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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Veronica

    Nicholas Christopher

    ★ 3.8 (841) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a snow-laden New York, a photographer is ensnared by the enigmatic daughter of a vanished illusionist, plunging him into a fantastical underworld where time distorts and the city's hidden magic awakens.

  2. Metal Gear Solid

    Raymond Benson

    ★ 3.6 (824) average on GoodreadsThriller

    On a remote Alaskan island, a lone operative infiltrates a nuclear facility to stop six renegade commandos and their Metal Gear superweapon, only to uncover a genetic conspiracy and a shocking truth about his own past.

  3. Extraction

    Stephanie Diaz

    ★ 3.5 (824) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction
  4. The Thing

    Alan Dean Foster

    ★ 4.0 (820) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In the desolate, icy grip of Antarctica, a shapeshifting alien terror hunts a claustrophobic crew, turning their isolated outpost into a chilling maze of paranoia and bloody survival.

  5. Burning

    Danielle Rollins

    ★ 3.6 (820) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A teen inmate about to be released finds her world changed by a mysterious ten-year-old, whose arrival brings a terrifying, supernatural threat.

  6. Charmed

    Michelle Krys

    ★ 3.8 (818) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A guilt-ridden witch risks everything, including her warlock boyfriend's trust, to infiltrate a demonic dimension and rescue her best friend from an impossible prison, forging dangerous alliances with dark sorcerers along the way.

  7. The Golden Fleece

    Robert Graves

    ★ 4.0 (815) average on GoodreadsHistory

    Robert Graves reimagines the quest for the Golden Fleece as a raw, human expedition. Jason leads demigods and heroes on a journey filled with divine acts, Herculean pranks, and passionate affairs.

  8. King Kong

    Delos W. Lovelace

    ★ 3.5 (809) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A huge ape, taken from his island home, develops a tragic affection for an actress in New York City, becoming both a spectacle and a victim of human exploitation.

  9. The Runaway

    Kate O'Hearn

    ★ 4.4 (808) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A teenage Valkyrie, who defies tradition by befriending humans instead of reaping their souls, goes on a dangerous quest to the World of Man and the Land of the Frost Giants to find a legendary runaway, creating her own destiny with the help of her mortal friends.

  10. The Vanished

    Sarah Dalton

    ★ 3.8 (798) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Mina navigates the politics and ancient secrets of the Clans, confronting betrayals and a looming war that threatens her freedom and abilities.

  11. The Death of King Arthur

    Unknown

    ★ 3.3 (795) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Camelot's chivalric dream ends as King Arthur, betrayed by his queen, his best knight, and his own son, faces the tragic end of his rule in a kingdom full of treachery and fading glory.

  12. The Survivors

    Tom Godwin

    ★ 3.9 (788) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Marooned on a hostile alien world with two suns and deadly monsters, untrained survivors must choose between despair or fueling their will to live with a burning desire for revenge against their cruel captors.

  13. Immortal

    Gillian Shields

    ★ 3.8 (786) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    At an isolated Gothic boarding school, a lonely scholarship student's forbidden romance with a mysterious boy unravels a haunting historical secret that reveals her own supernatural destiny.

  14. Death Watch

    Ari Berk

    ★ 3.8 (784) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Armed with a spectral clock and a legacy of death, a young boy must brave a crumbling, ghost-haunted town to find his missing mortician father and embrace his own destiny as an Undertaker of the dead.

  15. Heritage

    S.M. Boyce

    ★ 4.4 (762) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a war-torn land of shapeshifters and soul-stealers, an outcast with a shadowed past must accept her terrifying heritage and an unlikely alliance to face a tyrannical king and uncover a truth that could save or destroy her world.

  16. Septimus Heap

    Angie Sage

    ★ 4.1 (748) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, must navigate a world of powerful magic, dark plots, and his extraordinary destiny in a saga of wizardry and adventure.

  17. The Miracle

    Irving Wallace

    ★ 3.6 (743) average on GoodreadsThriller

    At Lourdes, a skeptical journalist, a desperate young woman, a reluctant celebrity, and a dying American converge during the Virgin Mary's promised miracle cure, each with their own hopes and secrets, on a collision course with a truth more complex than divine intervention or simple fraud.

  18. Beauty

    Sheri S. Tepper

    ★ 3.6 (736) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A cursed young woman's journey through time and enchanted realms reveals that true beauty holds the magic essential for humanity's survival.

  19. The Dark Wild

    Piers Torday

    ★ 4.2 (731) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Beneath a shimmering city, a hidden world of animals plots an uprising, and only the boy who once saved them can now prevent an all-out war against humanity.

  20. Revenant

    Kat Richardson

    ★ 4.0 (719) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After dying and returning as a Greywalker, PI Harper Blaine must race across Europe with her lover to stop a necromantic cult and her lover's father from unleashing an ancient horror that threatens to ignite a global war.

  21. Stranger

    Zoe Archer

    ★ 3.7 (712) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A determined journalist and a brilliant inventor of magical gadgets must overcome their clashing worlds and growing attraction to save the planet from arcane conspiracies in 1920s Chicago.

  22. Way Down Deep

    Ruth White

    ★ 3.9 (681) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    An orphaned girl in 1940s West Virginia uncovers the mystery of her origins, only to discover that the truest family ties are forged not by blood, but by the unwavering love of the quirky town that raised her.

  23. Storm

    Brigid Kemmerer

    ★ 4.3 (671) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A girl targeted by her ex-boyfriend discovers her new crush and his elemental brothers are fugitives, thrusting her into a dangerous world of magic and secrets where she must uncover the truth before a deadly storm consumes them all.

  24. Fenway and Hattie

    Victoria J. Coe

    ★ 3.9 (669) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A spirited Jack Russell terrier named Fenway navigates the bewildering new world of the suburbs, convinced that the arrival of a 'new short human friend' and a game called baseball are conspiring to steal his beloved Hattie away.

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