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Best Literary Fantasy Books

Best Literary Fantasy Books

If you're tired of those same old boy villager finds magic sword / talisman / super power, meets a company of sidekicks (with the requisite princess in disguise and old...

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...

Best Asian Fantasy Books

Best Asian Fantasy Books

So you like fantasy with martial arts, swords, ninjas, or just something different that’s not set in the same old ‘knights, lords, and wizards duking it out in some generic...

Best Sellers in Sword & Sorcery Fantasy

Best Sellers in Sword & Sorcery Fantasy

Sword and sorcery fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literature and media that focuses on action-packed adventures featuring sword-wielding heroes, mystical elements, and a gritty, often dark tone. It originated...

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...

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Wizard And Glass

Wizard And Glass

Roland the gunslinger and his crew barely escape one world only to slip into another. It is in this other world that Roland relates to his crew a twisted and...

King, Stephen
The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower

"The Dark Tower" is a series of books by Stephen King that blends elements of multiple genres, including horror, western, fantasy, and science fiction. The series follows the quest of...

King, Stephen
Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz

Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz

Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz! A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb...

Baum, L. Frank
The Road To Oz

The Road To Oz

Dorothy and Toto are off again on an exciting adventure down The Road to Oz! In order to help the lovable, ever-wandering Shaggy Man, Dorothy and Toto must journey through...

Baum, L. Frank
The Emerald City Of Oz

The Emerald City Of Oz

For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the...

Baum, L. Frank
The Sword Of Truth

The Sword Of Truth

Most would argue that this series gets worse with every addition. But Wizard's First Rule is good enough to get the series included on the list. It's probably more of...

Goodkind, Terry
The Sword In The Stone

The Sword In The Stone

Instead of picking up the story of King Arthur from the day when young Art pulls the sword from the stone, T.H. White gazes back to the innocent childhood of...

White, T. H.
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.
Storm Front

Storm Front

Harry Dresden is a wizard. He has decided to use his power to solve minor crimes to make a living, so he opens up his own private eye firm, the...

Butcher, Jim
The Demon King

The Demon King

Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and...

Chima, Cinda Williams
The Bard’s Tale

The Bard’s Tale

We've called many of the games on this list classics, but none of them go quite so far back as The Bard's Tale. It was one of the very first...

Entertainment, Inxile
Foxglove Summer

Foxglove Summer

When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved.

Aaronovitch, Ben
Magyk

Magyk

The first book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary...

Zugy, Angie Sage And Mark
The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic

The side-splitting sequel to The Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic by New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett takes readers on another offbeat journey with bumbling wizard Rincewind...

Pratchett, Terry
Glinda Of Oz

Glinda Of Oz

Peace, prosperity, and happiness are the rule in the marvelous Land of Oz, but in a faraway corner of this magical domain dwell two tribes--the Flatheads and the Skeezers--who have...

Baum, L. Frank
Darke

Darke

Apprentice Septimus Heap must enter the Darke to save the Castle and the Wizard Tower from destruction, but he needs the help of many to battle the spreading Darkenesse.

Zugy, Angie Sage And Mark
1975: The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld

1975: The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld

Sybel is 16 years old, and alone in the world, orphaned by her princess mother and her wizard father. Her only goal in life is to maintain the magical animals...

Mckillip, Patricia A.
Peace Talks

Peace Talks

A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that...

Butcher, Jim
Rinkitink In Oz

Rinkitink In Oz

Meet Rinkitink--a kindhearted king who's as fat and jolly as old Saint Nick himself! When the jovial monarch sails for a visit to the island kingdom of Pingaree, he and...

Baum, L. Frank
The Lost Princess Of Oz

The Lost Princess Of Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz is the eleventh canonical Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 5, 1917, it begins with the disappearance of Princess Ozma, the...

Baum, L. Frank

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