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High Fantasy

High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the real, or "primary" world. The secondary world is usually internally consistent but its rules differ in some way(s) from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set in the primary, or "real" world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements. ...more

A Song to Drown Rivers
Heir (Heir Duology, #1)
Bloodguard (Old Erth, #1)
Throne of Secrets (Prince of Sin, #2)
For She Is Wrath
The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)
The City in Glass
Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)
The Wild Huntress
Swordcrossed
Inferno's Heir
Legend of the White Snake
And the Sky Bled
Metal from Heaven
The Last Dragon of the East
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
Skyshade (Lightlark, #3)
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
Nightbane (Lightlark, #2)
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)
Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)
Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)
Spectacular (Caraval, #3.5)
Finale (Caraval, #3)
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Seraphina by Rachel HartmanDealing with Dragons by Patricia C. WredeEon by Alison GoodmanA Natural History of Dragons by Marie BrennanThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. Valente
Girls with Dragons
230 books — 147 voters
Eragon by Christopher PaoliniAlanna by Tamora PierceBitterblue by Kristin CashorePoison Study by Maria V. SnyderHowl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
YA Second World Fantasy
560 books — 827 voters

Words of Radiance by Brandon SandersonPrince of Fools by Mark  LawrenceTower Lord by Anthony RyanThe Broken Eye by Brent WeeksHalf a King by Joe Abercrombie
Best Fantasy of 2014
144 books — 625 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)
3,851 books — 26,917 voters


The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)

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Constantina Maud
Envy, however, is a thoroughly doomed state. And the only pity would be to let it introduce hatred to your heart. Hate only what you love.
Constantina Maud, Hydranos

Hazel Butler
Cold coiled through me, lacing each breath with clouded wisps of frost. There was not so much as a candle lit within the small, single room of my cottage, and delicate crystals of alabaster and beryl rimed my meagre possessions and the barren fireplace. I did not care.
Hazel Butler, Bleizgeist

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