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A list of fantasy books and series

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An uncomplete  list of books 
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Abhorsen Trilogy - Garth Nix

Acacia: The War With The Mein - David Anthony Durham

Aegypt series - John Crowley

Aladore - Henry Newbolt

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Alphabet of Thorn - Patricia McKillip

The Tales of Alvin Maker series - Orson Scott Card

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

The Amber series - Roger Zelazny

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Among Others - Jo Walton

The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers

Apprentice Adept series - Piers Anthony

Arafel duo - C. J. Cherryh

The Artefacts of Power - Maggie Furey

Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer.

At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien

At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald

The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud

Bas-Lag - China Miéville

The Battle of Apocalypse - Eduardo Spohr

Beauty - Robin McKinley

Beauty - Sheri S. Tepper

Beautiful Darkness (novel) - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Creatures (book) - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

The Belgariad series - David Eddings

Beyond the Golden Stair - Hannes Bok

Beyonders: A World Without Heroes - Brandon Mull

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles - Holly Black

The BFG - Roald Dahl

The Bitter-nde trilogy - Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Black Blossom - Boban Knežević

The Black Company saga - Glen Cook, a nested set of sub-series

The Black Jewels trilogy - Anne Bishop

The Black Magician (novel series) - Trudi Canavan

The Black Swan - Mercedes Lackey

Bloodring - Faith Hunter

Blood Song - Anthony Ryan

The Blue Star - Fletcher Pratt

The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley

Boggart series - Susan Cooper

Bone Dance - Emma Bull

The Book of Atrix Wolfe - Patricia McKillip

Book of Enchantments - Patricia C. Wrede

The Book of the New Sun series - Gene Wolfe

The Books of Abarat - Clive Barker

Brak the Barbarian - John Jakes

Brown Girl in the Ring - Nalo Hopkinson

Bloodlines - Richelle Mead

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor - Mervyn Peake

Cats Have No Lord - Will Shetterly

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Charlie Bone Series - Jenny Nimmo

The Chathrand Voyage Quartet - Robert V.S. Redick

Children of the Lamp series - P.B. Kerr

Chimera - John Barth

Chrestomanci series - Diana Wynne Jones

Chronicles of an Age of Darkness - Hugh Cook

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver

Chronicles of Brothers series - Wendy Alec

The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - see at N, below

The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander

Chronicles of The Raven - James Barclay

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series - Stephen R. Donaldson - see at T,

The Circus of Dr. Lao - Charles G. Finney

City of Bones - Martha Wells

The Claidi Journals - Tanith Lee

Cold Tom - Sally Prue

Conan series - Robert E. Howard and others

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

The Court of the Air - Stephen Hunt

The Crock of Gold - James Stephens

Cygnet series - Patricia A. McKillip

Dalemark Quartet - Diana Wynne Jones

The Dalkey Archive - Flann O'Brien

Damiano series - R. A. MacAvoy

The Dark Artifices trilogy - Cassandra Clare

The Dark Is Rising sequence - Susan Cooper

The Dark Tower series - Stephen King

Daughter of the Lioness series - Tamora Pierce

The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells

Deltora series - Emily Rodda

The Deptford Mice - Robin Jarvis

Descent into Hell - Charles Williams

Dirk Gently series - Douglas Adams

Discworld series - Terry Pratchett

The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley

The Door Within Trilogy - Wayne Thomas Batson

Dorothea Dreams - Suzy McKee Charnas

Dragoncharm trilogy - Graham Edwards

Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragon Raja - Lee Yeongdo

Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke

Dragonriders of Pern series - Anne McCaffrey

Dragonsbane - Barbara Hambly

Dragonvarld trilogy - Margaret Weis

The Dreamwalker's Child - Steve Voake

The Drawing of the Dark - Tim Powers

The Dresden Files series - Jim Butcher

Drizzt Do'Urden novels - R. A. Salvatore

Durand Col series - David Keck. Series has no official name, however Durand Col is generally used because he is the central focus of all the novels.

The Dying Earth series - Jack Vance

The Dragonology Chronicles: The Dragon's Eye - Dugald A.Steer,

Earthsea series - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Edge Chronicles - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Elantris - Brandon Sanderson

The Elenium series - David Eddings

Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine

The Empire Trilogy - Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts

The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit

Enchanted Forest series - Patricia C. Wrede

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn - Alison Goodman

Eragon - Christopher Paolini

Eldest - Christopher Paolini

Excalibur - Sanders Anne Laubenthal

Expecting Someone Taller - Tom Holt

The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King

Fablehaven series - Brandon Mull

The Face in the Frost - John Bellairs

The Faerie Wars Chronicles - Herbie Brennan

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series - Fritz Leiber

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - J.K. Rowling

Farsala trilogy - Hilari Bell

The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods - William T. Cox

A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle

The Fionavar Tapestry - Guy Gavriel Kay

Fisher King series - Tim Powers

Fledgling - Octavia Butler

Flesh and Fire - Laura Anne Gilman

Flying Dutch - Tom Holt

The Fool on the Hill - Matt Ruff

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip

Fortress series - C. J. Cherryh

Fourth Mansions - R. A. Lafferty

Fablehaven series - Brandon Mull

The Face in the Frost - John Bellairs

The Faerie Wars Chronicles - Herbie Brennan

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series - Fritz Leiber

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - J.K. Rowling

Farsala trilogy - Hilari Bell

The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods - William T. Cox

A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle

The Fionavar Tapestry - Guy Gavriel Kay

Fisher King series - Tim Powers

Fledgling - Octavia Butler

Flesh and Fire - Laura Anne Gilman

Flying Dutch - Tom Holt

The Fool on the Hill - Matt Ruff

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip

Fortress series - C. J. Cherryh

Fourth Mansions - R. A. Lafferty

Garrett series - Glen Cook

Gezeitenwelt series - Magus Magellan

The Ghost and The Goth - Stacey Kade

Ghost Blows Out the Light - Zhang Muye

Ghostwritten - David Mitchell

Giant of World's End - Lin Carter

The Girl in a Swing - Richard Adams

Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen - Michael Moorcock

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Gormenghast series - Mervyn Peake - see at T (Titus), below

Graceling - Kristin Cashore

The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen

The Green Child - Herbert Read

The Green Round - Arthur Machen

Grendel - John Gardner

GREY - The Covenant of Shadows - Kade Cook

The Hagwood Books - Robin Jarvis

The Halfblood Chronicles - Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton

Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie

Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling

Hart's Hope - Orson Scott Card

The Haunted Woman - David Lindsay

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

Here Comes the Sun - Tom Holt

Heroes of the Valley - Jonathan Stroud

The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan

The Hill of Dreams - Arthur Machen

His Dark Materials series - Philip Pullman

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hounds of the Morrigan - Pat O'Shea

The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson

House of Night - P.C. Cast

The House with a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs

Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Idylls of the Queen - Phyllis Ann Karr

Ile-Rien series - Martha Wells

The Immortals series - Tamora Pierce

Incarnations of Immortality series - Piers Anthony

In the Forests of Serre - Patricia McKillip

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (aka The War of Dreams) - Angela Carter

Ingo series - Helen Dunmore

Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance (book)

Inheritance - Steven Saville

Ink Exchange | Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr

Inkheart Trilogy - Cornelia Funke

Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath

Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright

The Infernal Devices" Trilogy - Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Journalists (novel) - Sergei Aman

Kai Lung series - Ernest Bramah

The Kane Chronicles - Rick Riordan

Kellory the Warlock - Lin Carter

The Khaavren Romances - Steven Brust

Khaled: A Tale of Arabia - F. Marion Crawford

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You, - Dorothy Bryant

The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers

The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany

King Rat - China Miéville

Kingdoms of Elfin - Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone - Greg Keyes

The Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Rothfuss

Krondor's Sons (The Riftwar Stories) - Raymond E. Feist

Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey

The Land Across - Gene Wolfe

The Last Dragon - Silvana De Mari

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor - John Barth

Latro series - Gene Wolfe

The Lays of Beleriand - J. R. R. Tolkien

Legends of the Riftwar - Raymond E. Feist

Letters from a Lost Uncle - Mervyn Peake

The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr - E. T. A. Hoffmann

Lilith - George MacDonald

The Little Grey Men - BB

The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge

Little People - Tom Holt

Little, Big - John Crowley

Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

Lost Tales - J. R. R. Tolkien

Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

Lyonesse series - Jack Vance

Lyra series - Patricia Wrede

May Bird and the Ever After series - Jodie Lynn Anderson

M is for Magic series - Neil Gaiman

The Magic City - E. Nesbit

The Magician Out of Manchuria - Charles G. Finney

The Magician Trilogy - Jenny Nimmo

The Magicians - Lev Grossman

Magyk - Angie Sage

Malazan Book of the Fallen series - Steven Erikson

The Malloreon - David and Leigh Eddings

The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton

Marianne - Sheri S. Tepper

The Mark of the Demons - John Jakes

Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser

Mary Poppins series - P. L. Travers

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Master Li - Barry Hughart

Matilda - Roald Dahl

The Maze Runner series - James Dashner

Mention My Name in Atlantis - John Jakes

Merlin's Ring - H. Warner Munn

The Merman's Children - Poul Anderson

Mickelsson's Ghosts - John Gardner

Millroy the Magician - Paul Theroux

Mistress Masham's Repose - T. H. White

Mistborn series - Brandon Sanderson

The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn - Tad Williams

Moonheart - Charles de Lint

The Mortal Instruments series - Cassandra Clare

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - Suzanne Weyn

Mr. Pye - Mervyn Peake

Myth Adventures series - Robert Asprin

The Nightrunner Series - Lynn Flewelling

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

The Chronicles of Narnia series - C.S. Lewis

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny

The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson

Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter

Nothing But Blue Skies - Tom Holt

Number9Dream - David Mitchell

The Named - Marianne Curley

The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody

Od Magic - Patricia McKillip

Oksa Pollock series - Anne Plichota and Cendrine Wolf

Ombria in Shadow - Patricia McKillip

On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers

The Once and Future King series - T.H. White

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

Our Ancestors a set - Italo Calvino

Overtime - Tom Holt

Oz series (40 "canonical" titles) - L. Frank Baum (original creator and author of 14 books of the series), Ruth Plumly Thompson (19 books), Rachel R. Cosgrove (1 book), John R. Neill (author of 3 books), Jack Snow (2 books), and Eloise Jarvis McGraw & Lauren McGraw Wagner (1 book as co-authors)

Paint Your Dragon - Tom Holt

Peace - Gene Wolfe

Pellinor - Alison Croggon

The Pendragon Adventure - D. J. MacHale

Percy Jackson & The Olympians - Rick Riordan

The Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope

Peter and Wendy aka Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - J. M. Barrie

Phantastes - George MacDonald

Pilgermann - Russell Hoban

Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

The Piratica Series - Tanith Lee

The Place of the Lion - Charles Williams

Policeman Bluejay - L. Frank Baum

Portrait of Jennie - Robert Nathan

Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman

Prince of Nothing trilogy - R. Scott Bakker

The Princes of the Golden Cage - Nathalie Mallet

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Promise of Blood - Brian McClellan[3]

Protector of the Small series - Tamora Pierce

The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander

The Quest of Kadji - Lin Carter

Quidditch Through The Ages - J.K. Rowling

The Quentaris Chronicles - various Australian writers

Queste - Angie Sage

Ranger's Apprentice series - John Flanagan

Red Moon and Black Mountain - Joy Chant

Redwall - Brian Jacques

The Revenants - Sheri S. Tepper

Riftwar series - Raymond E. Feist

Rose Daughter - Robin McKinley

Roverandom - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Runelords series - David Farland

Rusalka series - C. J. Cherryh

Sangreal Trilogy - Jan Siegel

The Scarlet Fig - Avram Davidson

The Sea of Trolls - Nancy Farmer

Septimus Heap series - Angie Sage

Shadow Warrior series - Chris Bunch

Shadowslayers - Charlie Martin

Shannara series - Terry Brooks

The Shape-Changer's Wife - Sharon Shinn

The Shapeshifter series - Ali Sparkes

Shardik - Richard Adams

The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith

Shrek! - William Steig

The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien

Silver John series - Manly Wade Wellman

Silverlock - John Myers Myers

Snow White and Rose Red - Patricia C. Wrede

Snow White and the Seven Samurai - Tom Holt

Solstice Wood - Patricia McKillip

Song for the Basilisk - Patricia McKillip

Song of Ice and Fire series - George R. R. Martin

The Song of the Lioness series - Tamora Pierce

The Sorcerer's Ship - Hannes Bok

The Spiderwick Chronicles - Holly Black

Spindle's End - Robin McKinley

The Starcatchers series - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein

Stone and Sky trilogy - Graham Edwards

The Stormlight Archive series - Brandon Sanderson

Stravaganza series - Mary Hoffman

The Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers

Stuart Little - E. B. White

The Sundering Flood - William Morris

The Switchers Trilogy - Kate Thompson

The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind

The Sword Smith - Eleanor Arnason

Swordbird - Nancy Yi Fan

Swords Against the Shadowland - Robin Wayne Bailey

The Swords of Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber

Symphony of Ages series - Elizabeth Haydon

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series - Michael Scott

Tales From The Flat Earth series - Tanith Lee

The Tales of Alvin Maker, see at A, above

The Tales Of Beedle The Bard - J.K. Rowling

The Kane Chronicles - Rick Riordan

The Tales of the Otori - Lian Hearn

Talking Man - Terry Bisson

Tam Lin - Pamela Dean

The Tamuli series - David Eddings

Tara of the Twilight - Lin Carter

Tarzan series - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Ten Silver Coins - Andrew Kooman

The Thief of Always - Clive Barker

The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke

Thieves' World series edited - Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey

The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien

Thongor of Lemuria - Lin Carter

The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen

The Three Worlds Cycle - Ian Irvine

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series - Stephen R. Donaldson

Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson

Three to See the King - Magnus Mills

Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll

Thunder on the Left - Christopher Morley

Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale - Holly Black

Titus series (aka Gormenghast) - Mervyn Peake

Tomoe Gozen series - Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Topper duo - Thorne Smith

The Touch of Evil - John Rackham

The Tower at Stony Wood - Patricia McKillip

The Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer

The Underland Chronicles - Suzanne Collins

Unfinished Tales - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Unicorn Series - Tanith Lee

The Unicorns of Balinor - Mary Stanton

Un Lun Dun - China Miéville

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

Valhalla - Tom Holt

Velgarth series - Mercedes Lackey

Villains - Necessity - Eve Forward

Viriconium cycle - M. John Harrison

The Vlad Taltos books - Steven Brust

Von Bek series - Michael Moorcock

A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay

The Wardstone Chronicles - Joseph Delaney

War in Heaven - Charles Williams

The War of Dreams (aka The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman) - Angela Carter

Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson

The Warrior of World's End - Lin Carter

Warriors Series - Erin Hunter

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Ba- - Charles Kingsley

The Water of the Wondrous Isles - William Morris

Watership Down - Richard Adams

Weaveworld - Clive Barker

The Well at the World's End - William Morris

The Well of the Unicorn - Fletcher Pratt

Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan

When the Birds Fly South - Stanton A. Coblentz

When the Idols Walked - John Jakes

The Whit- Witches - Robin Jarvis

Who's Afraid of Beowulf? - Tom Holt

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? - Gary K. Wolf

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Winnie-The-Pooh - A.A. Milne, however; the recent book wasn't written - Milne.

Winter Rose - Patricia McKillip

Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin

Wish You Were Here - Tom Holt

Witch of the Four Winds - John Jakes

The Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski

The Wish Giver - Bill Brittain

The Wizard of Lemuria - Lin Carter

Wizard of the Pigeons - Megan Lindholm

The Wizard of Zao - Lin Carter

The Wolf Leader - Alexandre Dumas

The Wolves in the Walls - Neil Gaiman

Women of the Otherworld series - Canadian author Kelley Armstrong.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum.

The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris

The World According to Novikoff - Andrei Gusev

The Worm Ouroboros - E. R. Eddison

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

Xanth series - Piers Anthony

Young Wizards series - Diane Duane

Zimiamvia series - E. R. Eddison

Zoo City - Lauren Beukes

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List of books I have read myself

​Below, I made a list of the books that I have read during the previous years. I first discovered the Fantasy genre when I started reading Harry Potter when I was about 15 years old. After that, I mostly read books in this genre, because other genres like romance or science fiction fail to grab my attention. I think this list is not complete, but most of the books I read are in it.

  • The Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling

  • The Twilight Series – Stephanie Meyer

  • The Immortals (series) – Alyson Noel

  • Game of Thrones (series) – George R. R. Martin

  • Inheritance Cycle (series) – Christopher Paolini (Unfinished)

  • Throne of Glass (series) – Sarah J. Maas

  • The Caster Chronicles (series) – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Unfinished)

  • The Vampire Diaries (series) – L. J. Smith

  • House of Night (series) – P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast

  • Angel Series – L. A. Weatherly

  • ‘De Tovenaar’ (series) – Michael Peinkofer

  • The Divergent Series – Veronica Roth

  • Willowmere Chronicles – Alison Baird

  • The Hunger Games (Series) - Suzanne Colins

  • Eragon (series) - Chritopher Paolini

  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

  • The Glass Throne (series) - Sarah J. Maas

  • Raven's Shadow (series) - Anthony Ryan

  • The Inhabited Woman - Gioconda Belli

  • The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Harry Potter) - J. K. Rowling

  • Dochter van de Poorten (Dutch, not trranslated) - Michael Baeyen

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NB: I read most of these book in my native language, Dutch. But a few of them, mostly the ones I read when I became older, were read in both English and Dutch or even only in English. This means I read some of these books more then once.

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NB2: the older I get, the more I read in English. I enjoy reading in English, but my favourite language will always be my native language.

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