Top 100 Fantasy Books

Explore the top 100 Fantasy books on SimilarBooks. Discover stories that move beyond the ordinary world into magical realms, mythical settings and imaginative realities. From epic quests and powerful magic to dark fantasy, folklore-inspired stories and character-driven adventures, this collection brings together a wide range of fantasy reading.

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📘 The Two Towers

<section class="editorial" style="margin:20px 0;"><h2>The Two Towers — When the Journey Becomes a Test of Endurance</h2><p><strong>The Two Towers</strong> by <strong>J.R.R. Tolkien</strong> is the middle chapter of <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>, and it marks the point where the story truly opens into multiple paths and rising dangers.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 The Silmarillion

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.<br/><br/>The Silmarillion tells the ancient history of Middle-earth, long before The Hobbit.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Circe

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 American Gods

American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Urban Fantasy

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📘 The Way of Kings

Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 A Christmas Carol

An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 Perfume

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Dark Fantasy

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📘 The Return of the King

The Return of the King is the final part of The Lord of the Rings. It tells two connected stories. First, Aragorn becomes the rightful King of Gondor after winning a great battle against Sauron's forces. Second, the hobbits Frodo and Sam finally reach the evil land of Mordor. There, Frodo struggles with the terrible power of the One Ring.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 The Wicked King

**YOU MUST BE STRONG ENOUGH TO STRIKE AND STRIKE AND STRIKE AGAIN WITHOUT TIRING.** **THE FIRST LESSON IS TO MAKE YOURSELF THAT STRONG.** JUDE HAS BOUND THE WICKED KING, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Dark Fantasy

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📘 The Night Circus

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 Crown of Midnight

*She is the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But where will her conscience, and her heart, lead her?* After a year of hard labor in the Salt Mines of Endovier, eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien has won the king's contest to become the new royal assassin.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Stardust

E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's "Writing and the Imagination."In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years. Just to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 Queen of Shadows

Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past... She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Dragonflight

HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise--and take back her stolen birthright.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 The Waste Lands

Part III of an epic saga. Roland and his companions, Eddie and Susannah Dean, find the Path of the Beam that will lead them to the Dark Tower. Along the way, Roland adds two new members to his ka-tet (a group united for a specific purpose). In the decaying city of Lud, they encounter new dangers, including a sentient train that has gone insane.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 The Poppy War

A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Gideon the Ninth

"The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 House of Earth and Blood

Bound by blood. Tempted by desire. Unleashed by destiny. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Urban Fantasy

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📘 A Feast for Crows

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in *A Feast for Crows*, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . .

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Storm Front

The novels of the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop fun. Storm Front is Jim Butcher's first novel and introduces his most famous and popular character-Harry Dresden, wizard for hire.For his first case, Harry is called in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with the blackest of magic.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Urban Fantasy

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📘 Babel

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 Oathbringer

**The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 *New York Times* bestselling *Words of Radiance*, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, at the top of his game** In *Oathbringer*, the third volume of the *New York Times* bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe whose numbers are as gr...

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Fierce King

Today is my wedding day. In a few breathless moments, I will be Mrs Alejandro Montoya. He is the King of L.A, and everything a woman could want. Handsome, powerful, rich, and hotter than hell itself. But I am not just any woman. I am Alana Carmichael and I’m only here to save my father. I will not bow to any king. This is no fairy tale.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Dark Fantasy

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📘 The Hero of Ages

This book is not only the third book in a trilogy, but it’s Act Three of the the three-act structure for the Mistborn Trilogy—it’s the part of the story where the heroes have discovered that what they thought was the problem all along was not the true danger, and now they’re fighting for not only their own survival but that of the world they live i...

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Gardens of the Moon

The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent.Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Lilith

Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September, 1969.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Dark Fantasy

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📘 Homeland

La extraña y exótica Menzoberranzan, la gran ciudad de la Antípoda Oscura, fundada hace milenios por los elfos oscuros tras su marcha del mundo exterior, es la morada del héroe de "El valle del viento helado", Drizzt Do'Urden.

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📘 Song of Susannah

[The Dark Tower][1] VI Susannah, now pregnant, has yet another taking control of her. The demon-mother, Mia, uses Susannah and Black Thirteen to transport to New York City of 1999. Jake, Oy, and Pere Callahan must rescue Susannah while Eddie and Roland transport to the Maine of 1977.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Dark Fantasy

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📘 Fairy Tale

**Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.

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📘 Wicked

A fictionalized retelling of L. Frank Baum's classic 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', focusing on the enigmatic Wicked Witch of the West and her quest to become the Wicked Witch of the West.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 A Darker Shade of Magic

STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magic city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king--George III.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 Small Gods

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Dark Fantasy

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📘 Vicious

Victor breaks out of prison with the help of a young girl with great abilities to find his college roommate, when he discovers that their thesis about how adrenaline, near-death experiences, and supernatural events can make someone gain extraordinary abilities under the right conditions is being used by his college friend.

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📘 Phantastes

One of George MacDonald's most important works, Phantastes is the story of a young man named Anotos and his long dreamlike journey in Fairy Land. It is the fairy tale of deep spiritual insight as Anotos makes his way through moments of uncertainty and peril and mistakes that can have irreversible consequences.

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📘 The Fifth Season

**A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.** IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. IT STARTS WITH DEATH, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL and long-dormant wounds rising up to fester.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Le Morte d'Arthur

**Le Morte d'Arthur** (originally spelled **Le Morte Darthur**, ungrammatical Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table—along with their respective folklore.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 Kingdom of Ash

Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas’s #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius’s journey from slave to king’s assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. . .

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 We Hunt the Flame

**PEOPLE LIVED BECAUSE SHE KILLED.** **PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE HE LIVED.** **Z**AFIRA IS THE HUNTER, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 The Starless Sea

**FAR BENEATH** the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 House of Sky and Breath

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds. The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Urban Fantasy

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📘 Selena

"Selena" dan "Nebula" adalah buku ke-8 dan ke-9 yang menceritakan siapa orangtua Raib dalam serial petualangan dunia paralel. Dua buku ini sebaiknya dibaca berurutan. Kedua buku ini juga bercerita tentang Akademi Bayangan Tingkat Tinggi, sekolah terbaik di seluruh Klan Bulan.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Rhythm of War

The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Uprooted

"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Eaters of the Dead

Eaters of the Dead is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton that blends a 10th‑century Muslim Arab’s journey with Northmen to a Viking settlement, using Ibn Fadlan’s account and a retelling of Beowulf. It was later republished as The 13th Warrior for the film adaptation.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 Dragonquest

Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Pyramids

It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Historical Fantasy

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📘 The Black Prism

Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals.

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Epic Fantasy

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📘 Fool Moon

Dresden is a wizard that resides in Chicago. He is the only wizard in the yellow pages. He helps the Chicago Police solve mystery that goes bump in the night. But what happens when FBI gets involved? To add to the confusion, it seems there is more than wizard and magic in Chicago ... there are also werewolves!

Genre: Fantasy Subgenre: Urban Fantasy

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