Best Feel Good Fantasy Books

Tired of grim dark stories where the nastiness of humanity is gleefully celebrated; where heroes and villains are often one and the same?

 Want a fantasy where good things are celebrated, a world where heroes are heroic and villains are villainous, a world where the good always wins and the bad is justly punished? This style of fantasy, once ubiquitous, has fallen a bit out of fashion recently. You’re more likely to read about a band of marauding mercenaries celebrated as ‘heroes’ than about an actual hero who’s, well, a hero.  

Well good news for you! If you want to read a different type of fantasy, a fantasy about good guys doing good things, beating bad guys, and saving the day, fantasy books that are decidedly optimistic and upbeat -- tales that bring a smile and grin to your face, not tears by the end of it -- then this is your list. A list compiling the best of the feel good fantasy in the genre.

So if you want to finish a book with a big smile on your face, these are the books for you. Think of these reads as a sort of ‘anti-grimdark’ fantasy.