The Greatest Fantasy Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
11824 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
11835 I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness Irene Solà 2023 Unknown Catalan
11924 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English
11925 Sorcerer To The Crown Zen Cho 2015 Singaporean English
12022 The Amulet of Samarkand Jonathan Stroud 2003 British English
12074 The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow 2025 Unknown English
12076 A Gathering Of Shadows V. E. Schwab 2016 American English
12107 Good And Evil And Other Stories Samanta Schweblin 2025 Argentine Spanish
12106 The Ferryman And His Wife Frode Grytten, Alison McCullough 2023 Norwegian English
12105 Dwelling Emily Hunt Kivel 2025 Unknown English
12110 North Sun Ethan Rutherford 2025 Unknown English
12126 The Pelican Child Joy Williams 2025 Unknown English
12133 A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna 2025 Unknown English
12165 Running Close To The Wind Alexandra Rowland 2024 Unknown English
12225 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
12225 Shades Of Grey Jasper Fforde 2009 British English
12234 Rules For Ruin Mimi Matthews 2025 American English
12307 The Midwatch Institute For Wayward Girls Judith Rossell 2024 Australian English
12319 Angel Down Daniel Kraus 2025 American English
12403 The Great Work Sheldon Costa 2025 Unknown English
12410 Daller Gut Dream Department Store Miye Lee Unknown Unknown
12419 Moonheart Charles de Lint 1984 Canadian English
12421 A Mouthful Of Dust Nghi Vo 2025 American English
12435 Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros 2025 Unknown English
12443 Hungerstone Kat Dunn 2025 Unknown English
12444 When The Moon Hits Your Eye John Scalzi 2025 Unknown English
12451 The Possession Of Alba Díaz Isabel Cañas 2025 Unknown English
12452 My Name Is Emilia Del Valle Isabel Allende 2025 Unknown English
12465 Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang 2025 Unknown English
12472 The Witcher Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
12473 The Experiment Rebecca Stead 2025 Unknown English
12474 I, Medusa Ayana Gray 2025 Unknown English
12476 The Manor Of Dreams Christina Li 2025 Unknown English
12477 The Bakery Dragon Devin Elle Kurtz 2024 Unknown English
12487 When The Wolf Comes Home Nat Cassidy 2025 Unknown English
12488 The Raven Scholar Antonia Hodgson 2025 Unknown English
12489 They Bloom At Night Trang Thanh Tran 2025 Unknown English
12490 Hemlock & Silver T. Kingfisher 2025 American English
12491 Black Woods Blue Sky Eowyn Ivey 2025 Unknown English
12492 Old Soul Susan Barker 2025 Unknown English
12499 The Shadow On The Stone Bench Maria Gripe 1982 Swedish Unknown
12507 The Survivor Wants To Die At The End Adam Silvera 2025 American English
12555 The Night Birds Christopher Golden 2025 American English
12556 Hansel And Gretel Stephen King, Maurice Sendak 2025 American English
12566 Meet Me At The Crossroads Megan Giddings 2025 American English
12571 Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2025 American English
12573 When They Burned The Butterfly Wen-yi Lee 2025 Taiwanese English
12581 The Last Tiger Julia Riew, Brad Riew 2025 American English
12605 Psychopomp & Circumstance Eden Royce 2025 American English
12608 After Life Gayle Forman 2025 American English
12615 The Expert Of Subtle Revisions Kirsten Menger-Anderson 2025 American English
12616 Sounds Like Love Ashley Poston 2025 American English
12623 The Island Of Last Things Emma Sloley 2025 Unknown English
12635 The Garden Nick Newman 2025 British English
12638 Animal Instinct Amy Shearn 2025 American English
12679 Audition For The Fox Martin Cahill 2025 Unknown English
12693 Scarlet Morning ND Stevenson 2025 American English
12708 Time Loops & Meet Cutes Jackie Lau 2025 Unknown English
12709 Beasts Of Carnaval Rosália Rodrigo 2025 Unknown English
12717 The Door On The Sea Caskey Russell 2025 American English
12718 A Feast For The Eyes Alex Crespo 2025 Unknown English
12725 A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie 2019 British English
12725 Jade War Fonda Lee 2019 Canadian English
12725 The Bird King G. Willow Wilson 2019 American English
12756 Crumble Meredith McClaren, Andrea Bell 2025 Unknown English
12759 Sundust Zeke Peña American English
12769 Blood On Her Tongue Johanna van Veen 2025 Unknown English
12770 The Burial Tide Neil Sharpson 2025 Unknown English
12774 The Confessional Paige Hender 2025 Unknown English
12775 The Country Under Heaven Frederic S. Durbin 2025 American English
12778 Drome Jesse Lonergan 2025 Unknown English
12822 The Starving Saints Caitlin Starling 2025 Unknown English
12823 Witchcraft For Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix 2025 Unknown English
12826 King Sorrow Joe Hill 2025 Unknown English
12827 Silver Elite Dani Francis 2025 Unknown English
12828 Bat Eater And Other Names For Cora Zeng Kylie Lee Baker 2025 Unknown English
12829 Harriet Tubman Bob the Drag Queen 2025 Unknown English
12830 Of Monsters And Mainframes Barbara Truelove 2025 Unknown English
12870 Yarrow Charles de Lint 1986 Canadian English
12889 Pan Michael Clune 2025 American English
12933 The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie 2025 British English
12976 Lessons In Magic And Disaster Charlie Jane Anders 2025 Unknown Unknown
13007 L'enchanteur René Barjavel 1984 French French
13003 Thus Were Their Faces Silvina Ocampo 1988 Argentinian Spanish
12990 All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu 2025 American English
13089 The Wood Wife Terri Windling 1996 American English
13053 Engines Of War R.S. Ford 2025 Unknown English
13056 Female Fantasy Iman Hariri-Kia 2025 Iranian English
13062 The Blackfire Blade James Logan 2025 Unknown English
13065 Aunt Tigress Emily Yu-Xuan Qin 2025 Unknown English
13074 The Isle In The Silver Sea Tasha Suri 2025 British English
13189 Blob Maggie Su 2025 Unknown English
13190 These Memories Do Not Belong To Us Yiming Ma 2025 Unknown English
13201 Awakened A.E. Osworth 2025 Unknown English
13111 The Conjuring Of America Lindsey Stewart 2025 Unknown English
13168 Dracula & Daughters Emma Carroll 2025 British English
13169 Deep Dark Zohra Nabi 2025 Unknown English
13170 Torchfire Moira Buffini 2025 British English
13185 The Witch's Egg Donya Todd 2025 Unknown English
13215 The Belgariad David Eddings 1982 American English
13226 Gardens Of The Moon Steven Erikson 1999 Canadian English
13236 Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse 2020 American English
13236 Harrow The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2020 New Zealand English
13236 The Burning God R. F. Kuang 2020 American English
13294 Legend Of The Swordsmen Of The Mountains Of Shu Huanzhulouzhu 1932 Chinese Chinese
13302 Kushiel's Dart Jacqueline Carey 2001 American English
13318 Jade Legacy Fonda Lee 2021 American English
13318 Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher 2022 American English
13316 The Lions Of Al Rassan Guy Gavriel Kay 1995 Canadian English
13318 The Tainted Cup Robert Jackson Bennett 2024 American Unknown
13359 The People Of The Black Circle Robert E. Howard 1934 American English
13359 The Wizard Of The Emerald City Alexander Wolkow 1939 Russian Russian
13359 Die Fahrten Thiodolfs Des Isländers Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 1815 German German
13359 Sintram And His Companions Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 1814 German German
13359 The Chronicles Of Prydain Lloyd Alexander 1964 American English
13359 The Dark Is Rising Sequence Susan Cooper 1965 British English
13359 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1819 American English
13511 Gil's All Fright Diner A. Lee Martinez 2005 American English
13530 Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler 1980 American English
13548 Conan The Barbarian Robert E. Howard 1932 American English