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

Sea of Charms (Spellshop, #3)
Dominion (The Silk and Iron Trilogy, #1)
A Tangled Magic
The Demon Star
The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood
The Dragon Has Some Complaints
The Lure of Wolves and Whispers (The Martyred Isle)
The Devil of Tarsyn Forest (Queen of Sheba, #1)
Kingdom Unraveled: A Closely Knit Graphic Adventure
The Unicorn Hunters
A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam (Six of Crows, #2.5)
Songs of the Dead (The Strata Wars, #1)
The Secret World of Briar Rose
The River She Became
Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1)
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)
A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)
Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)
The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Moonfall, #2)
Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
Heat of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #3)
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
Sea of Charms (Spellshop, #3)
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
Blood Over Bright Haven
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Broken Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinAnansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Fantasy of color
381 books — 158 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingDune by Frank Herbert
All Time Favorite Speculative Fiction
329 books — 136 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEragon by Christopher PaoliniThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books With Elves -- NOT Faeries
240 books — 174 voters
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinA Storm of Swords by George R.R. MartinA Clash of Kings by George R.R. MartinThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienA Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Medieval Fantasy Books
515 books — 934 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Mistborn: 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)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

Hazel Butler
Before long, the smokey spectre appeared, as I knew it would, the barest whisper of a shadow, inky and incandescent. It darted forwards, then back, closer, then ppfft, it was gone in an instant, only to return, darker and more substantial. As ever, it grew bolder, and bolder, until finally it dared to drift through the window and into my home. Every night I had lain here, the geist had come.
Hazel Butler, Bleizgeist

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