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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,146,336 ratings — published 2011
The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,239 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.19 — 606,923 ratings — published 2020
The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.08 — 42,799 ratings — published 2021
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.96 — 393,796 ratings — published 2000
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.88 — 264,530 ratings — published 2004
All We Hunger For (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.74 — 738 ratings — published 2026
Castleview (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.33 — 604 ratings — published 1990
Written on the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,434 ratings — published 2025
The Albino's Secret (Metatemporal Detectives)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.85 — 86 ratings — published
The Metatemporal Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.70 — 179 ratings — published 2007
Beasts of Carnaval (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,037 ratings — published 2025
The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.96 — 35,255 ratings — published 2024
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.05 — 55 ratings — published 2025
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.87 — 250,246 ratings — published 2025
The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,286 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Mirror (The Bone Season, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.50 — 11,013 ratings — published 2025
Certain Dark Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,966 ratings — published 2016
When the Lights Go Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.04 — 127 ratings — published 1994
All the Seas of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,161 ratings — published 2022
The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,769 ratings — published 2024
Gregor and the Marks of Secret (Underland Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,766 ratings — published 2006
Gregor and the Code of Claw (Underland Chronicles, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,465 ratings — published 2007
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods (Underland Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.24 — 53,716 ratings — published 2005
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.22 — 53,951 ratings — published 2004
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.05 — 117,536 ratings — published 2003
He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.19 — 17,556 ratings — published 2023
The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.39 — 4,654 ratings — published 2015
The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.77 — 39,338 ratings — published 2022
Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.17 — 111,408 ratings — published 2021
Descendants of the First (The Return of the Earth Mother, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.00 — 902 ratings — published 2021
Daughters of Nri (The Return of the Earth Mother #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,289 ratings — published 2019
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,532 ratings — published 2008
The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.29 — 4,317 ratings — published 2023
Sistersong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,404 ratings — published 2021
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.49 — 86,825 ratings — published 2022
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.12 — 556,988 ratings — published 2022
Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.54 — 92,988 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.53 — 291,668 ratings — published 2020
Redwall (Redwall, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.15 — 133,201 ratings — published 1986
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,327 ratings — published 1981
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,028 ratings — published 1988
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.72 — 39,867 ratings — published 2015
Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,669 ratings — published 2017
War for the Oaks (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,734 ratings — published 1987
Q (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,147 ratings — published 1999
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.83 — 100,264 ratings — published 2021
The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.22 — 47,103 ratings — published 2015
White Hot (Hidden Legacy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.42 — 58,486 ratings — published 2017
Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.28 — 79,292 ratings — published 2014