This page lists notable fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

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Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

s (and novel series). The books appear in alphabetical order by title (beginning with A to H) (ignoring "A", "An", and "The"); series are alphabetical by author-designated name or, if there is no such, some reasonable designation. Science-fiction novels and short-story collections are not included here.

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• Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
  Garth Nix
  Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...
  
  
• Acacia: The War With The Mein
  Acacia: The War with the Mein
  Acacia: The War with the Mein is a 2007 novel by American author David Anthony Durham. It marks his first foray into epic fantasy, although the novel shares some characteristics of his other works such as the historical novel, Pride of Carthage....
  
   by David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.Durham's first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War...
  
  
• Aegypt series by John Crowley
  John Crowley
  John Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
  
  
• Aladore by Henry Newbolt
  Henry Newbolt
  Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet. He is best remembered for Vitaï Lampada, a lyrical piece used for propaganda purposes during the First World War.-Background:...
  
  
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
  
   by Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
  
  
• All Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams
  Charles Williams (UK writer)
  Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings.- Biography :...
  
  
• All the Bells on Earth by James Blaylock
  James Blaylock
  James Paul Blaylock is an American fantasy author.He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction....
  
  
• Alphabet of Thorn
  Alphabet of Thorn
  Alphabet of Thorn is a 2004 fantasy novel by Patricia A. McKillip. It was nominated for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.- Plot summary :Nepenthe is a sixteen-year-old orphan who was found and raised by the Royal Librarians of Raine...
  
   by Patricia McKillip
• The Tales of Alvin Maker
  The Tales of Alvin Maker
  The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of novels by Orson Scott Card that revolve around the experiences of a young man, Alvin Miller, who discovers he has incredible powers for creating and shaping things around him...
  
   series by Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
  
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel follows the lives of two Jewish cousins before, during, and after World War II. They are a Czech artist named Joe Kavalier and a Brooklyn-born...
  
    by Michael Chabon
  Michael Chabon
  Michael Chabon born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation", according to The Virginia Quarterly Review....
  
  
• The Amber
  The Chronicles of Amber
  The Chronicles of Amber is group of novels that comprise a fantasy series written by Roger Zelazny. The main series consists of two story arcs, each five novels in length. Additionally, there are a number of Amber short stories and other works....
  
   series by Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  
• Amber Ambrosia by Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman is a Canadian anthropologist, and the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- The Serpent’s Spell , Amber Ambrosia and Fish and Sphinx...
  
  
• American Gods
  American Gods
  American Gods is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on a mysterious and taciturn protagonist, Shadow. It is Gaiman's fourth prose novel, being preceded by Good Omens ,...
  
   by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
  
• The Anubis Gates
  The Anubis Gates
  The Anubis Gates is a time travel fantasy novel by Tim Powers. It won the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award and 1984 Science Fiction Chronicle Award.- Plot summary :...
  
   by Tim Powers
  Tim Powers
  Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare...
  
  
• Apprentice Adept
  Apprentice Adept
  Apprentice Adept is a seven-book fantasy and science fiction novel series by Piers Anthony. The series takes place on Phaze and Proton, two worlds occupying the same space in two different dimensional planes. Phaze is a lush planet of magic, where Proton is a barren mining planet of science...
  
   series by Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
  
  
• Arafel duo by C. J. Cherryh
  C. J. Cherryh
  Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author...
  
  
• Argo by R. A. Lafferty
  R. A. Lafferty
  Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit...
  
  , a complex mythos encompassing nested sub-series
• The Artefacts of Power
  The Artefacts of Power
  The Artifacts of Power series is a tetralogy of fantasy novels written by the British author Maggie Furey.The series revolves around the character Aurian, after whom the first book is named. She is the daughter of renegade Mages Eilin and Geraint, an Earth Mage and Fire Mage, respectively, and...
  
   by Maggie Furey
  Maggie Furey
  Maggie Furey was born in Northeast England, UK, in 1955. She is a qualified teacher but has also reviewed books on BBC Radio Newcastle, been an advisor in the Durham Reading Resources Centre and organized children's book fairs. She now lives in County Wicklow in Ireland...
  
  
• Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
  Eoin Colfer
  Eoin Colfer is an Irish author. He is most famous as the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful books. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling...
  
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• At Swim-Two-Birds
  At Swim-Two-Birds
  At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction....
  
   by Flann O'Brien
  Flann O'Brien
  Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. Best known for novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and An Béal Bocht and many satirical columns in The Irish Times Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was...
  
  
• At the Back of the North Wind
  At the Back of the North Wind
  At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered around a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind....
  
   by George MacDonald
  George MacDonald
  George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S...
  
  

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• The Bard of Sorcery by Gerard Daniel Houarner
  Gerard Daniel Houarner
  -Novels & Short Fiction Collections:*The Bard of Sorcery *Painfreak *Inside the Works *I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It *Road to Hell *Black Orchids from Aum...
  
  
• Bardic Voices series by Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
  
• Barking by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Anthony Stroud is an author of fantasy books, mainly for children and young adults.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Bedford, England, Stroud began to write stories at a very young age. He grew up in St Albans where he enjoyed reading books, drawing pictures, and writing stories...
  
  
• Bas-Lag
  Bas-Lag
  Bas-Lag is the fictional world in which several of China Miéville's novels are set. Bas-Lag is a world where both magic and steampunk technology exist, and is home to many intelligent races...
  
   by China Miéville
  China Miéville
  China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
  
  
• Beauty
  Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
  Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast was first published in 1978 by children's book author Robin McKinley. It was her first book, retelling the classic French fairy tale La Belle et La Bete. The book was the 1998 Phoenix Award honor book. It was the 1966-1988 Best of the Best...
  
   by Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley is a distinguished author of fantasy and children's books who has written sixteen books to date. Her latest book Pegasus was published in 2010...
  
  
• Beauty
  Beauty
  Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture...
  
   by Sheri S. Tepper
  Sheri S. Tepper
  Sheri Stewart Tepper is an American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels; she is particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant....
  
  
• Beautiful Darkness (novel)
  Beautiful Darkness (novel)
  Beautiful Darkness is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The second novel in the Caster Chronicles, it was published by Little, Brown on December, 2009...
  
   by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Beautiful Creatures (book)
  Beautiful Creatures (book)
  Beautiful Creatures is the debut young-adult fantasy novel written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It was published by Little, Brown on December 2009. Amazon.com named it one of the top ten books of 2009 and the top pick for best teen book...
  
   by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Bedlam's Bard series by Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
  
• The Belgariad
  The Belgariad
  The Belgariad is a five-book fantasy epic written by David Eddings.The series tells the story of the recovery of the Orb of Aldur and coming of age of Garion, an orphaned farmboy. Garion is accompanied by his aunt Polgara and grandfather Belgarath as they try to fulfill an ancient prophecy that...
  
   series by David Eddings
  David Eddings
  David Eddings was an American author who wrote several best-selling series of epic fantasy novels.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Berinfell Prophecies
  The Berinfell Prophecies
  The Berinfell Prophecies is a series co-authored by authors Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper.-Co-Authoring:Christopher Hopper and Wayne Thomas Batson met in 2006 at the Red Lion Inn in Denver. As fellow Christian fantasy authors, they struck up a friendship and later decided to co-author...
  
   by Wayne Thomas Batson
  Wayne Thomas Batson
  Wayne Thomas Batson is an American writer. He has been married to his wife for seventeen years and has four children...
  
   and Christopher Hopper
• Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black
• The BFG
  The BFG
  The BFG is a children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, first published in 1982. The book was an expansion of a story told in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier Dahl book...
  
   by Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
  
  
• Biography of Manuel cycle by James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell, ; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his...
  
  
• The Bitterbynde trilogy by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  Cecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels, most notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.-Biography:Cecilia Dart-Thornton was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. She became a schoolteacher before...
  
  
• Black Cocktail by Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...
  
  
• The Black Company
  The Black Company
  The Black Company is a series of fantasy novels by author Glen Cook. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.- The Books of the North:#The...
  
   saga by Glen Cook
  Glen Cook
  Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.-Biography:...
  
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• The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
  Anne Bishop
  Anne Bishop is an American fantasy writer. Her most noted work is The Black Jewels trilogy. She lives in upstate New York. She won the Crawford Award in 2000 for the first three novels in her The Black Jewels series: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness.-The Black...
  
  
• The Black Magician (novel series)
  The Black Magician (novel series)
  The Black Magician trilogy is a fantasy novel series by Australian author Trudi Canavan. The books follow a slum-dwelling girl named Sonea who, although born and raised in the slums of Imardin, discovers that she has natural magical abilities usually restricted to the upper classes...
  
   by Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...
  
  
• The Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
  
• The Blessing of Pan by Lord Dunsany
• Bloodring
  Bloodring
  The Rogue Mage series of fantasy novels were written by Faith Hunter about races of beings inhabiting a post-apocalyptic Earth of the not-too distant future. Some of them possess magical powers...
  
   by Faith Hunter
  Faith Hunter
  Gwendolyn Faith Hunter is an American fantasy and thriller author. She writes as Faith Hunter in the fantasy genre, and as Gwen Hunter in the thriller genre. She also collaborates on thrillers with Gary Leveille, under the name Gary Hunter...
  
  
• The Blue Hawk by Peter Dickinson
  Peter Dickinson
  Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...
  
  
• The Blue Star
  The Blue Star (novel)
  The Blue Star is a fantasy novel written by Fletcher Pratt, the second of his two major fantasies. It was first published by Twayne Publishers in 1952 in the fantasy anthology Witches Three, a volume that also included Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife and James Blish's "There Shall Be No Darkness." Its...
  
   by Fletcher Pratt
  Fletcher Pratt
  Murray Fletcher Pratt was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.- Life and work :...
  
  
• Boggart
  Boggart
  In Englishfolklore, a boggart is a household fairy which causes things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. Always malevolent, the boggart will follow its family wherever they flee...
  
   series by Susan Cooper
  Susan Cooper
  Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...
  
  
• The Book of Atrix Wolfe
  The Book of Atrix Wolfe
  The Book of Atrix Wolfe is a 1995 fantasy novel by Patricia A. McKillip. It was a finalist for the 1996 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.-Summary:...
  
   by Patricia McKillip
• Book of Enchantments
  Book of Enchantments
  Book of Enchantments is a collection of short stories by fantasy author Patricia C. Wrede. It was first published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace in 1996, and was subsequently issued in paperback by Point Fantasy in 1998 and in trade paperback by Magic Carpet Books in 2005...
  
   by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Books of Abarat
  The Books of Abarat
  The Books of Abarat are a series of young adult fantasy novels written and illustrated by Clive Barker. The series is intended to contain five books, of which three have so far been published...
  
   by Clive Barker
  Clive Barker
  Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
  
  
• Books of the House series by James Stoddard
• The Books of Parable duology by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
  Walter Wangerin, Jr.
  Walter Wangerin, Jr. is an award-winning American author and educator best known for his religious novels and children's books.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Borders of Life by G. A. Kathryns (pen name of Gael Baudino
  Gael Baudino
  Gael Baudino is a contemporary American fantasy author who also writes under the pseudonyms of Gael Kathryns, Gael A. Kathryns, and G.A. Kathryns. She attended college at the University of Southern California...
  
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• The Boss in the Wall by Avram Davidson
  Avram Davidson
  Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche...
  
  

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• Caliban's Hour by Tad Williams
  Tad Williams
  Robert Paul "Tad" Williams, born in San Jose, California, is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers....
  
  
• Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
  Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
  Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor is a darkly humorous children's picture book written and illustrated by the British author Mervyn Peake and published by Country Life in 1939. It was his first published work. The story concerns the nautical exploits of the titular captain and his rambunctious...
  
   by Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
  
  
• The Cat's Cradle-Book by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  Sylvia Townsend Warner
  Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was an English novelist and poet.-Life:Sylvia Townsend Warner was born at Harrow on the Hill, the only child of George Townsend Warner and his wife Eleanora Hudleston...
  
  
• Cats Have No Lord by Will Shetterly
  Will Shetterly
  Will Shetterly is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for his novel Dogland . The novel is inspired by his childhood at the tourist attraction Dog Land owned by his parents...
  
  
• Chalion series by Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo...
  
  
• The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's book by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of the eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka....
  
   by Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
  
  
• Charlie Bone Series by Jenny Nimmo
  Jenny Nimmo
  Jenny Nimmo is a British author of numerous books for children, including many fantasy and adventure novels, beginning reader books, and picture books....
  
  
• The Chathrand Voyage Quartet
  Chathrand Novels
  The Chathrand Voyage is a fantasy book series written by Robert V.S. Redick. It is published by Gollancz Publishing in Great Britain and Canada, and Del Rey Publishing in the United States.- Premise :...
  
   by Robert V.S. Redick
• Children of the Lamp
  Children of the Lamp
  Children of the Lamp is a series of fantasy novels for senior children as well as adolescents and adults written by the British author P.B. Kerr. It tells the story of twin djinn, John and Philippa Gaunt, and their challenges with adapting to the world of djinn. The story has a variety of themes,...
  
   Series by P.B Kerr
• Children of the Shaman by Jessica Rydill
  Jessica Rydill
  Jessica Rydill is a British Fantasy author from the West Country. She was born in 1959. She studied at King's College, Cambridge and the College of Law, working as a solicitor for 13 years. Her travels have provided some of the inspiration for her writing. She was a founder member of the Write...
  
  
• Chimera
  Chimera (John Barth novel)
  Chimera is a 1972 novel by the American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, the titles of which eponymously refer to the mythical characters Dunyazad, Perseus and Bellerophon, the last of whom slew the Chimera...
  
   by John Barth
  John Barth
  John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...
  
  
• Chrestomanci
  Chrestomanci
  The Chrestomanci series is a children's fantasy series by Diana Wynne Jones. The word "Chrestomanci" may be derived from the Greek khrestos, meaning "useful," and -mancy, "divination."...
  
   series by Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
  
• Chronicles of an Age of Darkness
  Chronicles of an Age of Darkness
  The Chronicles of an Age of Darkness are a ten-volume series of cross-genre fantasy / science fiction novels created by cult author Hugh Cook.-The books:*The Wizards and the Warriors - 1986...
  
   by Hugh Cook
  Hugh Cook (science fiction author)
  Hugh Cook was a cult author whose works blend fantasy and science fiction. He is best-known for his epic series The Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chronicles of Brothers
  Chronicles of Brothers
  Chronicles of Brothers is a series of seven fantasy novels written by GOD TV co-founder Wendy Alec. Set in the First Heaven, Earth and Hell the books follow the stories of three angelic brothers, Lucifer, Michael and Gabriel and three earthly brothers, Jason, Adrian and Nick De Verre...
  
   series by Wendy Alec
  Wendy Alec
  Wendy Alec is an author and TV host. She has written several books, including the epic fantasy series, Chronicles of Brothers. Along with her husband Rory Alec, she is the co-founder of GOD TV, and co-host of The Rory & Wendy Alec Show. She is also the GOD TV’s Creative Director.- Biography :Alec...
  
  
• The Chronicles of Faerie by O. R. Melling
  O. R. Melling
  O.R. Melling, also known as G.V. Whelan, is an author of several fantasy novels. Melling's novels are aimed at young adults and contain stories mostly written around Irish and Celtic folklore, faeries in particular....
  
  
• Chronicles of Hawklan by Roger Taylor
  Roger Taylor (author)
  Roger Taylor is an English fiction and non-fiction author. He was born in Heywood, [Lancashire], and now lives in the Wirral. He is a chartered civil and structural engineer, a pistol, rifle and shotgun shooter, aikido instructor, and a piano player....
  
  
• The Chronicles of Narnia
  The Chronicles of Narnia
  The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages...
  
   by C.S. Lewis - see at N, below
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for his Thomas Covenant series...
  
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• Cinder
  Cinder
  A cinder is a pyroclastic material. Cinders are extrusive igneous rocks. Cinders are similar to pumice, which has so many cavities and is such low-density that it can float on water...
  
   by Rick DeMarinis
  Rick DeMarinis
  -Life:He taught at the University of Montana, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso.His short stories have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review.-Awards:* two National Endowment for the Arts...
  
  
• The Circle series by Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce is an author of fantasy literature for young adults. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania. Best known for writing stories involving young heroines, she made a name for herself with her first quartet The Song of the Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna...
  
   (comprises three sub-series)
• The Circus of Dr. Lao
  The Circus of Dr. Lao
  The Circus of Dr. Lao is a 1935 novel written by Arizona newspaperman Charles G. Finney, and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Many later editions omit these illustrations.- Plot summary :...
  
   by Charles G. Finney
  Charles G. Finney
  Charles G. Finney was an American fantasy novelist and newspaperman. His full name was Charles Grandison Finney, evidently in honor of his great-grandfather, famous evangelist Charles Grandison Finney.-Biography:...
  
  
• City of Bones by Martha Wells
  Martha Wells
  -Biography:Martha Wells was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964 and has a B.A. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University. She has published eight fantasy novels, two Stargate Atlantis tie-in novels, and several short stories...
  
  
• Cloud's End by Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart is a U.S.-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.Born in Lubbock, Texas, Sean Stewart moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1968...
  
  
• The Claidi Journals
  The Claidi Journals
  The Claidi Journals is a fantasy novel quartet written by Tanith Lee. A collection of the first three novels was released in 2003.-Law of the Wolf Tower:Law of the Wolf Tower is the first book in The Claidi Journals...
  
   by Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...
  
  
• Cold Tom
  Cold Tom
  Cold Tom is a fantasy novel by Sally Prue, published on January 31, 2002 by Oxford University Press and aimed at teens and young adults. Cold Tom won the Branford Boase Award and the Smarties Prize Silver Award both in 2002.-Plot summary:...
  
   by Sally Prue
  Sally Prue
  Sally Prue is a British author known for her novel Cold Tom, which won the Branford Boase Award 2002 and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. Sally Prue has written eight novels.- Biography :...
  
  
• College of Magics series by Caroline Stevermer
  Caroline Stevermer
  Caroline Stevermer is a writer of young adult fantasy novels and shorter works. She is best known for two series of historical fantasy novels.With Patricia C...
  
  
• Conan
  Conan (books)
  The Conan books are sword and sorcery fantasies featuring the character of Conan the Cimmerian originally created by Robert E. Howard. Written by numerous authors and issued by numerous publishers, they include both novels and short stories, the latter assembled in various combinations over the...
  
   series by Robert E. Howard
  Robert E. Howard
  Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
  
   and others
• Conclave of the Shadows trilogy by Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.- Biography :Raymond E...
  
  
• Coraline
  Coraline
  Coraline is a horror/fantasy novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers...
  
   by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
  
• The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison
  M. John Harrison
  M. John Harrison , known as Mike Harrison, is an English author and critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories, , Climbers , and the Kefahuchi Tract series which begins with Light . He currently resides in London.-Early years:Harrison was born in Rugby,...
  
  
• The Court of the Air
  The Court of the Air
  The Court of the Air is the first book by Stephen Hunt in his Jackelian Series. The plot is set in a steampunk world that mixes historical events or social concepts of the real world with elements of fantasy novels, such as sorcery and superpowers....
  
   by Stephen Hunt
• Crane's View series by Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...
  
  
• Cray Ormoru by Phyllis Eisenstein
  Phyllis Eisenstein
  Phyllis Eisenstein is an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and has lived there most of her life. While attending college at the University of Chicago, she met her future husband Alex at a weekly gathering of Chicago's science...
  
  
• The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
  James Stephens (author)
  James Stephens was an Irish novelist and poet.James Stephens wrote many retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. His retellings are marked by a rare combination of humor and lyricism...
  
  
• Curdie series by George MacDonald
  George MacDonald
  George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S...
  
  
• The Curse of the Wise Woman by Lord Dunsany
• Cygnet series by Patricia A. McKillip
  Patricia A. McKillip
  Patricia Anne McKillip is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels. Her novels have been winners of the World Fantasy Award, Locus Award and Mythopoeic Award. In 2008, she was a recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement...
  
  
• Cyrion by Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...
  
  
• Chanters of Tremaris by Kate Constable
  Kate Constable
  Kate Constable is an Australian author. Her first novel was The Singer of All Songs, the first in the Chanters of Tremaris trilogy. It was later followed by The Waterless Sea and The Tenth Power.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chronicles Of Brothers
  Chronicles of Brothers
  Chronicles of Brothers is a series of seven fantasy novels written by GOD TV co-founder Wendy Alec. Set in the First Heaven, Earth and Hell the books follow the stories of three angelic brothers, Lucifer, Michael and Gabriel and three earthly brothers, Jason, Adrian and Nick De Verre...
  
   series by Wendy Alec
  Wendy Alec
  Wendy Alec is an author and TV host. She has written several books, including the epic fantasy series, Chronicles of Brothers. Along with her husband Rory Alec, she is the co-founder of GOD TV, and co-host of The Rory & Wendy Alec Show. She is also the GOD TV’s Creative Director.- Biography :Alec...
  
  
• The Custodes Noctis series by Muffy Morrigan

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• Dalemark Quartet
  Dalemark Quartet
  The Dalemark Quartet is a series of four fantasy books by Diana Wynne Jones set in a rustic parallel universe with pre-industrial or even medieval civilization...
  
   by Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
  
• The Dalkey Archive
  The Dalkey Archive
  The Dalkey Archive is a novel by the Irish writer Flann O'Brien. It is his fifth and final novel, published in 1964, two years before his death. It features a mad scientist, De Selby, who tries to destroy the world by removing all the oxygen from the air. He has also many strange inventions...
  
   by Flann O'Brien
  Flann O'Brien
  Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. Best known for novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and An Béal Bocht and many satirical columns in The Irish Times Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was...
  
  
• Damiano
  Damiano
  Damiano is a small village outside the town of Giannitsa, in Greece's Pella Prefecture. The village, of only about one hundred people, is famous for the agricultural regions around it, and its church of Ayios Dimitrios. The village is the birthplace of a silver medalist in the Athens 2004...
  
   series by R. A. MacAvoy
  R. A. MacAvoy
  Roberta Ann MacAvoy is a fantasy and science fiction author in the United States. Several of her books draw on Celtic or Zen themes. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1984.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dark Castle, White Horse (two novellas) by Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee
  Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...
  
  
• Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
  Lisa Goldstein
  Lisa Goldstein is a Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award nominated fantasy and science fiction writer. Her 1982 novel The Red Magician won the American Book Award for best paperback novel, and was praised by Philip K. Dick shortly before his death...
  
  
• The Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
  Susan Cooper
  Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...
  
  
• A Darkness Forged in Fire by Chris Evans
  Chris Evans
  Christopher James "Chris" Evans is an English broadcaster, businessman and producer for radio & television.-Early life:Evans was born in 1966, in Warrington, Cheshire, England, the youngest child of bookmaker...
  
  
• The Dark Tower
  The Dark Tower (series)
  The Dark Tower is a series of books written by American author Stephen King, which incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy, science fantasy, horror and western. It describes a "Gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. King...
  
   series by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  
• Darkangel series by Meredith Ann Pierce
  Meredith Ann Pierce
  Meredith Ann Pierce - is a fantasy writer and librarian. Her books deal in fantasy worlds with mythic settings and frequently feature young women who first wish only to love and be loved, yet who must face hazard and danger to save their way of life, their world, and so on, usually without being...
  
  
• Daughter of the Lioness
  Daughter of the Lioness
  The Daughter of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce is a duology set in the Tortall universe. It is centered on Alianne of Pirate's Swoop, the sixteen-year old daughter of Tortall's legendary lady knight, Alanna the Lioness, who was the subject of The Song of the Lioness quartet...
  
   series by Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce is an author of fantasy literature for young adults. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania. Best known for writing stories involving young heroines, she made a name for herself with her first quartet The Song of the Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna...
  
  
• Days of Yore: Jack the Giantkiller by Arin Lee Kambitsis
• The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
  Martha Wells
  -Biography:Martha Wells was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964 and has a B.A. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University. She has published eight fantasy novels, two Stargate Atlantis tie-in novels, and several short stories...
  
  
• Dealing With Dragons
  Dealing with Dragons
  Dealing with Dragons is a young adult fantasy novel written by Patricia C. Wrede, in which the princess Cimorene escapes her tediously ordinary family to be a dragon's princess. It is the first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles series....
  
   by Patricia Wrede
  Patricia Wrede
  Patricia Collins Wrede is an American fantasy writer from Chicago, Illinois.The eldest of five children, she graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in Biology, married James Wrede in 1976 , and obtained an MBA from University of Minnesota in 1977.She finished her first book in 1978,...
  
  
• Deliverers of Their Country by E. Nesbit
  E. Nesbit
  Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television...
  
  
• Deltora Quest
  Deltora Quest
  Deltora Quest may refer to:*Deltora Quest *Deltora Quest...
  
   series by Emily Rodda
  Jennifer Rowe
  Jennifer June Rowe is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson...
  
  
• The Deptford Mice
  The Deptford Mice
  The Deptford Mice is a trilogy of novels by Robin Jarvis. They follow the story of a group of mice living in Deptford, London as they fight an evil cat god named Jupiter.-The Dark Portal:...
  
   by Robin Jarvis
  Robin Jarvis
  Robin Jarvis is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice – and Tudor times...
  
  
• Derkholm series by Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
  
• Descent into Hell
  Descent into Hell
  Descent Into Hell is a novel written by Charles Williams, first published in 1937.-Overview:Williams is less well known than his fellow Inklings, such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Like some of them, however, he wrote a series of novels which combine elements of fantasy fiction and Christian...
  
   by Charles Williams
  Charles Williams (UK writer)
  Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings.- Biography :...
  
  
• The Devil Wives of Li-Fong by E. Hoffmann Price
• Dirk Gently
  Dirk Gently
  Dirk Gently is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul...
  
   series by Douglas Adams
  Douglas Adams
  Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
  
  
• Discworld
  Discworld
  Discworld is a comic fantasy book series by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R....
  
   series by Terry Pratchett
  Terry Pratchett
  Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
  
  
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt
  A. S. Byatt
  Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner...
  
  
• Djinn Rummy by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• The Door in the Hedge
  The Door in the Hedge
  The Door in the Hedge is a collection of fairy tales by Robin McKinley. First published by William Morrow and Company in 1981, it is a compilation of retellings and new favorites. The collection includes The Stolen Princess, The Princess and the Frog, The Hunting of the Hind, and The Twelve Dancing...
  
   by Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley is a distinguished author of fantasy and children's books who has written sixteen books to date. Her latest book Pegasus was published in 2010...
  
  
• The Door Within Trilogy
  The Door Within Trilogy
  The Door Within Trilogy is a set of three novels written by American author Wayne Thomas Batson describing the adventures of three adolescent protagonists through a fantasy world. The titles of the books are The Door Within, The Rise of the Wyrm Lord, and The Final Storm...
  
   by Wayne Thomas Batson
  Wayne Thomas Batson
  Wayne Thomas Batson is an American writer. He has been married to his wife for seventeen years and has four children...
  
  
• Dorothea Dreams
  Dorothea Dreams
  Dorothea Dreams is a 1986 novel by award winning American author Suzy McKee Charnas....
  
   by Suzy McKee Charnas
  Suzy McKee Charnas
  Suzy McKee Charnas is an American novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She has won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. A selection of her short fiction was collected...
  
  
• Dragoncharm
  Dragoncharm
  Dragoncharm is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 1995 by Voyager Books and HarperPrism . It is the first book in the Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy, and its sequels are Dragonstorm and Dragonflame....
  
   trilogy by Graham Edwards
  Graham Edwards (writer)
  Graham Edwards is an English author of fantasy and crime novels. His most popular books have generally featured dragons as their central characters....
  
  
• Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy by Margaret Weis
  Margaret Weis
  Margaret Edith Weis is a fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous novels and short stories set in fantastic worlds.-Early life:Margaret Weis was born in 1948 in Independence, Missouri, and later attended...
  
   and Tracy Hickman
  Tracy Hickman
  Tracy Raye Hickman is a best-selling fantasy author, best known for his work on Dragonlance as a game designer and co-author with Margaret Weis, while he worked for TSR...
  
  
• Dragon Raja
  Dragon Raja
  Dragon Raja is the first series of fantasy novels written by Lee Yeongdo, one of the most famous fantasy novelists in South Korea. The books chronicle the adventures of a 17-year-old boy Hoochie Nedval, his mentor Karl Heltant and his friend Sanson Percival, all of whom are from the poor town of...
  
   by Lee Yeongdo
  Lee Yeongdo
  Lee Yeongdo is a Korean novelist known for his work in fantasy and science fiction genre. He is best known for his Dragon Raja series of fantasy novels which is also his debut work, serialised on an online forum from 1997 and published on its completion in 1998.At the time Dragon Raja was first...
  
  
• Dragon Rider
  Dragon Rider (novel)
  Dragon Rider is a 1997 German children's novel by Cornelia Funke. Originally translated by Oliver Latsch, Dragon Rider was published in 2004 by The Chicken House in the UK and Scholastic Inc. in the US, using a translation by Anthea Bell...
  
   by Cornelia Funke
  Cornelia Funke
  Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...
  
  
• Dragonriders of Pern
  Dragonriders of Pern
  Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series written primarily by the late American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967. Beginning 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne. The series comprises 22 novels and several short...
  
   series by Anne McCaffrey
  Anne McCaffrey
  Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
  
  
• Dragonsbane
  Dragonsbane
  Dragonsbane is a fantasy novel written by author Barbara Hambly and published by Del Rey Books in 1985.- Plot summary :A witch, Jenny Waynest, and lord, John Aversin, who live in the Northlands are approached by a young southern noble, Gareth, who requests they slay a dragon in the capital city of...
  
   by Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly is an award-winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction...
  
  
• Dragons in Our Midst
  Dragons In Our Midst
  Dragons In Our Midst is an American christian/fantasy book series written by Bryan Davis. It follows the story of Billy Bannister and Bonnie Silver, two modern day American teenagers who each have one parent that is a dragon...
  
   series by Bryan Davis
  Bryan Davis
  Bryan Allan Davis is a former West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1965. He later qualified for Glamorgan playing in the championship winning side in 1969....
  
  
• Dragonvarld
  Dragonvarld
  Dragonvarld is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Margaret Weis. Within the series, this also refers to the setting; the word Dragonvarld is said to be the Dragon name for Earth . It resembles Earth of the Middle Ages, complete with a church bent on witch and demon hunts...
  
   trilogy by Margaret Weis
  Margaret Weis
  Margaret Edith Weis is a fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous novels and short stories set in fantastic worlds.-Early life:Margaret Weis was born in 1948 in Independence, Missouri, and later attended...
  
  
• The Drawing of the Dark
  The Drawing of the Dark
  The Drawing of the Dark is a historical fantasy novel by Tim Powers published in 1979 by Del Rey Books.-Plot summary:The year is 1529, and Brian Duffy, a world-weary Irish mercenary soldier is hired in Venice by the mysterious Aurelius Aurelianus to go to Vienna and work as a bouncer at the...
  
   by Tim Powers
  Tim Powers
  Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare...
  
  
• Dread Empire series by Glen Cook
  Glen Cook
  Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Dresden Files
  The Dresden Files
  The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy/mystery novels written by Jim Butcher.He provides a first person narrative of each story from the point of view of the main character, private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden, as he recounts investigations into supernatural disturbances in...
  
   series by Jim Butcher
  Jim Butcher
  Jim Butcher is a New York Times Best Selling author most known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also wrote the Codex Alera series. Butcher grew up as the only son of his parents, and has two older sisters. He currently lives in Independence with his wife, Shannon K...
  
  
• Drinker of Souls series by Jo Clayton
  Jo Clayton
  Jo Clayton was an American fantasy and science fiction author. She wrote 35 novels and many short stories. Her works sold over a million copies....
  
  
• Drizzt Do'Urden
  Drizzt Do'Urden
  Drizzt Do'Urden is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Drizzt was created by author R. A. Salvatore as a supporting character in the Icewind Dale Trilogy. Salvatore created him on a whim when his publisher needed to...
  
   novels by R. A. Salvatore
• Druid's Blood by Esther Friesner
  Esther Friesner
  Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces.- Life :...
  
  
• Durand Col series by David Keck
  David Keck
  David Keck is a Canadian author, and teacher, who has Masters Degrees in English Literature, History, and Education. He is best known for his novels based around the protagonist Durand Col. His works have received generally positive reviews from critics, yet have not reached the mainstream so...
  
  . Series has no official name, however Durand Col is generally used because he is the central focus of all the novels.
• The Dying Earth
  The Dying Earth
  The Dying Earth is a 1950 collection of fantasy short stories by author Jack Vance. It is the first book in the Dying Earth series. It was nominated for the Retro Hugo in 2001.-Stories:*Turjan of Miir*Mazirian the Magician*T'sais...
  
   series by Jack Vance
  Jack Vance
  John Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
  
  

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• Earthsea
  Earthsea
  Earthsea is a fictional realm originally created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story "The Word of Unbinding", published in 1964. Earthsea became the setting for a further six books, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, and continuing with The Tombs of Atuan, The...
  
   series by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Elantris
  Elantris
  Elantris is a stand-alone fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in April 2005 by Tor Books. Brandon is planning to write a sequel to Elantris, but its release has not yet been announced. It is significant as Sanderson's first widely released book. The book is named after the ruined city,...
  
   by Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
  
  
• The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
  Martha Wells
  -Biography:Martha Wells was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964 and has a B.A. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University. She has published eight fantasy novels, two Stargate Atlantis tie-in novels, and several short stories...
  
  
• The Elephant and the Kangaroo by T. H. White
  T. H. White
  Terence Hanbury White was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Eleventh Hour by Brian Stableford
  Brian Stableford
  Brian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published as by Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford...
  
  
• Elric of Melnibone
  Elric of Melniboné
  Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock, and the antihero of a series of sword and sorcery stories centering in an alternate Earth. The proper name and title of the character is Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of Melniboné...
  
   by Michael Moorcock
  Michael Moorcock
  Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
  
  
• Ella Enchanted
  Ella Enchanted
  Ella Enchanted is a Newbery Honor book written by Gail Carson Levine and published in 1997. The story is a retelling of Cinderella featuring various mythical creatures including fairies, elves, ogres, gnomes, and giants...
  
   by Gail Carson Levine
  Gail Carson Levine
  Gail Carson Levine is an American author of young adult books. Her first novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Empire Trilogy by Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.- Biography :Raymond E...
  
   and Janny Wurts
  Janny Wurts
  Janny Wurts is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator. She has written several series, including the Wars of Light and Shadow, The Cycle of Fire trilogy, several stand-alone novels, a short story collection and the internationally best selling Empire Trilogy that she co-authored with Raymond...
  
  
• The Enchanted Castle
  The Enchanted Castle
  The Enchanted Castle is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit first published in 1907.-Plot summary:The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Gerald, James and Kathleen, who discover it while exploring during the school...
  
   by E. Nesbit
  E. Nesbit
  Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television...
  
  
• Enchanted Forest
  Enchanted Forest Chronicles
  The Enchanted Forest Chronicles is a series of four young adult fantasy novels by Patricia C. Wrede titled Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons....
  
   series by Patricia C. Wrede
• Enchanted Night (novella) by Steven Millhauser
  Steven Millhauser
  Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books back into print.-Life and career:...
  
  
• The Enquiries of Dr. Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson
  Avram Davidson
  Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche...
  
  
• Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
  Alison Goodman
  Alison Goodman is an Australian writer based in Melbourne.Goodman came to attention with her debut novel Singing the Dogstar Blues...
  
  
• Eragon
  Eragon
  Eragon is the first book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, who began writing at the age of 15. After writing the first draft for a year, he spent a second year rewriting it and fleshing out the story and characters. Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript and decided to...
  
   by Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance...
  
  
• Euryale
  Euryale
  Euryale , in Greek mythology, was the second eldest one of the Gorgons, three vicious sisters with brass hands, sharp fangs, and hair of living, venomous snakes. She and her sister Stheno, unlike their sister, Medusa, were not able to turn any creature to stone with her gaze...
  
   by Kara Dalkey
  Kara Dalkey
  Kara Mia Dalkey is an American author of young adult fiction and historical fantasy. She was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Seattle. Much of her fiction is set in the Heian period of Japan....
  
  
• Excalibur
  Excalibur (novel)
  Excalibur is a 1973 Arthurian fantasy novel by American writer Sanders Anne Laubenthal. It was first published by Ballantine Books as the sixtieth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August, 1973, and has been reprinted a number of times since.-Plot summary:The novel is set in modern...
  
   by Sanders Anne Laubenthal
  Sanders Anne Laubenthal
  Sanders Anne Laubenthal was an American poet, novelist, historian and textbook writer. Much of her work concerns Mobile, Alabama, of which she was a native. She also wrote about the history of unrecorded areas of Scotland...
  
  
• Expecting Someone Taller
  Expecting Someone Taller
  Expecting Someone Taller is the first humorous fantasy novel by popular British author Tom Holt. It was first published in hardcover in 1987, by Macmillan Publishers in the UK, and by St. Martin's Press in the US. A UK paperback edition was released in 1988 by Futura Orbit in 1988, and a US...
  
   by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• The Eyes of the Dragon
  The Eyes of the Dragon
  The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by Stephen King published in 1987. Previously, it was published as a limited edition hardcover by Philtrum Press in 1984. The mass-market version had been slightly revised for publication. At the time it was a surprising deviation from the norm for King, who is...
  
   by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  

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• The Face in the Frost
  The Face in the Frost
  The Face in the Frost is a short 1969 fantasy novel by author John Bellairs. Unlike most of his later works, this book is meant for adult readers. It centers on two accomplished wizards, Prospero and Roger Bacon, tracking down the source of a great magical evil. The subject matter prompted Ursula K...
  
   by John Bellairs
  John Bellairs
  John Anthony Bellairs was an American author, best known for his well-respected fantasy novel The Face in the Frost as well as many gothic mystery novels for young adults featuring Lewis Barnavelt, Anthony Monday, and Johnny Dixon.-Biography:After earning degrees at University of Notre Dame and...
  
  
• The Faerie Wars Chronicles by Herbie Brennan
• Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two seminal sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by Fritz Leiber . They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories....
  
   series by Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
  
• Falling Sideways by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2001 book written by British author J. K. Rowling about the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe...
  
   by J.K. Rowling
• Fanuilh series by Daniel Hood
  Daniel Hood
  Daniel Hood is an American writer of fantasy novels.He was born in Pelham, a small town just north of the Bronx. He wrote his first book in 1991, which was published in 1994.-Fanuilh series :...
  
  
• Farsala trilogy
  Farsala Trilogy
  The Farsala Trilogy is a series of three fantasy novels, written by Hilari Bell.-Main characters:These are the main characters that appear in all of the three books:...
  
   by Hilari Bell
  Hilari Bell
  Hilari Bell is an American fantasy author. She is the author of several science-fiction and fantasy novels including the critically acclaimed Farsala Trilogy.Bell worked as a reference librarian, but quit in 2005 to write full time...
  
  
• The Farseer Trilogy
  The Farseer Trilogy
  The Farseer Trilogy follows the life of FitzChivalry Farseer , a trained assassin, in a kingdom called The Six Duchies while his uncle, Prince Verity, attempts to wage war on the Red-Ship Raiders from The OutIslands who are attacking the shores of the kingdom by turning the people of the Six...
  
   by Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb is the second pen name of novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who produces primarily fantasy fiction, although she has published some science fiction....
  
  
• Faust Among Equals by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
  John Bellairs
  John Anthony Bellairs was an American author, best known for his well-respected fantasy novel The Face in the Frost as well as many gothic mystery novels for young adults featuring Lewis Barnavelt, Anthony Monday, and Johnny Dixon.-Biography:After earning degrees at University of Notre Dame and...
  
  
• A Fine and Private Place
  A Fine and Private Place
  A Fine and Private Place is a fantasy novel written by Peter S. Beagle, the first of his major fantasies. It was first published in hardcover by Viking Press on May 23, 1960, followed by a trade paperback from Delta the same year. Frederick Muller Ltd. published the first United Kingdom hardcover...
  
   by Peter S. Beagle
  Peter S. Beagle
  Peter Soyer Beagle is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. His most notable works include the novels The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place and Tamsin, and the award-winning story "Two Hearts".-Career:Beagle won early recognition from The Scholastic Art &...
  
  
• The Fionavar Tapestry
  The Fionavar Tapestry
  The Fionavar Tapestry is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Guy Gavriel Kay, set partly in our own contemporary world, but mostly in the fictional world of Fionavar. It is the story of five University of Toronto senior law and medical students, who are drawn into the 'first world of the Tapestry' by...
  
   by Guy Gavriel Kay
  Guy Gavriel Kay
  Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid...
  
  
• Fish & Sphinx by Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman is a Canadian anthropologist, and the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- The Serpent’s Spell , Amber Ambrosia and Fish and Sphinx...
  
  
• Fisher King
  Fisher King
  The Fisher King, or the Wounded King, figures in Arthurian legend as the latest in a line charged with keeping the Holy Grail. Versions of his story vary widely, but he is always wounded in the legs or groin, and incapable of moving on his own...
  
   series by Tim Powers
  Tim Powers
  Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare...
  
  
• Five Children series by E. Nesbit
  E. Nesbit
  Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television...
  
  
• Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
   series by James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell, ; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his...
  
  
• Flying Dutch
  Flying Dutch
  Flying Dutch is the third humorous-fantasy novel by popular British author Tom Holt. first published in the UK in 1991 by St...
  
   by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• The Fool on the Hill
  Fool on the Hill (novel)
  Fool on the Hill is a 1988 comic fantasy novel by Matt Ruff, set at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.The novel is the story of two authors. Cornell University resident and author Stephen Titus George finds that his real life is becoming the main plot of a retired god, known as Mr. Sunshine. Mr...
  
   by Matt Ruff
  Matt Ruff
  Matthew Theron Ruff is an American author of thriller, science-fiction and comic novels.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Forest Kingdom series by Simon R. Green
• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
  The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
  The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is a fantasy novel by Patricia A. McKillip, first published by Atheneum Publishers in 1974, and later Magic Carpet Books in 1996. It is the winner of the 1975 World Fantasy Award...
  
   by Patricia McKillip
• Fortress
  The Fortress Series
  Fortress is a series of fantasy novels by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh, published by HarperCollins. They are set in a medieval fantasy world with a 15th century feel and feature magic, sorcery, medieval warfare, politics and other elements common to the High Fantasy subgenre...
  
   series by C. J. Cherryh
  C. J. Cherryh
  Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author...
  
  
• The Four Wise Men by Michel Tournier
  Michel Tournier
  Michel Tournier is a French writer.His works are highly considered and have won important awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970...
  
  
• Fourth Mansions
  Fourth Mansions
  Fourth Mansions is a novel by American author R. A. Lafferty, first published in 1969. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1970.-Plot introduction:...
  
   by R. A. Lafferty
  R. A. Lafferty
  Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit...
  
  
• Freddy's Book  by John Gardner
• From the Realm of Morpheus  by Steven Millhauser
  Steven Millhauser
  Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books back into print.-Life and career:...
  
  

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• Galveston by Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart is a U.S.-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.Born in Lubbock, Texas, Sean Stewart moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1968...
  
  
• Garrett
  Garrett P.I.
  Garrett P.I. is a series of books by author Glen Cook about Garrett, a freelance private investigator. The novels are written in a film noir-esque style, containing elements of traditional mystery and detective fiction, as well as plenty of dialogue-based humor. The Garrett P.I...
  
   series by Glen Cook
  Glen Cook
  Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gezeitenwelt
  Gezeitenwelt
  Die Gezeitenwelt is the name of a series of German fantasy novels. They are set on a planet named World of Tides that is hit by large fragments of a comet with dramatic consequences: The coasts are hit by gigantic tsunamis, earthquakes alter the landscape, a global climate change ensues - and ...
  
   series by Magus Magellan
• Ghost Blows Out the Light
  Ghost Blows Out the Light
  Ghost Blows Out the Light , also referred to as Candle in the Tomb, is a fantasy novel written by Zhang Muye about two grave robbers seeking hidden treasure, and first published online in March 2006...
  
   by Zhang Muye
• Ghostwritten
  Ghostwritten
  Ghostwritten is the first novel published by the author David Mitchell. Published in 1999, it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was widely acclaimed. The story takes place mainly around East Asia, but also moves through Russia, Britain, the USA and Ireland...
  
   by David Mitchell
  David Mitchell (author)
  David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.- Biography :...
  
  
• The Girl in a Swing
  The Girl in a Swing
  The Girl in a Swing is the fourth novel by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down. It was first published in 1980. Subsequent editions changed the female lead's name from Kathe Geutner to Karin Forster, due to threat of a libel suit from someone with that name...
  
   by Richard Adams
• The Glass Mountain
  The Glass Mountain
  "The Glass Mountain" is the 6th pulp magazine story to feature The Avenger. Written by Paul Ernst, it was published in the February 1, 1940 issue of "The Avenger” magazine.-Publishing history:...
  
   by Jessica Rydill
  Jessica Rydill
  Jessica Rydill is a British Fantasy author from the West Country. She was born in 1959. She studied at King's College, Cambridge and the College of Law, working as a solicitor for 13 years. Her travels have provided some of the inspiration for her writing. She was a founder member of the Write...
  
  
• Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock
  Michael Moorcock
  Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
  
  
• The Glorious Pool by Thorne Smith
  Thorne Smith
  James Thorne Smith Jr. , was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction.He is best known today for the three Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction that sold millions of copies in the early 1930s...
  
  
• Good Omens
  Good Omens
  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a World Fantasy Award nominated novel written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman....
  
   by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
   and Terry Pratchett
  Terry Pratchett
  Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
  
  
• Gormenghast
  Gormenghast series
  The Gormenghast series comprises three novels by Mervyn Peake, featuring Castle Gormenghast, and Titus Groan, the title character of the first book.-Works in the series:...
  
   series by Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
  
   - see at T (Titus), below
• Graceling
  Graceling
  Graceling is a young adult fantasy novel by Kristin Cashore. It is her debut novel. The story is about Katsa, a young warrior, and her journey of self-discovery. The book earned a place on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year for 2008 and received generally favorable reviews...
  
   by Kristin Cashore
  Kristin Cashore
  Kristin Cashore is an American fantasy author, whose debut novel, Graceling, was published in October 2008. The book has been nominated for the Andre Norton and William C. Morris awards, and is held in over 1000 libraries. Her second book, Fire, came out in October 2009, and is described as being a...
  
  
• Grailblazers by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• The Great God Pan
  The Great God Pan
  "The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication in 1894...
  
   by Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
  
  
• Great Mischief by Josephine Pinckney
  Josephine Pinckney
  Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney was a novelist and poet in the literary revival of the American South after World War I. Her first best-selling novel was the social comedy Three O'Clock Dinner ....
  
  
• The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams
  Charles Williams (UK writer)
  Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings.- Biography :...
  
  
• The Green Child
  The Green Child
  The Green Child is the only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read. Written in 1934 and first published by Heinemann in 1935, the story is based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit, speaking an...
  
    by Herbert Read
  Herbert Read
  Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC was an English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner....
  
  
• The Green Round
  The Green Round
  The Green Round is a horror novel by author Arthur Machen. It was originally published by Ernest Benn in 1933. The first U.S. edition was published by Arkham House in 1968 in an edition of 2,058 copies. It was Machen's first and only book published by Arkham House....
  
   by Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
  
  
• Grendel
  Grendel
  Grendel is one of three antagonists, along with Grendel's mother and the dragon, in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf . Grendel is usually depicted as a monster, though this is the subject of scholarly debate. In the poem, Grendel is feared by all but Beowulf.-Story:The poem Beowulf is contained in...
  
    by John Gardner
• Grimbold's Other World by Nicholas Stuart Gray
  Nicholas Stuart Gray
  Nicholas Stuart Gray was a British actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in England. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories...
  
  

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• The Hagwood Books
  Thorn Ogres of Hagwood
  Thorn Ogres of Hagwood is the first book in the Hagwood series by Robin Jarvis. It was originally published in 1999.-Plot introduction:...
  
   by Robin Jarvis
  Robin Jarvis
  Robin Jarvis is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice – and Tudor times...
  
  
• The Halfblood Chronicles
  The Halfblood Chronicles
  The Halfblood Chronicles by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey are a series of four fantasy books set in a mystical world of elves, wizards and dragons. At the moment there are only three books out and these include - The Elvenbane, Elvenblood, Elvenborn. The fourth book is titled "Elvenbred"...
  
   by Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
   and Andre Norton
  Andre Norton
  Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
  
  
• The Harem of Aman Akbar by Elizabeth Scarborough
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1992 children's book by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's first novel after The Satanic Verses. It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name....
  
   by Salman Rushdie
• Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia McKillip
• Harry Potter
  Harry Potter
  Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
  
   series by J. K. Rowling
  J. K. Rowling
  Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...
  
  
• Hart's Hope
  Hart's Hope
  -Setting:Hart's Hope takes place in a realm called Burland in the midst of its medieval ages. Like many fantasies, magic is a real and functional force in this story's world, but with a grisly twist: all magic, whatever its purpose, must be paid for in blood...
  
   by Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
  
• Haunted Waters by Mary Pope Osborne
  Mary Pope Osborne
  Mary Pope Osborne is an American children's book author. She is best known for her award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series, which has been translated into over 20 languages and sold over 53 million copies.-Background:...
  
  
• The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay
  David Lindsay (novelist)
  David Lindsay was a Scottish author now most famous for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus .-Biography:...
  
  
• The Haunting of Hill House
  The Haunting of Hill House
  For the Richard Matheson novel, see Hell House, made into a film titled The Legend of Hell House.The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 novel by author Shirley Jackson. Finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the twentieth century,...
  
   by Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...
  
  
• Heirs and Assigns series by James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell, ; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his...
  
  
• The Heir Trilogy
  The Heir Trilogy
  The Heir Chronicles, a series chiefly aimed for the age group ranging 10 and up, was created by Ohio author Cinda Williams Chima.The first in the series, The Warrior Heir, was released in 2006. The American Library Association included it on their Popular Paperbacks list The second book, The Wizard...
  
   series by Cinda Williams Chima
• Here Comes the Sun
  Here Comes the Sun
  "Here Comes the Sun" is a song by George Harrison from The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road. It is regarded as one of the most popular Beatles songs. The song was written while Harrison was away from all of these troubles...
  
   by Tom Holt
  Tom Holt
  Tom Holt is a British novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
  
  
• The Hereafter Gang  by Neal Barrett, Jr.
  Neal Barrett, Jr.
  Neal Barrett, Jr. is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, mystery/suspense, and historical fiction. His story "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" was nominated for both the 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novelette...
  
  
• Heroes of the Valley
  Heroes of the Valley
  Heroes of the Valley is a 2009 fantasy/adventure book by Jonathan Stroud, known for his Bartimaeus Trilogy. The protagonist of the series is Halli Sveinsson, a boy from a village nestled atop a mountain.-Development:...
  
   by Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Stroud
  Jonathan Anthony Stroud is an author of fantasy books, mainly for children and young adults.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Bedford, England, Stroud began to write stories at a very young age. He grew up in St Albans where he enjoyed reading books, drawing pictures, and writing stories...
  
  
• The Hill of Dreams
  The Hill of Dreams
  -Plot summary:The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain...
  
    by Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
  
  
• His Dark Materials
  His Dark Materials
  His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass...
  
   series by Phillip Pullman
• The Hobbit
  The Hobbit
  The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...
  
   by J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
  
• The Hounds of the Morrigan
  The Hounds of the Morrigan
  The Hounds of the Morrigan is a novel by Irish writer Pat O'Shea. It was published in 1985, having taken O'Shea ten years to complete. The novel centers on the adventures of 10-year-old Pidge and his younger sister, Brigit. Many characters in the book are culled straight from Celtic mythology...
  
   by Pat O'Shea
• The House on the Borderland
  The House on the Borderland
  The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson.-Plot introduction:In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. Whilst there, they discover in the ruins of a very...
  
   by William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his...
  
  
• House of Night by P.C. Cast
• The House of Souls  by Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
  
  
• The House with a Clock in Its Walls
  The House with a Clock in Its Walls
  The House With a Clock in Its Walls is a gothic horror novel directed at child readers. It was written by John Bellairs and originally published in 1973. The book was illustrated by Edward Gorey.-Plot:...
  
   by John Bellairs
  John Bellairs
  John Anthony Bellairs was an American author, best known for his well-respected fantasy novel The Face in the Frost as well as many gothic mystery novels for young adults featuring Lewis Barnavelt, Anthony Monday, and Johnny Dixon.-Biography:After earning degrees at University of Notre Dame and...
  
  
• Howl's Moving Castle
  Howl's Moving Castle
  Howl's Moving Castle is a young adult fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986. It won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Book for both children and young adults. In 2004 it was adapted as an Academy Award-nominated animated film by Hayao...
  
   by Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
  
• How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon by Ardath Mayhar
  Ardath Mayhar
  Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar began her writing career as a poet when she was nineteen. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I...
  
  

See also

• List of fantasy authors
• List of science fiction novels
• List of fantasy story collections
• List of alternate history fiction