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
4817 Ozma Of Oz L. Frank Baum 1907 American English
4835 The Water Of The Wondrous Isles William Morris 1897 British English
4835 The Brass Bottle F. Anstey 1900 British English
4934 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4944 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
4948 Fata Morgana William Kotzwinkle 1977 American English
4956 Black God's Shadow C. L. Moore 1934 American English
4956 Figures Of Earth James Branch Cabell 1921 American English
4996 Tigana Guy Gavriel Kay 1990 Canadian English
5007 The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 Australian English
5040 Storm Front Jim Butcher 2000 American English
5045 Living Alone Stella Benson 1919 British English
5166 Jirel of Joiry C. L. Moore 1934 American English
5173 The Land Of Unreason L. Sprague de Camp 1942 American English
5173 Adept's Gambit Fritz Leiber 1947 American English
5190 A Fish Dinner In Memison E. R. Eddison 1941 British English
5190 A Strange Story Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1862 British English
5240 Sorcerer's Son Phyllis Eisenstein 1979 American English
5264 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
5276 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5378 Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart 1984 American English
5379 A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson 1974 American English
5393 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1581 Italian Italian
5501 Over Sea, Under Stone Susan Cooper 1965 British English
5573 Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link 2001 American English
5579 The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick 1997 American English
5651 The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart 1979 British English
5758 Brown Girl In The Ring Nalo Hopkinson 1998 Canadian English
5762 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5777 The Stealer Of Souls Michael Moorcock 1963 British English
5824 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
5863 The Well At The World's End William Morris 1896 British English
5935 A Promise Of Fire Amanda Bouchet 2016 American English
5949 The Wandering Fire Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
5964 Swords Against Wizardry Fritz Leiber 1968 American English
6078 The Darkest Road Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
6091 All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders 2016 American English
6123 The Lives Of Christopher Chant Diana Wynne Jones 1988 British English
6167 Peregrine Avram Davidson 1965 American English
6214 The Unconquered Country Geoff Ryman 1986 Canadian English
6231 Shadowland Peter Straub 1980 American English
6245 A Discovery Of Witches Deborah Harkness 2011 American English
6298 Stone Junction Jim Dodge 1990 American English
6330 My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Amos Tutuola 1954 Nigerian English
6330 The Wandering Unicorn Manuel Mujica Lainez 1965 Argentinian Spanish
6358 At Twilight They Return Zyranna Zateli 1993 Greek Greek
6376 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
6405 Dark Prince Christine Feehan 1999 American English
6508 Indigo Marina Warner 1992 British English
6527 The Power That Preserves Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
6692 Swords And Ice Magic Fritz Leiber 1977 American English
6703 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
7216 Orlando Innamorato Matteo Maria Boiardo 1483 Italian Italian
7216 The Mighty Magician Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1637 Spanish Spanish
7216 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
7216 Mythologies William Butler Yeats 1905 Irish English
7216 Puck Of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1906 British English
7216 The Robber Bridegroom Eudora Welty 1942 American English
7562 Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg 1980 American English
7629 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 2003 British English
7672 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7685 Among Others Jo Walton 2011 British English
7685 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 2021 American English
7780 The Red Magician Lisa Goldstein 1982 American English
7783 The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 American English
7791 Weetzie Bat Francesca Lia Block 1989 American English
7848 The Darkangel Meredith Ann Pierce 1982 American English
7884 The Changeover Margaret Mahy 1984 New Zealand English
7903 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
7923 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7943 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
7979 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
7984 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
8023 Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer 1983 American English
8143 Mort Terry Pratchett 1987 British English
8144 Walker On Water Kristiina Ehin 2014 Estonian Estonian
8206 Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand, Elisabeth Hand 1994 American English
8330 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8349 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
8405 Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett 1988 British English
8425 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin 2010 American English
8535 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8577 Witchmark C. L. Polk 2018 Canadian English
8633 Red Prophet Orson Scott Card 1988 American English
8646 Spindle’s End Robin McKinley 2000 American English
8649 The Leiber Chronicles Fritz Leiber 1990 American English
8660 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8761 Rats And Gargoyles Mary Gentle 1990 British English
8764 Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card 1989 American English
8801 Creep, Shadow! A. Merritt 1934 American English
8856 The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 2019 American English
8905 Left Foot, Right Nalo Hopkinson 1996 Canadian Unknown
8914 Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold 2003 American English
8940 Queen Of The Conquered Kacen Callender 2019 American English
8940 The Rage Of Dragons Evan Winter 2019 Canadian English
8996 Inkheart Cornelia Funke 2003 German German
9003 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9093 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies 1994 Canadian English
9140 George's Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl 1981 British English
9240 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
9241 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9289 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English
9605 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9682 Not Wanted On The Voyage Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
9692 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
9701 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9701 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9729 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9734 The Grimoire And Other Supernatural Stories Montague Summers 1936 British English
9792 Sassafrass, Cypress, And Indigo Ntozake Shange 1982 American English