High Fantasy

High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the real, or "primary" world. The secondary world is usually internally consistent but its rules differ in some way(s) from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set in the primary, or "real" world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements. ...more

Blood Bound (Cursed Covenant, #1)
Deathbringer (Deathbringer, #1)
Honor & Heresy
An Accident of Dragons (Tales of Summer, #1)
Stay for a Spell
Year of the Mer
Deathly Fates
To Steal a Throne
Princeweaver (Land of the Wildest Skies, #1)
Burn the Sea
Our Rogue Fates (Rogue Devotions #1)
There Be Dragons Here (Tales of Aedrea)
Vile Lady Villains
Hail the Rising Tides
The Last Guardian (The Nur'thraa #1)
Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin, #1)
Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
The Poet Empress
Heat of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #3)
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
Nightbane (Lightlark, #2)
The Everlasting
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEragon by Christopher PaoliniThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books With Elves -- NOT Faeries
239 books — 173 voters

The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienMistborn Trilogy Boxed Set by Brandon Sanderson
Great Fantasy Reads
377 books — 563 voters
Eragon by Christopher PaoliniThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi NovikA Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinDragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
The Greatest Dragon Books
245 books — 206 voters

Words of Radiance by Brandon SandersonPrince of Fools by Mark  LawrenceTower Lord by Anthony RyanThe Broken Eye by Brent WeeksHalf a King by Joe Abercrombie
Best Fantasy of 2014
150 books — 622 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1)
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

T.J. Shaw
My sweet lemming,” he murmured, nuzzling her neck and sending glorious spirals of pleasure ping-ponging throughout her body. “You’ve been quiet and that worries me.” “Why?” she asked, trailing her hand down his banded forearm to entwine her fingers within his. “Because that means you’re thinking, and a thinking woman is usually something to fear.
T.J. Shaw, Caller of Light

Hazel Butler
Cold coiled through me, lacing each breath with clouded wisps of frost. There was not so much as a candle lit within the small, single room of my cottage, and delicate crystals of alabaster and beryl rimed my meagre possessions and the barren fireplace. I did not care.
Hazel Butler, Bleizgeist

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