Recommended Fantasy Books

The fantasy fiction listed here can be enjoyed by children or adults. As Diana Herald says in Fluent in Fantasy, “The appeal of fantasy knows no boundaries of age or gender… The teen-aged fans of fantasy, and even precocious child fans, read the same books as senior citizen and adult fans” (8).

Source: Herald, Diana Tixier. Fluent in Fantasy. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

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Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Redwall series by Brian Jacques
The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
The Earthsea tetrology by Ursula K. LeGuin














 

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