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The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Time Magazine

Time Magazine called upon top fantasy authors (e.g., N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Edeyemi, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Cassandra Clare, and Marlon James) to collect the most influential works of fantasy fiction in chronological order starting in the 9th century A.D.

A Hero Born

A Hero Born
ByJin Yong,Anna Holmwood(Translator)

1957 • 90 Readers • 394 pages 3.6

Akata Witch

Akata Witch
ByNnedi Okorafor

2011 • 285 Readers • 349 pages 4

Alanna: The First Adventure

1983 • 289 Readers • 274 pages 4.1

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

2016 • 19 Readers • 560 pages 4.4

Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There

1866 • 203 Readers • 112 pages 3.9

All the Birds in the Sky

All the Birds in the Sky
ByCharlie Jane Anders

2016 • 397 Readers 3.6

American Gods

American Gods
ByNeil Gaiman

2001 • 2,497 Readers • 635 pages 4

An Ember in the Ashes

2015 • 764 Readers • 481 pages 4.2

Angelfall

Angelfall
BySusan Ee

2011 • 201 Readers • 1,287 pages 3.9

Aru Shah and the Song of Death

2019 • 12 Readers 4.5

A Storm of Swords

A Storm of Swords
ByGeorge R.R. Martin

2000 • 1,622 Readers • 992 pages 4.5

A Stranger in Olondria

A Stranger in Olondria
BySofia Samatar

2013 • 83 Readers • 299 pages 3.2

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

A Swiftly Tilting Planet
ByMadeleine L'Engle

1978 • 177 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

A Torch Against the Night

2016 • 308 Readers • 496 pages 4.1

A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1968 • 1,391 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time
ByMadeleine L'Engle

1962 • 1,340 Readers • 247 pages 3.8

Beasts Made of Night

Beasts Made of Night
ByTochi Onyebuchi

2017 • 4 Readers • 304 pages 3

Blanca & Roja

Blanca & Roja
ByAnna-Marie McLemore

2018 • 54 Readers • 375 pages 3.9

Brown Girl in the Ring

Brown Girl in the Ring
ByNalo Hopkinson

1998 • 68 Readers • 8 pages 3.4

Challenge to Efrafa

1999 • 73 pages

Children of Blood and Bone

2018 • 765 Readers • 544 pages 3.9

Circe

Circe
ByMadeline Miller

2018 • 2,676 Readers • 409 pages 4.3

City of Glass

City of Glass
ByCassandra Clare

2009 • 686 Readers • 560 pages 3.9

Dragonflight

Dragonflight
ByAnne McCaffrey

2005 • 21 Readers • 310 pages 3.9

Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted
ByGail Carson Levine

1997 • 46 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted #1)

297 Readers 4

Empire of Sand

Empire of Sand
ByTasha Suri

2018 • 176 Readers • 496 pages 3.9

Five Children and It

Five Children and It
ByEdith Nesbit

1996 • 54 Readers • 44 pages 3.8

Get in Trouble

Get in Trouble
ByKelly Link

2015 • 86 Readers • 280 pages 3.2

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Gods of Jade and Shadow
BySilvia Moreno-Garcia

2019 • 474 Readers • 352 pages 3.9

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

1990 • 1,965 Readers • 432 pages 4.2

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

1990 • 105 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

8 • 3,568 Readers • 672 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

1997 • 5,181 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle
ByDiana Wynne Jones

1986 • 1,196 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

Jade City

Jade City
ByFonda Lee

2017 • 1,380 Readers • 498 pages 4.1

James and the Giant Peach

1961 • 473 Readers • 146 pages 3.8

Le Morte D'Arthur

Le Morte D'Arthur
BySir Thomas Malory

1485 • 127 Readers • 643 pages 3.6

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins
ByP. L. Travers

1934 • 183 Readers • 224 pages 3.8

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Mistborn: The Final Empire
ByBrandon Sanderson

2006 • 3,333 Readers • 534 pages 4.4

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

1954 • 13 Readers • 174 pages 3

Neverwhere

Neverwhere
ByNeil Gaiman(Narrator)

1996 • 1,446 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

Outlander

Outlander
ByDiana Gabaldon

1991 • 892 Readers • 627 pages 3.9

Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1907 • 69 Readers • 110 pages 3.5

Pet

Pet
ByAkwaeke Emezi

2010 • 212 Readers • 210 pages 4.3

Redwall

Redwall
ByBrian Jacques

1986 • 411 Readers • 351 pages 4

Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach: The Book and Movie Scrapbook

Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach: The Book and Movie Scrapbook
ByLucy Dahl(Photographer),Molly Leach(Designed by)

1996 • 7 Readers • 57 pages 4

Six of Crows

Six of Crows
ByLeigh Bardugo

2001 • 2,065 Readers • 465 pages 4.3

Spindle's End

Spindle's End
ByRobin McKinley

2002 • 61 Readers • 434 pages 4

Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners

1986 • 122 Readers • 269 pages 3.1

The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights
ByHusain Haddawy(Translator)

2010 • 187 Readers • 523 pages 3.8

The BFG

The BFG
ByRoald Dahl

1982 • 431 Readers • 4 pages 4.2

The Bloody Chamber

The Bloody Chamber
ByAngela Carter

1978 • 188 Readers • 164 pages 3.7

The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks
ByDavid Mitchell

2014 • 352 Readers • 595 pages 3.9

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant
ByKazuo Ishiguro

2015 • 394 Readers • 384 pages 3.5

The Changeling

The Changeling
ByVictor LaValle

2017 • 258 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

The Crystal Cave

The Crystal Cave
ByMary Stewart

1970 • 148 Readers • 514 pages 3.9

The Crystal Cave

The Crystal Cave
ByMary Stewart

1970 • 148 Readers • 514 pages 3.9

The Dark Is Rising

The Dark Is Rising
BySusan Cooper

1973 • 39 Readers • 388 pages 4

The Dragon Republic

The Dragon Republic
ByR. F. Kuang

2019 • 669 Readers • 672 pages 4.2

The Eye of the World

The Eye of the World
ByRobert Jordan

1990 • 1,862 Readers • 708 pages 4

The Fellowship of the Ring

1954 • 3,105 Readers • 398 pages 4.4

The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season
ByN.K. Jemisin

2015 • 2,172 Readers • 421 pages 4.4

The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass
ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 1,853 Readers • 399 pages 4

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

2010 • 559 Readers • 432 pages 3.8

The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn
ByPeter S. Beagle

1968 • 415 Readers 3.9

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

1950 • 1,938 Readers • 146 pages 4

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Graphic Novel

1995 • 33 Readers • 64 pages 4.6

The Lives of Christopher Chant

1988 • 56 Readers • 240 pages 4.3

The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind
ByPatrick Rothfuss

1 • 2,576 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

The Night Circus

The Night Circus
ByErin Morgenstern

2011 • 1,900 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

The Once and Future King

1958 • 476 Readers • 650 pages 3.8

The Palm-Wine Drinkard

1952 • 31 Readers • 128 pages 3.7

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth
ByNorton Juster

1961 • 453 Readers • 268 pages 4.2

The Poppy War

The Poppy War
ByR. F. Kuang

2018 • 1,887 Readers • 544 pages 4

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride
ByWilliam Goldman

1973 • 1,257 Readers • 465 pages 4.2

The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,327 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles
ByMadeline Miller

2011 • 2,695 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

The Stone Sky

The Stone Sky
ByN.K. Jemisin

2017 • 783 Readers • 464 pages 4.4

The Subtle Knife

The Subtle Knife
ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 866 Readers • 326 pages 4.1

The Tombs of Atuan

The Tombs of Atuan
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1971 • 11 Readers • 146 pages 3.6

The Two Towers

The Two Towers
ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1954 • 2,088 Readers • 447 pages 4.4

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

1952 • 646 Readers • 228 pages 3.9

The Wandering Unicorn

The Wandering Unicorn
ByManuel Mujica Láinez

1985 • 6 Readers • 320 pages

The Wee Free Men

The Wee Free Men
ByTerry Pratchett

2003 • 352 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

The Wrath and the Dawn

The Wrath and the Dawn
ByRenée Ahdieh

2015 • 367 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

Tigana

Tigana
ByGuy Gavriel Kay

1990 • 478 Readers • 687 pages 4

Trail of Lightning

Trail of Lightning
ByRebecca Roanhorse

2018 • 307 Readers • 287 pages 3.8

Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
ByNatalie Babbitt

1975 • 264 Readers • 151 pages 3.8

We Hunt the Flame

We Hunt the Flame
ByHafsah Faizal

2019 • 413 Readers • 384 pages 3.7

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

2009 • 71 Readers 4.1

Who Fears Death

Who Fears Death
ByNnedi Okorafor

2010 • 203 Readers • 386 pages 3.7

Witchmark

Witchmark
ByC. L. Polk,C. L Polk

2018 • 195 Readers • 318 pages 4

Woven in Moonlight

Woven in Moonlight
ByIsabel Ibañez

2020 • 104 Readers • 400 pages 3.3