Best Fantasy Books

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.

The first Rain Wild Chronicles novel follows the misfits assigned to tend a group of deformed dragons — creatures that hatched wrong and cannot fly — as they journey upriver to find the lost Elderling city of Kelsingra. A new entry point to the Realm of the Elderlings set after the events of the Liveship Traders.

Harry Dresden investigates a series of brutal murders during the full moon — and discovers that werewolves in Chicago are far more complicated than folklore suggests.

In a brutal, medieval village far from the Giver's Community, the orphaned girl Kira is spared from abandonment because of her gift for embroidery, and is put to work restoring the Robe that tells her people's history.

Fifteen hundred years after the death of the God Emperor, the human race has scattered across the stars and is now returning. Heretics of Dune, the fifth Dune novel, follows the Bene Gesserit as they confront a new power that threatens to end them and a child who may be the key to survival.

The fourth and final volume of the Inheritance Cycle brings the war against Galbatorix to its end. Eragon and Saphira must find the strength to topple a tyrant who has ruled for a century — and confront the question of what kind of world they want to build from the ruins.

Sandy and Dennys Murry — the 'normal' twins — accidentally travel back to biblical times, to the era just before Noah's flood, where they encounter nephilim, seraphim, and Noah's family in a story about choice, mortality, and the nature of good and evil.

Jorg Ancrath, thirteen years old and already a murderer leading a band of road brothers, pursues a path of calculated brutality toward the throne of the Hundred Kingdoms in a dark post-apocalyptic world where the remnants of modern civilization lie buried beneath a medieval fantasy veneer.

Teppic trains as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork, then inherits the throne of Djelibeybi — a tiny, ancient kingdom bankrupting itself on pyramids. When he builds the biggest one yet, the weight of accumulated tradition folds his entire country out of the world.

Geralt of Rivia arrives in the port city of Kerack only to have his prized swords stolen, dragging the monster-hunter into a tangle of court intrigue, sorcery, and danger in this standalone adventure set within the world of the Witcher saga.

An orphaned soldier discovers she harbors a rare power that could end a centuries-long darkness threatening her country — and draws the attention of a mysterious and dangerous commander.

The second All Souls novel — Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont timewalk to Elizabethan London, where Diana must learn witchcraft and retrieve the enchanted manuscript that holds the secrets of all creatures.

A new music arrives on the Disc — Music With Rocks In — and it will not let its players stop. Meanwhile Death, grief-stricken and absent, leaves his teenage granddaughter Susan to take up the scythe. A rock-and-roll fable about mortality, memory, and the things that outlive us.

An eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a sourcerer — a source of raw magic — and his arrival threatens to drag Discworld back to the Mage Wars. Only the cowardly Rincewind, the Luggage, and a barbarian hairdresser stand between the Disc and apocalypse.

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard and private detective, investigates a pair of murders that required enormous magical power — and discovers something far darker than a simple killer.

The six Alexandrians have been initiated into the Alexandrian Society — the secret organisation that controls the world's most powerful knowledge. Now they must each prove their worth to the Caretakers, competing and conspiring among themselves while an external threat to the Society itself emerges. The second book in Olivie Blake's Atlas series.

The ka-tet fractures across time and world: Susannah is drawn to New York, 1999, carrying a demonic child that may doom or save the Tower; Roland and Eddie travel to Maine, 1977, where they must obtain the land for a vacant lot and encounter a young writer named Stephen King working on a novel called The Gunslinger. The meta-fictional stakes escalate dramatically.

In the Spanish Golden Age, a servant girl with a hidden gift for small miracles is thrust into a deadly contest of magic at court. Leigh Bardugo conjures a lush historical fantasy of secret power, survival, and the price of being seen in an age of inquisition.

David Gemmell's second Drenai novel, set generations after Legend. Tenaka Khan — despised for his mixed Drenai and Nadir blood — leads a desperate rebellion against a cruel, decadent empire, in a fast, brutal, and emotionally charged tale of heroism, redemption, and the cost of war.