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Best Fantasy Books of 2017 (cover not available)

Best Fantasy Books of 2017

We are mid-swing into the 2017 year and so far there's been quite a few standout fantasy book releases by some big-hitting authors. April, particularly, was a strong month with...

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The Devoured Earth

The Devoured Earth

The hope that this final book offers echoes the earlier struggle, when the twins Seth and Hadrian Castillo imprisoned Yod in the Void Beneath at the cost of their own...

Williams, Sean Buy on Amazon
Mountain Of Black Glass

Mountain Of Black Glass

The third book in New York Times-bestselling author Tad Williams's cyberpunk fantasy series • “Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists.” ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods...

Williams, Tad Buy on Amazon
The Crimson Crown

The Crimson Crown

A thousand years ago, two young lovers were betrayed-Alger Waterlow to his death, and Hanalea, Queen of the Fells, to a life without love. Now, once again, the Queendom of...

Chima, Cinda Williams Buy on Amazon
Lord Of The Flies

Lord Of The Flies

A plane carrying schoolboys crashes on an uninhabited Pacific island with no adults left alive. Ralph, who is elected leader after blowing a conch to gather the others, tries to...

Golding, William Buy on Amazon
The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride

If you've never said, “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die”, you're about as rare as a swear word at Hogwarts. Part of the reason...

Goldman, William Buy on Amazon
The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine

A classic - perhaps THE classic steampunk novel, penned by two of the genre’s founders: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. The premise of this novel is a simple “What If”...

Sterling, William Gibson, Bruce Buy on Amazon
The Well At The World's End

The Well At The World's End

challenging classic literary fantasy that will appeal to those who love The Lord of the Rings. This is not as easy a work to follow though, as the pages incorporate...

Morris, William Buy on Amazon
E.t The Extraterrestrial

E.t The Extraterrestrial

A boy discovers an extraterrestrial botanist in his mother's vegetable patch, and helps him return to his planet, 3 million light years away.

Kotzwinkle, William Buy on Amazon
Neuromancer (1985)

Neuromancer (1985)

Case was the best hacker in the Sprawl until his employers damaged his nervous system, and now he can no longer reach cyberspace. He drifts through the criminal underworld of...

Gibson, William Buy on Amazon
1977: Doctor Rat

1977: Doctor Rat

The Animals have had enough. For years, they have been used in experiments by human scientists. The time for revolution is now! Every single animal has joined this revolution except...

Kotzwinkle, William Buy on Amazon
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Arguably Shakespeare's best-known comedy, A Midsummers Night's Dream contains a tremendous amount of fantasy, romance, and folly. The story concerns itself largely with four individuals who, while entwined in a...

Shakespeare, William Buy on Amazon
The Vampyre

The Vampyre

If you're looking to retrace history back to the roots of the dark and alluring vampire mythology, then Polidori's novella is the book for you. Accredited as one of the...

Polidori, John William Buy on Amazon
The Emerald Storm

The Emerald Storm

In the fifth installment of master storyteller William Dietrich’s bestselling adventure series, the swashbuckling, battle-scarred hero Ethan Gage must race from the slopes of the Alps to the sultry tropics...

Sullivan, Michael J. Buy on Amazon
Red Prophet

Red Prophet

In an alternative early America, where people have talents called knacks, a troubled and drunken Red man, Lolla-Wossiky, leaves General William Henry Harrison's fort in search of the spirit that...

Card, Orson Scott Buy on Amazon
The Truth

The Truth

The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde's upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld's first paper of record. An...

Pratchett, Terry Buy on Amazon
Wyrd Sisters

Wyrd Sisters

Terry Pratchett’s fantasy classic Wyrd Sisters, a novel in the Discworld series, is the story of Granny Weatherwax, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever...

Pratchett, Terry Buy on Amazon
The Ill-made Knight

The Ill-made Knight

An action-packed tale of chivalry and betrayal set during the Hundred Years War. September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English...

White, T. H. Buy on Amazon
The Charnel Prince

The Charnel Prince

“There is adventure and intrigue, swordplay and dark sorcery aplenty.”—Realms of Fantasy When the legendary Briar King awoke from his slumber, dark magics awoke with him and spread across the...

Keyes, Greg Buy on Amazon
Tongues Of Serpents

Tongues Of Serpents

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the sixth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire are exiled to Australia in the...

Novik, Naomi Buy on Amazon
Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon

After dying in a particularly gruesome death, ex UN-envoy Takeshi Kovacs wakes up to find himself "re-sleeved" into a fresh body with a job offer: find who killed Laurens Bancroft...

Morgan, Richard K. Buy on Amazon

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