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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Secret

    Brigid Kemmerer

    ★ 4.2 (6k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    As elemental powers stir and a killer closes in, Nick Merrick fights to keep his family, his secrets, and his life from unraveling while navigating forbidden romance and the brewing storm of his own destiny.

  2. The World According to Humphrey

    Betty G. Birney

    ★ 4.1 (6k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    From his cage in Room 26, a clever classroom hamster named Humphrey goes on weekend adventures with different students, secretly learning to read, write, and shoot rubber bands while navigating human emotions and a teacher he thinks dislikes him.

  3. The Library of Babel

    Jorge Luis Borges

    ★ 4.4 (6k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In an infinite library of hexagonal rooms, a universe of every possible book exists, driving humanity to madness in its desperate, futile search for meaning and order amidst an overwhelming ocean of random characters.

  4. Distant Waves

    Suzanne Weyn

    ★ 3.7 (6k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Five sisters, linked to Nikola Tesla's invention, face their destiny aboard the Titanic.

  5. Tender Morsels

    Margo Lanagan

    ★ 3.6 (6k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Two daughters, raised in a mother's fragile, personal heaven, must face the brutal magic and wildness of the real world when its borders inevitably collapse.

  6. Domain

    James Herbert

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After nuclear war scorches the surface, the last humans must outrun both radiation and mutated rats in a terrifying underground struggle.

  7. The Accursed

    Joyce Carol Oates

    ★ 3.2 (6k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In 1905 Princeton, a town of intellectuals like Woodrow Wilson and Upton Sinclair, a hushed-up lynching unleashes a demonic curse, twisting the privileged into psychological horror and supernatural dread.

  8. Monkey Beach

    Eden Robinson

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    In the Haisla territory, a young woman with premonitions and ancestral spirits searches for her drowned brother, navigating a world where ancient traditions meet modern grief along the Pacific coast.

  9. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

    John Steinbeck

    ★ 3.8 (6k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    John Steinbeck re-imagines Malory's Morte d'Arthur, bringing the world of Camelot to life with prose that sounds medieval but is clear to modern readers.

  10. Descendant of the Crane

    Joan He

    ★ 3.7 (6k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a kingdom where magic is illegal and emotions are traded, a princess risks her throne and life, hiring a forbidden soothsayer and a criminal to find her father's killer amid court deceptions.

  11. Menagerie

    Rachel Vincent

    ★ 4.0 (5k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A young woman discovers her hidden mythical nature when she's captured and forced to perform as an exhibit in a dark, magical carnival alongside other fantastical creatures.

  12. The Sorcerer Heir

    Cinda Williams Chima

    ★ 4.1 (5k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Ancient rivalries reignite, and new betrayals surface. A wizard and a sorceress must mend their fractured trust, untangle a web of murderous plots, and uncover the past before it shatters the fragile peace between magical guilds.

  13. The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

    Rita Leganski

    ★ 4.1 (5k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In a mystical bayou, a silent boy can hear everything, from blooming flowers to his deceased father's whispers. He must uncover family secrets to heal the broken hearts around him.

  14. Cryptid Hunters

    Roland Smith

    ★ 4.2 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Thirteen-year-old twins Grace and Marty enter a world of adventure and danger when they discover their eccentric Uncle Wolfe, a man they never knew existed, is an anthropologist who hunts cryptids.

  15. Not Even Bones

    Rebecca Schaeffer

    ★ 4.2 (5k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A black market dissector of supernatural creatures becomes the merchandise herself, forced to embrace her monstrous nature to survive and escape a world where every body part has a price.

  16. Behind the Attic Wall

    Sylvia Cassedy

    ★ 4.0 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Sent to live with her reclusive great-aunts, a rebellious orphan discovers a hidden world of magical whispers and spectral guardians behind the attic walls, offering her a chance at belonging.

  17. The Dark Calling

    Kresley Cole

    ★ 4.3 (5k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    As a dark force corrupts the Arcana and her mind, Evie travels into the wasteland, questioning allies and trusting enemies, to find out about her past and stop Richter's reign before the Dark Calling takes over.

  18. The Final Spark

    Richard Paul Evans

    ★ 4.2 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    With their leader missing and their ranks divided, the Electroclan must defy an unyielding evil and a mother's capture to prevent Hatch from extinguishing the world's last spark of freedom.

  19. Museum of Thieves

    Lian Tanner

    ★ 3.9 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In the oppressive city of Jewel, a bold and impatient girl named Goldie flees her fate, only to discover a talent for thievery within the shifting walls of the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she must outwit a tyrannical guardian to save those she loves.

  20. The Hunting of the Snark

    Lewis Carroll

    ★ 4.0 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a world of pure nonsense, a peculiar crew goes on an absurd, rhyming quest to hunt the elusive, imaginary Snark, armed with thimbles, smiles, and a firm, if misguided, sense of hope.

  21. The Cricket on the Hearth

    Charles Dickens

    ★ 3.4 (5k) average on Goodreads

    Amidst the cozy glow of a Victorian hearth, a magical cricket chirps a symphony of hope, guiding a trusting carrier through a jealous old man's deceit to rediscover faith in his young wife's love.

  22. Humans

    Robert J. Sawyer

    ★ 3.8 (5k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    A Neanderthal physicist from an alternate Earth where his species dominates returns to our world, rekindling a forbidden romance and challenging humanity's deepest beliefs through a clash of parallel civilizations.

  23. The Splendor Falls

    Rosemary Clement-Moore

    ★ 3.8 (5k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A heartbroken ballerina, exiled to a historic Alabama home, discovers her family's spectral past and finds herself torn between a charming golden boy and a mysterious stranger, all while questioning her sanity amidst unsettling visions.

  24. Nathaniel

    John Saul

    ★ 3.8 (5k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A century-old rumor of a vengeful spirit named Nathaniel becomes a chilling reality for young Michael Hall, who is drawn by an insidious voice into an old barn, beyond the edge of terror.

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