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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

#1 of 4 in The Legend of the Condor Heroes

A Hero Born
ByJin Yong

1957 • 118 Readers • 398 pages 3.7

Akata Witch

#1 of 3 in The Nsibidi Scripts

Akata Witch
ByNnedi Okorafor

2011 • 357 Readers • 349 pages 4

Alanna: The First Adventure

#1 of 4 in Song of the Lioness

1983 • 367 Readers • 274 pages 4.1

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

2016 • 21 Readers • 560 pages 4.4

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

#2 of 3 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1866 • 246 Readers • 112 pages 3.9

All the Birds in the Sky

#1 of 1 in All the Birds in the Sky

All the Birds in the Sky
ByCharlie Jane Anders

2016 • 490 Readers • 12h 36m 3.6

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

American Gods
ByNeil Gaiman

2001 • 3,060 Readers • 635 pages 4

An Ember in the Ashes

#1 of 4 in An Ember in the Ashes

2015 • 945 Readers • 481 pages 4.1

Angelfall

#1 of 6 in Penryn & the End of Days

Angelfall
BySusan Ee

2011 • 251 Readers • 1,287 pages 3.9

Aru Shah and the Song of Death

#2 of 4 in Pandava

2019 • 19 Readers 4.5

A Storm of Swords

#3 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Storm of Swords
ByGeorge R.R. Martin

2000 • 2,051 Readers • 992 pages 4.5

A Stranger in Olondria

5 Olondria

A Stranger in Olondria
BySofia Samatar

2013 • 103 Readers • 299 pages 3.5

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

#3 of 6 in Time Quintet

A Swiftly Tilting Planet
ByMadeleine L'Engle

1978 • 214 Readers • 320 pages 4

A Torch Against the Night

#2 of 4 in An Ember in the Ashes

2016 • 379 Readers • 496 pages 4.1

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

A Wizard of Earthsea
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1968 • 1,762 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 6 in Time Quintet

A Wrinkle in Time
ByMadeleine L'Engle

1962 • 1,663 Readers • 247 pages 3.8

Beasts Made of Night

#1 of 2 in Beasts Made of Night

Beasts Made of Night
ByTochi Onyebuchi

2017 • 13 Readers • 304 pages 3

Blanca & Roja

Blanca & Roja
ByAnna-Marie McLemore

2018 • 70 Readers • 375 pages 3.8

Brown Girl in the Ring

Brown Girl in the Ring
ByNalo Hopkinson

1998 • 95 Readers • 8 pages 3.5

Challenge to Efrafa

1999 • 2 Readers • 73 pages

Children of Blood and Bone

#1 of 3 in Legacy of Orïsha

1900 • 968 Readers • 544 pages 4

Circe

Circe
ByMadeline Miller

2018 • 3,296 Readers • 409 pages 4.2

City of Glass

#3 of 6 in The Mortal Instruments

City of Glass
ByCassandra Clare

2009 • 844 Readers • 560 pages 3.9

Dragonflight

#1 of 3 in Dragonriders of Pern

Dragonflight
ByAnne McCaffrey

2005 • 23 Readers • 310 pages 3.9

Ella Enchanted

#1 of 2 in Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted
ByGail Carson Levine

1997 • 58 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted #1)

387 Readers 4

Empire of Sand

#1 of 2 in The Books of Ambha

Empire of Sand
ByTasha Suri

2018 • 207 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

Five Children and It

#1 of 3 in Five Children

Five Children and It
ByEdith Nesbit

68 Readers 3.8

Get in Trouble

Get in Trouble
ByKelly Link

2015 • 134 Readers • 280 pages 3.4

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Gods of Jade and Shadow
BySilvia Moreno-Garcia

2019 • 601 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

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

1990 • 2,432 Readers • 432 pages 4.2

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

#1 of 2 in Khalifa Brothers

1990 • 134 Readers • 227 pages 4

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

#6 of 8 in Harry Potter

2005 • 4,422 Readers • 672 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1989 • 6,463 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

Howl's Moving Castle

#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle
ByDiana Wynne Jones

1986 • 1,490 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

Jade City

#1 of 3 in The Green Bone Saga

Jade City
ByFonda Lee

2017 • 1,662 Readers • 498 pages 4.1

James and the Giant Peach

1961 • 602 Readers • 146 pages 3.8

Le Morte D'Arthur

#1 of 2 in Le Morte d'Arthur Volumes

Le Morte D'Arthur
BySir Thomas Malory

1485 • 152 Readers • 643 pages 3.6

Mary Poppins

#1 of 5 in Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins
ByP. L. Travers

1934 • 216 Readers • 224 pages 3.8

Mistborn: The Final Empire

#1 of 3 in The Mistborn Saga: The Original Trilogy

Mistborn: The Final Empire
ByBrandon Sanderson

2006 • 4,240 Readers • 534 pages 4.4

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

1954 • 19 Readers • 170 pages 3

Neverwhere

#1 of 1 in London Below, The World of Neverwhere

Neverwhere
ByNeil Gaiman

1996 • 1,758 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

Outlander

#1 of 14 in Outlander

Outlander
ByDiana Gabaldon

1991 • 1,083 Readers • 627 pages 3.9

Ozma of Oz

#3 of 14 in Oz

Ozma of Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1907 • 81 Readers • 188 pages 3.5

Pet

#1 of 1 in Pet

Pet
ByAkwaeke Emezi

2010 • 282 Readers • 210 pages 4.3

Redwall

#1 of 28 in Redwall

Redwall
ByBrian Jacques

1986 • 515 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 • 9 Readers • 57 pages 4

Six of Crows

#1 of 2 in Six of Crows

Six of Crows
ByLeigh Bardugo

2015 • 2,578 Readers • 465 pages 4.3

Spindle's End

#3 of 3 in Folktales

Spindle's End
ByRobin McKinley

2002 • 76 Readers • 434 pages 4

Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners

#1 of 3 in The World of Riverside

1986 • 145 Readers • 269 pages 3.2

The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights
ByHusain Haddawy(Translator)

2010 • 224 Readers • 523 pages 3.8

The BFG

The BFG
ByRoald Dahl

1982 • 539 Readers • 4 pages 4.1

The Bloody Chamber

The Bloody Chamber
ByAngela Carter

1978 • 265 Readers • 164 pages 3.7

The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks
ByDavid Mitchell

2014 • 442 Readers • 595 pages 3.9

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant
ByKazuo Ishiguro

2015 • 490 Readers • 317 pages 3.5

The Changeling

The Changeling
ByVictor LaValle

2017 • 311 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

The Crystal Cave

#1 of 4 in Arthurian Saga

The Crystal Cave
ByMary Stewart

1970 • 175 Readers • 514 pages 3.9

The Crystal Cave

#1 of 4 in Arthurian Saga

The Crystal Cave
ByMary Stewart

1970 • 175 Readers • 514 pages 3.9

The Dark Is Rising

#2 of 5 in The Dark Is Rising

The Dark Is Rising
BySusan Cooper

1965 • 44 Readers • 388 pages 4

The Dragon Republic

#2 of 3 in The Poppy War

2019 • 835 Readers • 672 pages 4.2

The Eye of the World

#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

The Eye of the World
ByRobert Jordan

1990 • 2,302 Readers • 708 pages 4

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 3,928 Readers • 398 pages 4.4

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Fifth Season
ByN.K. Jemisin

2015 • 2,667 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

The Golden Compass

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

The Golden Compass
ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 2,339 Readers • 399 pages 4

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

#1 of 4 in Inheritance Trilogy

2010 • 687 Readers • 432 pages 3.9

The Last Unicorn

3 The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn
ByPeter S. Beagle

1968 • 493 Readers 3.9

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1950 • 2,437 Readers • 208 pages 4

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

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1950 • 44 Readers • 171 pages 4.5

The Lives of Christopher Chant

#2 of 7 in Chrestomanci

1988 • 77 Readers • 326 pages 4.2

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

The Name of the Wind
ByPatrick Rothfuss

1 • 3,219 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

The Night Circus

The Night Circus
ByErin Morgenstern

2011 • 2,303 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

The Once and Future King

#1 in The Once and Future King

1958 • 559 Readers • 650 pages 3.8

The Palm-Wine Drinkard

1952 • 42 Readers • 128 pages 3.7

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth
ByNorton Juster

1961 • 582 Readers • 268 pages 4.3

The Poppy War

#1 of 3 in The Poppy War

The Poppy War
ByR.F. Kuang

2018 • 2,357 Readers • 544 pages 4

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride
ByWilliam Goldman

1973 • 1,586 Readers • 399 pages 4.2

The Return of the King

#3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Return of the King
ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1950 • 1,716 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles
ByMadeline Miller

2011 • 3,303 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

The Stone Sky

#3 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Stone Sky
ByN.K. Jemisin

2017 • 980 Readers • 464 pages 4.4

The Subtle Knife

#2 of 3 in His Dark Materials

The Subtle Knife
ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 1,116 Readers • 326 pages 4.1

The Tombs of Atuan

#2 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

The Tombs of Atuan
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1970 • 532 Readers • 256 pages 4

The Two Towers

#2 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Two Towers
ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1954 • 2,623 Readers • 725 pages 4.4

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

#3 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1952 • 813 Readers • 228 pages 3.9

The Wandering Unicorn

The Wandering Unicorn
ByManuel Mujica Láinez

1985 • 9 Readers • 320 pages

The Wee Free Men

#30 of 42 in Discworld

The Wee Free Men
ByTerry Pratchett

2003 • 456 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

The Wrath and the Dawn

#1 of 3 in The Wrath and the Dawn

The Wrath and the Dawn
ByRenée Ahdieh

2015 • 450 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

Tigana

Tigana
ByGuy Gavriel Kay

1990 • 589 Readers • 686 pages 4

Trail of Lightning

#1 of 2 in The Sixth World

Trail of Lightning
ByRebecca Roanhorse

2018 • 392 Readers • 287 pages 3.8

Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
ByNatalie Babbitt

1975 • 320 Readers • 151 pages 3.8

We Hunt the Flame

#1 of 2 in Sands of Arawiya

We Hunt the Flame
ByHafsah Faizal

2019 • 528 Readers • 480 pages 3.7

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

2009 • 92 Readers 4.1

Who Fears Death

#1 of 1 in Who Fears Death

Who Fears Death
ByNnedi Okorafor

2010 • 280 Readers • 386 pages 3.8

Witchmark

#1 of 3 in The Kingston Cycle

Witchmark
ByC. L. Polk,C. L Polk

2018 • 260 Readers • 318 pages 4

Woven in Moonlight

#1 of 1 in Woven in Moonlight

Woven in Moonlight
ByIsabel Ibañez

2020 • 125 Readers • 400 pages 3.4