List of high fantasy fiction
This list contains a variety of examples of high fantasy fiction. The list is ordered alphabetically by author's last name.
Books
A
- Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy
- Daniel Abraham's The Long Prince Quartet series and The Dagger and the Coin series
- Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain
- Hans Joachim Alpers's Die Piraten des Südmeers
- Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions
- Piers Anthony's Xanth series
- Sarah Ash's The Tears of Artamon trilogy
B
- R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series
- L. Frank Baum's Oz series and Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years, a revisionist version of the same setting
- Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn
- Andrei Belyanin's Sword with No Name
- Hans Bemmann's The Enchanted trilogy
- K. J. Bishop's The Etched City
- Elizabeth H. Boyer's World of the Alfar, Wizard's War, and Skyla series
- Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy (Hawk of May, Kingdom of Summer, In Winter's Shadow)
- Marie Brennan's Doppelganger
- Peter V. Brett's Demon Series
- Terry Brooks's Shannara series
- Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series
- Aleksandr Bushkov's Svarog series
- Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series
C
- Alan Campbell's The Deepgate Codex series
- Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician series
- Trudi Canavan's Age of the Five trilogy
- C. J. Cherryh's Ealdwood and Fortress series
- Storm Constantine's Wraeththu
- Glen Cook's The Black Company and The Dread Empire series
- Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising
- Alison Croggon's Pellinor series
- Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series
D
- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
- Sara Douglass's The Wayfarer Redemption series
- Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter
- David Anthony Durham's Acacia trilogy
- Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko's Wanderers tetralogy, The Key of the Kingdom trilogy and Varan/The Copper King duology
E
- David and Leigh Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon series, Elenium/Tamuli series,The Redemption of Althalus, and The Dreamers series
- Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros and Zimiamvian Trilogy
- Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series
- Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
- Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series
- Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer
F
- Jennifer Fallon's The Demon Child Trilogy, The Hythrun Chronicles and Second Sons Trilogy
- David Farland's The Runelords series
- Raymond E. Feist's The Riftwar Cycle
- Jude Fisher's Fool's Gold series
- Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series
- Jeffrey Ford's The Well-Built City series
G
- Neil Gaiman's Stardust
- David Gemmell's Legend series
- Mary Gentle's Grunts!
- Felix Gilman's Ararat novels
- Vasili Golovachov's The Saviors of the Fan series
- Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series
- Ed Greenwood" "Forgotten Realms"
- Jim Grimsley's Kirith Kirin
- Alexander Grin's Scarlet Sails
H
- Niel Hancock's Circle of Light, Wilderness of Four, and Windameir Circle series
- M. John Harrison's Viriconium cycle
- Markus Heitz's The Dwarves
- Bernhard Hennen's Die Elfen series and Elfenritter trilogy
- Stuart Hill's "The Icemark Chronicles"
- Robin Hobb's Farseer, Liveship and Tawny Man trilogies
- P. C. Hodgell's Jame of the Kencyrath series
- Wolfgang Hohlbein's Magic Moon series
I
- Ian Irvine's The Three Worlds Cycle series
- Ralf Isau's Neschan-Trilogie and Die Chroniken von Mirad
J
- Nabila Jamshed's Wish Upon A Time - The Legendary Scimitar [1]
- N. K. Jemisin's The Inheritance trilogy (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods) [2]
- Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series
K
- Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy
- Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's The Keltiad series
- Katharine Kerr's Deverry Cycle series
- Ulrich Kiesow's The Dark Eye novels
- Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
- Leena Krohn's Tainaron
L
- Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series
- Mercedes Lackey's and James Mallory's Obsidian Trilogy
- Mercedes Lackey's and Andre Norton's The Halfblood Chronicles
- Jay Lake's City Imperishable and Dark Town series
- Yulia Latynina's Empire of Veya series
- Stephen R. Lawhead's Song of Albion Trilogy
- Tanith Lee's Birthgrave series
- Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series
- C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series
- Svyatoslav Loginov's Terrestrial Ways
- Sergei Lukyanenko's and Nick Perumov's Not the time for dragons
M
- Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series
- George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
- Svetlana Martynchik's Labyrinths of Echo series (under the pseudonym Max Frei)
- Aleksandr Mazin's Fargal, the World of Ashshur series and The Dragon of Kong series
- Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series
- Brian McClellan's Powder Mage series
- Dennis L. McKiernan's The Iron Tower trilogy and other Mithgar works
- Patricia A. McKillip's The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy
- Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown
- China Miéville's Bas-Lag cycle
- Karen Miller's Godspeaker trilogy
- Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist
- L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Saga of Recluce and Spellsong Cycle
- Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion series
- Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series
- William Morris' The Well at the World's End
N
- Vera Nazarian's Lords of Rainbow
- Stan Nicholls's Orcs: First Blood trilogy and Orcs: Bad Blood trilogy
- Yuri Nikitin's The Three Kingdoms series
- Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy
- Andre Norton's Witch World series
O
- Margaret Ogden's The Realm of the Elderlings series under the name Robin Hobb
- H. L. Oldie (Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky)'s Fentezi series
P
- Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle
- Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books
- Nick Perumov's Ring of Darkness, Hjorward chronicles, Keeper of the Swords series
- Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel Trilogy
- Tamora Pierce's Alanna series, Circle of Magic series
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
- Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
R
- Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies and Exiles Trilogy
- Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli and The Sword-Dancer Saga
- Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicle, an ongoing series.
- Vladislav Adolfovitch Rusanov's Hot Winds of North trilogy, Blades of Boundaries series and Dragons Slayer series
- Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, an ongoing series.[3]
S
- Fred Saberhagen's Earth End sequence
- Angie Sage's Septimus Heap
- R. A. Salvatore's Demon Wars series
- Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive
- Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Saga
- Maria Semyonova's Wolfhound series
- Jeff Smith's Bone series
- Maria V. Snyder's Study Series and Glass Series
- Jonathan Stroud's The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Revelations, Riyria Chronicles and The First Empire
- Steph Swainston's The Year of Our War, Dangerous Offspring, and No Present Like Time
- Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter, and the sequel The Dragons of Babel
T
- Eldon Thompson's The Legend of Asahiel series
- J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and Children of Húrin
V
- Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy
- Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris novels
- Vladimir Vasilyev's Shandalar
W
- David Weber's Oath of Swords/War God series
- Brent Weeks' Night Angel trilogy, and Lightbringer series
- Margaret Weis's and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance series
- Janny Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow series
- Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy and Shadowmarch series
- Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight series and The Book of the New Sun
Y
Z
- Roger Zelazny's Amber series
- Paul Edwin Zimmer's Dark Border series: A Gathering of Heroes and Ingulf the Mad
- Alexander Zorich's The Ways of Starborned trilogy and The Vault of Equilibrium tetralogy[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Wish Upon A Time: The Legendary Scimitar (Fantasy) (2010-09-01). "Wish Upon A Time: The Legendary Scimitar (Fantasy): Nabila Jamshed: 9789380040066: Amazon.com: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ↑ The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy). "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy): N. K. Jemisin: 9780316043922: Amazon.com: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ↑ http://www.bestfantasybookshq.com/hqs-top-10-must-reads/
- ↑ Alexander Zorich, writer. Alexander Zorich. Writer, scenarist. "Alexander Zorich. Writer, scenarist. Worlds. The Circle of Lands: Sarmontazara and Blue Alustral". Zorich.ru. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
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