WIRED's team has summoned some of the strangest creatures in the most fantastic worlds in this list of the best fantasy books everyone should read.
#1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses
2014 • 3,045 Readers • 440 pages • 3.7
#1 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire
1996 • 3,898 Readers • 819 pages • 4.4
#1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy
1995 • 1,278 Readers • 400 pages • 4.1
#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle
1968 • 1,762 Readers • 210 pages • 3.9
#1 of 2 in The Dark Star Trilogy
2019 • 644 Readers • 620 pages • 3.1
2018 • 3,296 Readers • 409 pages • 4.2
2018 • 670 Readers • 247 pages • 3.6
#1 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen
1999 • 1,375 Readers • 559 pages • 4
1990 • 2,432 Readers • 432 pages • 4.2
#1 in Strange & Norrell
2004 • 1,492 Readers • 865 pages • 4
1979 • 1,147 Readers • 287 pages • 4.4
#1 of 2 in The Book of Dust
2017 • 541 Readers • 570 pages • 4
2020 • 213 Readers • 176 pages • 3.7
#2 of 3 in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
1989 • 258 Readers • 610 pages • 3.9
#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time
1990 • 2,302 Readers • 708 pages • 4
#1 of 3 in Gentleman Bastard
2006 • 2,211 Readers • 745 pages • 4.3
1998 • 826 Readers • 341 pages • 3.7