Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "High Fantasy"

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A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)

Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)

The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Moonfall, #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)

Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)

The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

Six Scorched Roses (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1.5)

A Drop of Corruption (Ana and Din Mysteries, #2)

The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Crowns of Nyaxia, #3)

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This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)

The Jasad Crown (The Scorched Throne, #2)

He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)

Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)

Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)

A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

These Infinite Threads (This Woven Kingdom, #2)

The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk (Crowns of Nyaxia, #4)

All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom, #3)

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Children of Fallen Gods (The War of Lost Hearts, #2)

The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)

Fate of the Sun King (Artefacts of Ouranos, #3)

Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (Crowns of Nyaxia, #2.5)

Every Spiral of Fate (This Woven Kingdom, #4)

Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)

A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam (Six of Crows, #2.5)

Empire of the Dawn (Empire of the Vampire, #3)

The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)

Tale of the Heart Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #4)

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)

The Inadequate Heir (The Bridge Kingdom, #3)

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)

The Half-Hearted Queen (The Shattered King #2)

Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

Iron & Embers (The Ashes of Thezmarr, #1)

Of Blades and Wings (Flame Cursed Fae, #1)

The Endless War (The Bridge Kingdom, #4)

Of Frost and Feather (Flame Cursed Fae, #2)

The Death-Made Prince (Runewitch Saga, #1)

Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)

A Queen This Fierce and Deadly (Kingdom of Lies, #4)

The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1)

The Twisted Throne (The Bridge Kingdom, #5)

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To Snap a Silver Stem (Crystal Bloom, #2)

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“ You can't work in the library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself." Lirael listened, wondering what they were talking about. The Great Library of the Clayr was enormous, but she had never heard of the Old Levels. She knew the general layout well. The Library was shaped like a nautilus shell, a continuous tunnel that wound down into the mountain in an ever-tightening spiral. This m You can't work in the library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself." Lirael listened, wondering what they were talking about. The Great Library of the Clayr was enormous, but she had never heard of the Old Levels. She knew the general layout well. The Library was shaped like a nautilus shell, a continuous tunnel that wound down into the mountain in an ever-tightening spiral. This main spiral was an enormously long, twisting ramp that took you from the high reaches of the mountain down past the level of the valley floor, several thousand feet below. Off the main spiral, there were countless other corridors, rooms, halls, and strange chambers. Many were full of the Clayr's written records, mainly documenting the prophesies and visions of many generations of seers. But they also contained books and papers from all over the Kingdom. Books of magic and mystery, knowledge both ancient and new. Scrolls, maps, spells, recipes, inventories, stories, true tales, and Charter knew what else. In addition to all these written works, the Great Library also housed other things. There were old armories within it, containing weapons and armor that had not been used for centuries but still stayed bright and new. There were rooms full of odd paraphernalia that no one now knew how to use. There were chambers where dressmakers' dummies stood fully clothed, displaying the fashions of bygone Clayr or the wildly different costumes of the barbaric North. There were greenhouses tended by sendings, with Charter marks for light as bright as the sun. There were rooms of total darkness, swallowing up the light and anyone foolish enough to enter unprepared. Lirael had seen some of the Library, on carefully escorted excursions with the rest of her year gathering. She had always hankered to enter the doors they passed, to step across the red rope barriers that marked corridors or tunnels where only authorized librarians might pass. ...more ”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

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