The Best Fantasy Book Series To Start Reading
Some fantasy books transport readers to worlds so rich and complex — filled with so many unforgettable characters — that it can’t be contained to one book. Deep dive into these series where magic lurks behind every corner and daring adventures will whisk you away.
-
1
Add to BookshelfThe Magicians
by Lev Grossman
The New York Times bestselling series about a young man practicing magic in the real world. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined …
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$18.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
2
Add to Bookshelf
Dungeon Crawler Carl
by Matt Dinniman
You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systemic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what … Turns out, the apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$20.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
3
Add to Bookshelf
Faebound
by Saara El-Arifi
Two elven sisters become imprisoned in the intoxicating world of the fae, where danger and love lie in wait. Faebound is the first book in an enchanting new trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$20.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
4
Add to Bookshelf
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Deluxe Edition)
by Heather Fawcett
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting fantasy series.
Add to BookshelfHardcover
$38.00Preorder from:
-
5
Add to Bookshelf
An Ember in the Ashes Complete Series Paperback Box Set (4 books)
by Sabaa Tahir
Set in a rich, high-fantasy world inspired by ancient Rome, Laia is a slave fighting for her family, and Elias is a young soldier fighting for his freedom … Journey to the ruthless and romantic world of Sabaa Tahir’s New York Times bestselling fantasy series, An Ember in the Ashes quartet, available as a stunning paperback box set!
Add to BookshelfBoxed Set
$55.96Buy from Other Retailers:
-
6
Add to Bookshelf
A Game of Thrones (HBO Tie-in Edition)
by George R. R. Martin
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: The game of thrones … Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$21.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
7
Add to Bookshelf
The Night Ends with Fire
by K. X. Song
Infused with magic and romance, this sweeping fantasy adventure duology inspired by the legend of Mulan follows a young woman determined to choose her own destiny — even if that means going against everyone she loves.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$19.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
8
Add to Bookshelf
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The complete four-book boxed set of the greatest fantasy epic of all time: The Lord of the Rings and its enchanting prequel, The Hobbit.
Add to BookshelfBoxed Set
$35.96Buy from Other Retailers:
-
9
Add to Bookshelf
Silver Silence
by Nalini Singh
At a time when the fledgling Trinity Accord seeks to unite a divided world, Silver Mercant plays a crucial role as director of a worldwide emergency response network. Wildness and chaos are the last things she needs in her life. But that’s exactly what Valentin Nikolaev, alpha of the StoneWater bears, brings with him … New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world with a story of wild passion and darkest betrayal.
Add to BookshelfMass Market Paperback
$9.99Buy from Other Retailers:
-
10
Add to Bookshelf
The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
A wild and willful young woman finds herself at the center of a tale of spirits, ancient evils, and the mysterious winter-king Frost — in the lyrical first novel of the Winternight Trilogy.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$20.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
11
Add to Bookshelf
A Fate Inked in Blood
by Danielle L. Jensen
A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king — while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son — in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$20.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
12
Add to Bookshelf
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
In the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: A saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious, involving read.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$19.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
13
Add to Bookshelf
A Deadly Education
by Naomi Novik
From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a school bursting with magic like you’ve never seen before, and a heroine for the ages — a character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$18.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
14
Add to Bookshelf
Witch of Wild Things
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic … In the first book of the Wild Magic series, Sage Flores starts a job at the Cranberry Rose Company to use her ability to communicate with plants to discover unusual heritage specimens. What should be a simple task is complicated by her partner in botany sleuthing: Tennessee Reyes. He broke her heart in high school, and she never fully recovered. Sage doesn’t have time for romance. But being with Tenn is like standing in the middle of a field on the cusp of a summer thunderstorm — supercharged and inevitable.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$19.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
15
Add to Bookshelf
A Discovery of Witches
by Deborah Harkness
Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
Add to BookshelfPaperback
$19.00Buy from Other Retailers:
-
16
Add to Bookshelf
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden’s investigation of a grisly double murder pulls him into the darkest depths of magical Chicago in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.
Add to BookshelfHardcover
$28.00Buy from Other Retailers:
