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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Nightbooks

    J.A. White

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Imprisoned by a witch, a young boy must spin a new, terrifying tale each night to survive, desperately writing his own escape before his stories—and his life—run out.

  2. Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

    Mo Yan

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A kind landowner, executed during Mao's Land Reform Movement, is reborn as a donkey, ox, pig, dog, monkey, and finally a boy. He narrates fifty years of turbulent Chinese history through the eyes of the farm animals he becomes.

  3. Artemis the Brave

    Joan Holub

    ★ 4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Artemis, the seemingly fearless goddess of the hunt, confronts her anxieties and proves her bravery to herself and her friends when Orion, a charming exchange student, arrives at Mount Olympus Academy.

  4. Reincarnation

    Suzanne Weyn

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A love story spans millennia, from ancient caves to 1960s America, as two souls, linked by a mysterious green jewel, repeatedly find each other through countless reincarnations.

  5. Look for Me by Moonlight

    Mary Downing Hahn

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A smitten 16-year-old innkeeper's daughter falls for a charming, mysterious guest, only to discover his captivating allure hides a chilling secret and a perilous, ancient curse.

  6. Frozen Fire

    Tim Bowler

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by a mysterious, disembodied voice that knows her deepest secrets, Dusty is pulled into a dangerous quest to save a spectral boy and uncover the truth behind her brother's disappearance, all while evading shadowy mobs who want the boy dead.

  7. Sword of the Rightful King

    Jane Yolen

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    When Merlin's clever ruse to legitimize a fledgling King Arthur with a sword-in-the-stone test goes awry, the future of England hangs precariously as an unexpected hand claims the legendary blade.

  8. Insomnia

    J.R. Johansson

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A sleepless teen who enters others' dreams finds an addiction in a girl's peaceful slumber, but his obsessive desire and memory blackouts threaten to consume them both when she becomes a target.

  9. Time Stops for No Mouse

    Michael Hoeye

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A timid watchmaker mouse finds his quiet life changed by a daring aviatrix, pulling him into a whimsical mystery involving cosmetic tycoons, sinister surgeons, and ruthless lab rats.

  10. Tattoo

    Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    ★ 3.6 (3k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Four friends get temporary tattoos for a school dance, only to discover they've been marked with supernatural powers and are the world's last hope against a rising darkness, if only one of them would stop turning gum wrappers into designer shoes.

  11. Groosham Grange

    Anthony Horowitz

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Sent away to a sinister boarding school, a young boy uncovers a terrifying curriculum of dark magic, disappearing teachers, and blood-pact rituals.

  12. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

    George Saunders

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the quirky seaside village of Frip, a young girl named Capable must confront her neighbors' selfishness when a swarm of milk-stopping, orange gappers decide to exclusively plague her family's goats.

  13. The Possessed

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsSelf-Help

    In a provincial town, intellectuals and revolutionaries, some genuine and some deluded, face nihilism, faith, and the destructive power of ideology, leading to chaos and murder.

  14. Guardian

    Alex London

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    As the face of a revolution, former Proxy Syd must uncover a deadly plague's origins while battling assassins and an indifferent government, all while his Rebooter bodyguard Liam struggles with his duty and a growing connection to Syd.

  15. Crusade

    Nancy Holder

    ★ 3.7 (3k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Torn between her sacred duty to hunt vampires and a forbidden love, a young warrior must navigate betrayal and a city overrun by the undead to save humanity and herself.

  16. Robin Hood

    Henry Gilbert

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Join Robin Hood and his Merry Men as they outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisborne, fighting for justice and King Richard's return in Sherwood Forest.

  17. Escape from Memory

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    After a party hypnotism unlocks fragmented memories of a forgotten past and a vanished mother, Kira must journey to the clandestine country of Crythe with a mysterious 'aunt' to unearth the dangerous truths hidden within her own mind before those same memories become a death sentence.

  18. The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

    Vivian Vande Velde

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Vivian Vande Velde wittily unravels the nonsensical threads of Rumpelstiltskin, spinning six ingenious and often hilarious alternative tales that finally make sense of the absurd.

  19. The Runaway Dolls

    Ann M. Martin

    ★ 4.1 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Two adventurous dolls try to prove a mysterious newcomer is their long-lost sister before she is shipped back to London, encountering human-sized challenges.

  20. The Collection

    Bentley Little

    ★ 3.9 (3k) average on Goodreads

    Bentley Little, called the 'Master of the Macabre' by Stephen King, presents 32 unsettling horror stories in this collection, including four new tales designed to get under your skin.

  21. Tiger

    Laurann Dohner

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A human's drunken mistake leads her into the arms of a stoic, mate-avoidant New Species operative, sparking an undeniable passion that threatens his carefully built solitude during a dangerous mission.

  22. Teeth

    Hannah Moskowitz

    ★ 3.8 (3k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    On a remote island, Rudy falls for a mysterious boy with violent secrets, forcing him to choose between a forbidden love and his dying brother's life.

  23. The Bells

    Richard Harvell

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A castrated opera singer, haunted by the secret of his son's parentage, narrates his extraordinary life from a Swiss belfry to the grand stages of Europe, where his divine voice is both his salvation and his curse.

  24. Gladiator

    Anna Hackett

    ★ 4.0 (3k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    An abducted Earth marine must fight for survival and her friend's freedom in a brutal alien gladiator arena, forging a dangerous alliance with a tattooed champion driven by revenge against the very aliens who hold them captive.

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