Finding Your Next Read

Guide on using our site to find the best books...

The fantasy genre has become popular the past few years. Once a genre restricted to a few Tolkien fanatics and literature freaks, Fantasy has now gone mainstream in a big way, from the mega-popular Harry Potter series capturing the world's attention for a decade, to this recent Twilight craze, to a host of other popular fantasy books, games, and movies that have been popping up the past few years. The most recent craze is the new Game of Thrones mini series produced by HBO.



If you are looking to find good fantasy books, it can be downright painful. There are plenty of good fantasy reads, but because of fantasy's current popularity, the genre has become clogged with mediocre book after mediocre book and hack writer after hack writer churning out pure drivel. Most of the speculative fiction novels you see in the book store are terrible. To help people find those good fantasy gems, I've put together the Internet's most comprehensive (I'm not exaggerating here) best fantasy book recommendation lists.

I've been reading fantasy books for 23 years and there's not much that I haven't read (well there is, but I've read MOST of the stuff that should be read and a lot of the crap that shouldn't be read, especially in the 2015 day of self publishing where there's a lot of dreck out there now).

While I agree that some of my favorites may not be your favorites (people have different tastes in fantasy literature), many of the books listed on these lists are recommended by a wide number of readers (not just me!).

I encourage you to read a wide selection of the books on the TOP Lists -- you may find that your fantasy literary tastes, if you are used to Terry Goodkind, David Eddings, and Terry Brooks, may drastically evolve. You can see the full fantasy and science fiction lists on the left hand navigation bar.



