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Best Stand Alone Fantasy Books

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

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...

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...

Top 25 Best Fantasy Books by Female Authors

Top 25 Best Fantasy Books by Female Authors

In the fantasy genre, female authors are notoriously underrepresented, and although a few of their names have become well-known, these are in the minority, especially when compared to their male...

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A Song Of Ice And Fire

A Song Of Ice And Fire

This series tops the Top 25 Best Fantasy Books, and with good reason and it's my pick for the best fantasy series. Martin shattered the fantasy mold and created something...

Martin, George R. R.
From Fear To Eternity

From Fear To Eternity

Newlywed vampires Sarah and Thierry de Bennicoeur have their whole undead lives ahead of them. And with Thierry's job as a consultant for the Ring sending them across the globe...

Rowen, Michelle
The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

A beautiful, beautiful tale that will haunt you for the rest of your life. It's a simple story with a hell of a lot of heart. There's a good reason...

Beagle, Peter S.
The Last Continent

The Last Continent

There's big trouble at the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's lone institute of higher learning. A professor is missing—and the one person who can find him is not only the most inept...

Pratchett, Terry
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
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 Last Battle

The Last Battle

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The incredible story of the unlikeliest battle of World War II, when a small group of American soldiers joined forces with German soldiers...

Lewis, C. S.
The Last Argument Of Kings

The Last Argument Of Kings

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of...

Abercrombie, Joe
The Last Four Things

The Last Four Things

Perhaps nowhere are the competing ideas of heaven and hell exhibited more clearly than in the dark and tormented soul of Thomas Cale. Betrayed by his beloved but still marked...

Hoffman, Paul
The Last Olympian

The Last Olympian

The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians...

Riordan, Rick
The Last Dragonlord

The Last Dragonlord

A breathtaking debut--an extraordinary draconic novel of magical intrigue and adventure. Sweeping readers along at a breakneck speed with breathtaking imagery and effortlessly readable prose, Joanne Bertin has created a...

Bertin, Joanne
The Last Battle

The Last Battle

The last battle is the greatest of all battles Narnia ... where lies breed fear ... where loyalty is tested ... where all hope seems lost. During the last days...

Lewis, C.s.
The Last Dragonlord

The Last Dragonlord

These are 100% fantasy romance and make no apologies about it. Sometimes you want subtle romance with a great plot and a cast of interesting characters. And sometimes, you want...

Bertin, Joanne
The Last Days

The Last Days

White House advisor Jon Bennett, his CIA partner Erin McCoy, and the Secretary of State head for the Middle East to negotiate a historic Arab-Israeli peace plan, but terrorists will...

Westerfeld, Scott
The Last Of Us

The Last Of Us

The prequel comics story to the beloved game from Naughty Dog, The Last of Us, which inspired the hit HBO series! Creative director Neil Druckmann teams with breakout comics star...

Various,
The Last Vampire

The Last Vampire

Vampire Henry Sturges returns in the highly anticipated sequel to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter-a sweeping, alternate history of twentieth-century America by New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith. THE LAST...

Pike, Christopher
The Last Vampire

The Last Vampire

If you've read Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and company take note, this is the novel you ’ve been looking for. It is in fact one of the best...

Pike, Christopher
The Last Mortal Bond

The Last Mortal Bond

This just came out in March and is one of the best fantasy books of 2016 and wraps up one of THE best fantasy series to come out the past...

Staveley, Brian

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