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Best Fantasy Books

Fantasy and magical stories

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  1. Empire

    Orson Scott Card

    ★ 4.1 (5k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    In a fractured America torn apart by a brutal civil war, a brilliant strategist must unite a nation on the brink of annihilation, forcing citizens to choose sides in a conflict that threatens to consume their world.

  2. Aquamarine

    Alice Hoffman

    ★ 3.5 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    As their last summer together ends, two friends find an unexpected adventure with a heartbroken mermaid in their local pool, who needs to find love before she evaporates in the August sun.

  3. The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

    Liz Jensen

    ★ 3.6 (5k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A boy with many near-fatal accidents falls into a coma, leading a doctor to uncover dark secrets in his extraordinary life.

  4. Flood

    Stephen Baxter

    ★ 3.6 (5k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A global flood consumes continents, forcing former hostages to navigate a drowning world, searching for answers beyond climate change as humanity struggles for survival on shrinking high ground.

  5. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

    Roger Lancelyn Green

    ★ 3.9 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Young readers can explore the valiant quests of King Arthur and his knights, from the sword in the stone to the Holy Grail, retold with charm.

  6. Light

    Michael Grant

    ★ 3.6 (5k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    With all adults gone, the surviving teens of Perdido Beach must fight the reborn, evil mutant Gaia, whose hunger for destruction threatens to consume them all.

  7. If I Ran the Circus

    Dr. Seuss

    ★ 3.9 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Join young Morris McGurk as he transforms a vacant lot into the most absurd circus imaginable, where Sneelocks soar and Hoodwinks astound, all within Dr. Seuss's whimsical rhymes.

  8. Spill Zone

    Scott Westerfeld

    ★ 4.0 (5k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    After a mysterious 'Spill' warps reality and silences her sister, a photographer enters the quarantined zone to uncover the truth behind her family's tragedy.

  9. Serafina and the Splintered Heart

    Robert Beatty

    ★ 4.3 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Scarred and disoriented after a brutal battle, Serafina awakens to a Biltmore Estate transformed by betrayal and an encroaching, nameless darkness, forcing her to master strange new powers and reclaim her identity as its guardian before an apocalyptic storm shatters everything she loves.

  10. Annihilation

    Jeff VanderMeer

    ★ 4.0 (5k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Nature reclaims civilization with a sinister twist as a biologist joins an all-female expedition into the mysterious Area X, where the greatest threats might not be the alien landscape but the secrets they carry.

  11. Twice Upon a Marigold

    Jean Ferris

    ★ 3.8 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When a supposedly drowned, memory-addled queen resurfaces with a slacker princess and a man of surprising destiny, newlyweds Christian and Marigold must defend their happily-ever-after from a zany royal reclamation.

  12. Endurance

    Jack Kilborn

    ★ 3.9 (5k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction

    Four female athletes check into a remote West Virginia inn for a triathlon, only to find themselves trapped by a terrifying entity with a penchant for presidential decor and gruesome fates.

  13. Polaris

    Jack McDevitt

    ★ 3.9 (5k) average on GoodreadsMystery

    A luxurious, long-lost starship reappears after sixty years, its crew vanished, drawing antiquities dealer Alex Benedict into a chilling, interstellar mystery.

  14. Fable

    Chanda Hahn

    ★ 4.3 (5k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    When a priceless family heirloom is stolen, sixteen-year-old Mina Grime plunges into the Fae plane, risking her heart and her life against a fairy-tale villain to reclaim what's hers.

  15. Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

    Barbara Cohen

    ★ 4.2 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Disguised as a boy to build a business empire, a determined young woman in ancient Arabia falls for the prince who knows her only as a man.

  16. The Mirror

    Marlys Millhiser

    ★ 4.0 (5k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Trapped in the past on her grandmother's wedding day, a 1978 bride must navigate Victorian expectations, while her grandmother, flung into the future, grapples with an unexpected pregnancy and the freedoms of the disco era.

  17. Peter Darling

    Austin Chant

    ★ 4.0 (5k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Ten years after abandoning Neverland to become Wendy, Peter Darling returns to a war-torn island where the Lost Boys are men, Captain Hook ignites an unexpected desire, and the lines between hero and villain blur as he reclaims his true identity.

  18. The People of Paper

    Salvador Plascencia

    ★ 4.1 (5k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a paper world, a grieving author tears characters from their stories, starting a war between fiction and reality, while a paper Jesus seeks redemption and renegade Santas plan a revolution.

  19. Vampire Crush

    A.M. Robinson

    ★ 3.9 (5k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    A normal high school junior's world is upended by the arrival of mysterious, anachronistically dressed new students and the return of her childhood tormentor, James, whose unsettling nocturnal habits and superhuman strength hint at a supernatural secret that threatens to bite her perfectly ordinary life.

  20. SYLO

    D.J. MacHale

    ★ 3.9 (5k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a mysterious military force quarantines his idyllic island and strange red crystals grant bizarre powers, an ordinary teenager must uncover a global conspiracy before 'tomorrow' ceases to exist.

  21. The Truth

    Terry Pratchett

    ★ 3.8 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When a naive young man accidentally invents the printing press and investigative journalism in the chaotic city of Ankh-Morpork, he inadvertently uncovers a royal conspiracy that threatens to ink out the city's very ruler.

  22. The Hive Queen

    Tui T. Sutherland

    ★ 4.6 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A curious, power-immune dragonet named Cricket must outwit a mind-controlling queen and uncover ancient secrets to prevent an all-out war between dragon tribes.

  23. The Medium

    C.J. Archer

    ★ 3.7 (5k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In Victorian London, a witty spirit medium, an enigmatic ghost, and a mischievous demon clash in a supernatural romance that blurs the line between life and death.

  24. The Great Unexpected

    Sharon Creech

    ★ 3.7 (5k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A mysterious boy falls from a tree, leading two orphans to estranged Irish sisters and revealing a connection that mends hearts across two worlds.

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