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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...

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The Truth

The Truth

This is not a journey that was undertaken for journalistic purposes. It is a painfully honest account of a life crisis that was forced on me by my own behavior...

Pratchett, Terry
A Swiftly Tilting Planet

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

In A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle, a companion to the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the...

L'engle, Madeleine
Assassin's Quest

Assassin's Quest

“An enthralling conclusion to this superb trilogy, displaying an exceptional combination of originality, magic, adventure, character, and drama.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his...

Hobb, Robin
Lirael

Lirael

Who is Lirael? Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her...

Nix, Garth
A Darkness At Sethanon

A Darkness At Sethanon

An evil wind blows through Midkemia. Dark legions have risen up to crush the Kingdom of the Isles and enslave it to dire magics. The final battle between Order and...

Feist, Raymond
The Source Of Magic

The Source Of Magic

A quest for the source of power threatened to doom the land of Xanth As a ruler of a country steeped in enchantment, King Trent was naturally curious about the...

Anthony, Piers
The Tale Of The Body Thief

The Tale Of The Body Thief

In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been...

Rice, Anne
The Eyes Of The Overworld

The Eyes Of The Overworld

In the dim far future of Earth, when the sun had shrunk to a small red disk in the dark sky and the race of man lived in isolated cities...

Vance, Jack
A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central...

Burgess, Anthony
Naamah's Blessing

Naamah's Blessing

Returning to Terre d'Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry,...

Carey, Jacqueline
The Ships Of Air

The Ships Of Air

Known for her lush, intricate worlds and complex characters, acclaimed author Martha Wells has delighted readers with her extraordinary fantasy novels of daring and wit. With The Wizard Hunters she...

Wells, Martha
Master Of The Cauldron

Master Of The Cauldron

Garric or-Reise was born the son of an innkeeper in Barca's Hamlet on the Isle of Haft, but through valor and determination became first a prince and then the Regent...

Drake, David
Foundation And Earth

Foundation And Earth

The fifth novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation,...

Asimov, Isaac
Bitter Seeds

Bitter Seeds

Bitter Seeds begins the Milkweed Triptych, a genre-bedning series set in an alternate version of WWII, where the Nazi's have created super-soldiers, and Britain responds by turning to warlocks and...

Tregillis, Ian
Tome Of The Undergates

Tome Of The Undergates

Another one of those grimdarks that borrows heavily from the Joe Abercrombie style of it. But, perhaps a bit much of it. If you like your world bleak and dirty...

Sykes, Sam
Devices And Desires

Devices And Desires

KJ Parker is a highly underrated author. His (or her...the author writes under a pseudonym) books are not the normal fantasy fare. Expect complicated characters, moral ambiguity, deep themes, and...

Parker, K. J.
The Ten Thousand

The Ten Thousand

Paul Kearny is one of the most underrated fantasy authors out there. He’s written a host of awesome military fantasy books and has been mostly ignored by the wider public...

Kearney, Paul
To Ride Hell's Chasm

To Ride Hell's Chasm

Wurts is one of the more underrated fantasy authors in the genre; she's written many book, but perhaps her most fun, most thrilling book is her stand alone To Ride...

Wurts, Janny
The Sea And Little Fishes

The Sea And Little Fishes

Little Fish has all sorts of fishy friends in his underwater home, but loves one of them most of all. On board pages.

Pratchett, Terry
Talion: Revenant

Talion: Revenant

List more than a few entries on this Top 100 list, Talion is a completely underrated fantasy book. Stackapole is a prolific author, writing everything from Star Wars novels, video...

Stackpole, Michael A.