Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time
The 100 fantasy books that we love most of all
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The 100 fantasy books that we love most of all
From the Taoist beliefs of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea books to the complexity of Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen
The fantasy books we've loved, ordered by their publication year
High fantasy, sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, historical fantasy and many more...
Including Mark Lawrence, Steven Erikson, Jen Williams, John Gwynne, Ian C. Esslemont, N. K. Jemisin and many more...
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