Recs if you like The Shadow of the Torturer...

I've noticed most fantasy lists are saturated with YA and romantasy books, but some of us crave adult high-stakes adventures. If you enjoy epic stakes, deep characters, and majestic world-building (without the distraction of romance) this list is for you. For series, I've only added the first book. 📖

Have you ever wanted a fantasy book with whimsy, but dark? More gothic and twisted and creepy? Then you've come to the right place! Open to recs.

Going back to the Dark Ages with all the horror and death they experienced. A comprehensive list including popular selections along with lesser known works to evoke the Olde Age scares.

(I try to update this list all any time I run across new ones!)

The top 100 fantasy novels according to the r/fantasy list as voted on by the community - this includes series (represented by the first book in the series) and standalones.

The list is in order with Middle Earth ( represented by Lord of the rings) being number 1 going down to the 100th.

(Note: Mistborn is position 8 while Cosmere is position 35 - as Mistborn is within the Cosmere I lumped it in with the 35th position so it is lower down than on the original list)

A fun collection of D&D like adventure books or after adventure stories

Unreliable narrator, my beloved (Fantasy edition)

Trick me twice, shame on Me!! Books that feature narrators who lie by omission to the reader or they don’t have enough information so have a narrow view of the plot.

Science fiction and fantasy with truly unique concepts, you’d be hard pressed to find another quite like it. Recommendations welcome!

The most comprehensive list of award winning sci-fi and fantasy novels. The books on this list have won either 1 or multiple awards out of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus Sci-Fi, Locus Fantasy, goodreads Choice Fantasy, or goodreads Science Fiction Awards.

This is a not quite exhaustive list of notable fantasy works from the Tolkien era to pretty much today. In the case of series I have only included the first book. I know there are books I am missing so if you can see any let me know and I will add them. (Not necessarily in order of release date)

World Fantasy Awards winners and nominées (1975 — 1985)

Some novels are part of series, and other are very rare, so they can be hard to find.

Books that take place on Earth in the far future.

A list of winners of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It has been awarded each year since 1975 by the World Fantasy Convention for fantasy or horror novels (defined as works of 40,000 words or more) published in English.

Most popular or most read books under the category of "High Fantasy" (set in a completely fictional "secondary" world, features grand stakes or a struggle between good and evil, widespread magic, mythical creatures, or an epic quest that decides the fate of the world).

Only the first book of a series will be added.

There are things that do not just walk upon the world—they consume it. These are the giants that the stars puked out, the ones forged in the furnace of ancient suns or birthed from the black voids of the deep. They are not 'big' in the way a mountain is big; they are 'big' in the way an apocalypse is big. To look upon them is to realize our own insignificance. They are the gears of the universe, the shadows on the moon, and the architects of our extinction. We call them ... The Colossi.

Stories that don’t sit comfortably in either genre.