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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,139,407 ratings — published 2011
The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,001 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.20 — 583,219 ratings — published 2020
The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.08 — 42,229 ratings — published 2021
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.96 — 391,784 ratings — published 2000
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.88 — 263,114 ratings — published 2004
All We Hunger For (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.77 — 645 ratings — published 2026
Castleview (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.33 — 601 ratings — published 1990
Written on the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,340 ratings — published 2025
The Albino's Secret (Metatemporal Detectives)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.84 — 81 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 3.65 — 1,008 ratings — published 2025
The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,666 ratings — published 2024
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.04 — 53 ratings — published 2025
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.87 — 236,790 ratings — published 2025
The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,089 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Mirror (The Bone Season, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.50 — 10,628 ratings — published 2025
Certain Dark Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,725 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 — 5,120 ratings — published 2022
The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,547 ratings — published 2024
Gregor and the Marks of Secret (Underland Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,583 ratings — published 2006
Gregor and the Code of Claw (Underland Chronicles, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,291 ratings — published 2007
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods (Underland Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.24 — 53,472 ratings — published 2005
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.22 — 53,701 ratings — published 2004
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.05 — 117,032 ratings — published 2003
He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.19 — 17,306 ratings — published 2023
The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.39 — 4,652 ratings — published 2015
The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.77 — 38,913 ratings — published 2022
Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.17 — 110,512 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 — 891 ratings — published 2021
Daughters of Nri (The Return of the Earth Mother #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,274 ratings — published 2019
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,435 ratings — published 2008
The Sun and the Void (The Warring Gods, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.29 — 4,293 ratings — published 2023
Sistersong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,345 ratings — published 2021
The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.49 — 86,153 ratings — published 2022
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.12 — 545,450 ratings — published 2022
Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.54 — 92,207 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.53 — 289,840 ratings — published 2020
Redwall (Redwall, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.15 — 132,641 ratings — published 1986
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,725 ratings — published 1981
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,610 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 — 39,656 ratings — published 2015
Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,531 ratings — published 2017
War for the Oaks (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,723 ratings — published 1987
Q (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,079 ratings — published 1999
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 3.83 — 99,437 ratings — published 2021
The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.22 — 46,478 ratings — published 2015
White Hot (Hidden Legacy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.43 — 57,935 ratings — published 2017
Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as alternative-fantasy)
avg rating 4.28 — 78,491 ratings — published 2014