Best Fantasy Books

Bryce Quinlan finds herself in an unfamiliar world — the world of the Fae, inhabited by characters from Maas's other series. Meanwhile, Hunt, Ruhn, and their allies fight to survive in Midgard as the Asteri's grip tightens. The conclusion of the Crescent City trilogy draws all threads — and all of Maas's worlds — together.

Rand struggles to unite the world's factions while two rival groups of Aes Sedai compete to control him, culminating in the Battle of Dumai's Wells — one of the most celebrated action sequences in epic fantasy. The series crosses the thousand-page threshold for the first time.

The conclusion of the War of Lost Hearts trilogy, in which Tisaanah, Max, and Aefe face the final reckoning of war, the gods, and the sacrifices required to win the freedom they have fought for.

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson discovers he is the son of a Greek god and must prevent a war among the Olympians by recovering Zeus's stolen master lightning bolt.

A man lives alone in a vast, labyrinthine House of endless halls filled with statues, tides, and clouds, keeping meticulous journals of a world he believes to be complete — until anomalies in his journals suggest a truth he has been prevented from remembering.

The conclusion of the Letters of Enchantment duology, in which separated lovers and rival journalists fight to reunite and to survive a deepening war between gods that threatens everyone they love.

Three young men from the isolated village of Emond's Field are driven from their homes by dark forces — and drawn into a world-spanning conflict they barely understand, in the opening of one of fantasy's greatest and most ambitious epic series.

A human raised among vampires enters a deadly century-old tournament for a single wish, forced into an uneasy alliance with a rival competitor who may be the only person she cannot afford to trust.

The first book of the Shadowborn Duet, in which a vampire missionary trapped in the underworld must strike a bargain with the God of Death to escape, in a darker, more romantic corner of the Crowns of Nyaxia world.

The Vega twins and their Heirs reach the final, explosive confrontation for the throne of Solaria as the Zodiac Academy saga races to its conclusion in a sprawling, emotionally charged finale of war, fate, and hard-won love.

In a brutal Roman Empire-inspired world, a Scholar girl goes undercover as a spy in the empire's most elite military academy while a soldier is tested to become the next Emperor.

A Chinese orphan is brought to Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation in 1830s England, where the silver-working magic that powers the British Empire depends on the loss inherent in translation.

The second Fae & Alchemy book, in which Saeris and Kingfisher face a darkness falling over the fae kingdom, told in dual perspective as the danger, the magic, and the romance all deepen.

The second War of Lost Hearts book, in which all-out war and its moral horrors test Tisaanah and Max, while a new perspective from a Fey warrior deepens the trilogy's mythology and stakes.

The first book in Carissa Broadbent's War of Lost Hearts trilogy, in which an escaped slave and magic wielder travels to a distant kingdom to free those she left behind, apprenticing under a disgraced, ill-tempered soldier.

The second book in The Plated Prisoner series, in which the gold-touched Auren begins to test the limits of her gilded cage as new dangers and a dangerous new alliance reshape her world.

The fourth Plated Prisoner book, in which Auren navigates the consequences of her transformation, a deepening bond with Rip, and the gathering forces that threaten everything she has begun to reclaim.

Half-Fae Bryce Quinlan must team up with a Hunt to solve her best friend's murder in a modern city where ancient magic meets contemporary life.

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar navigate the aftermath of the Gate explosion while uncovering a rebel network that links their world to Maas's wider universe in a shocking crossover finale.

A veteran orc mercenary retires from a life of violence to open the first coffee shop in a fantasy city, navigating the challenges of small business, unlikely friendships, and unexpected romance.

The first volume of Philip Pullman's Book of Dust trilogy, a companion to His Dark Materials. Set ten years before The Golden Compass, it follows eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead, who discovers a conspiracy around the infant Lyra and must carry her to safety through a catastrophic flood.

Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, pursues the man in black across a vast desert in the first volume of Stephen King's magnum opus.

The fourth Bridge Kingdom book, in which the war between kingdoms reaches a brutal climax and Lara, Aren, and their allies face the reckoning that will decide the fate of Ithicana and everyone they love.

The second Bridge Kingdom book, in which a spy princess and the king she came to betray must work together against a common enemy, their hard-won bond tested by war and old loyalties.