Best Fantasy Books

Thirteen short stories from Joe Abercrombie's First Law world, mixing reprints with new tales. The thief Shevedieh and the barbarian Javre bicker their way across Styria, while cameos from Glokta, Logen, Shenkt and Curnden Craw fill the gaps between the trilogy and the standalones.

Alina Starkov is on the run from the Darkling — the powerful Grisha commander who wants to use her light-summoning abilities to control all of Ravka. Seeking safety at sea, she instead discovers a new amplifier and a privateer named Sturmhond whose motives are far more complicated than they appear.

The conclusion of the Atlas trilogy: the Alexandrians must face the full consequences of the choices they made across the first two books, with the fate of the Society — and the world's accumulated knowledge — in the balance. Blake resolves the question of who among the six can be trusted and at what cost.

A cartographer's daughter discovers that a seemingly worthless gas station road map may be the key to a mystery involving her father's death, a secret society, and a place that only exists on a map — and may be able to exist in reality.

The first Discworld novel follows the hapless failed wizard Rincewind and the naive tourist Twoflower across a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant star turtle — a comic masterpiece that parodies epic fantasy.

The origin story of David Gemmell's greatest hero. Long before he became the legend of the Drenai, the young Druss sets out across a brutal world to rescue his kidnapped wife, Rowena — a fast, violent, and emotionally charged tale of the making of an axe-wielding icon.

A Chronicles of Narnia tale set during the reign of the Pevensies. Shasta, a boy raised in the harsh southern land of Calormen, flees north toward Narnia with a talking horse named Bree, uncovering a plot of war and the secret of his own identity along the way.

Quentin Coldwater is now a king of Fillory, but restlessness drives him on a quest that leads back to Earth — while Julia's parallel story reveals how she gained her devastating magical power outside the Brakebills system. The most emotionally sophisticated volume in the Magicians trilogy.

Rand's military campaign through the Westlands takes a dark turn as the One Power begins to behave strangely around him, while Egwene al'Vere leads the rebel Aes Sedai in an audacious campaign to reclaim the White Tower from Elaida.

Locke and Jean are coerced by the Bondsmagi into rigging an election in Karthain — and Locke discovers his opponent is Sabetha, the one woman he has always loved and never quite managed to win.

A graduate student discovers a mysterious book in his university library that contains a story about his own childhood — and is drawn through it into an underground world of stories, doors, and a sea that smells of honey and blood.

The fourth Witcher novel. As Ciri, hunted across the Continent, fights to survive and to reach the mysterious Tower of Swallows, the saga fractures its timeline and circles its darkest material, building toward the brink of its conclusion.

In Victorian England where pirates sail the sky in flying houses, a young lady thief named Cecilia Bassingwaite is targeted for recruitment — and finds herself entangled with the infuriating agent sent to either recruit or arrest her.

The first volume of The Last King of Osten Ard, Tad Williams's return to the world of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Decades after the events of that trilogy, the aging King Simon and Queen Miriamele face a new threat as the immortal Norns stir again and a generation of new characters comes of age.

Sixteen-year-old Kaye has spent her childhood moving between cities while her mother plays small venues. Returning to New Jersey, she discovers the faerie world she glimpsed as a child is real — and she is more entangled in its politics than she ever knew. Dark, seductive, and morally complicated, Tithe established the template for Holly Black's faerie fiction.

Rand attempts a desperate and unprecedented gambit to cleanse saidin — the male half of the One Power — of the Dark One's taint, while Mat is trapped in Ebou Dar under Seanchan occupation and Perrin searches for his captured wife.

Awakened to a power that could reshape the realms, Sera must master what she has become while war gathers and her bond with Nyktos faces its hardest test. Jennifer L. Armentrout drives the Flesh and Fire saga toward its climax with escalating stakes and high romance.

Reeling from a devastating betrayal, Seraphena must reckon with who — and what — she truly is, while the Primal of Death she was meant to kill becomes the one person she cannot resist. Jennifer L. Armentrout's second Flesh and Fire novel deepens the romance and the mythology.

Meg Murry must journey inside her brother Charles Wallace's cells to battle a cosmic evil called the Echthroi, accompanied by a Teacher named Blajeny and a strange creature called Proginoskes, in a quest that turns on the power of naming and love.

The fourth and final Assistant and the Villain book, releasing August 4, 2026. A prophecy threatens the magic of Rennedawn and keeps pointing toward Evie Sage as the series' cozy-fantasy romcom heads to its conclusion.

The fourth and final Rain Wild Chronicles novel. As the keepers and dragons fight to claim Kelsingra and master their transformations, the rapacious empire of Chalced sends hunters after dragon blood, forcing a reckoning that will decide the fate of dragons and Elderlings alike.

The Mortal War is over, but Clary and Jace's happiness is short-lived. Someone is murdering Shadowhunters and turning their bodies into weapons. As Jace struggles with dark visions that threaten his relationship with Clary, a new and terrifying enemy emerges — one whose connection to Valentine's legacy runs deeper than anyone suspected.

The Cinderella story retold from the perspective of Iris, one of the stepsisters — set in seventeenth-century Haarlem among Dutch painters and tulip merchants, asking who is really the beautiful one and what beauty costs.

The second Rain Wild Chronicles novel. As the expedition of misfit keepers and stunted dragons struggles up the perilous Rain Wild River toward the lost Elderling city of Kelsingra, both dragons and humans begin to change in ways no one expected.