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Most Popular Fantasy Novels of the Past 3 Years

Dedicated fantasy readers are a voracious lot. We read like there’s no tomorrow, in part because we have to. Fantasy books have a famous tendency for longish page counts, and any given novel is usually part of a longer series, anyway. Check out this list of recent fantasy faves and pick up any you haven't read yet!

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  • Babel

    or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),
    From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire. Available in other…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2022]
  • Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Tor, 2021.
  • Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for…
    Book, 2022New York : Scribner, 2022.
  • A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Daughter of the Moon Goddess begins an enchanting,…
    Book, 2022London, UK : HarperVoyager, [2022]
  • A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, 2022.
  • Legends & Lattes

    a Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

    Baldree, Travis, 1977-
    A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes. After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new…
    Book, 2022New York : Tor, 2022.
  • Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2023.
  • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2023New York : Del Rey, [2023]
  • Mulan meets The Song of Achilles; an accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2021New York : Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2021.
  • #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere universe with a rollicking, riveting tale that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bride. Available in other formats.
    eBook, 2023Dragonsteel, LLC, 2023
  • Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2022New York : TOR, Tom Doherty Associates, 2022.
  • A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2023New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2023.
  • In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
  • After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2021New York : Tor/Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2021.
  • Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t set foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
  • From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Flatiron Books, [2024]
  • From author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga. It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against…
    Book, 2021New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
  • At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington. Available in other formats.
    Book, 2023New York : Saga Press, 2023.
  • Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
  • From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father’s belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret—one that will lead her on an…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]