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Popular Fantasy Books
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 50990 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.45 — 6,140,709 ratings — published 1997
The Hobbit (Paperback)
by (shelved 44420 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,892,582 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 42880 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,476,034 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 42773 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.54 — 2,514,590 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 41474 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.54 — 2,389,146 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 40394 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.62 — 2,448,097 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 40155 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,329,312 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 40110 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,367,274 ratings — published 2003
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 38950 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,153,862 ratings — published 1996
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 33922 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,394,163 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 28191 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.41 — 801,507 ratings — published 1998
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 24292 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.43 — 706,366 ratings — published 1954
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 23615 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.54 — 718,666 ratings — published 2000
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 23505 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.51 — 686,920 ratings — published 1955
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 23481 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.55 — 836,527 ratings — published 2007
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 22972 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.11 — 693,107 ratings — published 2005
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 21004 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,103,267 ratings — published 1950
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 20367 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,550,382 ratings — published 2002
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 20119 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,369,163 ratings — published 1995
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 19774 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.31 — 642,323 ratings — published 2011
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18126 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.14 — 313,809 ratings — published 2001
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 18078 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,070,401 ratings — published 2005
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 17382 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.43 — 450,968 ratings — published 2006
Twilight (Twilight, #1)
by (shelved 15351 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,873,777 ratings — published 2005
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 15230 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,869,787 ratings — published 2007
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 14683 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.47 — 607,461 ratings — published 1955
The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14326 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.18 — 441,455 ratings — published 1990
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 14324 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.18 — 575,354 ratings — published 1996
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
by (shelved 14075 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.58 — 396,005 ratings — published 2011
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
by (shelved 13270 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.10 — 582,825 ratings — published 2008
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 13269 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.23 — 692,203 ratings — published 2012
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13101 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.03 — 917,440 ratings — published 2011
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 12905 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,126,303 ratings — published 1973
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12409 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.26 — 574,464 ratings — published 1990
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1)
by (shelved 12296 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.02 — 344,214 ratings — published 1983
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
by (shelved 12071 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.33 — 247 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 11914 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.68 — 694,963 ratings — published 2016
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 11756 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.24 — 746,615 ratings — published 2006
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 11737 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,793 ratings — published 1995
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 11715 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,680 ratings — published 2006
Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 11648 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.97 — 354,329 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 11528 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,304,909 ratings — published 2008
The Silmarillion (Middle-Earth Universe)
by (shelved 11521 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.87 — 252,475 ratings — published 1977
The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
by (shelved 11478 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.03 — 404,949 ratings — published 1955
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 11130 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.36 — 240,783 ratings — published 2007
New Moon (Twilight, #2)
by (shelved 11048 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,503,427 ratings — published 2006
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
by (shelved 11031 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.08 — 277,919 ratings — published 2000
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 10880 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.00 — 285,638 ratings — published 1968
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 10778 times as fantasy)
avg rating 4.65 — 329,722 ratings — published 2010
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 10748 times as fantasy)
avg rating 3.93 — 164,555 ratings — published 1962
“When I was your age, television was called books.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
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fantastical, fantastyka, fantasy-fiction, fiction_speculative_fantasy, fiction--fantasy, fiction-fantasy, tag--fantasy, and фэнтези
