Best Fantasy Books

The origin story of Narnia: Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer travel between worlds using magic rings and witness the creation of Narnia by the lion Aslan.

Essun searches for her daughter while learning to control the obelisks — floating crystals that could either save or destroy the world — in the second Hugo Award-winning volume of the Broken Earth trilogy.

Carter and Sadie face the final battle: Apophis is about to rise and consume the sun itself. They must bring Ra back at full power and deploy a shadow magic that has never successfully worked — while their entire network of nome magicians faces obliteration. The Kane Chronicles comes to its conclusion.

Will Parry crosses into a world with a city called Cittagazze and encounters Lyra Belacqua. He finds the Subtle Knife — a blade that can cut windows between worlds. The middle volume of His Dark Materials expands the multiverse and introduces the concept of Dust as a contested force between science and religion.

Nomad is a man who can never stop moving — on a world where the sun kills everything it touches, and the only survival is to keep ahead of the terminator line. When he's drawn into the struggles of the planet's oppressed population, stopping means death, but abandoning them feels like its own kind of dying.

With the Lord Ruler dead, Elend Venture struggles to hold together a fragile new government while Vin faces threats from within and without — and begins to question the prophecy that supposedly guides them.

A clockmaker is commissioned to build a perfect clock that would stop time, bringing the Auditors of Reality one step closer to a universe without the messy unpredictability of life. The History Monks dispatch Lu-Tze, a sweeper with a formidable past, and his new apprentice Lobsang Ludd to prevent it. Death's granddaughter Susan is also involved.

Wallace Price was a ruthless lawyer who worked himself to death. Now he is a ghost, refusing to cross over, being escorted to a tea shop in a small town where a ferryman named Hugo helps the dead accept their deaths. Under the Whispering Door is about learning, too late and then not too late, what makes a life worth living.

Five years after Vicious, Victor Vale is still evading capture and hunting Eli, while a new ExtraOrdinary named Marcella Riggins rises with destruction at her fingertips and an agenda of her own. Three storylines converge in Schwab's expansion of the Villains universe — a world where everyone with powers has reasons to use them.

Victor Vale and Eli Ever were college roommates and best friends — until their thesis research on near-death experiences led them to discover how to grant humans extraordinary powers. Ten years later, Victor has escaped from prison with one goal: to find the man who put him there and kill him. A superhero story told from the villain's perspective.

The Vega twins return to Zodiac Academy for their second semester — and the Heirs' campaign to break them intensifies even as unexpected alliances and undeniable attractions begin to complicate everything.

In the aftermath of Dumai's Wells, Rand hunts the Forsaken Sammael in Illian while Mat and Elayne seek the Bowl of the Winds in Ebou Dar. The series' political complexity deepens as the Dragon Reborn's actions reshape nations.

Fat Charlie Nancy has always been mortified by his embarrassing father — who turns out to have been Anansi, the African spider god of stories. When Charlie's estranged brother Spider shows up after their father's death, the deity's mischief-making powers come with him, and Charlie's ordinary life is invaded by mythology, magic, and consequences.

The first full Witcher novel follows Geralt raising and training Ciri after the fall of Cintra, while war engulfs the continent and powerful forces move to claim the girl of prophecy. The first book of the Witcher Saga proper.

Rysn Ftori, a disabled Thaylen merchant and newly appointed Wandersail captain, leads an expedition to the lost island of Aimia — and discovers something there that carries implications for the entire Cosmere.

The Reckoners take their fight to Babylon Restored — the flooded ruins of Manhattan — pursuing the Epic known as Regalia while David confronts the possibility that not all Epics are irredeemably corrupt.

Harry Dresden and his Knight of the Cross ally Michael Carpenter investigate a surge of violent ghost activity across Chicago — and receive an invitation to a vampire court ball that no one survives.

Prince Yarvi was born with a crippled hand — he would never be the warrior his culture demands. He plans to be a minister instead. Then his father and brother are murdered, and Yarvi is forced onto a throne he doesn't want, sworn to revenge he doesn't know how to take — before being betrayed, enslaved, and left for dead.

Rincewind is magically transported to the Counterweight Continent — an analogue of imperial China — where revolution is stirring and the Great Wizzard (i.e., him) has been prophesied. Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde of octogenarian warriors are planning to steal the entire empire. Survival is, as always, Rincewind's primary career goal.

King Nikolai Lantsov of Ravka battles a dark curse living within him while navigating the political threats gathering at his borders — and two women he trusts with his kingdom but not his secret.

Lirael is a Daughter of the Clayr who has not received the Sight — the gift that defines her people. While she searches for her identity in the Great Library of the Clayr, Prince Sameth struggles with a destiny he doesn't want. The second book in the Old Kingdom series deepens its extraordinary world.

The second half of the original Magician novel: Pug becomes the great magician Milamber in the Tsurani world while Thomas rises to lead the elves and becomes something more than human. The Riftwar reaches its climax as two worlds are drawn toward war or reconciliation.

In a far-future world where cities have been mounted on enormous wheels and move across a barren landscape devouring smaller towns for resources, young historian Tom Natsworthy is thrown from London and must survive alongside a scarred girl who wants to assassinate London's most powerful man.

Richard Mayhew helps a wounded girl on a London street and falls through the cracks of reality into London Below — a dark mirror city beneath the streets, populated by the people society forgot.