The Greatest Books of All Time on Magic

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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
4816 Ozma Of Oz L. Frank Baum 1907 American English
4834 The Water Of The Wondrous Isles William Morris 1897 British English
4834 The Brass Bottle F. Anstey 1900 British English
4932 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4942 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
4946 Fata Morgana William Kotzwinkle 1977 American English
4954 Black God's Shadow C. L. Moore 1934 American English
4954 Figures Of Earth James Branch Cabell 1921 American English
4993 Tigana Guy Gavriel Kay 1990 Canadian English
5005 The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 Australian English
5037 Storm Front Jim Butcher 2000 American English
5042 Living Alone Stella Benson 1919 British English
5163 Jirel of Joiry C. L. Moore 1934 American English
5170 The Land Of Unreason L. Sprague de Camp 1942 American English
5170 Adept's Gambit Fritz Leiber 1947 American English
5187 A Fish Dinner In Memison E. R. Eddison 1941 British English
5187 A Strange Story Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1862 British English
5238 Sorcerer's Son Phyllis Eisenstein 1979 American English
5262 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
5274 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5376 Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart 1984 American English
5377 A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson 1974 American English
5390 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1581 Italian Italian
5498 Over Sea, Under Stone Susan Cooper 1965 British English
5571 Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link 2001 American English
5577 The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick 1997 American English
5648 The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart 1979 British English
5755 Brown Girl In The Ring Nalo Hopkinson 1998 Canadian English
5759 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5774 The Stealer Of Souls Michael Moorcock 1963 British English
5821 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
5860 The Well At The World's End William Morris 1896 British English
5931 A Promise Of Fire Amanda Bouchet 2016 American English
5945 The Wandering Fire Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
5960 Swords Against Wizardry Fritz Leiber 1968 American English
6075 The Darkest Road Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
6088 All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders 2016 American English
6120 The Lives Of Christopher Chant Diana Wynne Jones 1988 British English
6164 Peregrine Avram Davidson 1965 American English
6211 The Unconquered Country Geoff Ryman 1986 Canadian English
6228 Shadowland Peter Straub 1980 American English
6242 A Discovery Of Witches Deborah Harkness 2011 American English
6295 Stone Junction Jim Dodge 1990 American English
6327 My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Amos Tutuola 1954 Nigerian English
6327 The Wandering Unicorn Manuel Mujica Lainez 1965 Argentinian Spanish
6355 At Twilight They Return Zyranna Zateli 1993 Greek Greek
6373 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
6402 Dark Prince Christine Feehan 1999 American English
6506 Indigo Marina Warner 1992 British English
6525 The Power That Preserves Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
6691 Swords And Ice Magic Fritz Leiber 1977 American English
6702 Seventh Son Orson Scott Card, Patrick Couton 1987 American English
6877 The Green Knight Vera Chapman 1975 British English
6885 The Ice Is Coming Patricia Wrightson 1977 Australian English
6917 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin, Janet Song 2009 Chinese English
6951 Mamy Wata and the Monster Veronique Tadjo 1988 French French
7050 The Changeling Victor LaValle 2017 American English
7079 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
7086 There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby Ludmila Petrushevskaya 2009 Russian Russian
7103 Get In Trouble Kelly Link 2015 American English
7141 Jade City Fonda Lee 2017 Chinese English
7156 The One Tree Stephen R. Donaldson 1982 American English
7215 Orlando Innamorato Matteo Maria Boiardo 1483 Italian Italian
7215 The Mighty Magician Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1637 Spanish Spanish
7215 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
7215 Mythologies William Butler Yeats 1905 Irish English
7215 Puck Of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1906 British English
7215 The Robber Bridegroom Eudora Welty 1942 American English
7561 Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg 1980 American English
7628 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 2003 British English
7670 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7684 Among Others Jo Walton 2011 British English
7684 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 2021 American English
7778 The Red Magician Lisa Goldstein 1982 American English
7781 The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 American English
7789 Weetzie Bat Francesca Lia Block 1989 American English
7847 The Darkangel Meredith Ann Pierce 1982 American English
7883 The Changeover Margaret Mahy 1984 New Zealand English
7902 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
7922 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7942 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
7978 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
8022 Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer 1983 American English
8141 Mort Terry Pratchett 1987 British English
8142 Walker On Water Kristiina Ehin 2014 Estonian Estonian
8204 Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand, Elisabeth Hand 1994 American English
8328 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8347 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
8402 Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett 1988 British English
8421 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin 2010 American English
8531 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8573 Witchmark C. L. Polk 2018 Canadian English
8629 Red Prophet Orson Scott Card 1988 American English
8642 Spindle’s End Robin McKinley 2000 American English
8645 The Leiber Chronicles Fritz Leiber 1990 American English
8656 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8756 Rats And Gargoyles Mary Gentle 1990 British English
8759 Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card 1989 American English
8796 Creep, Shadow! A. Merritt 1934 American English
8852 The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 2019 American English
8901 Left Foot, Right Nalo Hopkinson 1996 Canadian Unknown
8910 Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold 2003 American English
8936 Queen Of The Conquered Kacen Callender 2019 American English
8936 The Rage Of Dragons Evan Winter 2019 Canadian English
8992 Inkheart Cornelia Funke 2003 German German
8999 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9088 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies 1994 Canadian English
9135 George's Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl 1981 British English
9236 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
9237 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9284 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English
9600 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9679 Not Wanted On The Voyage Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
9689 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
9698 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9698 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9726 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9731 The Grimoire And Other Supernatural Stories Montague Summers 1936 British English
9789 Sassafrass, Cypress, And Indigo Ntozake Shange 1982 American English