Best Fantasy Books of 2006

Below you will find a list of the fantasy books published in 2006 that we enjoyed most. Click on a book title to read the full review.

The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson (A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 6)

The Bonehunters sees us rejoining the Malazan Fourteenth Army, under the command of Adjunct Tavore Paran. Sha’ik is supposedly dead, the army of the Whirlwind in tatters, and the last survivo...

Published: 2006

Soul Eater by Michelle Paver (The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Book 3)

Soul Eater is set 6,000 years ago in Northern Europe, after the end of the last ice age, the novel takes place along a wooded coastline, inhabited by wandering clans whose cultures revolve around t...

Published: 2006

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (The Discworld Series: Book 35)

One of the things that I have found as I have read fantasy book after fantasy book, is that life is different in those books. Of course it is, ya daftie, I hear you cry, but bear with me. I obvious...

Published: 2006

Percy Jackson and the Sea Of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson: Book 2)

Rick Riordan has not only made these characters instant classics, he also has woven an intricately layered story and collision of worlds and cultures and created a sequel worthy of its predecessor....

Published: 2006

The Crown of Stars by Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars: Book 7)

King Henry's kingdom has been ravaged by internecine warfare, in a conflict that has been both long and bloody. Furthermore, the spell holding the exiled Ashioi from the world has failed, and t...

Published: 2006

The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott

You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You’re joining the circus. Ain’t that the best news you ever got? Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ulti...

Published: 2006

Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton

Who or what is Endymion Spring? A power for good, or for evil... A legendary book that holds the secret to a world of knowledge... A young boy without a voice - whose five-hundred-year-old story is...

Published: 2006

The Spook's Secret by Joseph Delaney (The Wardstone Chronicles: Book 3)

As the weather gets colder, the Spook announces that it’s time to move to his winter house on Anglezarke – a bleak, forbidding place, close to the dark with a deep cellar full of bound ...

Published: 2006

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson: Book 1)

Kudos to Patricia Briggs for bringing werewolves into a new light, for offering up a believable and relatable female author, and for an over all quite interesting story that had me guessing till th...

Published: 2006

Forest Mage by Robin Hobb (The Soldier Son Trilogy: Book 2)

At times I became very angry with the book, not with how the author has written it but at the characters themselves and how they were treating poor Nevare. And this is exactly what a book should do...

Published: 2006

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (Southern Vampire Series: Book 6)

Sookie doesn't have that many relations, so she hated to lose one - but of all the people to go, she didn't expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans' vampire queen - ...

Published: 2006

The Wrath of Mulgarath by Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles: Book 5)

Twists and turns abound in the final installment of the Spiderwick Chronicles. Bruised and battered, Jared, Simon and Mallory return home to find their house completely ransacked and discover that ...

Published: 2006

The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones (The Chrestomanci Series: Book 7)

Spells always have consequences and it's Chrestomanci's job to make sure everything is safely under control. Even so, in the village around Chrestomanci Castle, all sorts of secret magical ...

Published: 2006

Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey (Treason�s Heir: Book 1)

In the darkness their will always be light. In Phedre’s journey to save the land she loved so dearly and free her friend from a curse proved to be more than Phedre had envisioned. Melisande s...

Published: 2006

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn: Book 1)

In his Mistborn series Brandon Sanderson has written one of the seminal fantasy stories of his generation. Compelling and flawlessly executed with exquisite skill, the enormous magnitude of the sto...

Published: 2006

My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick

In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast-flow...

Published: 2006

Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter by DM Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo: Book 2)

Unlike the first book, this book isn’t slow to get into and leaves you desperate to finish the page just so you can read the next. Although it would seem Rossamund is safe it soon becomes evi...

Published: 2006

Nightlife by Rob Thurman (Cal Leandros series: Book 1)

This story worked for me because Cal and his brother Niko go through hell. They are spared nothing and have almost everything against them while still fighting on. There is a perfect balance betwee...

Published: 2006

Larklight by Philip Reeve (Larklight Trilogy: Book 1)

I particularly enjoyed the interwoven tale of Jack Havock and how his childhood - and ultimately, destiny - entwines with that of the Mumby siblings giving depth, character and a damn, good story t...

Published: 2006

Dreaming the Serpent Spear by MC Scott (Boudica #4)

AD 60: The flame of rebellion that has been smouldering for twenty years of Roman occupation has flared into a conflagration that will consume the land and all who live in it. There is no going bac...

Published: 2006