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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Circe

    Madeline Miller

    ★ 4.3 (343k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Banished witch-goddess Circe forges her own path through a world of vengeful Olympians and legendary mortals, mastering her magic to protect the love she finds on her solitary island.

  2. Crown of Midnight

    Sarah J. Maas

    ★ 4.4 (339k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    As the King's Champion, Celaena Sardothien navigates court politics, forbidden magic, and shifting loyalties in a dangerous castle, all while protecting her true allegiances and secrets that could expose the crown's dark truth.

  3. The Death Cure

    James Dashner

    ★ 3.8 (338k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In the conclusion, Thomas, with his memories back, must outsmart WICKED and face the truth to save his friends and humanity, even if it means losing everything.

  4. Clockwork Princess

    Cassandra Clare

    ★ 4.6 (337k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A clockwork army threatens Victorian London, and a young woman caught between two brothers must use her angelic power to save the world and change her own fate.

  5. A Court of Mist and Fury

    Sarah J. Maas

    ★ 4.6 (333k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Haunted by her past and trapped, a High Fae huntress navigates the Night Court's politics and allure to reclaim her soul and confront a darkness threatening her world.

  6. The Screwtape Letters

    C.S. Lewis

    ★ 4.2 (332k) average on GoodreadsSpirituality

    A senior demon, Screwtape, advises his nephew Wormwood on corrupting a human soul, offering a satirical look at temptation, faith, and the human condition in an inverted epistolary novel.

  7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

    Dr. Seuss

    ★ 4.4 (330k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A Grinch, who hates the joyful carols of Whoville, tries to stop Christmas by stealing everything. He learns that the holiday's true spirit is in community cheer, not presents or feasts.

  8. Oh, the Places You'll Go!

    Dr. Seuss

    ★ 4.3 (328k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Take a fun trip through life's ups and downs, using Dr. Seuss's rhyming advice to find the great potential within you to handle any path you choose.

  9. Shadow Kiss

    Richelle Mead

    ★ 4.3 (325k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A fierce Dhampir bodyguard must choose between her forbidden love for a fellow guardian and protecting her Moroi princess best friend from an encroaching darkness that threatens to consume them all.

  10. Like Water for Chocolate

    Laura Esquivel

    ★ 4.0 (324k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Tita's forbidden love and intense emotions magically infuse her cooking, causing desires and upheaval on a Mexican ranch.

  11. Station Eleven

    Emily St. John Mandel

    ★ 4.0 (322k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    After a devastating flu, a nomadic acting and music group called the Traveling Symphony travels the Great Lakes region, risking danger to keep art and humanity alive. Their lives connect with a dead Hollywood star and the dangerous prophet who emerges after him.

  12. The Red Pyramid

    Rick Riordan

    ★ 4.1 (319k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Separated siblings, a brilliant Egyptologist father, and a Christmas Eve visit to the British Museum spiral into a globe-trotting quest to stop the awakening Egyptian gods and rescue their dad from the clutches of Set.

  13. The Color of Magic

    Terry Pratchett

    ★ 4.0 (316k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    On a flat world on the back of a giant turtle, a jaded wizard is reluctantly saddled with the Discworld's first tourist and his sentient luggage, going on a chaotic journey to the edge of their belief-powered world.

  14. Six of Crows

    Leigh Bardugo

    ★ 4.4 (316k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In the grimy, gas-lit canals of Ketterdam, a cutthroat criminal mastermind assembles a crew of six dangerous outcasts for an impossible heist, where the only thing riskier than their target is trusting each other.

  15. The Witches

    Roald Dahl

    ★ 4.2 (314k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A young boy and his grandmother must stop a coven of child-hating witches, led by the Grand High Witch, before they turn all children in England into mice.

  16. I Am Number Four

    Pittacus Lore

    ★ 3.9 (312k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    An alien teenager, the fourth of nine powerful fugitives hiding on Earth, must embrace his developing superpowers and fight for survival as an ancient enemy hunts down and murders his kind.

  17. Daughter of Smoke & Bone

    Laini Taylor

    ★ 4.0 (311k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A blue-haired art student in Prague, whose sketchbooks teem with monsters, discovers her true identity is entwined with an ancient, violent war between angels and devils, sparked by a forbidden love that transcends worlds and time.

  18. Shadow and Bone

    Leigh Bardugo

    ★ 4.0 (307k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    An ordinary orphan finds a unique power to summon light, pulling her into a world of magic, war, and dangerous romance as she fights to destroy a monstrous darkness threatening her country.

  19. Kafka on the Shore

    Haruki Murakami

    ★ 4.1 (306k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and old prophecies connect, a teenage runaway and an elderly man with a secret past go on a strange journey to escape fate and find out why their lives are linked.

  20. The Way of Kings

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★ 4.6 (305k) average on Goodreads

    On a storm-swept world where mystical Shardblades grant godlike power, a slave fights for his men's survival, a highprince grapples with ancient visions, and a young woman plots a daring theft, all while the echoes of a fallen order threaten to reshape their shattered reality.

  21. Brisingr

    Christopher Paolini

    ★ 4.0 (299k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Eragon and Saphira must navigate complex loyalties and make tough sacrifices to rescue his love, unite a fractured rebellion, and spark freedom against a tyrannical king.

  22. The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman

    ★ 4.1 (298k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Guided by angels and haunted by prophecy, Will, the Knife Bearer, must journey to the Underworld and beyond to reunite with Lyra and deliver a cosmic weapon that will decide the fate of infinite worlds.

  23. Before I Fall

    Lauren Oliver

    ★ 3.9 (295k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    After dying in a car crash, a popular high school senior relives the last day of her life seven times, forcing her to confront the true impact of her choices and the people she’s left behind.

  24. Storm Front

    Jim Butcher

    ★ 4.0 (294k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A wizard-for-hire in modern Chicago, down on his luck, gets caught in a dark magic murder case, using his wit and magic against a dangerous, hidden enemy.

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