List of high fantasy fiction

This list contains a variety of examples of high fantasy or epic fantasy fiction. The list is ordered alphabetically by author or originator's last name. A separate section is included for non-print media.

Works

A

• Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy
• Daniel Abraham's The Long Price Quartet series and The Dagger and the Coin series
• Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain
• Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen series
• Hans Joachim Alpers's Die Piraten des Südmeers
• Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions
• Piers Anthony's Xanth
• Robert Asprin's MythAdventures

B

• R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series
• Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes
• Ivan Baran's The Black Books Cycle tetralogy
• L. Frank Baum's Oz series and Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years, a revisionist version of the same setting
• Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn
• Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars
• John Bellairs's The Face in the Frost
• Andrei Belyanin's Sword with No Name
• Hans Bemmann's The Enchanted trilogy
• Carol Berg's The Rai-Kirah trilogy
• K. J. Bishop's The Etched City
• Elizabeth H. Boyer's World of the Alfar, Wizard's War, and Skyla series
• Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon
• Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy (Hawk of May, Kingdom of Summer, In Winter's Shadow)
• Patricia Bray's The Sword of Change trilogy (Devlin's Luck, Devlin's Honor, Devlin's Justice)
• Marie Brennan's Doppelganger
• Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle series
• Kristen Britain's Green Rider series
• Terry Brooks's Shannara series
• N. M. Browne's The Spellgrinder's Apprentice
• Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series
• Emma Bull's War for the Oaks
• Aleksandr Bushkov's Svarog series
• Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series

C

• Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician series and Age of the Five trilogy
• Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series
• Patrick Carman's The Land of Elyon series
• T. R. W. Cerce's Ebmundis series
• Joy Chant's Red Moon and Black Mountain
• C. J. Cherryh's Ealdwood Stories and The Fortress Series
• Kate Constable's Chanters of Tremaris series
• Glen Cook's The Black Company series, Sung in Blood The Dread Empire series

• Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising
• Alison Croggon's Pellinor series

D

• Charles de Lint's Moonheart
• Susan Dennard's Truthwitch
• Peter Dickinson's Angel Isle
• Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
• Sara Douglass's The Wayfarer Redemption series
• Brian Lee Durfee's The Forgetting Moon
• Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter
• David Anthony Durham's Acacia trilogy
• Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko's Wanderers tetralogy, The Key of the Kingdom trilogy and Varan/The Copper King duology

E

• David and Leigh Eddings' The Belgariad/The Malloreon series, The Elenium/The Tamuli series,The Redemption of Althalus, and The Dreamers series
• E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros and Zimiamvian Trilogy
• Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series
• Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
• Steven Erikson's Malazan world (Book of the Fallen and related series)
• Also Ian C. Esslemont's books set in the Malazan world

F

• Jennifer Fallon's The Demon Child Trilogy, The Hythrun Chronicles and Second Sons Trilogy
• David Farland's The Runelords series
• Bill Fawcett's SwordQuest series
• Raymond E. Feist's The Riftwar Cycle
• Jude Fisher's Fool's Gold series
• John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
• Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series

G

• Neil Gaiman's Stardust
• Alan Garner's The Owl Service
• David Gemmell's Legend series
• Mary Gentle's Grunts!
• Felix Gilman's Ararat novels
• Parke Godwin's Firelord series
• Julia Golding's Dragonfly
• Lisa Goldstein's The Red Magician
• Vasili Golovachov's The Saviors of the Fan series
• Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series
• Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms
• Jim Grimsley's Kirith Kirin
• Alexander Grin's Scarlet Sails

H

• Barbara Hambly's Dragonsbane
• Niel Hancock's Circle of Light, Wilderness of Four, and Windameir Circle series
• Victoria Hanley's Healer and Seer series
• M. John Harrison's Viriconium cycle
• Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of Ages series
• Markus Heitz's The Dwarves
• Bernhard Hennen's Die Elfen series and Elfenritter trilogy
• Carolyn Hennesy's Pandora series
• Stuart Hill's The Icemark Chronicles series
• Robin Hobb's Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies
• P. C. Hodgell's Jame of the Kencyrath series
• Wolfgang Hohlbein's Magic Moon series

I

• Ian Irvine's The Three Worlds Cycle series
• Ralf Isau's Neschan-Trilogie and Die Chroniken von Mirad

J

• Nabila Jamshed's Wish Upon A Time - The Legendary Scimitar
• N. K. Jemisin's The Inheritance trilogy
• Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series

K

• Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy
• Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's The Keltiad series
• Katharine Kerr's Deverry Cycle series
• Ulrich Kiesow's The Dark Eye novels
• Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
• Leena Krohn's Tainaron

L

• Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series, the Obsidian Trilogy (co-written with James Mallory), and The Halfblood Chronicles (co-written with Andre Norton)
• Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant
• Jay Lake's City Imperishable and Dark Town series
• Yulia Latynina's Empire of Veya series
• Stephen R. Lawhead's Song of Albion Trilogy
• Louise Lawrence's The Earth Witch
• Tanith Lee's Birthgrave series and The Winter Players
• Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series; Annals of the Western Shore
• Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
• C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series
• Svyatoslav Loginov's Terrestrial Ways
• Sergei Lukyanenko's and Nick Perumov's Not the Time for Dragons

M

• Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, A Court of Thorns and Roses series
• R. A. MacAvoy's Tea with the Black Dragon
• George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
• Svetlana Martynchik's Labyrinths of Echo series (under the pseudonym Max Frei)
• Aleksandr Mazin's Fargal, the World of Ashshur series and The Dragon of Kong series
• Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series
• Brian McClellan's Powder Mage series
• Dennis L. McKiernan's The Iron Tower trilogy and other Mithgar works
• Patricia A. McKillip's The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy
• Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown
• China Miéville's Bas-Lag cycle
• Karen Miller's Godspeaker trilogy
• Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist
• L. E. Modesitt Jr.'s The Saga of Recluce and Spellsong Cycle and The Imager Portfolio
• Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion series
• Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné series, Eternal Champion series

• William Morris' The Well at the World's End

N

• Vera Nazarian's Lords of Rainbow
• Stan Nicholls's ' trilogy and Orcs: Bad Blood trilogy
• William Nicholson's Noble Warriors series
• Yuri Nikitin's The Three Kingdoms series
• Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy
• Andre Norton's Witch World series
• Naomi Novik's Temeraire series and Uprooted

O

• Margaret Ogden's The Realm of the Elderlings series under the name Robin Hobb
• Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death
• H. L. Oldie (Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky)'s Fentezi series

P

• Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle series
• Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books
• Nick Perumov's Ring of Darkness, Hjorward chronicles, Keeper of the Swords series
• Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel Trilogy
• Tamora Pierce's Tortall universe, Circle of Magic series
• Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
• Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and The Book of Dust trilogy

R

• Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies and Exiles Trilogy
• L. James Rice's Sundering the Gods Saga
• Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli and The Sword-Dancer Saga
• Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicle
• Vladislav Adolfovitch Rusanov's Hot Winds of North trilogy, Blades of Boundaries series and Dragons Slayer series
• Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow

S

• Fred Saberhagen's Earth End sequence
• Angie Sage's Septimus Heap
• R. A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt series, The DemonWars Saga series and other novels taking place on the planet of Corona
• Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive
• Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Saga
• Maria Semyonova's Wolfhound series
• Jeff Smith's Bone series
• Maria V. Snyder's Study Series and Glass Series
• Brynne Stephens' The Dream Palace
• Paul Stewart and Chris Ridell's The Edge Chronicles
• Jonathan Stroud's The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Revelations, Riyria Chronicles and The First Empire
• Rosemary Sutcliff's Celtic and Iron Age novels
• Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series
• Steph Swainston's The Year of Our War, Dangerous Offspring, and No Present Like Time
• Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter, and the sequel The Dragons of Babel

T

• Judith Tarr's The Hound and the Falcon series
• Eldon Thompson's The Legend of Asahiel series
• J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and other books set in Middle-earth
• Licia Troisi’s The Emerged Word series, The Dragon Girl series, Nashira’s Reigns series and Pandora series
• Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen's Thief series
• S.I.U.'s Tower of God

V

• Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy
• Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris novels
• Vladimir Vasilyev's Shandalar

W

• David Weber's Oath of Swords/War God series
• Brent Weeks's Night Angel series, and Lightbringer series
• Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance series
• Janny Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow series
• Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy and Shadowmarch series
• Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight series and The Book of the New Sun

Y

• Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series, beginning with Fourth Wing
• Lee Yeongdo's Dragon Raja series and The Bird That Drinks Tears/The Bird That Drinks Blood
• Kirill Yeskov's The Last Ringbearer
• Jane Yolen's The Pit Dragon Chronicles series

Z

• Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber series
• Paul Edwin Zimmer's Dark Border series: A Gathering of Heroes and Ingulf the Mad
• Alexander Zorich's The Ways of Starborned trilogy and The Vault of Equilibrium tetralogy

Other media

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• The Last Airbender
• The Legend of Korra
• Game of Thrones
• House of the Dragon
• Conan the Barbarian
• Conan the Destroyer
• Red Sonja
• The Barbarians
• The Lord of the Rings (film series)
• '
• The Wheel of Time (TV series)

References