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Vampire Books for Adults
There’s a ton of vampire books currently on the market, but many of them are for Young Adults (even if quite a few, ahem, older women read them too). If...
Fantasy Books That Will Blow Your Mind
Occasionally, there are books that blow your mind; books that once you read, you never ever forget. Perhaps it’s because the startling new ideas in the book find fertile ground in...
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...
Best Military Fantasy Books
If you like fantasy with plenty of epic battles where the battle scenes and strategies are well-defined (you are immersed in the happenings on the battlefield), then this list of...
Best Urban Fantasy Books
This is perhaps one of the more difficult sub-genres to place books in simply because it’s so open-ended in terms of what can be included. The one quintessential element of...
Top 25 Best Children's Fantasy Books
Fantasy books are great for younger children, because fantasy involves imagination and suspension of beliefs about reality -- a feat that children have a natural aptitude for. Fantasy literature is...
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...
Vampire Books for Young Adults
The interest in vampire fiction has reached a fever pitch and one of the most popular subgenres of fantasy has fast become the Paranormal Romance genre, which is stacked with...
Great Fantasy Books
This list is simply a list of great fantasy books. And by great, I mean books that nearly but didn't quite make the Top 100 Fantasy List. Likely, you'll some...
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...
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
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 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
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 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,...
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...
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...
Most Influential Fantasy Books
An alternate "Best Fantasy Books List" for those of you who prefer the more "high brow" fantasy books.You might call this list the fantasy books that have influenced the genre...
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...
Top 25 Fantasy Books for Women
Some women want fantasy books that are different from those for men. Now, I know many women read the same fantasy as the boys and are fine with that, but...
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Books Of The Cataclysm
A compelling re-telling of stories of heaven, hell, the afterlife and beyond. I don’t think there is any other story out there quit e like this one. Plenty of authors...
Williams, Sean
The Books Of Bayern
With the first novel of this series adapted from a fairy-tale by the Brothers Grimm, Shannon Hale has created an immersive and familiar narrative in The Books of Bayern. Hale's...
Hale, Shannon
The Books Of Change
Earth’s greatest feats of power come from nature, and this holds true in Sean Williams’ world. Magic in The Stone Mage and the Sea is stored in natural locations, built...
Williams, Sean
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha Book 1)
"Empire of Sand" is a debut novel by British-Indian author Tasha Suri, published in November 2018. The book is a unique blend of Mughal Indian history and mythology, infused with...
Suri, Tasha
Red Rising (not Magic, But Hunger Games Survival Meets School Setting With Some Fantasy Elements)
Books in this sub-genre focus almost entirely on magic, but Red Rising stands in stark contrast to that. Part dystopia, part sci-fi fantasy, Red Risingfocuses on the story of a...
Brown, Pierce
Another Fine Myth
Books One and Two of Asprin's bestselling Myth series are now together in this two-in-one omnibus. In Another Fine Myth, Skeeve's master is murdered, and now this apprentice magician must...
Asprin, Robert
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.
The Dagger And The Coin
Five books in now, this series is turning out to be one of the best in the genre. If you are expecting another sort of Wheel of Time or Stormlight...
Abraham, Daniel
Pawn Of Prophecy
There books that are great in their complexity and moral exploration, and ones that are amazing simply for the entertainment they provide. David Edding's Belgariad series falls into the second...
Eddings, David
Dark Hunter
These books have been around for nearly a decade now and are still wooing the hearts of millions of women around the world. Her male heroes are particularly well drawn....
Kenyon, Sherrilyn
Carry On
The books on this list take themselves quite seriously, trying to reach the success of Harry Potter or other greats. Sometimes, you’re fed up with the common themes that run...
Rowell, Rainbow
Sandman Slim
Of all the books on this list, Sandman Slim is probably the darkest and most brutal. But it's disturbingly good a story about a sort of Harry Dresden character who...
Kadrey, Richard
Codex Alera
While some of the books on this list offer a fresh take on the classics, Jim Butcher creates something entirely new. It began on a writer's workshop board during an...
Butcher, Jim
World Without End
Sean Russell writes books for people who like to read. Ponderous, slow, and often steeped in mystery, his worlds are rich with characterization and plot. His "Moontide and Magic" is...
Russell, Sean
Powder Mage
Like many books on this list, The Powder Mage Cycle doesn’t contain just one magic system. However, the one synonymous with its name stands out the most, and it’s easy...
Mcclellan, Brian
Tale Of The Kin
This series (2 books so far) is an awesome read if you like gritty fantasy about the underside life of a city. We're talking about thieves, crooks, spies, gangs, pimps,...
Hulick, Douglas
Inkheart
A series of books about books…what more could an avid fantasy reader want? In her Inkheart series, Cornelia Funke takes everything that is enchanting about reading, and creates a hard-hitting...
Funke, Cornelia
The Belgariad
There are five books in this series – the first being Pawn of Prophecy. This isn't fantasy with a lesson. Nor is it fantasy with emotional depth. And it doesn't...
Eddings, David
The Ill-made Mute
Gets the "Overrated Books With Undeserved Hype" as the book did get more praise than it rightly deserved. I'd also tack on the "Terribly Written Books" category too. However, in...
Dart-thornton, Cecilia