The best Fantasy published in 2013. This can include Fantasy, YA & MG Fantasy, and Urban Fantasy.

This list includes books nominated in the Best Fantasy, Paranormal, and YA Fantasy categories of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 and those featured on Fantasy-Faction's Best of 2013 List. Please only add books with at least 500 ratings.

Best Fantasy By Year:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Other Fantasy Lists of Note:
Best Fantasy of the 2010s
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
All Fantasy with at least 100,000 ratings
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4.58 avg rating — 161,378 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 65,340 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 57,535 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 63,843 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 120,669 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 656,959 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 195,369 ratings
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4.33 avg rating — 43,013 ratings
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4.40 avg rating — 30,624 ratings
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4.57 avg rating — 481,497 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 39,685 ratings
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4.25 avg rating — 64,630 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 1,739,754 ratings
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4.55 avg rating — 476,381 ratings
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4.44 avg rating — 62,757 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 79,224 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 38,520 ratings
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4.47 avg rating — 106,310 ratings
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4.45 avg rating — 34,105 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 20,526 ratings
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3.80 avg rating — 682,331 ratings
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4.43 avg rating — 63 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 131,100 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 37,262 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 15,682 ratings
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4.35 avg rating — 106,826 ratings
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4.30 avg rating — 17,320 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 320,297 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 43,989 ratings
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4.42 avg rating — 38,328 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 101,681 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 54,176 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 46,467 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 11,189 ratings
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3.60 avg rating — 2,686 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 51,727 ratings
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4.32 avg rating — 14,643 ratings
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3.52 avg rating — 420 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 111 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 97 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 20,239 ratings
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3.98 avg rating — 3,704 ratings
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 72 ratings
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 5,715 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 328 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 44,779 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 7,722 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 2,138 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 9,043 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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3.62 avg rating — 4,796 ratings
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3.59 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 5,206 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 30,563 ratings
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57 books · 115 voters · list created July 14th, 2013 by Allison (votes) .
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message 1: by Christopher (new)

Christopher D How can these be your choice of the best books of 2013 if you gave one 3 out 5 stars?

Even if you go by 2 to the power n when 2= a star, that would make 3-starts the 87.5 percentile; and usually these are more liner, with approximately as many being willing to underrate as overrate and to not overrate as to not underrate; but even at 87.5 that would mean out of every 8 books there would be one out there and there couldn't have been more than 115 fantasy books done, when in fact there were 1000's.

Now I realize that some editor might have different standards than the general public: saleability, fitting within certain defined niches, and that the ppl who come to your cite don't necessarily represent such groups and that there are at least dozen of niches and only 8-voters; but that would only point out a flaw in your voting system, and when a place makes small mistakes systematic mistakes they make, large systematic mistakes as well.


message 2: by Artemas (new)

Artemas By the gods. Paranormal really needs to be its own category. That way their volumes won't keep polluting all the other fantasy polls.


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