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Fantastic Books
Showing 1-50 of 16,043
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 203 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,669,722 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 128 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,613,067 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 125 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,973,339 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 119 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,295,556 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 115 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,734,482 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 114 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,190,350 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 113 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,880,681 ratings — published 2003
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,567,819 ratings — published 1937
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,210,936 ratings — published 1954
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,786,826 ratings — published 1996
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,816,744 ratings — published 2023
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,520,316 ratings — published 2005
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,162,008 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 49 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,073,314 ratings — published 1955
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,443,627 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,153,464 ratings — published 2008
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,192,998 ratings — published 2015
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.10 — 999,963 ratings — published 2001
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,794,420 ratings — published 2023
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,273,357 ratings — published 2009
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,458,414 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,957,892 ratings — published 1890
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 38 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,161,413 ratings — published 2016
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,200,541 ratings — published 2007
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,202,467 ratings — published 1950
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,636,323 ratings — published 1995
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,822,541 ratings — published 2010
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,407,160 ratings — published 2006
Eclipse (Crepúsculo, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,024,115 ratings — published 2007
New Moon (Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 35 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,163,243 ratings — published 2006
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,250,738 ratings — published 2007
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 34 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,178,386 ratings — published 2009
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,590,237 ratings — published 2020
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 34 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,246,884 ratings — published 2008
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,382,828 ratings — published 2016
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
by (shelved 33 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,970,796 ratings — published 2002
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,822,521 ratings — published 2018
Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 32 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,902,207 ratings — published 2008
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.25 — 837,745 ratings — published 1990
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,125,651 ratings — published 2011
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,106,991 ratings — published 2007
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,519,104 ratings — published 1897
Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.34 — 242,169 ratings — published 1989
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,040,688 ratings — published 1998
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.01 — 663,592 ratings — published 2013
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as fantastic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,137,065 ratings — published 2012
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,595,859 ratings — published 2012
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,558,637 ratings — published 1943
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.55 — 861,003 ratings — published 2000
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as fantastic)
avg rating 4.16 — 566,835 ratings — published 1996
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when the sources provided by folklore could safely be used as literary material. It is almost a necessity, for the writer as well as for the reader of fantastic literature, that he or she should not believe in the literal truth of the beings and objects described, although the preferred mode of literary expression is a naive realism. Authors of fantastic literature are, with a few exceptions, not out to convert, but to set down a narrative story endowed with the consistency and conviction of inner reality only during the time of the reading: a game, sometimes a highly serious game, with anxiety and fright, horror and terror.”
― The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien
― The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien
“But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.”
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