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Mar 11, 2024 · The best books may see you journeying across Middle-earth with hobbits, finding a gem in the center of a clan war or even destroying some ghosts—there’s no shortage of magical moments to be...
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- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang. In The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang, you will find a military fantasy with an orphan girl at the center of it all. Based on historical events, The Poppy War, brilliantly written, shows you how this war orphan aced the Keju, a test that finds the most talented youth, entered the most elite military school, and discovered her unknown power!
- The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty. Book one: The City of Brass. Inside the pages of this book, you’ll meet a con woman who does tricks to get by. But one day, she’ll summon a djinn warrior during one of her cons, and she will need to accept that all those childhood stories are real.
- The Sixth World by Rebecca Roanhorse. Book one: Trail of Lighting. The apocalypse is here. The gods and heroes walk the land. But so do the monsters. Dinétah, the Navajo reservation, has been reborn.
- Asiana by Rati Mehrotra. Book one: Markswoman. Kyra, the youngest Markswoman in the Order of Kali, is deadly with a blade. She’s part of an elite group of warriors and has pledged to protect Asiana and its people.
- 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).
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (2007) Kvothe’s tale, reluctantly told by the old innkeeper himself, is as gripping, emotional and imaginative as any fantasy story put to paper.
- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (2010) Brandon Sanderson is a master of many aspects of the fantasy genre: epic world-building, coherent systems of magic and unforgettable character development.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (2007) The culmination of the Harry Potter series was, it has to be said, pretty overweight—a competent copy editor could’ve removed a hundred pages from the manuscript without doing a thing other than deleting repetitive lines and phrases.
- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (2006) It’s borderline frustrating that Neil Gaiman has yet to meet a storytelling medium that he can’t master, and so it’s no mistake that Fragile Things, his 2006 collection, is subtitled Short Fiction and Wonders.
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With a panel of leading fantasy authors, TIME presents the 100 most engaging, inventive and influential works of fantasy fiction.
