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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. The Serpent's Shadow

    Rick Riordan

    ★ 4.3 (123k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    With the chaos snake Apophis threatening eternal darkness, Carter and Sadie Kane must unite squabbling gods and magicians, and bargain with a murderous ghost, to uncover an ancient spell that can weaponize the serpent's own shadow before the world plunges into oblivion.

  2. The Power of Six

    Pittacus Lore

    ★ 4.2 (123k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    As the last six alien Garde scatter across Earth, Number Seven, Marina, develops her powers and hopes John Smith, Number Four, and a mysterious raven-haired girl will unite them to fight the Mogadorian hunters before humanity's adopted home becomes their final grave.

  3. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

    J.K. Rowling

    ★ 4.2 (122k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A misplaced magical case in 1920s New York unleashes a menagerie of wondrous and dangerous creatures, forcing a shy magizoologist to confront dark forces threatening both the wizarding and non-magical worlds.

  4. Lover Revealed

    J.R. Ward

    ★ 4.3 (122k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    An ex-cop's love for an aristocratic vampire leads him to a desperate battle against ancient evils, only to become a pawn in the war he sought to join, testing love and sacrifice.

  5. Morning Star

    Pierce Brown

    ★ 4.5 (122k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In the final book, a changed Red miner starts a brutal, galaxy-wide revolution against the tyrannical Golds, making him fight former friends and inspiring the oppressed to break free and create a new future.

  6. The Ersatz Elevator

    Lemony Snicket

    ★ 4.0 (122k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the sixth book of their sad story, the Baudelaire orphans go down a dark elevator shaft, finding red herrings, secret passages, and parsley soda, all while trying to outsmart a master of disguise and figure out some mysterious initials.

  7. Unearthly

    Cynthia Hand

    ★ 4.0 (121k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Blessed with angelic power and haunted by prophetic visions, Clara must navigate a dangerous destiny and a celestial love triangle as a fiery apocalypse looms.

  8. The Rainbow Fish

    Marcus Pfister

    ★ 4.2 (121k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A shimmering fish learns that true beauty and happiness come not from glittering scales, but from the joy of sharing them with others.

  9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

    Douglas Adams

    ★ 4.0 (121k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A disarmingly holistic detective, a couch, and an ancient ghost's time-traveling suicide attempt collide in a hilariously convoluted plot to save humanity from its own past.

  10. Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

    Hiromu Arakawa

    ★ 4.5 (121k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Alchemy comes at a brutal cost in this story of two brothers. One is a living suit of armor, the other an alchemist with prosthetic limbs. They hunt for a mythical stone to restore their bodies, but they uncover a conspiracy more dangerous than their own forbidden experiments.

  11. Desperation

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.8 (121k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a simple road trip becomes a nightmare involving a monstrous sheriff, a group of strangers in the desolate town of Desperation, Nevada, must join forces against an ancient, evil entity to survive.

  12. Lover Unbound

    J.R. Ward

    ★ 4.3 (120k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A seer's curse and endless war define Vishous's life until a human surgeon thaws his heart, but their forbidden love risks being lost to his solitary destiny.

  13. The Left Hand Of Darkness

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.1 (120k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    On a frozen world where people have a single, fluid gender, an envoy from another planet challenges their isolation and customs, making them confront identity, love, and belonging.

  14. The Monster at the End of this Book

    Jon Stone

    ★ 4.4 (120k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Join the lovable, furry Grover on a hilariously self-aware adventure as he frantically tries to prevent you from reaching the inevitable, and surprisingly familiar, monster at the end of the book.

  15. The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri

    ★ 4.0 (120k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    Join Dante as he travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise on a quest for divine love and salvation.

  16. The Eyre Affair

    Jasper Fforde

    ★ 3.9 (119k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In an alternate 1985 where literary detectives can jump into novels, Special Operative Thursday Next must chase a master criminal through the pages of Jane Eyre to prevent the beloved character's murder and preserve literary history amidst a world obsessed with dodo cloning, time travel, and Shakespearean conspiracies.

  17. The Vile Village

    Lemony Snicket

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a village obsessed with crows and rules, the Baudelaire orphans confront an angry mob, unjust arrests, and the mystery of V.F.D., all while sporting very strange hats.

  18. Library of Souls

    Ransom Riggs

    ★ 4.1 (119k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Armed with a new power and accompanied by a pyrokinetic girl and a peculiar dog, Jacob Portman plunges into the grimy depths of Victorian London's Devil's Acre to rescue his friends and decide the fate of all peculiardom.

  19. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

    Lewis Carroll

    ★ 4.1 (119k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Alice tumbles through a mirror into a backwards world of chess pieces and Red Queens, where logic is a game and nonsense reigns supreme.

  20. A Wind in the Door

    Madeleine L'Engle

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When her brilliant younger brother, Charles Wallace, is threatened by a cosmic illness that mirrors the extinguishing of stars, Meg Murry must journey with a fiery, winged cherubim and her friend Calvin into the heart of creation to confront the Echthroi, beings of pure hate, and restore the universe's harmonious song.

  21. I Am Legend and Other Stories

    Richard Matheson

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a world overrun by the living dead, the last human survivor hunts vampires by day and barricades himself against their siege by night, questioning who the true monster has become.

  22. The Infinite Sea

    Rick Yancey

    ★ 3.9 (119k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a world where alien invaders have shattered trust, Cassie and her allies must find their humanity to fight the 5th Wave, which aims to wipe out humankind.

  23. The Bear and the Nightingale

    Katherine Arden

    ★ 4.1 (119k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a snow-laden medieval Russia, a young woman who sees ancient spirits must defy her devout stepmother and a rising demonic evil to protect her family and village from a winter demon.

  24. The Twits

    Roald Dahl

    ★ 4.0 (118k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When the world's most revolting couple, the Twits, push their pranks too far, their mistreated monkeys and a family of Roly-Poly birds conspire to turn the tables in a hilariously grotesque act of poetic justice.

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