Time Magazine,
The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
science fiction awards database
Selected by a panel of authors: N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Adeyemi, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Cassandra Clare and Marlon James. Titles are listed chronologically, beginning with The Arabian Nights, here arranged by author.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 100
Publication: Time Magazine, 2020
Compile Notes
The list is heavily weighted toward the past couple decades, with 53 of the 100 titles published since 2000.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 100
Publication: Time Magazine, 2020
Compile Notes
The list is heavily weighted toward the past couple decades, with 53 of the 100 titles published since 2000.
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972)
- Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone (Henry Holt, 2018)
- Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Henry Holt, 2019)
- Renée Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn (Putnam, 2015)
- Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky (Tor, 2016)
- Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975)
- Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows (Henry Holt, 2015)
- L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz (Reilly & Britton, 1907)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- Kacen Callender, Queen of the Conquered (Orbit, 2019)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871)
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and other stories (Gollancz, 1979)
- Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Rick Riordan Presents, 2018)
- Cassandra Clare, City of Glass (Simon & Schuster/McElderry, 2009)
- Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (Atheneum , 1973)
- Roald Dahl, The BFG (Cape, 1982)
- Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach (Knopf, 1961)
- Susan Ee, Angelfall (Feral Dram, 2011)
- Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (2019)
- Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame (2019)
- Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (Delacorte, 1991) [check]
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2001)
- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (BBC Books, 1996)
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)
- Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (Warner Aspect, 1998)
- Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight (2020)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf, 2015)
- Brian Jacques, Redwall (Hutchinson, 1987)
- Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead, 2019)
- N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (Orbit, 2015) [The Broken Earth]
- N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Orbit, 2010)
- N. K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky (Orbit, 2017)
- Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle (Methuen, 1986)
- Diana Wynne Jones, The Lives of Christopher Chant (Morrow Greenwillow, 1988)
- Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (Tor, 1990)
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (Epstein & Carroll, 1961)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana (Viking, 1990)
- R. F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic (Harper Voyager, 2019)
- R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War (Harper Voyager, 2018) [trilogy]
- Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint (Arbor House, 1987)
- Victor LaValle, y, The Changeling (Spiegel & Grau, 2017)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Atheneum, 1971)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- Fonda Lee, Jade City (Orbit, 2017) [The Green Bone Saga]
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978)
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1962)
- Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (HarperCollins, 1997)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" (Geoffrey Bles, 1952)
- Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown, 2009)
- Kelly Link, Get in Trouble (Random House, 2015)
- Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Levine Querido, 2020)
- Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, 2015)
- Ken Liu, The Wall of Storms (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, 2016)
- Muhsin Mahdi, ed., The Arabian Nights (Norton, 2008)
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur (unknown, 1485)
- George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (HarperCollins/Voyager, 2000) [check]
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Ballantine, 1968)
- Robin McKinley, Spindle's End (Putnam, 2000)
- Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja (Feiwel & Friends, 2018)
- Madeline Miller, Circe (Bloomsbury, 2018)
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (Ecco, 2012)
- David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (Random House, 2014)
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow (Del Rey, 2019)
- Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (Doubleday, 2011)
- Manuelv Mujica Lainez, The Wandering Unicorn (Taplinger, 1983)
- E. Nesbit, Five Children and It (T. Fisher Unwin, 1902)
- Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch (Viking, 2011)
- Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death (DAW, 2010)
- Daniel José Older, Shadowshaper (Scholastic/Levine, 2015)
- Tochi Onyebuchi, Beasts Made of Night (Razorbill, 2017)
- L. Penelope, Song of Blood & Stone (2018)
- Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Oxford University Press, 1983)
- C. L. Polk, Witchmark (Tor.com, 2018)
- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens (Gollancz, 1990)
- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (HarperCollins, 2003)
- Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (Knopf, 1996) [check]
- Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (Scholastic, 1997)
- Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (Saga, 2018)
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (DAW, 2007)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic/Levine, 2005)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Bloomsbury, 1999)
- Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Granta, 1990)
- Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, 2013) [Olondria]
- Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn (Tor, 2006)
- Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)
- Tasha Suri, Empire of Sand (Orbit, 2018)
- Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes (Harper Voyager, 2015)
- Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night (2017)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (Allen & Unwin , 1954)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Allen & Unwin, 1955)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins (HarperCollins, 1934)
- Amos Tutuola, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)
- Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (Orbit, 2019)
- JY Yang, The Black Tides of Heaven (Tor.com, 2017)
- Jin Yong, A Hero Born (1957)
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