The 50 Greatest Fantasy Books of All Time

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 480 "Greatest Books of All Time" lists curated by TheGreatestBooks. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/14/25) This is here for purely archival purposes.

  1. The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
  2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (1865)
  3. One Thousand and One Nights – Unknown (800)
  4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – J. K. Rowling (1997)
  5. Watership Down – Richard Adams (1972)
  6. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
  7. The Once and Future King – T. H. White (1958)
  8. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
  9. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
  10. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis (1950)
  11. The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis (1950)
  12. Peter and Wendy – J. M. Barrie (1911)
  13. Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak (1963)
  14. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (1995)
  15. Journey to the West – Wu Cheng'en (1592)
  16. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake (1950)
  17. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (2004)
  18. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster (1961)
  19. The Princess Bride – William Goldman (1973)
  20. Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian (1947)
  21. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake (1946)
  22. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (1966)
  23. Perfume – Patrick Süskind (1985)
  24. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter (1984)
  25. Lud-in-the-Mist – Hope Mirrlees (1926)
  26. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum (1900)
  27. Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll (1871)
  28. Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury (1957)
  29. The Third Policeman – Flann O'Brien (1967)
  30. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (1964)
  31. Le Morte d'Arthur – Thomas Malory (1485)
  32. A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin (1996)
  33. The House on the Borderland and Other Novels – William Hope Hodgson (1908)
  34. Rhymes and Legends – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1871)
  35. Conjure Wife – Fritz Leiber (1943)
  36. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling (1999)
  37. Little, Big – John Crowley (1981)
  38. The Fifth Season – N. K. Jemisin (2015)
  39. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury (1962)
  40. The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett (1983)
  41. A Hero Born – Jin Yong (1957)
  42. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau (1929)
  43. Sandman – Neil Gaiman (1989)
  44. Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov (1935)
  45. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon (1991)
  46. Winter's Tale – Mark Helprin (1983)
  47. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling (2000)
  48. Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka – Nikolai Gogol (1831)
  49. The BFG – Roald Dahl (1982)
  50. The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle (1968)

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