Best Fantasy Books

Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq travel to the Southern Continent to seek an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent — and to find healers who might restore Chaol's ability to walk. What they discover in the Torre Cesme will change everything they thought they knew about the war.

Two sisters from a conservative mountain kingdom are sent to the colorful, decadent city of the Gods, where the divine Returned don't believe in their own religion and a war is being engineered by forces neither fully understands.

Three witches journey across the Disc to stop a servant girl from marrying a prince — because someone is using the power of fairy tales as a weapon, forcing real people to live out happy endings whether they want them or not. Granny Weatherwax has a score to settle.

Twin sisters Tory and Darcy Vega discover they are Fae royalty and heirs to the throne of Solaria — but they must first survive Zodiac Academy, where the four powerful Heirs will stop at nothing to drive them out.

The conclusion of the original Riftwar Saga — Pug and Jimmy the Hand must stop the Pantathian serpent priests from resurrecting Murmandamus and unleashing a catastrophe that could destroy both worlds. The book that concludes one arc while opening the larger Riftwar Cycle.

The third Witcher novel. Gravely wounded and cut off from Ciri, Geralt gathers an unlikely band of companions and sets out across a war-torn continent to find her, in a road novel that becomes the warm, weary heart of the saga.

The Reckoners track the source of Epic powers to Ildithia — the former Atlanta — and David confronts the cosmic force behind Calamity itself, with the future of both Epics and ordinary humans at stake.

The maji have their powers back — but so do the kosidan nobles who once oppressed them. As civil war breaks out across Orïsha, Zélie and Amari must fight enemies on multiple fronts, including each other. The second book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy deepens the world's moral complexity and raises the cost of revolution.

Clary Fray must protect those she loves as Valentine prepares to raise a demon army, while the revelation about her relationship to Jace casts a shadow over everything.

Spensa enters the Nowhere — a dimension outside normal space-time — to master her cytonic abilities and find a way to save humanity from the Superiority, encountering fragments of ancient civilizations and the truth about why cytonics are feared.

In a world where a magical city of gods has fallen and its inhabitants are cursed with a living death, a prince, a princess, and a priest navigate politics, religion, and the mystery of what destroyed Elantris.

The first book of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. Years after his adventures, FitzChivalry Farseer is living quietly as a country gentleman — until grief, a mysterious child, and the return of old dangers pull him back into a life he thought he had left behind.

The second Shattered Sea novel. Thorn Bathu, a girl who lives to fight, is condemned as a killer and then trained for a deadly mission across the Shattered Sea, in a coming-of-age adventure that pairs her with the thoughtful Brand in Abercrombie's grittier take on YA fantasy.

In a world where humans have nearly vanished, a young man named Vic lives in a forest with his found family of robots. When Vic's mechanical father is taken by the Authority — the machine system that controls what remains of civilisation — Vic and his companions must venture into a world of metal and memory to bring him home. Klune's retelling of Pinocchio.

A long-sunk island rises from the sea, and Ankh-Morpork and Klatch both claim it — and stumble toward war. Commander Sam Vimes drags the City Watch into the conflict, determined to police a battlefield and arrest two armies, in Pratchett's blistering satire of patriotism and jingoism.

A kitchen boy named Pug is apprenticed to the court magician and discovers he has an unusual gift for magic — a discovery that will change his life as the Kingdom of the Isles faces invasion from another world. The first half of the original Magician novel, and the foundation of the Riftwar Saga.

Twilight retold from Edward Cullen's point of view. After a partial manuscript leaked online in 2008, Stephenie Meyer spent twelve years completing the full novel. Reading the original story through Edward's immortal, analytical, perpetually-conflicted mind transforms a familiar love story into something darker and more psychologically complex.

A high school dropout who can see ghosts is offered a full ride to Yale — in exchange for policing its secret societies and their real, dangerous magic. Leigh Bardugo's first adult novel is a dark, propulsive thriller about privilege, trauma, and the occult beneath the Ivy League.

August moves to New York and meets Jane on the Q train — a punk girl stuck in 1977 who should not exist in 2020. Impossible and inexplicable, Jane is somehow trapped in a moment in time, and August is the only one who can see her. A queer love story about memory, identity, and what we're willing to change to keep something worth keeping.

The Pevensie children return to Narnia to find it transformed: a thousand years have passed, the Narnian world has been suppressed by the Telmarines, and Caspian, the rightful king, is fighting to restore the old ways.

Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen have fled Camorr for Tal Verrar, where they plan the most ambitious con of their careers — robbing the impregnable Sinspire casino — until a naval commander forces them to become pirates instead.

Alina is trapped underground, her power diminished and her allies scattered. To defeat the Darkling and end the Fold, she must find the firebird — the third amplifier — before he does. The fate of Ravka and all of its Grisha rests on a choice that will cost Alina everything.

A standalone novella set in the Crowns of Nyaxia world, in which a dying woman strikes a desperate bargain with a reclusive vampire to save her plague-stricken village — and finds far more than a cure.

The second volume of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn expands the world of Osten Ard while multiple groups pursue their separate quests toward the gathering storm. Simon is growing up; the Storm King's power is growing; and the three swords of the title prophecy become clearer in their significance.