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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Where the Sidewalk Ends

    Shel Silverstein

    ★ 4.3 (1.2M) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Enter a whimsical world where shadows are washed, diamond gardens grow, and outlandish characters come to life through Shel Silverstein's memorable poems and quirky drawings.

  2. Insurgent

    Veronica Roth

    ★ 4.0 (1.2M) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Tris Prior faces the consequences of her past choices and embraces her unique Divergence during a brewing war and the unraveling of her dystopian society, even if it means sacrificing everything.

  3. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

    Mary Shelley

    ★ 3.8 (1.2M) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A brilliant but reckless scientist's hubris unleashes a sentient, suffering creature upon the world, forcing both creator and creation into a tragic dance of rejection, revenge, and the profound question of what it means to be human.

  4. Ender's Game

    Orson Scott Card

    ★ 4.3 (1.1M) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Earth is at war with aliens. A child genius, Ender Wiggin, enters a harsh military program where his strategy skills become humanity's last hope.

  5. The Shining

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (1.1M) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A recovering alcoholic accepts a caretaking job at a snow-bound, haunted hotel, where his son's psychic abilities reveal the sinister forces that drive him to madness and terrorize his family.

  6. The Maze Runner

    James Dashner

    ★ 4.0 (1.1M) average on GoodreadsMystery

    Stranded in a glade encircled by an insurmountable, ever-shifting maze, a group of amnesiac boys, joined by a mysterious girl, must brave monstrous creatures and unravel the deadly secrets of their confinement before the Maze claims them all.

  7. A Wrinkle in Time

    Madeleine L'Engle

    ★ 4.0 (1.1M) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    On a night as wild as her own spirit, Meg Murry, her gifted brother, and a new friend go on a cosmic trip through time and space to save her father from a growing darkness that threatens the universe.

  8. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

    Ransom Riggs

    ★ 3.9 (977k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A secluded Welsh orphanage, home to children with unusual abilities, becomes a terrifying reality for a teenager investigating his grandfather's mysterious death, blurring the lines between vintage photographs and a dangerous present.

  9. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde

    ★ 4.1 (966k) average on GoodreadsPhilosophy

    A beautiful young man's soul decays within a cursed portrait, mirroring the grotesque cost of his hedonistic pursuit of eternal youth and illicit pleasure.

  10. The Giving Tree

    Shel Silverstein

    ★ 4.4 (906k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A selfless tree gives her all to a demanding boy throughout his life, showing the bittersweet nature of unconditional love and sacrifice.

  11. The Host

    Stephenie Meyer

    ★ 3.8 (895k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    After aliens take over Earth by inhabiting human bodies, one defiant human mind fights for control, love, and life itself inside her alien occupier.

  12. The Selection

    Kiera Cass

    ★ 4.1 (893k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a future where love is forbidden and social standing is everything, America Singer must choose between a secret romance and a royal competition for a prince's heart, all while a rebellion grows outside the palace.

  13. The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    ★ 4.1 (891k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A spoiled orphan discovers a hidden garden and a secret cousin, changing their lives and a gloomy manor with nature and friendship.

  14. Ready Player One

    Ernest Cline

    ★ 4.3 (861k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a future dystopia, a poor orphan escapes into a vast virtual reality to find a rich man's hidden prize, a quest that promises fortune and control of the digital world, but also attracts corporate rivals willing to kill for it.

  15. Allegiant

    Veronica Roth

    ★ 3.6 (827k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Tris and Tobias leave their shattered city, only to find a devastating truth about their world that forces them to choose between freedom and love.

  16. Outlander

    Diana Gabaldon

    ★ 4.2 (824k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A World War II nurse on a second honeymoon in Scotland is flung through ancient standing stones into 1743, where she must navigate the Jacobite uprisings, a brutal ancestor of her husband, and an undeniable passion with a chivalrous Highland warrior.

  17. Jurassic Park

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 4.0 (803k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    On a remote island, a millionaire's dinosaur theme park becomes a nightmare when the resurrected predators escape, turning a scientific wonder into a terrifying fight for survival against creatures humanity brought back from extinction.

  18. A Clash of Kings

    George R.R. Martin

    ★ 4.4 (788k) average on Goodreads

    Kings clash and chaos reigns across a divided Westeros as a red comet signals a brutal war for the Iron Throne, where treachery, magic, and cold steel decide who survives incest, fratricide, and the rising dead.

  19. Dune

    Frank Herbert

    ★ 4.2 (766k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A betrayed ducal heir on a desert planet must embrace his destiny as a messianic leader to avenge his family and control the universe's most vital, mind-altering substance amidst colossal sandworms and ancient prophecies.

  20. American Gods

    Neil Gaiman

    ★ 4.1 (758k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    An ex-convict finds a hidden world where ancient gods, forgotten by modern society, prepare for a war against new gods of technology and media across America's forgotten highways and roadside attractions.

  21. One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel García Márquez

    ★ 4.1 (753k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Through the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, a mythical town deals with the repeating patterns of time, love, and solitude, as the extraordinary mixes with the ordinary.

  22. The Sea of Monsters

    Rick Riordan

    ★ 4.2 (749k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, must brave the treacherous Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save his demigod sanctuary before it's lost forever.

  23. City of Ashes

    Cassandra Clare

    ★ 4.2 (746k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Downworlder children are murdered and a powerful artifact is stolen. Clary must navigate forbidden love with her brother Jace, confront their father Valentine, save her mother, and stop a looming war.

  24. The Battle of the Labyrinth

    Rick Riordan

    ★ 4.4 (741k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Percy Jackson navigates a dangerous, monster-filled labyrinth that changes with its creator's thoughts to stop Kronos's army from invading Camp Half-Blood and releasing an ancient evil.

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