Best Fantasy on Goodreads with less than 100 ratings
The difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy is arbitrary but it should be clear enough for this list. Looking for Fantasy books with less than 100 ratings. mjf
This list has been set up for new and unknown fantasy. Goodreads authors, feel free to add your own books here after they have been rated. However, books with more votes than ratings may be removed at any time. Books that are not fantasy will also be removed as will books that reach more than 100 ratings.
Helpful Librarians - if you help maintain this and other similar lists - please don't remove books from one of these lists for too many ratings unless you are willing to put it on the next list.
Some Subgenres:
Best Epic Fantasy
Best Urban Fantasy
Fantasy by Time Period:
Pre-Tolkien Fantasy (Fantasy up through 1937)
Classic Fantasy (Fantasy written before 1980)
Fantasy by Decade:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
Locus Recommended Fantasy:
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Fantasy By Ratings:
More than 100000, 50000 to 99999, 25000 to 49999, 10000 to 24999
1000 to 9999, 100 to 999, Less than 100
Other Fantasy Lists of Note:
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
Best Fantasy of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Fantasy of the 20th Century
Popular Highly Rated Fantasy
Related Lists By Topic:
All, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biography, Biology, Children, Classics, Computer Science, Fantasy, Genetics, Graphic Novels, History, Horror, Language, Manga, Military Science Fiction, Music, Mysteries, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Picture Books, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Travel, Young Adult
See also: Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 - 10,000 ratings)
This list has been set up for new and unknown fantasy. Goodreads authors, feel free to add your own books here after they have been rated. However, books with more votes than ratings may be removed at any time. Books that are not fantasy will also be removed as will books that reach more than 100 ratings.
Helpful Librarians - if you help maintain this and other similar lists - please don't remove books from one of these lists for too many ratings unless you are willing to put it on the next list.
Some Subgenres:
Best Epic Fantasy
Best Urban Fantasy
Fantasy by Time Period:
Pre-Tolkien Fantasy (Fantasy up through 1937)
Classic Fantasy (Fantasy written before 1980)
Fantasy by Decade:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
Locus Recommended Fantasy:
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Fantasy By Ratings:
More than 100000, 50000 to 99999, 25000 to 49999, 10000 to 24999
1000 to 9999, 100 to 999, Less than 100
Other Fantasy Lists of Note:
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
Best Fantasy of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Fantasy of the 20th Century
Popular Highly Rated Fantasy
Related Lists By Topic:
All, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biography, Biology, Children, Classics, Computer Science, Fantasy, Genetics, Graphic Novels, History, Horror, Language, Manga, Military Science Fiction, Music, Mysteries, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Picture Books, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Travel, Young Adult
See also: Moderately Underrated Books (1,000 - 10,000 ratings)
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and? if you need to add this then just add it. There's an "add books to list" tab at the top of every list including this one.


A librarian can assist by noting when books have met the criteria for another list. And can add that book to that list and REMOVE it from this list.
A non-librarian can always add the book to the next list an note that it needs removing.
And anyone can find books that meet the criteria for the list that are missing and add them.
Anyone can also note where there are books on the list that don't meet the criteria and note that fact for a librarian or perhaps the voter to fix.

This is an amazing work of fantasy literature. I don't know why the main voting system won't allow me to add, maybe because the book isn't mainstream.... YET! But read this masterpiece, and I defy you not to compare with works by Tolkien!
Gondell's Quest - Destiny

Or vote for books on the next list in general, thus freeing up my votes.

There are a number of other books ready to be graduated to 100 to 999 list - but I'm out of votes on that list - so someone else will need to do that. In other words if you voted for a book on this list which now has 100 or more ratings, please add your votes to the next list and remove them from this one.
Or vote for books on the next list in general, thus freeing up my votes.

There are a number of other books ready to be graduated to 100 to 999 list - but I'm out of votes on that list - so someone else will need to do that. In other words if you voted for a book on this list which now has 100 or more ratings, please add your votes to the next list and remove them from this one.
Or vote for books on the next list in general, thus freeing up my votes.

Also removed Shadow Star, which was already on the next list.
Graduated two steps: The Magicians and Mrs. Quent, The Grey Bastards, The House on Durrow Street, Fall of Thanes
Mitchell, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm willing and not willing to do in more long-term maintenance work so I haven't taken care of everything that needs graduating, and I can't promise to come back and do this regularly. Also, not sure how you feel about all those Karl Schroeder books? They seem shelved mostly as sci-fi/space opera so might not belong on this list?

As always you do what you can and what you want. Yeah, the Schroeder books. Hmm..
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Anyone can add books to this list.