Best Fantasy Books 2025

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

by Schwab, V. E.

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger. This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A...

Katabasis

by Kuang, R. F

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside thei...

The Everlasting

by Harrow, Alix E.

Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters—but her life a...

Wind and Truth

by Sanderson, Brandon

Down 1 place in the ranking (was rank 3)

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive—the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author...

The Devils

by Abercrombie, Joe

Up 2 places in the ranking (was rank 7)

'Abercrombie is in a class of his own' JOE HILL 'An unholy delight' PIERCE BROWN 'Hilarious, profound, tragic, and so thrillingly paced' NICHOLAS EAMES 'An incredibly fun, incredibly action-packed and, by the end, incred...

The Strength of the Few

by Islington, James

This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many—one of 2023’s most lauded and best-selling fantasy novels—follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could unravel history across alternate dimension...

The Incandescent

by Tesh, Emily

Dr. Sapphire "Saffy" Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy, a prestigious school for young magicians outside London, where she teaches Invocation: the art of summoning demons safely. When an incident threat...

Hemlock & Silver

by Kingfisher, T

Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.Not to die, but to save— seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on.But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and h...

The Raven Scholar

by Hodgson, Antonia

The Sunday Times bestseller from an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy - a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar's quest to uncover the truth. 'IT'S THRILLING, ROMANTIC,...

The River Has Roots

by El-Mohtar, Amal

Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death. 'Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.' In the...

Onyx Storm

by Yarros, Rebecca

Brave the dark. Get ready to fly or die in the breathtaking follow-up to Fourth Wing and Iron Flame from the no. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros. Returning to the richly imagined world...

Alchemy of Secrets

by Garber, Stephanie

Down 8 places in the ranking (was rank 4)

The HOTLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel by the beloved, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series: a contemporary fantasy kicking off a brand new series! It starts with a cla...

The Sirens

by Hart, Emilia

Down 8 places in the ranking (was rank 5)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • #1 LibraryReads Pick • Indie Next Pick A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author...

Water Moon

by Sotto Yambao, Samantha

Down 6 places in the ranking (was rank 8)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel. “Race through...

A Drop of Corruption

by Bennett, Robert Jackson

In Yarrowdale, a canton at the very edge of the Empire's reach, a Treasury officer has vanished from a locked room, and five days later part of his remains turn up. The Empire calls on the detective Ana Dolabra, with her...

Brigands & Breadknives

by Baldree, Travis

Down 5 places in the ranking (was rank 11)

Return to the fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a booksell...

Audition for the Fox

by Cahill, Martin

Nesi is an acolyte who needs a divine patron before she can leave her temple home. After ninety-six failed auditions, she prays to T'sidaan, the Fox of Tricks, who sends her back three hundred years to a time when her ho...

Wearing the Lion

by Wiswell, John

Nebula Award-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell brings a humanizing and humorous touch to the Hercules story, forever changing the way we understand the man behind the myth—and the goddess rel...

Grave Empire

by Swan, Richard

Blood once turned the wheels of empire. Now it is money.A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. Glory and riches a...

Empire of the Dawn

by Kristoff, Jay

From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hand sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight, Mere man shall end this endless night.Gabriel de León has lost his family, his faith, and his last hope of ending the...

The Book That Held Her Heart

by Lawrence, Mark

The final volume in the bestselling Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN and THE BOOK THAT BROKE THE WORLD.The secret war that defines the Library has chosen its champions and set them on the boardThe f...