Fantasy
Every fantasy author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Fantasy builds whole worlds — their maps, their magic, and the rules that hold them together. Start at book one and the rest of the world opens up in order.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Evie Woods
Evie Woods is an Irish author who writes historical fiction and fantasy novels laced with magical realism, working from an...
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Gabrielle Zevin
What happens when a writer understands both the architecture of story and the ache of human connection? Gabrielle Zevin happens....
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Dot Hutchison
Dot Hutchison is an American author who writes adult thrillers and young adult novels. She is known for A Wounded...
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American author and historian of science and medicine. She is known for her All Souls series...
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Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell, an Irish author, writes fiction and historical fiction novels. Her novel Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for...
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Shirtaloon
Shirtaloon is an author who writes LitRPG fantasy novels, most notably the He Who Fights with Monsters series. The pen...
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James Maxwell
James Maxwell made his debut as a novelist in 2012 with Enchantress, a fantasy novel that introduced readers to his...
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Luanne G. Smith
Luanne G. Smith is an American author who writes historical fantasy novels. She is best known for The Vine Witch...
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Victoria Aveyard
Victoria Aveyard is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and a screenwriter. She was born and raised in...
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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, journalist, and travel writer who has built a career spanning fiction and editorial work....
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Kerri Maniscalco
Kerri Maniscalco is an American author known for her romantasy novels, including the Stalking Jack the Ripper series and the...
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Sally Thorne
Sally Thorne is an Australian author of romantic comedies. By day, she navigates the world of funding submissions and contract...
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Maddie Dawson
Maddie Dawson is an American novelist who writes women's fiction that excavates the emotional truths buried in relationships, regrets, and...
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Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is an American author who writes romantic comedies and has also published journalism in The New York Times,...
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Victoria Aveline
Victoria Aveline writes science fiction romance, creating worlds that explore a unique power dynamic within dominant relationships. She is known...
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David Nicholls
David Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter who reached readers worldwide with One Day, his 2009 novel about two...
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Petra Durst-Benning
Petra Durst-Benning is a German author of historical fiction. Her novels, including the Glassblower Trilogy and Century Trilogy series, have...
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James Islington
James Islington is an Australian fantasy novelist who made his debut in 2014 with The Shadow of What Was Lost,...
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Amy Tintera
Amy Tintera is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and adult thrillers. She grew up in Austin, Texas,...
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Sarah Penner
Sarah Penner is an American author who writes historical fiction. Penner traded the ledgers of corporate finance for the shadowed...
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Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Hannah Nicole Maehrer is a fantasy romance author and BookTok creator known for her interest in villains. Before writing novels,...
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Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is an American author of horror and science fiction. Raised in New England, he is a graduate of...
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Katie Sise
Katie Sise is an American novelist who writes domestic suspense centered on women navigating secrets and lies. Her sixth novel,...
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Erin Morgenstern
Erin Morgenstern is an American author of fantasy novels who describes her work as "fairy tales in one way or...
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Ania Ahlborn
Ania Ahlborn is a Polish-American author of horror and thriller novels, who made her debut in 2011 with Seed. Born...
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Nicoli Gonnella
Nicoli Gonnella is an author of LitRPG novels, known for his Unbound series. He has been writing since childhood, but...
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Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan writes contemporary romance novels and non-fiction. Before focusing on writing, she worked as an investment banker and taught...
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Gilly Macmillan
Gilly Macmillan is an English author who writes crime fiction, mystery, and suspense novels. She grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire,...
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Taylor Adams
Taylor Adams is an American author who writes suspenseful thrillers. Before turning to novels, Adams worked in the film and...
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Tracy Rees
Tracy Rees is a Welsh author who writes historical fiction, women's fiction, and romance and became the first winner of...
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William P. Young
William P. Young is a Canadian novelist who writes suspense fiction that wrestles with faith, loss, and forgiveness. Raised among...
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Edward Rutherfurd
Edward Rutherfurd, the pen name of Francis Edward Wintle, writes historical fiction that spans centuries. He began his career after...
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Garth Stein
Garth Stein is an American author who writes novels and stage plays. He is the author of four novels: A...
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Tomi Adeyemi
Tomi Adeyemi writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for Children of Blood and Bone. This debut novel landed at...
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Laini Taylor
Laini Taylor is an American author of young adult fantasy novels. Her graphic novel debut, The Drowned, was published in...
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Erin Watt
Erin Watt writes young adult romance novels as a collaborative pen name for authors Jen Frederick and Elle Kennedy. They...
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Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh is an American novelist who writes dark, psychologically unsettling fiction about characters who live on the margins. Born...
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Ryan Cahill
Dragons soar through the pages of Ryan Cahill's work, a promise the Dublin-based fantasy writer makes to himself and keeps...
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Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American novelist who writes young adult romance, and she has also co-authored collaborative fiction. She grew...
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Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley is an American author of literary fiction. He is also an Emmy, Golden Globe, PEN, Critics’ Choice, and...
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Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield is an English novelist who writes literary gothic fiction, and she made her name in 2006 with The...
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James Nestor
James Nestor is an American author and journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about science, health, and the natural world. His...
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Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth was an English nurse and author who turned her experiences delivering babies in postwar London into a cultural...
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Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton is a British author who writes high-concept mysteries that twist time, identity, and logic into something entirely new....
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Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter who writes comic fiction about modern womanhood. The Guardian named her 1996...
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Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey is an American novelist who earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2013 for The Snow Child, her debut...
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Anita Abriel
Anita Abriel is an author of historical fiction novels. She made her debut in 2020 with The Light After the...
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Susan Ee
Susan Ee is an American novelist who writes young adult fantasy and was a lawyer before turning to fiction full-time....
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