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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Saga, Vol. 1

    Brian K. Vaughan

    ★ 4.2 (252k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Two star-crossed soldiers from warring alien races risk their lives and defy galactic conflict to protect their newborn daughter in a universe that wants them dead.

  2. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

    Laura Joffe Numeroff

    ★ 4.3 (251k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A single cookie plunges a boy into a spiraling, hilariously demanding odyssey as he caters to the insatiable whims of a tiny, take-charge mouse.

  3. Odd Thomas

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 4.0 (250k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A short-order cook who sees the dead must race against time to prevent a disaster in his desert town, guided by silent specters and the love of his life, before a mysterious stranger unleashes evil.

  4. The Green Mile

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.5 (249k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    On death row in the 1930s, a kind giant with a miraculous gift makes a prison guard question what justice means and see the wonder in the condemned.

  5. Red Rising

    Pierce Brown

    ★ 4.3 (248k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a brutal, color-coded future, a low-caste miner unearths a galaxy-spanning lie and infiltrates the elite ruling class, transforming himself into the very enemy he vows to destroy in order to liberate his people.

  6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll

    ★ 4.0 (245k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A curious girl falls down a rabbit hole into a whimsical world of mad tea parties, talking animals, and a tyrannical queen, all while trying to make sense of her fantastical surroundings.

  7. The War of the Worlds

    H.G. Wells

    ★ 3.8 (245k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    When towering tripods descend from Mars, humanity's dominion is shattered, revealing the terrifying fragility of civilization against an alien invasion armed with heat-rays and black smoke.

  8. Dead to the World

    Charlaine Harris

    ★ 4.1 (244k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    When a powerful, ancient vampire with amnesia lands naked on her doorstep, telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse must protect the vulnerable, sweeter version of her complicated lover from the deadly forces that stripped him of his memory and now seek his life.

  9. The Master And Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    ★ 4.3 (243k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    When the Devil, a gun-toting, vodka-swilling cat, and their crew bring supernatural chaos to 1930s Moscow, a woman makes a deal with evil to find her vanished lover.

  10. The Historian

    Elizabeth Kostova

    ★ 3.8 (242k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A young woman unearths a centuries-old quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, plunging into a labyrinth of historical secrets, ancient evils, and her family's perilous legacy.

  11. The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster

    ★ 4.2 (242k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A bored young boy named Milo discovers that life is anything but dull when a mysterious tollbooth transports him to a whimsical world of wordplay, puns, and personified concepts, forcing him on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason.

  12. A Wizard of Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.0 (241k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A young wizard unleashes a shadow, forcing him on a journey of self-discovery, dragon-taming, and confronting death to restore balance to Earthsea.

  13. Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    ★ 4.0 (237k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a future Los Angeles where pizza delivery is a sword fight and the internet is a fully realized virtual world, a legendary hacker and a fearless skateboard courier must uncover the secrets of an ancient Sumerian language to stop a digital drug that threatens to collapse reality itself.

  14. Living Dead in Dallas

    Charlaine Harris

    ★ 4.0 (234k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In a Dallas full of the undead, telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse navigates vampire politics and human betrayal to find a missing bloodsucker, all while trying to keep peace between hungry fangs and vulnerable necks.

  15. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

    Douglas Adams

    ★ 4.2 (233k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Arthur Dent, a two-headed ex-president, and a depressed robot try to outrun cosmic destruction and navigate space's absurdities to find the best meal at the end of time.

  16. Tuck Everlasting

    Natalie Babbitt

    ★ 3.9 (232k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A curious ten-year-old girl finds an immortal family and learns about the difficult aspects of eternal life when a stranger tries to exploit their secret spring.

  17. The Magicians

    Lev Grossman

    ★ 3.5 (232k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A disillusioned prodigy discovers that the magical world from his childhood books is real, but actual sorcery is more complex, dangerous, and emotionally draining than any fantasy.

  18. Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift

    ★ 3.6 (232k) average on Goodreads

    A shipwrecked surgeon travels to strange lands, encountering tiny people, giants, and intelligent horses, eventually returning home with a deep dislike for humanity.

  19. Pretties

    Scott Westerfeld

    ★ 3.9 (230k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    To become 'pretty' means sacrificing memories and individuality. Tally must decide if perfection's cost is too high when a message from her past threatens her beautiful, yet empty, new life.

  20. Wizard's First Rule

    Terry Goodkind

    ★ 4.1 (229k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A reclusive woodsman, haunted by his father's murder, finds his world upended by a mysterious woman, ancient magic, and a forbidden love that threatens to expose the dark secrets of his own soul and the true cost of challenging a tyrannical empire.

  21. The Clan of the Cave Bear

    Jean M. Auel

    ★ 4.0 (229k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Abandoned and adopted by Neanderthals, a spirited Cro-Magnon girl named Ayla navigates a harsh prehistoric world, challenging ancient traditions with her intelligence and forging a path toward humanity's future.

  22. The Song of Achilles

    Madeline Miller

    ★ 4.3 (228k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    An exiled prince's quiet love for the demigod Achilles sparks a tender, tragic story that challenges fate during the Trojan War.

  23. The Great Hunt

    Robert Jordan

    ★ 4.2 (228k) average on Goodreads

    With the Horn of Valere stolen and the Shadow's influence growing, Rand al'Thor must accept his role as the Dragon Reborn while hunting for the artifact in a world near war.

  24. Speaker for the Dead

    Orson Scott Card

    ★ 4.1 (225k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Haunted by his past as the 'Xenocide,' Ender Wiggin, now the Speaker for the Dead, must unravel the deadly mysteries of a new alien race to prevent humanity from repeating its genocidal history.

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