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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Stargazer

    Claudia Gray

    ★ 3.8 (55k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Torn between her vampire destiny and her forbidden love for a vampire hunter, Bianca navigates a treacherous world of secrets, ancient evils, and the looming threat of war, all while her own vampiric nature awakens.

  2. Till We Have Faces

    C.S. Lewis

    ★ 4.2 (55k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    In a brutal, pre-Christian land, an embittered queen's possessive love for her beautiful sister, chosen by a god, shatters her understanding of divine and human affection, forcing her to confront her own hidden self.

  3. Heretics of Dune

    Frank Herbert

    ★ 3.9 (54k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    As the desert reclaims Rakis and the sandworms fade, the Bene Gesserit, Honored Matres, and the enigmatic Lost Ones clash over humanity's future, finding a heresy of love in the ashes of empire.

  4. The Rithmatist

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★ 4.2 (54k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When two-dimensional chalk drawings come to life, a non-magic user uncovers a dark plot against the Rithmatists he hopes to join, forcing him to solve a mystery that could destroy their world.

  5. One Night at the Call Center

    Chetan Bhagat

    ★ 2.5 (54k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Six friends at an Indian call center face heartbreak, ambition, and cultural clashes. A mysterious caller offers them a chance to restart their lives.

  6. Carpe Jugulum

    Terry Pratchett

    ★ 4.1 (54k) average on Goodreads

    When modern, sun-loving vampires with a penchant for bad fashion decide to permanently crash King Verence's castle, a bumbling priest and the formidable Lancre witches must put aside their differences to prevent an elegant, bloodthirsty takeover.

  7. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    ★ 4.0 (54k) average on Goodreads

    A cursed mariner, his shipmates dead and his soul haunted by an albatross's ghost, drifts through the supernatural, forever bound to recount his horrifying tale of hubris and penance.

  8. Kingdom Come

    Mark Waid

    ★ 4.3 (54k) average on Goodreads

    In a grim, near-future DC, a weary Superman returns from exile to unite new super-powered beings and stop a global conflict.

  9. Black House

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.0 (54k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A retired detective, haunted by forgotten memories and strange visions, is pulled back into a terrifying parallel world to confront an ancient evil preying on a quiet Wisconsin town.

  10. The Daylight War

    Peter V. Brett

    ★ 4.2 (54k) average on Goodreads

    As humanity faces extinction, a tattooed warrior who denies his destiny and a desert general who accepts his prophecied role fight a brutal war for mankind's future, while ancient magic and priestesses pull their strings amidst a rising tide of demons.

  11. Partials

    Dan Wells

    ★ 3.9 (54k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    On Long Island, humanity struggles to survive after a war with engineered doppelgängers. A teenager must uncover the truth behind the apocalypse to save both races, blurring the lines between creator and creation.

  12. A Curse So Dark and Lonely

    Brigid Kemmerer

    ★ 4.1 (53k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A fiercely independent girl with cerebral palsy from modern-day D.C. is thrust into a cursed fantasy kingdom, becoming the unlikely hope for a beastly prince and his dying realm, where breaking a spell is just the beginning of their fight for survival.

  13. Succubus Blues

    Richelle Mead

    ★ 3.9 (53k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A Seattle succubus balances her soul-sucking job with an unrequited mortal crush, finding her infernal afterlife complicated by a sinister plot brewing in the city's supernatural underbelly.

  14. The Gods Themselves

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 4.1 (53k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Humanity's addiction to limitless, free energy from a parallel universe puts Earth on a collision course with solar annihilation, forcing an unlikely alliance of outcast scientists and rebellious aliens to convince a skeptical cosmos of the impending doom.

  15. The Darkest Part of the Forest

    Holly Black

    ★ 3.9 (52k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a town where dangerous fae magic draws tourists, a girl who once believed herself a knight must confront the awakening of a horned boy from a glass coffin, forcing her to choose between childhood loyalties and a treacherous new love.

  16. To Kill a Kingdom

    Alexandra Christo

    ★ 3.9 (52k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A siren princess, cursed to be human, must steal the heart of a prince who hunts her kind, or be exiled from her ocean kingdom forever.

  17. Wayward Son

    Rainbow Rowell

    ★ 4.0 (52k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After saving the world, a magically drained Simon Snow and his friends embark on a chaotic American road trip to find his lost magic and redefine their happily-ever-after.

  18. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

    Katherine Howe

    ★ 3.7 (52k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A Harvard student finds a 300-year-old key and parchment in an abandoned Salem home, linking her ancestry to the witch trials and the secrets of a forgotten physick book.

  19. The Lathe of Heaven

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.1 (51k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a future Portland ravaged by climate change, a man whose dreams reshape reality battles his manipulative psychiatrist, who uses this power to 'improve' humanity, only to unravel existence itself.

  20. Slade House

    David Mitchell

    ★ 3.8 (51k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Every nine years, a hidden manor lures lonely souls into its reality-warping embrace, trapping them in a cycle of spiritual consumption by its immortal, parasitic residents.

  21. The High King

    Lloyd Alexander

    ★ 4.2 (51k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    An assistant pig-keeper, with an army at his back, confronts death itself and makes a world-changing choice to save his land from darkness.

  22. The 100

    Kass Morgan

    ★ 3.6 (51k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a desperate gamble for humanity's future, one hundred expendable juvenile delinquents are exiled from their dying space colony to a radioactive Earth, where they must confront a savage new world and their own haunting pasts to survive.

  23. The People of Sparks

    Jeanne DuPrau

    ★ 3.7 (51k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Having escaped their dying underground city, Lina and Doon must now navigate the surface world where anonymous acts of sabotage threaten to ignite a war between their people and the established inhabitants.

  24. The Fireman

    Joe Hill

    ★ 3.9 (51k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    During a pandemic that causes spontaneous human combustion, a pregnant nurse marked for death finds safety with a mysterious fireman who controls the flames threatening humanity.

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