Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time
The 100 fantasy books that we love most of all
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The 100 fantasy books that we love most of all
From the Taoist beliefs of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea books to the complexity of Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen
The fantasy books we've loved, ordered by their publication year
High fantasy, sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, historical fantasy and many more...
Including Mark Lawrence, Steven Erikson, Jen Williams, John Gwynne, Ian C. Esslemont, N. K. Jemisin and many more...
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A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
Sweet Silver Blues by Glen Cook
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Tower of the Elephant by Robert E. Howard
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin