Go To Camp

Go to Camp is the 20th book in Robert Stanek's Bugville Critters--ten years in the making first released in audio and now available in print for the first time. Robert...

Stanek, Robert
The Wizard And The Warlord

The Wizard And The Warlord

This volume brings the elves, dwarves, giants, and the dragons into the story again as our heroes, led by High King Mikahl and the great wizard Hyden Hawk, are forced...

Mathias, M. R.
The Silver Dwarf

The Silver Dwarf

Ben's double life continues at the Royal Institute of Magic. To most, he's a talented apprentice and an exceptional spellshooter, but Ben is also a Guardian, responsible for uniting Elizabeth's...

Kloss, Victor
The Witcher

The Witcher

This best-selling series imported from Poland is the foundation for the popular monster-hunting video games of the same name, and a card game is soon to follow suit (beta came...

Sapowski, Andrzej
Threads Of Malice

Threads Of Malice

This is the second book in Jones' series, and the book has a thriller edge to it. At the outermost regions of the kingdom, young men are going missing –...

Jones, Tamara Siler
The Riyria Chronicles

The Riyria Chronicles

Michael J. Sullivan's Ryria series is one of the highest rated in fantasy, and for good reason. His books have sold over one million copies in English and thousands more...

Facs, Michael J Sullivan Md
The Born Queen

The Born Queen

In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened...

Keyes, Greg
The Fall Of Dragons

The Fall Of Dragons

The blood-thirsty, epic Traitor Son Cycle comes to its gripping conclusion in this fifth and final book.In the climax of the Traitor Son Cycle, the allied armies of the Wild...

Cameron, Miles
The Knight and the Moth

The Knight and the Moth

'Dreamy prose, characters so vibrant they breathe on the page, a romance that smoulders, and a spellbinding world to get lost in. Prepare to meet your next obsession' Rebecca Ross,...

Gillig, Rachel
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
The Gods Return

The Gods Return

The Gods Return is the end of the Crown of the Isles trilogy and the final chapter in the Lord of the Isles.The Fortress of Glass began the tale of...

Drake, David
The Tyranny Of The Night

The Tyranny Of The Night

Another entry from the always awesome Glen Cook, a new almost mystical figure in the fantasy world with his genre defining work The Black Company which pretty much helped birth...

Cook, Glen
Glow (The Plated Prisoner Series Book 4)

Glow (The Plated Prisoner Series Book 4)

The Booktok hit: The Plated Prisoner Series continues in book 4. This dark adult fantasy romance is inspired by the myth of King Midas and the gold-touched woman who realizes...

Kennedy, Raven
The Chaos Balance

The Chaos Balance

L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Chaos Balance continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy. Nylan, the only man...

Jr., L. E. Modesitt
The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm

The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has...

Sanderson, Robert Jordan And Brandon
Stormbringer

Stormbringer

Elric is the ill-fated albino prince of a fading race who bears the sword Stormbringer in his journeys through the Young Kingdoms of man.This is the last book of the...

Moorcock, Michael

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