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Essential Fantasy Books
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,061,546 ratings — published 2007
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.49 — 923,526 ratings — published 2006
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,382,430 ratings — published 1937
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.29 — 323,415 ratings — published 2015
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.66 — 641,028 ratings — published 2010
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.22 — 299,655 ratings — published 2006
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,083,192 ratings — published 1954
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.19 — 581,612 ratings — published 1990
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.01 — 353,088 ratings — published 1968
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,368,095 ratings — published 2005
The Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.54 — 721,368 ratings — published 1954
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,609 ratings — published 1968
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,693,432 ratings — published 1996
Elantris (Elantris, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.17 — 336,282 ratings — published 2005
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.99 — 416,591 ratings — published 1983
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.19 — 385,897 ratings — published 1995
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.97 — 373,463 ratings — published 2000
His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.29 — 167,234 ratings — published 2000
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.91 — 654,648 ratings — published 1982
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.93 — 133,851 ratings — published 1999
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.30 — 332,119 ratings — published 2006
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.87 — 251,731 ratings — published 2004
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.29 — 433,319 ratings — published 1986
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.13 — 211,849 ratings — published 1982
Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.16 — 110,651 ratings — published 1982
Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.17 — 101,414 ratings — published 1982
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.28 — 698,761 ratings — published 1956
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,079,208 ratings — published 2012
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,016,646 ratings — published 1955
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,097,878 ratings — published 1954
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.34 — 729,827 ratings — published 2011
Warbreaker (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.30 — 267,312 ratings — published 2009
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.26 — 322,277 ratings — published 1990
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.12 — 348,184 ratings — published 2017
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.15 — 696,150 ratings — published 2023
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.05 — 73,209 ratings — published 2020
The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.69 — 89,903 ratings — published 2014
The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.96 — 52,488 ratings — published 2009
The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.95 — 89,680 ratings — published 2001
Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.16 — 93,830 ratings — published 1990
The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.98 — 82,517 ratings — published 1964
The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.26 — 172,938 ratings — published 2004
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.33 — 261,077 ratings — published 2023
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 3.97 — 192,716 ratings — published 2023
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.15 — 423,239 ratings — published 2022
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.06 — 605,438 ratings — published 2021
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.25 — 75,120 ratings — published 2023
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.37 — 900,898 ratings — published 2020
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.01 — 386,440 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as essential-fantasy)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,303,340 ratings — published 2018
