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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.4 (17k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In the utopian city of Omelas, perpetual joy is bought by the perpetual suffering of one child, forcing its citizens to choose between complicity and a solitary walk into the unknown.

  2. Trail of Lightning

    Rebecca Roanhorse

    ★ 4.0 (17k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a drowned world where Navajo legends walk the earth, a jaded monster hunter must confront ancient evils and her own past to save a missing girl from a terror far greater than she imagined.

  3. The Wind Singer

    William Nicholson

    ★ 3.9 (17k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a city obsessed with work and social climbing, three children defy a tyrannical system to seek a mythical instrument, the Wind Singer, hoping its ancient voice can free their people from a dreamless life guarded by a monstrous entity and its army of perfect killing machines.

  4. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.6 (17k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    With the ability to create anything he imagines, Daniel X hunts deadly aliens across the universe to avenge his parents' murder and protect Earth.

  5. Firstlife

    Gena Showalter

    ★ 3.7 (17k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Imprisoned in an asylum, a defiant teen must choose between two warring afterlife realms and the alluring agents they send, all while navigating a first life that's merely a dress rehearsal for eternal war.

  6. The Tea Dragon Society

    Katie O'Neill

    ★ 4.4 (17k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A blacksmith apprentice finds a lost tea dragon, uncovering a gentle world of ancient caretaking, quiet mentorship, and the bonds made over shared cups of magical tea.

  7. Hereafter

    Tara Hudson

    ★ 3.7 (17k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A dead girl with amnesia finds forbidden love and a dangerous quest for truth when she saves a living boy from her ghostly river, only to be haunted by a jealous spirit determined to drag her back into eternal solitude.

  8. In the Night Kitchen

    Maurice Sendak

    ★ 4.0 (17k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Young Mickey tumbles from his bed into a midnight kitchen where three bakers, oblivious to his presence, knead him into the morning cake, sparking an intoxicating, dreamlike escape.

  9. The Shadow Queen

    Anne Bishop

    ★ 3.8 (17k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A discarded queen, scarred warlords, and a desolate land find their last hope for healing in forgotten traditions and the unexpected strength of a woman who believes herself broken.

  10. Aztec

    Gary Jennings

    ★ 4.2 (17k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Follow the cynical, quick-witted Mixtli through the brutal yet magnificent Aztec Empire as he navigates human sacrifice, imperial power, and forbidden love, ultimately witnessing its cataclysmic clash with Cortés.

  11. The Invention of Morel

    Adolfo Bioy Casares

    ★ 4.1 (17k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    On a deserted island, a fugitive finds a perpetually replaying society of holographic projections, falls in love with an illusory woman, and confronts the terrifying implications of a machine that blurs the lines between life, memory, and immortality.

  12. Autobiography of Red

    Anne Carson

    ★ 4.3 (17k) average on Goodreads

    A winged red monster named Geryon navigates love, loss, and artistic awakening through his camera and the presence of Herakles, in a lyrical retelling of myth.

  13. Each Peach Pear Plum

    Janet Ahlberg

    ★ 4.2 (17k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a world of hidden fun, young readers play 'I spy' with their favorite fairy tale characters, each page a new search to find who's peeking next.

  14. Day by Day Armageddon

    J.L. Bourne

    ★ 4.0 (17k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A lone survivor writes in his journal about his daily life in a world overrun by the undead, where every choice is a desperate gamble against the plague.

  15. The Thief

    Megan Whalen Turner

    ★ 4.3 (17k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A clever thief, saved from the gallows by a scholar seeking an ancient relic, begins a dangerous quest where his true goals are as mysterious as the old gods whose stories guide them.

  16. If Only It Were True

    Marc Levy

    ★ 3.7 (17k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A San Francisco architect falls for a mysterious woman only he can see, whose comatose body lies elsewhere, forcing him to race against time to save her before doctors pull the plug on their impossible love.

  17. Stay Out of the Basement

    R.L. Stine

    ★ 3.7 (17k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In R.L. Stine's 'Stay Out of the Basement,' two siblings find their botanist father's plant experiments are turning him into a monstrous, leafy hybrid, forcing them to face the truth beneath their home.

  18. Evil Star

    Anthony Horowitz

    ★ 4.0 (16k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Two teens from different worlds, chosen by prophecy, must unite to stop an ancient evil from opening a gate between dimensions, a threat that spans continents from Peru's deserts to a looming cosmic shadow.

  19. The Raw Shark Texts

    Steven Hall

    ★ 3.9 (16k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A man with no memory must piece together his identity through the fragmented legacy of a previous self, all while evading an unseen, predatory entity that feeds on thoughts and memories.

  20. Rumpelstiltskin

    Paul O. Zelinsky

    ★ 4.2 (16k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A miller's daughter must spin straw into gold or die, a task she accomplishes with the help of a mysterious imp who demands her firstborn child as payment.

  21. Yellow Brick War

    Danielle Paige

    ★ 3.8 (16k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    In a twisted Oz where good is wicked and Dorothy is the enemy, Amy Gumm must embrace her role as an assassin to stop the former hero from destroying both Oz and Kansas before she's trapped forever.

  22. The Left Hand of God

    Paul Hoffman

    ★ 3.6 (16k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A brutalized boy, Thomas Cale, flees a desolate, cruel monastery into a corrupt, beautiful city, only to discover a terrifying secret about himself that his former captors desperately want to know.

  23. The Swarm

    Frank Schätzing

    ★ 4.1 (16k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Marine life rebels against humanity, unleashing an ancient, intelligent force from the deep ocean that threatens human existence.

  24. The Gods of Mars

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    ★ 3.9 (16k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Stranded in a dangerous Martian 'Eden' where no one survives, John Carter must navigate new alliances and old mysteries to rescue his vanished love, Dejah Thoris, and reclaim his destiny on the red planet.

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