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- Rajat Mehta
- Harry Potter. Logline: A young wizard battles the dark lord Voldemort while discovering his own destiny. Author Name: J.K. Rowling. First Book Published: “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997)
- The Lord of the Rings. Logline: A hobbit’s quest to destroy a powerful ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. Author Name: J.R.R. Tolkien. First Book Published: “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954)
- A Song of Ice and Fire. Logline: Noble houses vie for the Iron Throne in a brutal, intricate game of power. Author Name: George R.R. Martin. First Book Published: “A Game of Thrones” (1996)
- The Wheel of Time. Logline: A destined savior and his allies confront the Dark One in an epic battle of fate. Author Name: Robert Jordan (and later Brandon Sanderson)
- Rachel Strolle
- The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee. Series starter: Jade City. What you’re in for: A war between rival gangster families. Jade City hit shelves in 2017, kicking off a must-read fantasy book series and nabbing a World Fantasy Award in the process.
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang. Series starter: The Poppy War. What you’re in for: Crushing choices in battle, forbidden magic and a descent into villainy. This remarkable trilogy, which began in 2018, finds inspiration in the Second-Sino Japanese War, the Chinese Civil War and the rise of Mao Zedong.
- Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin. Series starter: A Wizard of Earthsea. What you’re in for: Character-driven fantasy. Ursula K. Le Guin is widely regarded as a pillar in science fiction and fantasy, and if you’ve never read one of her books, 1968’s A Wizard of Earthsea is a good place to start.
- Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Series starter: The Fellowship of the Ring. What you’re in for: Road trip shenanigans and expansive world. It’s hard to imagine a time without Lord of the Rings, but before 1954, the world had never heard of hobbits, Mordor or the One Ring to rule them all.
By Ibi Zoboi. Genre: YA Diversity & Multicultural Fiction. Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street.
- The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien. 11,894 votes. The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel written by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work.
- Dune. Frank Herbert. 2,375 votes. Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It won the Hugo Award in 1966, and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel.
- The Harry Potter Series. 12,412 votes.
- A Song of Ice and Fire. George R. R. Martin. 9,819 votes. ie, Game of Thrones. A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin.
- The Black Company by Glen Cook. First Book in the Series: The Black Company (1984) Description: Good fantasy tales rely on world building, and Glen Cook’s Black Company series has this in spades.
- The Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence. First Book in the Series: Prince of Thorns (2011) Description: Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire Trilogy wraps a war epic around a family drama within a coming-of-age story, creating a multi-layered fantasy series steeped in dark magic.
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. First Book in the Series: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) Description: C.S. Lewis’ kindhearted Narnia series sometimes feels like the yang to Tolkien’s serious and moody yin, which makes sense, given that the two Inklings were close friends for decades.
- The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. First Book in the Series: The Book of Three (1964) Description: In an age when any successful tween series is hyped as a potential film franchise, Lloyd Alexander’s pentalogy has managed to stay out of the limelight (Disney’s unfortunate 1985 film The Black Cauldron notwithstanding).
Oct 28, 2021 · Unlike much of the fantasy genre gets high praise in literary circles too: Harold Bloom called the series best fantasy novels of the twentieth century.
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May 27, 2024 · Here are our picks for the 10 best fantasy book series of all time, including Wheel of Time, Lord of the Rings, and more.
