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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 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'...
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...
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...
Top 25 Best Indie Fantasy Books
Welcome to our new, and long-overdue list: The Best Indie Fantasy Books. It's been years in the making, but I've finally put my best efforts into giving a good guide...
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...
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...
Top 25 Best Pre-Tolkein Fantasy Books
When writing any list detailing the best pre-Tolkien fantasy it is difficult, to say the least. I started creating this list quite easily...then the questions began: How do you determine what belongs...
Top 25 Best Assassin Books
There are a lot of different choices when it comes to fantasy. Sprawling epics, fairy tale adaptations, urban, the list goes on. However, sometimes you're just in the mood for...
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...
Top 25 Best Heroic Fantasy Books
Heroic Fantasy is perhaps the most iconic of its class. It carries the flagship heavyweights like The Lord of the Rings; hefty not only in size but in imagination. We...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Best Science Fiction Books
Over the years we've recieved lots of complaints that we've abandoned science fiction for fantasy, which has been true. Well, NO MORE. We've been hard at work creating a sister...
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 LITRPG Books
LitRPG an emerging subgenre of Science Fiction & Fantasy and, arguably, the fastest growing new speclatutive fiction genre, if you look at the sheer number of LitRRPG indie fiction being...
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...
Good Fantasy Reads
This section lists fantasy books that are definitely worth reading. While they aren't the best of the best, these books are still very enjoyable. If you've read all the books...
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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.
The Magicians
The Magicians trilogy is a series that's been critically acclaimed and rates very high on our own Top 25 Best Fantasy Books list. It's a trilogy that's perhaps divisive --...
Grossman, Lev
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Name of the Wind is a stunning work of imagination and storytelling triumph and currently ranks very near the top of my Top 25 Best Fantasy List. I won't...
Rothfuss, Patrick
Sword Of Truth
This one falls under the "Terribly Written Books" category AND the "Overrated Books With Undeserved Hype". Woah, double kill!Some people might be wondering why bestselling author Terry Goodkind is missing...
Goodkind, Terry
The Broken Empire
If you want some seriously good fantasy (extremely gritty, grimdark fantasy), The Broken Empire Books are some of the best out there (the books top our Top 25 Best Fantasy...
Lawrence, Mark
Good Omens
Fantasy has never been so clever or funny as it is in the brilliant Good Omens.Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen form a super team and pen one of the funniest...
Gaiman, Neil
Ready Player One: A Novel
Not 'strictly' a LitRPG novel, but Ready Player One has a lot of elements that make up an LITRPG book, those being the in-game sequences. This is not only a...
Cline, Ernest
The Golden Compass
A young girl's journey of magic and discovery that will take her to the ends of the earth...and beyond. His Dark Materials is a modern classic that can be enjoyed...
Pullman, Philip
The Goblin Emperor
A powerful coming of age tale about a rejected half-goblin, half-elven prince who comes unexpectedly to power when an accident kills his father, the emperor, and half brothers. It's a...
Addison, Katherine
Lord Of The Rings
Do I even need to discuss it? The father of modern fantasy, the recreation of the English myth, an apex of English literature; Lord of the Rings is more than...
Tolkien, J.r.r.
The Lord Of The Rings
Before J.R.R. Tolkein, there really was no "fantasy" genre of literature at all. All dragons, dwarves, and wizards belonged to folklore and fairy tales of former centuries. We can't really...
Tolkien, J.r.r.
The Devoured Earth
In a glacial lake at the top of the world‚ salvation and destruction await ... Haunted by a ghost from the future‚ Shilly and her man?kin allies are drawn into...
Williams, Sean
The Vagrant
The Vagrant was one of my top five favorite fantasy books of 2015. Itâs compelling, itâs deftly written, and itâs something like youâve never read before. Those who appreciate a...
Newman, Peter
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.
The Mists Of Avalon
I can't do a list of the top 50 fantasy novels with strong female leads without including The Mists of Avalon. Considered one of the great classics of modern fantasy...
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Earthsea Cycle
Another fantasy series that crops up near the top of many best fantasy lists. Earthsea Cycle is a classic fantasy tale well done. While it doesn't rack up a sizable...
Guin, Ursula K. Le
The Black Jewels
Three words to describe the Black Jewels Trilogy: Over the top. Terrible things happen in this book, but they're written with so much drama that you can't take them too...
Bishop, Anne
Little Myth Marker
Jealous opponents of the young magician Skeeve and his demon mentor hire a top Character Assassin to force them out of business.
Asprin, Robert
Much Fall Of Blood
First Time in Paperback. Three Top Writers Continue the Epic Fantasy Adventure Begun in the Best-Seller The Shadow of the Lion. Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly...
Lackey, Mercedes
Harry Potter
It would be impossible to make this list without placing Harry Potter at the top. In many ways, it’s the ultimate school fantasy, filled with magic and inspiring generations of...
Rowling, J. K.