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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Empire of Storms

    Sarah J. Maas

    ★ 4.5 (194k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Queen Aelin Galathynius must master her magic and make hard choices to protect her kingdom from an ancient evil.

  2. Corduroy

    Don Freeman

    ★ 4.3 (194k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Corduroy, a teddy bear, goes on a night adventure in a department store to find his lost button, leading him to a true friend and a home.

  3. Winter

    Marissa Meyer

    ★ 4.4 (194k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A kind-hearted Lunar princess, secretly in love with a guard, must confront her tyrannical, beauty-obsessed stepmother and join forces with a cyborg mechanic to ignite a revolution and reclaim her kingdom.

  4. Anansi Boys

    Neil Gaiman

    ★ 4.0 (193k) average on Goodreads

    After his estranged, god-like father dies on a karaoke stage, a timid young man discovers he has an impossibly charming and dangerous brother who is about to turn his ordinary life into a mythological maelstrom.

  5. Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

    Tsugumi Ohba

    ★ 4.4 (192k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A brilliant but bored student discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing their name, sparking a deadly game of cat and mouse with a reclusive detective.

  6. Starship Troopers

    Robert A. Heinlein

    ★ 4.0 (192k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Juan Rico leaves his youth behind to join the Mobile Infantry, fighting an interstellar war against alien insects where citizenship is earned through service.

  7. Cell

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.6 (192k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When cell phone calls turn ordinary people into rabid, murderous zombies, a graphic artist navigates a post-apocalyptic New England to find his son.

  8. The Mists of Avalon

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    ★ 4.1 (192k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Through the eyes of priestesses and queens, this saga reclaims the Arthurian legend, showing the pagan heart and political schemes that shaped Camelot's rise and fall as Avalon's mists vanished.

  9. Unwind

    Neal Shusterman

    ★ 4.2 (192k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future where unwanted teens are harvested for their body parts, three fugitives—a rebel, a musician, and a true believer—must unite to survive being 'unwound'.

  10. The Last Wish

    Andrzej Sapkowski

    ★ 4.1 (191k) average on Goodreads

    Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter, navigates a world where the line between man and beast blurs, forcing him to confront what is good and evil in himself and the 'monsters' he hunts.

  11. Firestarter

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.9 (190k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    With the government after her, a young girl with fire powers must control her gift and escape those who would turn her into a weapon.

  12. Timeline

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.9 (190k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When archaeologists find a way to travel to 14th-century France, their study of history turns into a fight for survival against knights, castles, and a corporation trying to control the past.

  13. The Girl With All the Gifts

    M.R. Carey

    ★ 3.9 (190k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a world after the apocalypse, a smart young girl named Melanie, who is a zombie, dreams of a future she might not have, making her captors question her unique existence.

  14. The House of the Spirits

    Isabel Allende

    ★ 4.2 (190k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    For a century, the Trueba family's passionate, often difficult, lives unfold against political upheaval and mystical events in an unnamed Latin American country, leading to a dictatorship that reflects their own fiery spirits.

  15. Siege and Storm

    Leigh Bardugo

    ★ 4.0 (189k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Alina, the Sun Summoner, navigates dangerous alliances and growing powers, torn between her love for Mal, her duty to Ravka, and the Darkling's seductive darkness.

  16. Hyperion

    Dan Simmons

    ★ 4.2 (188k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Seven pilgrims travel to Hyperion, a world guarded by a terrifying, time-traveling entity called the Shrike. They seek answers from the Shrike before galactic war begins, hoping its mysteries can save humanity.

  17. The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

    Suzanne Collins

    ★ 4.5 (188k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a dystopian future, a defiant teenage girl from the poorest district volunteers for a brutal televised death match, igniting a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol.

  18. All Together Dead

    Charlaine Harris

    ★ 4.0 (186k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    At a vampire summit in hurricane-damaged New Orleans, Sookie Stackhouse navigates shifting loyalties and a new shapeshifter love, all while trying to stop an undead political coup that could throw the supernatural world into chaos.

  19. The Waste Lands

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (186k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Roland's quest for the Dark Tower is complicated by a paradox of erased memories and a descent into a ruined city where an insane, riddle-loving train offers their only escape.

  20. Sabriel

    Garth Nix

    ★ 4.2 (185k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A young woman must cross into a land haunted by the Dead and ruled by rogue magic to rescue her father, the legendary Abhorsen, before darkness consumes them all.

  21. Around the World in Eighty Days

    Jules Verne

    ★ 3.9 (184k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Phileas Fogg bets his fortune he can circle the globe in 80 days, embarking on a rapid journey by train, elephant, and more, challenging Victorian expectations of time and travel.

  22. The Reptile Room

    Lemony Snicket

    ★ 4.0 (184k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a house with many snakes and a kind herpetologist, the Baudelaire orphans soon discover their new guardian's happiness hides a plot involving a deadly viper and their worst enemy.

  23. An Ember in the Ashes

    Sabaa Tahir

    ★ 4.3 (182k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a brutal empire reminiscent of ancient Rome, a slave girl spies within a ruthless military academy to save her brother, only to find her destiny intertwined with the academy's finest, yet most reluctant, soldier.

  24. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

    Stephenie Meyer

    ★ 3.5 (181k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In this dark companion to the Twilight Saga, a young newborn vampire named Bree Tanner navigates a brutal existence, a fleeting romance, and a deadly conspiracy as she hurtles towards an inevitable, tragic confrontation.

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