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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

    Judi Barrett

    ★ 4.2 (130k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the whimsical town of Chewandswallow, daily life is a delicious, if sometimes dangerous, smorgasbord as food rains from the sky, leading to culinary delights and comedic chaos.

  2. Daughter of the Moon Goddess

    Sue Lynn Tan

    ★ 4.1 (130k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    To free her exiled mother, a hidden daughter of the moon goddess must master forbidden magic and challenge the ruthless Celestial Emperor, even if it means betraying her love for his son and risking cosmic chaos.

  3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    Seth Grahame-Smith

    ★ 3.3 (129k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In Regency England, Elizabeth Bennet navigates society and beheads zombies, all while dealing with Mr. Darcy.

  4. Lord of Chaos

    Robert Jordan

    ★ 4.1 (129k) average on Goodreads

    As Rand struggles with prophecy and a divided world, light and shadow meet, threatening his sanity and unleashing chaos.

  5. Tower of Dawn

    Sarah J. Maas

    ★ 4.3 (129k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A crippled captain, a skilled healer with a haunted past, and a fierce warrior travel to a southern continent. There, politics and ancient magic mix with their desperate search for alliances and healing, all while a looming war threatens their world.

  6. The Opal Deception

    Eoin Colfer

    ★ 4.0 (128k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A vengeful pixie, newly awake from a coma, plans to cause chaos in the fairy world and target a memory-wiped Artemis Fowl, who must remember his past to stop a war between species.

  7. Summer Knight

    Jim Butcher

    ★ 4.3 (128k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A down-on-his-luck wizard, Harry Dresden, needing to escape a debt to his fae godmother, investigates a murder among the warring Summer and Winter Courts, where the fate of reality rests on his ability to navigate faerie politics.

  8. Harold and the Purple Crayon

    Crockett Johnson

    ★ 4.3 (127k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    With a single purple crayon, a young boy sketches an entire world of adventure, showing how imagination helps with life's unexpected turns.

  9. The Institute

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (127k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a secret facility, children with psychic powers are harvested, forcing a defiant boy to escape his captors before his unique ability is weaponized.

  10. Oathbringer

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★ 4.6 (127k) average on Goodreads

    As an apocalyptic storm awakens enslaved parshmen to their justified rage, Dalinar Kholin must unite a fractured world against a vengeful foe by confronting his own bloody past, even as ancient secrets and rediscovered powers emerge from the depths of Urithiru.

  11. The Long Walk

    Richard Bachman

    ★ 4.1 (127k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future dystopia, one hundred teenage boys begin a march where the only prize for survival is life, and the cost of failure is death.

  12. A Crown of Swords

    Robert Jordan

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on Goodreads

    As the Shadow's grip tightens, Rand al'Thor must master an ancient, forbidden power and rally a fractured world against the encroaching darkness, even as betrayal lurks within his closest allies.

  13. Dragonflight

    Anne McCaffrey

    ★ 4.1 (126k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A telepathically linked dragon queen and her young, underestimated rider must awaken old powers and unite a broken world against a deadly, world-devouring alien threat.

  14. King's Cage

    Victoria Aveyard

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Imprisoned and stripped of her lightning, Mare Barrow navigates the betrayals of a king she once loved, while the rebellion she started burns stronger without her, threatening to consume a kingdom already at war.

  15. Curious George

    H.A. Rey

    ★ 4.2 (125k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A mischievous yet lovable monkey, fresh from the jungle, finds his insatiable curiosity constantly landing him in comical predicaments throughout the bustling city, all while under the watchful eye of his kind, yellow-hatted friend.

  16. The Tommyknockers

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.5 (125k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An ancient spaceship in rural Maine slowly transforms a town's residents into super-powered, malevolent beings, twisting their minds and bodies.

  17. Towers of Midnight

    Robert Jordan

    ★ 4.4 (125k) average on Goodreads

    As the Last Battle rages and reality unravels, Perrin must master his inner wolf to escape spectral hunters, while Mat faces an impossible dance with the Aelfinn and Eelfinn in the ominous Tower of Ghenjei to save a lost friend.

  18. The Ruins of Gorlan

    John Flanagan

    ★ 4.2 (124k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Feared as dark magicians, the mysterious Rangers recruit a small, orphaned boy named Will, who quickly discovers their true purpose as the kingdom's silent protectors against a looming invasion by the malevolent Lord Morgarath.

  19. The Dark Half

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.8 (124k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a novelist's violent pseudonym takes on a life of its own, Thad Beaumont must confront the terrifying reality that his dark literary creation is committing real-world murders, all while framing him with his own bloody fingerprints.

  20. For One More Day

    Mitch Albom

    ★ 4.1 (124k) average on Goodreads

    A broken man, near suicide, gets one miraculous day to reconnect with his deceased mother, learning about her untold sacrifices and mending his life.

  21. The Light Fantastic

    Terry Pratchett

    ★ 4.0 (124k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    As a large red star moves towards Discworld, the only hope rests with the inept wizard Rincewind, who must save a world he once fell off.

  22. The Eternity Code

    Eoin Colfer

    ★ 4.0 (123k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl’s latest brilliant plan involves showing a dangerous, stolen fairy supercomputer to a ruthless American businessman, confident that with his bodyguard Butler, nothing could go wrong.

  23. The Mysterious Benedict Society

    Trenton Lee Stewart

    ★ 4.2 (123k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Four uniquely gifted orphans infiltrate a mind-bending academy run by a nefarious villain, relying on their individual talents and burgeoning friendship to thwart a plot that threatens to brainwash the world.

  24. Lincoln in the Bardo

    George Saunders

    ★ 3.8 (123k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a spectral Georgetown cemetery, a grief-stricken Abraham Lincoln visits the bardo where his deceased son, Willie, is caught in a hilarious and terrifying purgatory with a chorus of chattering ghosts, all grappling with the messy, unfinished business of life and death.

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