What are some captivating fantasy books for teens?
Whether you call it young adult fantasy, YA, or just fantasy – fictional worlds and magical elements have inspired readers for generations. They can be a gateway to reading in a way that real-world-based stories cannot.
What fantasy books do you recommend for teenagers (or even tweens or pre-teens) to hook them into the fantasy genre? These could be books set in a fictional universe, books with magic elements, or anything else that plays with magical realism to tell a compelling tale that school-aged readers can identify with.
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 Mistborn: The Final Empire
| 4.43 | 1,844 reads | ||
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
| 4.29 | 4,264 reads | ||
 Eragon
| 3.61 | 1,000 reads | ||
 Six of Crows
| 4.28 | 939 reads | ||
 Redwall
| 3.96 | 229 reads | ||
 Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
| 4.29 | 85 reads | ||
 Nimona
| 4.3 | 290 reads | ||
 Cemetery Boys
| 4.08 | 156 reads | ||
 Cinder
| 3.98 | 547 reads | ||
 Tress of the Emerald Sea
| 4.47 | 659 reads | ||
 The Eye of the World
| 4.01 | 984 reads | ||
 A Wizard of Earthsea
| 3.88 | 636 reads | ||
 City of Bones
| 3.6 | 808 reads | ||
 Dealing with Dragons
| 4.19 | 102 reads | ||
 Carry On
| 4.04 | 313 reads | ||
 Magician: Apprentice
| 3.98 | 273 reads | ||
 The Merciful Crow
| 3.89 | 29 reads | ||
 Ender's Game
| 4.26 | 1,640 reads | ||
 Bloed en beenderen
| 3.88 | 282 reads | ||
 Raybearer
| 4.32 | 68 reads | ||
 Dragons of Autumn Twilight
| 3.75 | 129 reads | ||
 A Game of Thrones
| 4.39 | 2,046 reads | ||
 Every Heart a Doorway
| 3.91 | 411 reads | ||
 A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
| 4.13 | 46 reads | ||
 Howl's Moving Castle
| 4.16 | 552 reads | ||
 The Elfstones of Shannara
| 3.83 | 32 reads | ||
 Goddess of the Night
| 2.6 | 9 reads | ||
 The Sum of All Men
| 3.46 | 30 reads | ||
 He Who Fights with Monsters
| 3.99 | 64 reads | ||
 Half a Soul
| 4.14 | 130 reads | ||
 Night World No. 1
| 3.85 | 29 reads | ||
 Pentagon Pirate Gang Pentagon Pirate Gang: The Secret of the Orchard
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 Water & Fire
| 3.92 | 56 reads | ||
 The Dragonet Prophecy
| 3.58 | 50 reads | ||
 The Forbidden Game
| 3.71 | 9 reads | ||
 Gardens of the Moon
| 3.96 | 405 reads | ||
 The Reader
| 3.5 | 15 reads | ||
 Abandon
| 3.08 | 13 reads | ||
 The Amulet of Samarkand
| 4.06 | 143 reads | ||
 The Alchemyst
| 3.68 | 164 reads | ||
 Wit'ch Fire
| 3.75 | 13 reads |