We at BookNest.eu are incredibly excited to announce that we have reached the extraordinary milestone of TWO THOUSAND reviews! That’s an incredible number, considering all of the hours that go into crafting even a single review. We are proud of our reviewers, who have worked for years with passion and dedication to deliver our reviews to the fantasy community in the hopes of increasing awareness of authors and titles we are excited about.
In celebration of this occasion, our reviewers have compiled a list of our picks for the top one hundred fantasy novels that have been published this century. This list is, of course, subjective, so if your favourite book is missing, we apologize in advance. We have not read every book in the world, and the taste of our reviewers may not reflect your own.
We at BookNest believe strongly that the books we selected for this list are exemplars of the fantasy genre, chosen not only from among the two thousand books we reviewed, but also from among thousands of others we have collectively read. There are many books we loved that did not make the cut. It’s an expansive genre, and it was difficult to limit our selection to only one hundred of our favorites. We had to make many painful, and sometimes emotional, decisions. For those authors whose books are listed, this should be considered an extraordinary level of accomplishment, and our hats are off to you.
Without further ado, we at BookNest.eu present to you our list of the TOP 100 FANTASY BOOKS OF OUR CENTURY.
NOTE: The books are sorted alphabetically.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Crucible of Souls (Sorcery Ascendant Sequence) by Mitchell Hogan
A Dance of Cloaks (Shadowdance) by David Dalglish
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic) by V. E. Schwab
A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #1), by Marie Brennan
A Threat of Shadows (The Keeper Chronicles) by J.A. Andrews
A Time of Dread (Of Blood and Bone) by John Gwynne
A Wizard's Forge (The Woern Saga) by A.M. Justice
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
Age of Assassins (The Wounded Kingdom) by R.J. Barker
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions) by Michael R. Fletcher
Black Stone Heart (The Obsidian Path) by Michael R. Fletcher
Blackwing (Raven's Mark) by Ed McDonald
Blood Song (Raven's Shadow) by Anthony Ryan
Child of the Night Guild (Queen of Thieves) by Andy Peloquin
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orīsha) by Tomi Adeyemi
Cold Iron (Masters & Mages) by Miles Cameron
Darkmage (The Rhenwars Saga) by M.L. Spencer
Dragon's Trail (The Outworlders), by Joseph Malik
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini
Dragon School: First Flight by Sarah K.L. Wilson
Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool) by Robin Hobb
Foundryside (The Founders) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Light of All That Falls (Licanius) by James Islington
Godblind (Godblind) by Anna Stephens
Half a King (Shattered Sea) by Joe Abercrombie
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire) by Naomi Novik
Hope and Red (The Empire of Storms) by Jon Skovron
Jade City (The Green Bone Saga) by Fonda Lee
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
Kings of Paradise (Ash and Sand) by Richard Nell
Kings of the Wyld (The Band) by Nicholas Eames
Last Memoria by Rachel Emma Shaw
Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen) by John Gwynne
Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson) by Patricia Briggs
Northern Wrath (The Hanged God) by Thilde Kold Holdt
Orconomics (The Dark Profit Saga, #1), by J. Zachary Pike
Paternus: Rise of Gods (The Paternus) by Dyrk Ashton
Penric's Demon (Penric and Desdemona), by Lois McMaster Bujold
Prince of Fools (The Red Queen’s War) by Mark Lawrence
Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire) by Mark Lawrence
Promise of Blood (Powder Mage) by Brian McClellan
Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor) by Mark Lawrence
Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel) by Josiah Bancroft
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight) by Katherine Arden
The Black Prism (Lightbringer) by Brent Weeks
The Blade Itself (The First Law) by Joe Abercrombie
The Blood-Tainted Winter (The Song of the Ash Tree) by T.L. Greylock
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy) by S.A. Chakraborty
The Court of Broken Knives (Empires of Dust) by Anna Smith Spark
The Crimson Queen (The Raveling) by Alec Hutson
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing) by R. Scott Bakker
The Ember Blade (The Darkwater Legacy) by Chris Wooding
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle) by Nghi Vo
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth) by N.K. Jemisin
The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Gods of Men by Barbara Kloss
The Grey Bastards (The Lot Lands) by Jonathan French
The Guns Above (Signal Airhship) by Robyn Bennis
The Gutter Prayer (Black Iron Legacy) by Gareth Hanrahan
The Heresy Within (The Ties that Bind) by Rob J. Hayes
The Killing Moon (Dreamblood) by N.K. Jemisin
The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard) by Scott Lynch
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Warded Man (Demon Cycle) by Peter V. Brett
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons) by Jenn Lyons
The Rules of Supervillainy (The Supervillainy Saga) by C.T. Phipps
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Sword of Kaigen (Theonite) by M.L. Wang
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade) by Seth Dickinson
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive) by Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Shadows (Night Angel) by Brent Weeks
The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy) by Marie Rutkoski
Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations) by Michael J. Sullivan
Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World) by Rebecca Roanhorse
Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats) by Sebastien de Castell
Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness) by Tamora Pierce
Under Heaven (Under Heaven) by Guy Gavriel Kay
Unsouled (Cradle) by Will Wight
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
We Ride the Storm (The Reborn Empire) by Devin Madson
Where Oblivion Lives (Los Nefilim) by T. Frohock
Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, & Deborah Biancotti
