Core Best Fantasy Lists
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Best Yearly Lists
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- Best Fantasy of 2016
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Best Decade Lists
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- Best Fantasy Books of the 90's
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- Best Early Modern Fantasy (30's to 50's)
- Best Pre-Tolkien Fantasy
Best Thematic Lists
- Best Anti-Hero Fantasy
- Best Asian Fantasy
- Best Feel Good Fantasy
- Best of the Tolkien Clones
- Best of the Dresden Clones
- Fantasy That Will Blow Your Mind
- Best Fantasy Books for Women
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- Best Fantasy Books for Children
- Best Vampire Books for YA
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Best Subgenre Lists
- Top 50 EPIC Fantasy
- Best Heroic Fantasy
- Best Grimdark Fantasy
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- Best LitRPG Books
- Best Military Fantasy
- Best Vampire Fantasy
- Best Urban Fantasy
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- Best Assassin Fantasy
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- Best Literary Fantasy
- Best Sword and Sorcery
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- Best Romance Fantasy
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- Best Vampire Romance
- Best Dragon Fantasy
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Fantasy Subgenres
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Note, I am currently REBUILDING this list from scratch since I reorganized a number of the lists here, so bear with me while this list comes together over the next couple weeks.
That means there won't be finished descriptions and the list is missing most of the entries.
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Our Version of the List
At a Glance
- 1 Master Of The Five Magics (Lyndon Hardy)
- 2 The Hero And The Crown (Robin McKinley)
- 3 Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
- 4 The Ruins Of Ambrai (Melanie Rawn)
- 5 The Golden Key (George Macdonald)
- 6 Lord Of Light (Roger Zelazny)
- 7 Low Town (Daniel Polansky)
- 8 Song For The Basilisk (Patricia A. McKillip)
- 9 The Sun Sword (Michelle West)
- 10 The Curse Of The Mistwraith (Janny Wurts)
- 11 Swan Song (Robert McCammon)
- 12 Cirque Du Freak (Darren Shan)
- 13 Sailing To Sarantium (Guy Gavriel Kay)
- 14 The Macht (Paul Kearney)
- 15 The Stress Of Her Regard (Tim Powers)
- 16 Shadow Ops Control Point (Myke Cole)
- 17 The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- 18 The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
- 19 Wheel Of The Infinite (Martha Wells)
Publicly Ranked Version of the List
88 items >>- 1
- Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson)
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508
- 2
- Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)
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3512
- 4
- Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)
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275
- 6
- Magician (Raymond Feist)
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195
- 7
- Uprooted (Naomi Novik)
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162
- 8
- Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
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173
- 12
- Codex Alera (Jim Butcher)
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146
- 14
- The Way Of Shadows (Brent Weeks)
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148
- 16
- Shadowmarch (Tad Williams)
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83
- 26
- Abhorsen Trilogy (Garth Nix)
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33
- 30
- A Song For Abalion ()
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22
- 31
- His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
-
1011
- 41
- Legend (Marie Lu)
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23
- 42
- The Stand (Stephen King)
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45
- 51
- Vampire Earth (E.E. Knight)
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13
- 53
- Bone (Jeff Smith)
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13
- 57
- Redwall (Brian Jacques)
-
02
- 60
- The Moomins (Tove Jansson)
-
02
- 72
- Lyonesse (Jack Vance)
-
03
- 74
- Recluse (Darcie Chan)
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03
