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The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun is Gene Wolfe's four-volume science fantasy tetralogy (1980–1983) plus The Urth of the New Sun, narrated by the torturer Severian on a dying future Urth, award-winning and critically acclaimed.
The Book That Wouldn't Burn
The Book That Wouldn't Burn (2023) by Mark Lawrence, book one of The Library Trilogy, follows Livira and Evar, two strangers linked by the infinite Athenaeum library in Crath City, blending epic fantasy, time travel, and themes of knowledge versus ignorance.
The Books of Earthsea
The Books of Earthsea, also called the Earthsea Cycle, is Ursula K. Le Guin's six-book fantasy series (1968–2001) set in an archipelago where magic works through true names, later collected in the 2018 illustrated Saga Press omnibus.
The Borrowers (novel)
The Borrowers is a 1952 children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published by Dent in London and winner of the 1952 Carnegie Medal. It introduces Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock, miniature people who live hidden in a human house and 'borrow' small items, beginning a five-novel series.
The Bright Sword
The Bright Sword is Lev Grossman's 2024 Arthurian fantasy novel (Viking, 688 pages), a post-Camlann reimagining following young knight Collum and the Round Table's surviving oddballs after Arthur's death; Hugo Award winner, in TV development.
The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (一瞬で治療していたのに役立たずと追放された天才治癒師、闇ヒーラーとして楽しく生きる)
The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (闇ヒーラー) is a Japanese medical fantasy light novel by Sakaku Hishikawa, first a Shōsetsuka ni Narō web novel, published by GA Novel from 2021, with manga and a 2025 Makaria anime; second season announced 2026.
The Broken Empire Trilogy
The Broken Empire Trilogy is Mark Lawrence's grimdark fantasy series (Prince of Thorns 2011, King of Thorns 2012, Emperor of Thorns 2013) following prince Jorg Ancrath in far-future post-apocalyptic Europe, sharing a world with The Red Queen's War.
The Cairo Trilogy
The Cairo Trilogy (الثلاثية) is a sequence of three novels by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz following a middle-class Cairene family across three generations, published in 1956–1957.
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Carnivorous Carnival, book nine of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2002, HarperCollins, 286 pages), sends the fugitive Baudelaire orphans to Madame Lulu's Caligari Carnival, where they disguise themselves as freaks while Count Olaf hunts V.F.D. secrets.
The Case Files of Biblia Bookstore
The Case Files of Biblia Bookstore (ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖, Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō) is En Mikami's used-bookstore mystery series launched in MediaWorks Bunko in 2011, set in Kamakura, with over 8.5 million copies, a 2013 Fuji TV drama, a 2018 film, and a 2027 CloverWorks TV anime.
The Cat and the Dragon
The Cat and the Dragon (猫と竜, Neko to Ryū) is a Japanese fantasy series by Amara about a fire-breathing dragon raised by a mother cat among magic-using forest cats; it began as a 2013 web novel, became a Takarajimasha light novel and manga franchise of 1.4 million copies, and received an OLM TV anime in July 2026.
The Chronicles of Amber
The Chronicles of Amber is Roger Zelazny's ten-novel fantasy series (1970-1991) in two cycles, Corwin's and Merlin's, set in a multiverse where Amber is the one true world and all other worlds are Shadows, ordered by the Pattern against the Logrus of Chaos.
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia: C. S. Lewis's seven-book children's fantasy series (1950–1956, illustrated by Pauline Baynes), set in Narnia under the lion Aslan; distinguished from other Narnia works by its 100-million-copy sales, reading-order debate, and the 2026 Greta Gerwig Netflix/IMAX film.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, also called Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, is Stephen R. Donaldson's ten-novel epic fantasy series (1977-2013) about a leper with a white gold ring transported to the Land, told in two trilogies and a tetralogy.
The City & the City
The City & the City is China Miéville's 2009 novel (Ballantine Del Rey) about Besźel and Ul Qoma, overlapping cities whose residents must 'unsee' each other under the enforcement agency Breach. It follows Inspector Tyador Borlú's murder investigation and won the 2010 Hugo, World Fantasy, Clarke, and Locus awards.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Clan of the Cave Bear is Jean M. Auel's 1980 Crown novel, first of the six-book Earth's Children series, in which Cro-Magnon orphan Ayla is raised by Neanderthals on the Crimean Peninsula; a bestseller criticized by anthropologists and filmed in 1986.
The Colour of Magic
The Colour of Magic (1983) is Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel and first Wizards-series book, a comic fantasy following the inept wizard Rincewind guarding tourist Twoflower; it continues directly into The Light Fantastic.
The Commitments (novel)
The Commitments, Roddy Doyle's 1987 debut novel (self-published, King Farouk), follows Jimmy Rabbitte managing a working-class Dublin soul band in Barrytown; first of the Barrytown Trilogy and basis of the 1991 Alan Parker film.
The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World
The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World is a Japanese isekai series about a man who uses an online shopping site to connect his fantasy world to modern Japan.
The Dark Elf Trilogy
The Dark Elf Trilogy is R.A. Salvatore's three-novel Drizzt Do'Urden origin series, Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn (1990-1991), set in Menzoberranzan and the Underdark, chronologically first but published after the Icewind Dale Trilogy.
The Dark Tower (series)
The Dark Tower (series): Stephen King's eight-novel epic (1982-2012) following gunslinger Roland Deschain's quest for the Tower, the nexus of King's multiverse; also the basis of the 2017 film and Mike Flanagan's planned TV adaptation.
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three is a 1987 dark fantasy-Western novel by Stephen King, where Roland draws Eddie Dean and Odetta Holmes out of New York.
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands is Stephen King's 1991 third Dark Tower novel, in which Roland's ka-tet reforms, crosses Mid-World's waste lands and Lud, and meets Blaine the Mono.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass is Stephen King's 1997 fourth Dark Tower novel, published by Donald M. Grant and illustrated by Dave McKean. After Blaine the Mono, Roland's ka-tet reaches a superflu-ravaged Topeka, Kansas, and Roland recounts his youth in Hambry, his love Susan Delgado, and Maerlyn's Grapefruit.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower V) is Stephen King's fifth Dark Tower novel, published November 4, 2003 by Donald M. Grant and Scribner, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, in which Roland's ka-tet defends Calla Bryn Sturgis from child-stealing Wolves.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Song of Susannah (2004) is book six of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, split between Mia's 1999 New York pregnancy of Susannah and Roland and Eddie's 1977 Maine search for the author as character.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower is Stephen King's 2004 novel, the seventh and final book of the Dark Tower series, published by Donald M. Grant/Scribner, illustrated by Michael Whelan, ending Roland Deschain's quest with a looping ending.
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Wind Through the Keyhole (Dark Tower 4.5) is Stephen King's 2012 eighth Dark Tower novel, set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla; a story-within-a-story about young Roland hunting a skin-man and the fairy tale of Tim Ross.
The Darkness That Comes Before
The Darkness That Comes Before (2003) is R. Scott Bakker's debut, Book One of the Prince of Nothing trilogy, set on Eärwa two millennia after the First Apocalypse, following the Dûnyain philosopher-warrior Anasûrimbor Kellhus amid a gathering holy war.
The Devils (Abercrombie novel)
The Devils (2025) by Joe Abercrombie is the first book of a dark-fantasy trilogy set in alternate medieval Europe, where a female pope sends thief Alex and a crew of monsters to claim Troy's throne; sequel The Heretics due 2027, film rights held by James Cameron's Lightstorm.