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Fantasy
126 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Audrey Niffenegger: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Audrey Niffenegger — whether to begin with The Time Traveler's Wife or Her Fearful Symmetry. A complete reading guide to the American author.
Where to Start with C.S. Lewis: A Reading Guide
Where to start with C.S. Lewis — whether to begin with The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, or Mere Christianity. A complete reading guide to his essential works.
Where to Start with Caroline Peckham: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Caroline Peckham — whether to begin with Zodiac Academy: The Awakening or Ruthless Fae. A complete reading guide to the dark academy fantasy series.
Where to Start with Casey McQuiston: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Casey McQuiston — whether to begin with Red, White & Royal Blue or One Last Stop. A complete reading guide to the romance author.
Where to Start with Christopher Paolini: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Christopher Paolini — whether to begin with Eragon or Eldest. A complete reading guide to the Inheritance Cycle fantasy series author.
Where to Start with Cornelia Funke: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Cornelia Funke — how to approach Inkheart, her essential fantasy novel about the dangerous magic of books. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Gemmell: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Gemmell — how to approach Legend, his debut novel and the founding text of heroic fantasy, about an aging warrior defending an impossible siege and what it means to face the end without despair. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Erin Hunter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Erin Hunter — whether to begin with Warriors Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, or Forest of Secrets. A complete guide to the Warriors cat series.
Where to Start with Erin Morgenstern: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Erin Morgenstern — whether to begin with The Night Circus or The Starless Sea. A complete reading guide to the fantasy author.
Where to Start with Gene Wolfe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gene Wolfe — how to approach The Book of the New Sun, his dying-Earth masterwork with the most sophisticated unreliable narrator in science fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with George R.R. Martin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with George R.R. Martin — how to approach A Game of Thrones and the Song of Ice and Fire series, and which book is the high point of the sequence. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Gregory Maguire: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gregory Maguire — whether to begin with Wicked, Son of a Witch, or Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Guy Gavriel Kay: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Guy Gavriel Kay — how to approach Tigana, his standalone epic fantasy about colonial erasure and cultural memory, written with the prose precision of literary fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J.K. Rowling: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.K. Rowling — how to approach the Harry Potter series, from the Sorcerer's Stone through the Deathly Hallows, and which book is the series at its best. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jennifer L. Armentrout: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jennifer L. Armentrout — whether to begin with From Blood and Ash, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire, or The Crown of Gilded Bones. A complete guide.
Where to Start with J.R.R. Tolkien: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.R.R. Tolkien — whether to begin with The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, and how to approach The Silmarillion. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Katherine Addison: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Katherine Addison — how to approach The Goblin Emperor, her quietly radical fantasy about an unprepared emperor who governs with kindness rather than cunning. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Lev Grossman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lev Grossman — whether to begin with The Magicians or The Magician King. A complete reading guide to the fantasy novelist and literary critic.
Where to Start with Lewis Carroll: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lewis Carroll — whether to begin with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Madeleine L'Engle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Madeleine L'Engle — whether to begin with A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, or A Swiftly Tilting Planet. A complete guide to the Time Quintet.
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