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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. UnDivided

    Neal Shusterman

    ★ 4.5 (20k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    As America nears civil war, three teens uncover a conspiracy that could save a generation from forced organ harvesting or push the nation into a bloodier rebellion.

  2. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

    Roald Dahl

    ★ 4.1 (20k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    From a man who learns to see without his eyes to a boy who talks with a giant turtle, Roald Dahl tells stories where the unusual is always close, showing that even a pickpocket can be a hero and lost treasure holds a sad truth.

  3. Now We Are Six

    A.A. Milne

    ★ 4.3 (20k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Enter the world of childhood with A.A. Milne's poems, where the wonder of growing up to six years old comes alive through Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations.

  4. If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

    Laura Joffe Numeroff

    ★ 4.2 (20k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A small, hungry mouse turns a movie trip into a flurry of holiday decorating and demands, all from one piece of popcorn.

  5. The Bone People

    Keri Hulme

    ★ 4.0 (20k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    On the wild South Island shores, a reclusive artist, a mute shipwreck survivor, and his volatile Maori foster father are drawn into a maelstrom of longing and violence, battling the very attachments they crave.

  6. An Acceptable Time

    Madeleine L'Engle

    ★ 3.8 (20k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A freak storm catapults a young girl through time to an ancient world where she must navigate a society of spear-wielding warriors and the threat of human sacrifice to find her way home before the temporal portal seals forever.

  7. The Knight at Dawn

    Mary Pope Osborne

    ★ 3.9 (20k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Two siblings are whisked by a magic tree house into a medieval castle, where they must navigate a feast of peacocks and boys in skirts as unexpected, and unwelcome, guests.

  8. Aurora

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    ★ 3.8 (20k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Generations after humanity fled Earth, a conscious starship faces the harsh truths of interstellar travel as it nears a new, uncertain home.

  9. Millennium Approaches

    Tony Kushner

    ★ 4.3 (20k) average on Goodreads

    In 1980s New York City, an angel tells a gay man with AIDS that he is a prophet, making him confront his mortality, his identity, and a nation's spiritual crisis.

  10. Wait Till Helen Comes

    Mary Downing Hahn

    ★ 4.1 (20k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A malevolent century-old ghost, rising from a fiery past, manipulates a lonely stepsister into a deadly friendship, drawing her ever closer to a watery grave while her stepsiblings race against time to unravel the spectral trap.

  11. Perestroika

    Tony Kushner

    ★ 4.3 (19k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    In the face of celestial and earthly collapse, broken souls find fractured grace and the courage to rebuild amidst the rubble of the AIDS epidemic and Reagan eras.

  12. The Three Pigs

    David Wiesner

    ★ 4.2 (19k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When the Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs, he blows the first pig out of his house and into a whimsical adventure that breaks narrative rules.

  13. In the Tall Grass

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.7 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A brother and sister stop to help a crying child, leading them into an endless field of malevolent tall grass and a disorienting nightmare.

  14. Among the Brave

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    ★ 4.2 (19k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A claustrophobic boy, haunted by past cowardice, must infiltrate the sinister Population Police headquarters to rescue his friend, risking exposure of all hidden 'shadow children' in a world where extra siblings are forbidden.

  15. The Difference Engine

    William Gibson

    ★ 3.4 (19k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In an alternate 1855 London where steam-powered computers ignite an early information age, a disgraced woman, a fossil hunter, and a spy are drawn into a deadly conspiracy surrounding mysterious punched cards that could reshape a technologically advanced Victorian world.

  16. The Marvelous Land of Oz

    L. Frank Baum

    ★ 3.8 (19k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A young boy named Tip escapes a wicked witch and travels through Oz with new friends, including a pumpkin-headed man and a wooden sawhorse, to stop a rebellion led by an army of girls.

  17. The Last Dragonslayer

    Jasper Fforde

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A cynical 15-year-old orphan manages a failing magician agency in a world where magic is mostly for pizza delivery. She must face her destiny when the last dragon approaches a fated end.

  18. The Diabolic

    S.J. Kincaid

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A genetically engineered killer, disguised as a senator's daughter, navigates a dangerous galactic court filled with political plots and unexpected romance, while discovering her own humanity.

  19. Sons of Destiny

    Darren Shan

    ★ 4.2 (19k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Half-vampire Darren Shan must outwit his fated enemy, Steve Leopard, in a final battle to prevent the world's destruction and avoid a destiny that promises either his death or his transformation into the harbinger of shadow.

  20. Temple

    Matthew Reilly

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An American linguist races a shadowy group and ancient Incan guardians to find a hidden, alien idol in the Peruvian jungle—an artifact with the power to save or destroy humanity.

  21. Tales from Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.0 (19k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Five tales explore Earthsea's hidden histories, forgotten magic, and the human hearts navigating its dangerous beauty.

  22. The Goddess Inheritance

    Aimee Carter

    ★ 4.0 (19k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A young mother faces an impossible choice: save her child, her loved ones, or the entire world from a vengeful Titan king.

  23. The Replacement

    Brenna Yovanoff

    ★ 3.5 (19k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A changeling boy allergic to iron and holy ground must navigate his monstrous origins and forbidden human crush when his beloved's sister is stolen into the dark, magical underworld he desperately tries to escape.

  24. Outcast of Redwall

    Brian Jacques

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Torn between the father who abandoned him and the adoptive mother who loved him, a young ferret named Veil must choose whether to embrace his birthright of evil or defend the abbey that cast him out.

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