Best comic fantasy books

This genre of fantasy parodies (mostly affectionately) all fantasy sub genres. It could be said that the primary objective of comic fantasy is to amuse.

1. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
Score: 192
Our rating: 9.4 | 6 positive reader reviews
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... [...]

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2. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Score: 191
Our rating: 9.5 | 3 positive reader reviews
Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivors - her heart is broken. But her charms draw t [...]

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3. The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 1
Score: 181
Our rating: 8.5 | 8 positive reader reviews
In the beginning there was…a turtle. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back o [...]

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4. Shadowmagic by John Lenahan
Score: 177
Our rating: 8.5 | 7 positive reader reviews
A Lord of the Rings for the 21st century. Only a lot shorter. And funnier. And completely different. Conor thought he was an average teenager. OK, so his father only had one hand, spoke to him in ancient languages and was a bit on the eccentric side but, other than that, life was fairly normal. U [...]

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5. The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud
Lockwood & Co #3
Score: 100
Our rating: 10.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambolic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And they get results. When an outbreak of ghostly phenomena grows to terrifying levels in Chelsea, Scotland Yard is l [...]

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6. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 24
Score: 99
Our rating: 9.8 | 1 positive reader reviews
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle, sophisticated individuals for whom nuance and subtext are meat and drink. And that mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just [...]

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7. Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 37
Score: 97
Our rating: 9.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. This is not going to be a gentleman’s game.The prospect of the Big Match draws in a [...]

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8. The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
Lockwood & Co #4
Score: 97
Our rating: 9.5 | 2 positive reader reviews
Lucy has left Lockwood & Co. A freelance operative, she is hiring herself out to other agencies – agencies that might value her ever-improving skills. But now Lockwood needs her help. Penelope Fittes, leader of the well-renowned Fittes Agency wants Lockwood & Co. – and only th [...]

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9. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 30
Score: 96
Our rating: 9.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching – a wise shepherd – might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it’s up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest [...]

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10. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 35
Score: 96
Our rating: 9.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the crossover from summer to winter — she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And dr [...]

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11. The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide by Terry Pratchett
Score: 96
Our rating: 9.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
Greetings, adventurer! We lay before you this most comprehensive gazetteer encompassing all the streets of Ankh-Morpork, as well as information on its principal businesses, hotels, taverns, inns, and places of entertainment and refreshment, enhanced by the all-new and compleat map of our great ci [...]

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12. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 28
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the flags and barricades are rising...And the question for a po [...]

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13. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 32
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Something is coming after Tiffany . . .Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic – not chores and ill-tempered goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this!What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembod [...]

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14. Red Dwarf: Better Than Life by Grant Naylor
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Rimmer, Cat and Kryten are trapped in a computer game which can transport players directly to the world of imagination, a world where each player can enjoy fabulous success. The only catch is that the game kills. [...]

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15. Snuff by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 39
Score: 94
Our rating: 9.3 | 1 positive reader reviews
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in [...]

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16. Mort by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 3
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.0 | 3 positive reader reviews
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice. [...]

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17. Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames
The Band #2
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
Live fast, die young.Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in the world beyond her sleepy hometown.When the biggest mercenary band of all rolls into town, led b [...]

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18. Knights of the Dead God by James Jakins
Mikaia Goretusk #1
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.2 | 1 positive reader reviews
The half-orc girl, Mikaia Goretusk, has been torn from her home. Her world. Her family. Her only allies are the holy knight, Arthur Shield, once sworn to kill everyone she has ever cared for, and the witch, Hazel Midd. Arthur struggles with the guilt of being unable to save his g [...]

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19. Son of a Liche by J Zachary Pike
The Dark Profit Saga #2
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.2 | 1 positive reader reviews
A doubly disgraced dwarven hero. A band of accident-prone adventurers. Giving redemption a second shot may have been a grave mistake…Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the Orcs they ac [...]

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20. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 14
Score: 92
Our rating: 9.0 | 2 positive reader reviews
The fairies are back – but this time they don’t just want your teeth… It's Midsummer Night - no time for dreaming. Because sometimes, when there's more than one reality at play, too much dreaming can make the walls between them come tumbling down. Unfortunately there [...]

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21. The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
Lockwood & Co #1
Score: 92
Our rating: 9.1 | 1 positive reader reviews
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in... For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young a [...]

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22. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 31
Score: 92
Our rating: 9.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who's recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors. This peevish tendency has all but expended Borogravia's ranks of cannon fodder. Whet [...]

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23. I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 38
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head... It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty [...]

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24. A Blink of the Screen by Terry Pratchett

Score: 91
Our rating: 9.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. H [...]

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25. The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud
Lockwood & Co #2
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
Life is never exactly peaceful for Lockwood & Co. Lucy and George are trying to solve the mystery of the talking skull trapped in their ghost jar, while Lockwood is desperate for an exciting new case. Things seem to be looking up when the team is called to Kensal Green Cemetery to investigate [...]

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26. Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 40
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom cau [...]

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27. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 36
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
It’s an offer you can’t refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork’s Royal Mint and the bank next door? It’s a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost ce [...]

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28. Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw
Score: 90
Our rating: 8.7 | 3 positive reader reviews
In a world full to bursting with would-be heroes, Jim couldn't be less interested in saving the day. His fireballs fizzle. He's awfully grumpy. Plus, he's been dead for about sixty years. When a renegade necromancer wrenches him from eternal slumber and into a world gone terribly, biz [...]

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29. The Mystic Accountants by Will Macmillan Jones
The Banned Underground: Book 2
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
The Banned Underground is back to rock your world again. This time they've destroyed the Throne of the Mountain King and must get another before the dark legions of accountancy take over the world. Come join the hit-parade of characters including Fungus, Grizelda, and the forces of evil in a [...]

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30. War God Rising by Tim Marquitz
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Sand is destined for greatness. Or so a pair of two-bit criminals would have him believe. After rescuing him from certain doom, Bess and Kaede embark on a scheme to game the War God Tournament. It’d be easier if Sand wasn’t an alcohol-soaked twit with a disturbing interest in mutton. [...]

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31. Becoming Superman by J Michael Straczynski
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
With an introduction by Neil Gaiman!In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood’s Changelingand Marvel’s Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome th [...]

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32. Jingo by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 20
Score: 89
Our rating: 8.8 | 1 positive reader reviews
Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war. Never more so if it is over a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Even if it isn' [...]

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33. 100 Miles and Vampin by C T Phipps
Straight Outta Fangton #2
Score: 89
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who has found undeath isn't all it was promised to be. There's no vast riches, innate cool, or super-sex appeal. No, instead, there's working the graveyard shift at a gas station alongside the highway to Detroit. Oh, and the blood thing sucks too. W [...]

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34. The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume One by Terry Pratchett
Discworld Anthology #1
Score: 88
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Think you know Ankh-Morpork? Think again.In this top-secret guide, intrepid explorers will experience the real city.If you've ever wondered where Unseen University students wet their whistles (while avoiding their teachers as they do the same), or pondered just what the Assassin [...]

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35. The Portable Door by Tom Holt
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
Starting a new job is always stressful, but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of J.W. Wells he has no idea what trouble lies in store. Because he is about to discover that the apparently respectable establishment now paying his salary is in fact a front for a deeply sinister organization [...]

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36. Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor
Red Dwarf Trilogy #1
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk! After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturns moons, wearing a lady's pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name [...]

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37. Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
The Band #1
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
GLORY NEVER GETS OLD. Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up [...]

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38. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 2
Score: 86
Our rating: 8.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
A red star has appeared in the sky and the Discworld is heading right towards it. There is only one person who can save the world; but unfortunately this is the rather inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind who was last seen falling of the edge of the world. [...]

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39. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 33
Score: 86
Our rating: 8.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist... ... and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers [...]

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40. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 3
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby [...]

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41. Tancredi by James Palumbo
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Tancredi is born on the same day that the scientists discover a new planet. They call it Surprise.It is indeed a Surprise!This small planet, so insignificant that it went unnoticed for millennia, soon reveals that one day it will develop into a supernova and is destined to be the in [...]

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42. Spiderface by William Mobberley
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
When young Jimbo Mambo books a room with Captain and Mrs Fanshaw in their Northernville lodging house, he is gradually introduced to their bizarre social circle. However, nothing can prepare him for Northernville’s weirdest citizens of all, Miss Susie Grubbings’ tragically, deformed b [...]

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43. I Was a Teenage Weredeer by C T Phipps
Bright Falls Mysteries #1
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Jane Doe is a weredeer, the least-threatening shapechanger species in the world. Blessed with the ability to turn furry at will and psychically read objects, Jane has done her best to live a normal life working as a waitress at the Deerlightful Diner. She has big dreams of escaping life in the su [...]

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44. Fool's Gold by Jon Hollins
The Dragon Lords #1
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
A brand new adventure fantasy: imagine Guardians of the Galaxyplanning a heist on Smaug's gold, for fans looking for something with a modern twist and some humor.Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Hobbit in this rollicking fantasy adventure.It's [...]

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45. Steel, Blood and Fire by Allan Batchelder
Immortal Treachery #1
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
On the march, around the campfire, and in the taverns, they tell incredible stories about Tarmun Vykers – how he’s never been cut in battle, how he once defeated hundreds of men by himself, how he exterminated an entire people over an insult. These stories make Vykers seem like a god; [...]

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46. Orconomics by J Zachary Pike
The Dark Profit Saga #1
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
A disgraced Dwarven hero. A band of deadbeat adventurers. His last shot at redemption could get him killed.If Gorm Ingerson really wanted to drink himself to death, he never should have helped the Goblin. When his good deed lands him in a bad contract, Gorm finds himself entangled in a que [...]

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47. Straight Outta Fangton by C T Phipps
Straight Outta Fangton #1
Score: 84
Our rating: 8.4 | 0 positive reader reviews
Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who is wondering where his nightclub, mansion, and sports car is. Instead, he is working a minimum wage job during the night shift as being a vampire isn’t all that impressive in a world where they’ve come out to mortals. Exiled fro [...]

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48. Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights by Liam Perrin
Less Valued Knights #1
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
Whimsical and poignant, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights tells the story of Thomas Farmer who dreams of becoming a knight, sets out to save his brother from the hands of an evil Baron, and uncovers a plot that threatens Camelot itself. Along the way, he befriends a ser [...]

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49. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 4
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son...a wizard squared...a source of magic...a Sourcerer. "Sourcery" sees the retu [...]

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50. May Contain Traces of Magic by Tom Holt
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
There are all kinds of products. The good ones. The bad ones. The ones that stay in the garage mouldering for years until your garden gnome makes a home out of them. Most are harmless if handled properly, even if they do contain traces of peanuts. But some are not. Not the ones that contain trace [...]

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51. Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
The third planet out from the star was blue, with green splodges. Dirt. Oh, the bomb thought. And then its courage, determination and nobility-of-spirit subroutines cut in, overriding everything else, adrenalizing its command functions and bypassing its cyberphrenetic nodes. Here goes, said the b [...]

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52. Here Be Dragons by David Macpherson
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
A mid-life crisis, a castle gardener, an unfaithful steed, a dastardly hero, a merciless king, and a dragon that needs saving. With heroes this bad who needs villains... When Orus graduated from the Cromalot School for Heroes he was ready for a life of glory and adventure. But after b [...]

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53. Vox Machina Origins by Matthew Mercer
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
From the creators of the hit show "Critical Role" comes Vox Machina's origin story! Writers Matthew Mercer and Matthew Colville team with artist extraordinaire Olivia Samson and colorist Chris Northrop to bring you the story of where the heroes' journey began.The ban [...]

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54. Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 19
Score: 79
Our rating: 7.9 | 0 positive reader reviews
For Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by…well, more troubling times. Right now, it’s the latter. There’s a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in the city, and a dwarf with attitude and a golem who’s begun to t [...]

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55. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 8
Score: 79
Our rating: 7.7 | 2 positive reader reviews
Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. [...]

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56. A Heist Too Far by Rob Knipe
Score: 78
Our rating: 7.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
Mallik, an assassin with a short temper and an assortment of sharp weapons, Dick Swede a.k.a The Black Moustache, an almost famous highwayman, and Jules Van Jives, a scruffy elf with an obsession for fire and explosives are wanted men, but something is about to make them more wanted than usual. W [...]

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57. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Score: 76
Our rating: 7.6 | 0 positive reader reviews
When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say [...]

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58. The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore
Score: 75
Our rating: 7.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lur [...]

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59. If Pigs Could Fly by Jonny Nexus
West Kensington Paranormal Detective Agency #1
Score: 75
Our rating: 7.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
"West Kensington Paranormal Detective Agency. Doctor Ravinder Shah speaking. No case too weird, no problem too bizarre. Strangeness a specialty. How can I help you?" London Social Worker Rav Shah moonlights as a paranormal detective, aided by one of his clients and a Border Collie he re [...]

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60. Hell by Robert Olen Butler
Score: 70
Our rating: 7.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Hatcher McCord is an evening newscaster who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He's far from the only one to suffer this fate - in fact, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including William Shakespeare, Humphrey Bogart, Richard M. Nix [...]

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61. The Good, The Mad and The Undead by Rob Knipe
Score: 70
Our rating: 7.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Having remained in hiding for two long months, Mallik is starting to get itchy feet, and his urges for adventure are ending in increasingly violent outbursts. The two men he is living with, the distinctly normal Sok Lard, and a vampire Jack Von Hellsprung, raised as an experiment by the world fam [...]

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62. Miscreation by Stefan Jakubowski
Score: 70
Our rating: 7.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Far away in the realm of Mythos, an evil entity has broken free of its prison to darken the land. However, entrusted with her father’s magic scroll – the only hope for the realm – young Princess Dara summons six heroes from different times and places to defend her: a hardened Ro [...]

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63. The Shepherds Crown by Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series: Book 41
Score: 70
Our rating: 7.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the l [...]

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64. The SatNav of Doom by Will Macmillan Jones
The Banned Underground: Book 5
Score: 65
Our rating: 6.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
The Banned Underground – a rock band led by the jazz-loving saxophonist and troll, Fungus – are back and on tour. Meanwhile, The Grey Mage is once again trying to get his hands on the dwarf treasure The Amulet of Kings (the main focus of the first Banned Underground story which I revi [...]

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65. Tales From Ashen Falls by Paul S Lavender
The Ashen Falls Trilogy #1
Score: 65
Our rating: 6.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
Monsters are on the rise and Gods walk the streets of Ashen Falls in four stories that serve as a prelude to The Eighth God. Melress and The Fading ManA young half-elven boy is kidnapped by a children's nursery rhyme.The Doves Head InnSomeone wants to [...]

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66. The Banned Underground: The Amulet of Kings by Will Macmillan Jones
The Banned Underground: Book 1
Score: 60
Our rating: 6.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
What could be worse? Having to take a holiday with an aunt who turns people into frogs? Or battling the local dark lord? Or getting involved with a jazz-loving bog troll and his dwarfish R&B band? Or is it being miles from a McDonald's? Join the teenagers and find out in this adventure wh [...]

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67. Fandemonium by Rick Schindler
Score: 60
Our rating: 6.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
Ray Sirico used to have it all. Once, he was the brilliant and outrageous Clown Prince of Comics, who reinvented the venerable superhero Skylord, and ranted and rollicked everywhere from TV talk shows to Hollywood premieres. But that was in the ’70s and ’80s. Now it’s 1993, and [...]

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68. The Soddit by Adam Roberts
Score: 41
Our rating: 4.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
Bingo Sac Grabbins is asked by the coughing wizard Gandef and some (oddly Welsh) dwarves to help them relieve the great dragon Smug of his gold. [...]

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69. The Headlock of Destiny by Samuel Gately
Titan Wars #1
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Our rating: 8.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
Some say titans are descended from giants. Others say they are risen from men. But there's never any debate about where to find them. They will be in the center of a roaring crowd, beating the hell out of each other. From contenders like the Savage and Scott Flawless to pretenders like Richar [...]

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70. A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones
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For aeons the mages of Arth, a neighbouring universe, have been looting Earth of ideas, innovations and technologies, all the while manipulating events and creating devastating catastrophes for their own edification. Now this brazen piracy is threatening Earth with total extinction. It is up to t [...]

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