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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

    Samuel R. Delany

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    An illiterate genocide survivor and a powerful diplomat from different worlds discover they are perfect erotic matches, sparking an interstellar crisis that threatens to unravel society.

  2. Stray

    Rachel Vincent

    ★ 3.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A fiercely independent grad student and one of the last fertile werecats must return to her protective Pride after a rogue attack, only to defy them and hunt down her missing friends in a world where she's both prey and predator.

  3. Season of the Witch

    Natasha Mostert

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A renegade hacker with psychic abilities dives into the opulent, alchemical world of two immortal witch sisters to solve a disappearance, only to find himself ensnared in a dangerous love triangle and a battle for his mind and soul.

  4. The Golden Door

    Emily Rodda

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A determined boy defies the age-old rules of his besieged city to venture beyond its protective walls, risking untold terrors to find his lost brothers and confront the monstrous secret behind their world's destruction.

  5. Other

    Karen Kincy

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a town where shapeshifting is a death sentence, Gwen's secret life as an owl becomes entangled with a serial killer targeting Others and a seductive fox-spirit who challenges everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty.

  6. Super Human

    Michael Carroll

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Four millennia after the world's first immortal, mind-reading superhuman enslaved nations, a disparate group of young heroes with burgeoning powers must unite to prevent his return and a new era of global tyranny.

  7. The Mostly True Story of Jack

    Kelly Barnhill

    ★ 3.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Sent to a peculiar Iowa town, an ordinary boy named Jack discovers he's the reluctant center of an ancient magical prophecy, hunted by a powerful foe, and the key to mending a community's broken past.

  8. Paprika

    Yasutaka Tsutsui

    ★ 3.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a device blurs the line between shared dreams and waking reality, a psychotherapist's alter ego, Paprika, navigates a surreal world of escalating madness to prevent the unraveling of the human mind.

  9. The Pesthouse

    Jim Crace

    ★ 3.5 (2k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a desolate, post-apocalyptic America, where civilization has fallen and a toxic landscape forces a dangerous eastward migration, a man with a crippled knee and a feverish woman form an unexpected love as they trek through ruins, evading slavers and strange cults in a desperate search for passage to Europe.

  10. The Fugitive

    Pittacus Lore

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    On the run from alien invaders and the FBI, blogger Mark James races to save Sarah Hart while uncovering the true identity of his mysterious, weapon-supplying ally, GUARD, whose secrets will change everything he knows about the Loric.

  11. The Dark Tide

    Dennis L. McKiernan

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on Goodreads

    An unnatural winter and a creeping blizzard threaten to consume the land. A tiny Warrow named Tuck must brave a world too large and dangerous for his kind to answer the High King's call, only to find himself swallowed by a monstrous war that scatters his companions and may doom them all.

  12. Into the Wild

    Jon Krakauer

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A privileged young man, eager to escape society, heads into the Alaskan wilderness, only to find that his radical pursuit of freedom comes at a high cost.

  13. The Lost Conspiracy

    Frances Hardinge

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a land where prophets are revered and the dead are hunted for their ashes, a quiet attendant must unravel her sister's carefully constructed lies to expose a deadly island-wide conspiracy before it consumes them both.

  14. Ember Rising

    S.D. Smith

    ★ 4.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Two brave rabbits, Heather and Picket, must ignite a rebellion deep within enemy territory, battling the shadow of Morbin to spark an uprising for all rabbitkind.

  15. The New Policeman

    Kate Thompson

    ★ 3.7 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A young boy's quest to find time for his mother leads him to a hidden realm where he must confront a temporal leak and his family's secrets, all while a mysterious new policeman watches.

  16. The Golden Key

    Melanie Rawn

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A young artist must confront his family's darkest secret when a master Grijalva warps their powerful gift for selfish, destructive ambition.

  17. Castle Hangnail

    Ursula Vernon

    ★ 4.2 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A polite, pint-sized witch named Molly must convince a skeptical castle full of quirky minions she's wicked enough to save their home from decommissioning, all while hiding a secret that could unravel everything.

  18. The Mummy

    Anne Rice

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In Edwardian London, the immortal Ramses the Damned, desperate for his lost queen Cleopatra, finds his longing threatening his new companion, Julie Stratford, and risking ancient dangers on the modern world.

  19. The Art of Starving

    Sam J. Miller

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    A bullied gay teen believes his eating disorder gives him superpowers as he starves himself to find out what happened to his sister.

  20. Blink Once

    Cylin Bus

    ★ 4.0 (2k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A paralyzed high school senior falls for the mysterious girl in the next hospital room who can read his mind and shares his terrifying nightmares. He then discovers her identity is more shocking than he could imagine.

  21. The Forgotten Door

    Alexander Key

    ★ 4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A telepathic boy, fallen through a forgotten door from another world, must outwit the suspicious adults of rural Earth and find his way home before the army captures him and endangers the only family who ever cared.

  22. Air

    Geoff Ryman

    ★ 3.6 (2k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a secluded farming village, the arrival of 'Air' – a new, dangerous communication technology – forces Chung Mae into a desperate race to prepare her people for a future they don't understand, or face annihilation.

  23. The Tomorrow Code

    Brian Falkner

    ★ 3.8 (2k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Two ordinary teens stumble upon cryptic binary messages from their future selves, revealing a desperate plea to avert a cataclysmic end of the world they unknowingly hold the key to preventing.

  24. The Great Good Thing

    Roderick Townley

    ★ 3.9 (2k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Trapped as an eternally twelve-year-old princess in her story, Sylvie breaks the fourth wall, leaving her book to write her own destiny.

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