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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Champion

    Marie Lu

    ★ 4.3 (167k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A deadly plague threatens to break a fragile peace, forcing a prodigy officer to convince her legendary love to make the ultimate sacrifice to save their war-torn Republic.

  2. Uprooted

    Naomi Novik

    ★ 4.1 (167k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A clumsy village girl, unexpectedly chosen by a reclusive, curmudgeonly wizard, must master untamed magic to fight a creeping, malevolent forest that threatens to devour her homeland.

  3. Sphere

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.8 (167k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Beneath the crushing pressure of the Pacific, a team of scientists unearths a colossal, centuries-old spaceship, only to discover its true terror lies not in its alien origins, but in the dark reflections it casts upon their own minds.

  4. Wizard and Glass

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (166k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Stranded in an alternate, plague-ridden Kansas, Roland takes his ka-tet to a past of young love, betrayal, and a mystical seeing sphere, showing the tragic start of his quest for the Dark Tower in a world near collapse.

  5. Guards! Guards!

    Terry Pratchett

    ★ 4.3 (165k) average on Goodreads

    In the chaotic city of Ankh-Morpork, a struggling night watch and an unexpected librarian must stop a plot to unleash dragons on the Discworld.

  6. The Blade Itself

    Joe Abercrombie

    ★ 4.2 (165k) average on Goodreads

    In a world where heroes are villains and villains are heroes, a crippled torturer, a selfish nobleman, and a barbarian with a bloody past are unwillingly thrust together by a mysterious wizard as an ancient war threatens to consume them all.

  7. Angelfall

    Susan Ee

    ★ 4.1 (165k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by angels, a determined teenage girl forges an uneasy alliance with a wounded warrior angel to rescue her kidnapped sister from the very beings who destroyed their world.

  8. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

    Robert C. O'Brien

    ★ 4.1 (164k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A widowed mouse with a sick child discovers a secret society of intelligent, escapee lab rats who might just save her family from the farmer's plow.

  9. Animal Farm / 1984

    George Orwell

    ★ 4.3 (164k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    A pig's revolution becomes a tyranny, and Big Brother's gaze crushes freedom, showing the chilling depths of totalitarian control.

  10. The Kill Order

    James Dashner

    ★ 3.7 (163k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    After sun flares and a fast-spreading, rage-inducing disease devastate Earth, two survivors navigate a dangerous world where humanity's last hope is a risky cure, and every life has a price.

  11. The Invention of Hugo Cabret

    Brian Selznick

    ★ 4.2 (163k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a 1930s Paris train station, an orphaned clockmaker's quest to fix a broken automaton reveals a secret linking his past to a reclusive toymaker and the start of cinema.

  12. Fool Moon

    Jim Butcher

    ★ 4.0 (162k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a gruesome murder with animal hallmarks appears under a full moon, Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden, must hunt a monstrous killer before more victims die from a lycanthropic curse.

  13. The Neverending Story

    Michael Ende

    ★ 4.2 (162k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A lonely boy named Bastian literally enters a magical book, going on a quest through Fantastica to save it from a creeping Nothingness, finding courage and himself along the way.

  14. The Tale of Despereaux

    Kate DiCamillo

    ★ 4.0 (162k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A small mouse with big ears defies his kind to save a princess, intertwining the lives of a lonely rat and a simple serving girl.

  15. The Throne of Fire

    Rick Riordan

    ★ 4.2 (162k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    With the world on the edge of chaos, teenage magicians Carter and Sadie Kane must bring back the ancient, senile sun god Ra by finding his lost spell book, all while escaping a monstrous serpent set on destroying the world.

  16. Old Man's War

    John Scalzi

    ★ 4.2 (162k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    At 75, John Perry leaves his wife's grave for an interstellar battlefield, where the Colonial Defense Force turns retirees into enhanced soldiers to fight alien wars for humanity's survival and a chance at a new life.

  17. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

    Frank Miller

    ★ 4.3 (161k) average on Goodreads

    An aging, embittered Bruce Wayne emerges from a decade of retirement to don the cowl once more, battling a new wave of savage criminals, a psychopathic Joker, and even Superman in a decaying, near-future Gotham.

  18. Lover Awakened

    J.R. Ward

    ★ 4.4 (161k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A tormented vampire warrior, scarred by a brutal past, finds his savage heart awakened by a compassionate aristocrat. His thirst for vengeance then threatens their fragile new love amidst an ancient war.

  19. Fire

    Kristin Cashore

    ★ 4.1 (161k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a kingdom on the brink of civil war, a striking human with fiery hair and the power to control minds must confront her past to save the monarchy that fears her.

  20. Four: A Divergent Story Collection

    Veronica Roth

    ★ 4.0 (161k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Before Tris, a sixteen-year-old Tobias renames himself 'Four' and plunges into Dauntless, battling his past and the corrupt faction system, only to find his true self unlocked by a fearless initiate two years later.

  21. Gathering Blue

    Lois Lowry

    ★ 3.8 (161k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    An orphan with a talent for weaving uncovers her society's dark truths, forcing her to choose between complacency and a dangerous quest for change.

  22. The Wide Window

    Lemony Snicket

    ★ 3.9 (160k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Three resourceful orphans face hungry leeches, a treacherous hurricane, and a villain's disguise while trying to uncover the truth behind their guardian's suspicious 'accident' in a house teetering over a perilous lake.

  23. Wool Omnibus

    Hugh Howey

    ★ 4.2 (159k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a post-apocalyptic world where humanity lives in a vast underground silo, a sheriff's quest to understand why her loved ones were sent to their deaths outside uncovers a conspiracy that could shatter their last refuge.

  24. Wolves of the Calla

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (157k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Roland and his group must protect a village from child-abducting 'Wolves' and use a dangerous seeing sphere, all while rushing to save the Dark Tower's earthly form from corporate evil.

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