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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. The Story of Doctor Dolittle

    Hugh Lofting

    ★ 4.0 (45k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A kind doctor leaves human patients for animals, traveling to Africa after his parrot teaches him to speak their language.

  2. The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Alix E. Harrow

    ★ 4.1 (45k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A young woman discovers a book that reveals hidden doors to other realities, uncovering her extraordinary past in a world that suppresses such passages.

  3. Iron Gold

    Pierce Brown

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Haunted by a decade of war he inadvertently started, Darrow, the legendary Reaper, must face the broken promise of his revolution as new heroes and villains emerge to shape a dangerous future from the ruins of a broken Society.

  4. Lord of Misrule

    Rachel Caine

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    As a devastating storm approaches, student Claire Danvers and her friends must defend their vampire-human college town from Bishop, a master vampire determined to unleash chaos and an army of the evil dead.

  5. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

    Cassandra Clare

    ★ 4.4 (45k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After losing his memories as both human and vampire, Simon Lewis starts over at the Shadowhunter Academy, fighting demons, bias, and his own amnesia to create a new self while trying to recall a life—and love—he barely remembers.

  6. Ender in Exile

    Orson Scott Card

    ★ 3.9 (45k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Haunted by his past as humanity's savior, Ender Wiggin embarks on an interstellar quest for redemption, only to find himself entangled in new political intrigue and the target of a vengeful colonist determined to destroy his hard-won peace.

  7. The Penelopiad

    Margaret Atwood

    ★ 3.7 (45k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Margaret Atwood reclaims the ancient myth of Odysseus's return through the eyes of Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, revealing untold truths and injustices behind the epic.

  8. Just So Stories

    Rudyard Kipling

    ★ 4.1 (45k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Enter a world where camels got humps, butterflies learned to stamp, and the alphabet was born from Rudyard Kipling's inventive tales.

  9. The Day the Crayons Quit

    Drew Daywalt

    ★ 4.4 (45k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When Duncan's crayons collectively declare their resignation over grievances ranging from overuse to underappreciation, he must find a way to make peace and bring color back to his world.

  10. Carmilla

    J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Le Fanu

    ★ 3.8 (45k) average on Goodreads

    A lonely young woman in a secluded Styrian castle finds her life, and perhaps her very soul, taken by the mysterious Countess Carmilla, whose nightly habits and chilling secrets hint at a monstrous, immortal hunger.

  11. Count Zero

    William Gibson

    ★ 4.0 (45k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a future city glowing with neon, a corporate soldier, brought back to life, must rescue a bio-chipped defector from a dangerous corporate network while battling cybernetic ghosts and non-human enemies.

  12. Beyond the Grave

    Jude Watson

    ★ 3.9 (45k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Orphaned siblings Amy and Dan race to Egypt to uncover a powerful secret left by their dead grandmother, but her cryptic clues might lead them to salvation or a devastating trap.

  13. Forward the Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    As the Galactic Empire crumbles, Hari Seldon races against time and political plots to secure the future of psychohistory, a science that promises to guide humanity through the coming dark age, starting with the unlikely legacy of his own granddaughter.

  14. Odd Hours

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 3.9 (44k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by apocalyptic visions, the psychic fry cook Odd Thomas is drawn to a sinister California coastal town where official power and ancient evil converge, forcing him to confront shattering revelations that will redefine his understanding of reality and destiny.

  15. 300

    Frank Miller

    ★ 4.0 (44k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Facing Persian invasion, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans make a stand, their strength and will the last defense against tyranny.

  16. The Crown of Embers

    Rae Carson

    ★ 4.2 (44k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Queen Elisa, newly crowned, faces a perilous quest through ancient catacombs and treacherous seas with a spy, a traitor, and her forbidden love to unlock her destiny's full power and confront threats to her reign.

  17. Boundless

    Cynthia Hand

    ★ 4.1 (44k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A part-angel torn between two loves and a looming destiny, Clara must accept her supernatural fate to protect those she cares about, even if it means betrayal and sacrifice.

  18. King of Scars

    Leigh Bardugo

    ★ 4.2 (44k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A king battles to rebuild his nation and forge alliances while confronting the dark magic threatening to consume his kingdom and soul.

  19. Emperor of Thorns

    Mark Lawrence

    ★ 4.3 (44k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    To claim the emperorship by vote, the ruthless King Jorg must outmaneuver a legendary necromancer and harness lost technology, all while battling the intensifying demons of his past and the specter of his father's revenge.

  20. Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

    Dav Pilkey

    ★ 4.1 (44k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Two mischievous fourth-graders accidentally unleash an army of weaponized toilets led by the monstrous Turbo Toilet 2000. Only their tighty-whitey-clad superhero, Captain Underpants, can save the school from a porcelain-pocalypse.

  21. The End of Eternity

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 4.2 (44k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    An Eternal who alters time risks everything when he rewrites history for a forbidden love.

  22. Into the Still Blue

    Veronica Rossi

    ★ 4.2 (44k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    As Aether storms ravage the world, star-crossed lovers Aria and Perry must unite their fractured people and rescue a gifted boy who holds the key to their survival, before their enemies and the dying planet claim them all.

  23. Sorcery of Thorns

    Margaret Rogerson

    ★ 4.1 (44k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A sheltered librarian-in-training, raised to believe all sorcerers are evil, must forge an unlikely alliance with a charming sorcerer and his demonic servant to save her beloved magical grimoires and the world from a looming, ancient conspiracy.

  24. The Gargoyle

    Andrew Davidson

    ★ 4.0 (43k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A disfigured modern cynic, planning suicide in a burn ward, finds a reason to live and love when a mysterious gargoyle sculptor claims they were medieval lovers destined to reunite.

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