Fantasy
18 Jun 2024 09:25
Horror is recognized as a separate genre, but I don't read enough of it to make a separate notebook for it worthwhile. Things are different with science fiction.
I've spun off the list of recommendations into a separate page.
- To read, fantasy and horror:
- Ben Aaronovitch
- False Value
- What Abigail Did That Summer
- Lynn Abbey, Rifkind's Challenge
- Chelsea Abdullah, The Stardust Thief
- Daniel Abraham
- The Dragon's Path
- A Shadow in Summer
- Richard Adams, Shardik
- Saladin Ahmed, Engraved on the Eye
- Robert Aickman, The Wine-Dark Sea
- Joan Aiken, The Cockatrice Boys
- Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
- Poul Anderson, Midsummer Tempest
- Kim Antieau, The Jigsaw Woman
- Jennifer Armintrout, Blood Ties
- Sarah Ash, Lord of Snow and Shadows
- Camille Bacon-Smith
- Eye of the Daemon
- The Face of Time
- Kage Baker
- Dark Mondays
- Mother Aegypt and Other Stories
- Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
- Wayne Barlowe, God's Demon
- Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist
- Peter S. Beagle
- A Fine and Private Place
- Folk of the Air
- Garden of Earthly Delights
- Giant Bones
- I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
- The Innkeeper's Song
- The Line Between: Stories
- Mirror Kingdoms: The Best Of
- Tamsin
- We Never Talk about My Brother
- Amelia Beamer, The Loving Dead
- Elizabeth Bear
- Book of Iron
- The Chains That You Refuse
- The Lotus Kingdoms
- The Red-Stained Wings
- The Promethean Age
- Blood and Iron
- Whiskey and Water
- Ink and Steel
- Hell and Earth
- Seven for a Secret
- Shoggoths in Bloom
- Greg Bear
- Sleepside
- Songs of Earth and Power
- Bradley P. Beaulieu, The Winds of Khalakovo
- Alex Bell, The Ninth Circle
- R. J. Bennett, Foundryside
- Lauren Beukes
- Afterland
- Bridge
- Zoo City
- Laura Bickle, Mercury Retrograde
- Holly Black
- Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
- The White Cat
- Levi Black, Red Right Hand
- Katherine Blake (pseud. of Dorothy J. Heydt), The Interior Life
- James P. Blaylock
- All the Bells on Earth
- The Digging Leviathan
- Homunculus
- Land of Dreams
- Lord Kelvin's Machine
- Night Relics
- The Paper Grail
- Hannes Bok, Beyond the Golden Stair
- Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero, The Book of Imaginary Beings
- Len Boswell, The Cave of the Six Arrows
- Amanda Bouchet, A Promise of Fire
- Lila Bowen, Conspiracy of Ravens
- Richard Bowes, Minions of the Moon
- Elizabeth Boyer, The Elves and the Otterskin
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- Marie Brennan
- Driftwood
- In London's Shadow: An Onyx Court Omnibus
- Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon
- Patricia Briggs, Hob's Bargain
- Kristen Britain, Mirror Sight
- John Brown, Servant of a Dark God
- S. G. Browne, Breathers; A Zombie's Lament
- John Brunner, The Compleat Traveller in Black
- Steven Brust
- Agyar
- The Viscount of Adrilankha
- The Paths of the Dead
- The Lord of Castle Black
- the Vlad Taltos books, in order
- Taltos
- Phoenix
- Athyra
- Orca
- Dragon
- Brokendown Palace
- Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity [Which I've seen stocked as non-fiction]
- Emma Bull
- Bonedance
- Finder
- Territory
- James A. Burton, Powers
- Barbara Nye Byfield
- The Glass Harmonica [=The Book of Wierd {sic?}]
- The Man Who Made Gold [=Andrew and the Alchemist]
- P. D. Cacek, Canyons
- Alan Campbell, Scar Night
- Ramsey Campbell
- Ghosts and Grisly Things
- The Hungry Moon
- Mike / M. R. Carey
- Someone Like Me
- The Steel Seraglio
- A. A. Carr, Eye Killers
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
- Jonathan Carroll, White Apples
- S. A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold
- H. O. Charles, City of Blaze
- C. J. Cherryh
- Faery in Shadow
- The Goblin Mirror
- The Morgaine stories: Gate of Ivrel, Well of Shiuan, Fires of Azeroth, Exile's Gate
- M. Lucie Chin, Fairy of Ku-She
- Deborah Christian, Kar Kalim
- Michael Cisco, The San Veneficio Canon
- Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories
- Jo Clayton, The Diadem Saga [= Diadem from the Stars, Lamarchos, and Irsud]
- B. W. [=Brenda]
Clough
- The Crystal Crown
- The Name of the Sun
- The Realm Beneath
- Suburban Gods [= How Like a God + Doors of Death and Life]
- Deborah Coates, Strange Country
- Nancy Collins, Sunglasses After Dark
- Harry Connolly
- Child of Fire
- One Man
- Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir
- Dana Copithorne, The Steam Magnate
- John Crowley
- Aegypt
- Beasts
- Engine Summer
- Little, Big
- Leah R. Cutter, Paper Mage
- Roald Dahl, Kiss Kiss
- Brian Daley
- A Tapestry of Magics
- Starfollowers of Coramonde
- Kara Dalkey
- Bhagavati
- Euryale
- The Nightingale
- Steel Rose
- A Sword Named Sorrow
- Uguisu (The Nightingale)
- Richard Dansky, Firefly Rain
- John Darnielle, Universal Harvester
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
- The Lady of the Sorrows
- The Battle of Evernight
- Avram Davidson
- Jackleg
- The Other Nineteenth Century
- The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone
- Ursus of Ultima Thule
- What Strange Stars and Skies
- Avram Davidson and Grantia Davis, Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty
- Aliette de Boddard, Teh House of Shattered Wings
- Mark Del Franco, Unshapely Things
- Charles de Lint
- Dreams Underfoot
- Forests of the Heart
- The Ivory and the Horn
- Moonlight and Vines
- Someplace to Be Flying
- A. M. Dellamonica, Indio Springs
- Alan DeNiro, Total Oblivion, More or Less [Author's self-presentation]
- Susan Dennard, Truthwitch
- Graham Diamond, Samarkand and Samarkand Dawn
- Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine
- David Drake, Lord of the Isles
- Dave Duncan, A Man of His Word
- David Anthony Durham, Acacia
- Marina and Sergey Daychenko, Via Nostra
- Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld
- E. R. Eddison
- Mistress of Mistresses
- The Worm Ouroboros
- Phyllis Eisenstein, In the Red Lord's Reach
- Kate Elliott, Spirit Gate et seq. [Review by Liz Bourke]
- S. L. Farrell, A Magic of Twilight
- Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!
- Charles G. Finney
- The Ghosts of Manacle
- The Magician Out of Manchuria
- The Old China Hands [Nonfiction]
- The Unholy City
- John M. Ford
- Aspects
- From the End of the Twentieth Century
- Heat of Fusion
- Diana Pharaoh Francis
- Bitter Night
- Blood Winter
- Path of Fate, Path of Honor, Path of Blood
- Teresa Frohock, Miserere: An Autumn Tale
- Lorna Freeman, Covenants
- C. S. Friedman, Black Sun Rising
- Esther Friesner
- Child of the Eagle: A Myth of Rome
- Mustapha and his Wise Dog
- Spells of Mortal Weaving
- Wishing Season
- The Witchwood Cradle
- Gregory Frost, Shadowbridge
- Neil Gaiman
- Anasi Boys
- Coraline
- The Graveyard Book
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Neverwhere
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Stardust
- R. Garcia y Robertson, Firebird
- Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
- Randall Garrett, The Steel of Raithskar et seq.
- Richard Gavin, Omens
- Patricia Geary
- Living in Ether
- Strange Toys
- Mary Gentle
- 1610: A Sundial in a Grave
- The Architecture of Desire
- The Black Opera
- The Book of Ash
- The Wild Machines
- Lost Burgundy
- A Hawk in Silver
- Ilario
- Left to His Own Devices
- Scholars and Soldiers
- Felix Gilman, Gears of the City
- Greer Ilene Gilman
- Moonwise
- Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
- Laura Anne Gilman
- Flesh and Fire
- Silver on the Road
- Max Gladstone
- Last Exit
- Craft Sequence
- Last First Snow
- Four Roads Cross
- Lisa Goldstein
- Dark Cities Underground
- The Dream Years
- Travellers in Magic
- Summer King, Winter Fool
- Walking the Labyrinth
- Carol Goodman, The Disinvited Guest
- Angelica Gorodischer
- Kalpa Imperial
- Trafalgar
- Theodora Goss
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
- The Complete Enchantments
- Kathryn Grant
- The Phoenix Bells
- The Black Jade Road
- The Willow Garden
- Kelley Grant, Desert Rising
- Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels: Or, the Resurrection of Matthew Swift
- Todd Grimson, Brand New Cherry Flavor
- Austin Grossman, Crooked
- Kerstin Hall, The Border Keeper
- Karina Halle, Darkhouse
- Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
- Duncan M. Hamilton, Dragonslayer
- Elizabeth Hand
- Glimmering
- A Haunting on the Hill
- Last Summer at Mars Hill
- Mortal Love
- M. L. N. Hanover, Black Sun's Daughter
- Thomas Harlan, The Shadow of Ararat
- M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
- Rick Hautala, Night Stone
- Erica Hayes, Shadowfae
- Robin Hobb
- Ship of Magic
- The Rain Wilds Chronicles
- Dragon Keeper
- Dragon Haven
- City of Dragons
- Blood of Dragons
- The Soldier Son Trilogy
- Shaman's Crossing
- Forest Mage
- Renegade's Magic
- P. C. Hodgell, Honor's Paradox
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- A Fistful of Sky
- Permeable Borders [Review by Jo Walton]
- A Red Heart of Memories
- The Silent Strength of Stones
- The Thread that Binds the Bones
- Robert Holdstock
- Ancient Echoes
- Earthwind
- Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
- The Hollowing
- Madeline Howard, The Hidden Stars
- Tanya Huff
- Blood Price
- Wizard of the Grove
- Stephen Hunt
- The Court of the Air
- The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
- Kameron Hurley
- The Empire Ascendant
- The Broken Heavens
- James Hynes, Publish and Perish
- Alexander C. Irvine, The Narrows
- M. R. James, Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
- N. K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
- Kij Johnson
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
- The Fox Woman
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Archer's Goon
- Chrestomanci Quartet
- The Dalemark Quartet
- Dogsbody
- Fire and Hemlock
- The Homeward Bounders
- The Merlin Conspiracy
- The Ogre Downstairs
- The Time of the Ghost
- Unexpected Magic
- Year of the Griffin
- Howard Andrew Jones
- For the Killing of Kings
- Waters of Eternity
- J. V. Jones
-
The Book of Words
- A Sword of Shadows
- A Sword from Red Ice
- Watcher of the Dead
- Endlords
- Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
- Graham Joyce, Some Kind of Fairy Tale
- Kel Kade, Fate of the Fallen
- Richard Kadrey
- Angel Scene/Teeth and Tongue Landscape
- Sandman Slim
- Kirsten Imani Kasai, Ice Song
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- A Song for Arbonne
- The Fionavar Tapestry
- The Summer Tree
- The Wandering Fire
- The Darkest Road
- The Last Light of the Sun
- River of Stars
- The Sarantine Mosaic: Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors
- Tigana
- Under Heaven
- Julie Kenner, Tainted
- Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
- Jack Ketchum, Red
- Greg Keyes
- The Charnel Prince
- The Blood Knight
- The Born Queen
- Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Khorasan Archives
- The Blue Eye
- The Bladebone
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Alabaster
- Silk
- Murder of Angels [Sequel to Silk]
- Low Red Moon [Sequel to the excellent Threshold]
- Tales of Pain and Wonder
- To Charles Fort, with Love
- The Drowning Girl
- Two Worlds and In Between
- Stephen King
- Bag of Bones
- Duma Key
- Insominia
- Lisey's Story
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes
- Revival
- Rose Madder
- Mindy L. Klasky
- Season of Sacrifice
- Glasswright
- The Glasswrights' Progress
- The Glasswrights' Journeyman
- The Glasswrights' Test
- The Glasswrights' Master
- Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
- Kathe Koja
- Bad Brains
- Extremities
- Nancy Kress, Briar Rose
- Ellen Kushner
- The Fall of the Kings
- The Privilege of the Sword
- Thomas the Rhymer
- R. A. Lafferty, The Devil Is Dead
- Sarah Langan, Audrey's Door
- Marc Laidlaw, The 37th Mandala
- Jay Lake, Trial of Flowers
- Sarah Langan, Audrey's Door
- A. R. Larkwood, The Thousand Eyes
- Jeanne Larsen, Silk Road
- Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower
- Guenevere Lee, Orope, the White Snake
- Vernon Lee, The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
- Tanith Lee [I'm not sure why I keep trying...]
- Heart Beast
- Kill the Dead
- Sabella, or, the Blood Stone
- Guenevere Lee, Orope, the White Snake
- Ursula Le Guin
- Annals of the Western Shore
- Gifts
- Voices
- Powers
- Lavinia
- Malafrena
- The Other Wind
- Orisian Tales
- Searoad
- Tales of Earthsea
- The Wind's Twelve Quarters
- Fritz Leiber, Swords and Deviltry (et seq.)
- Stina Leicht, Of Blood and Honey
- Megan Lindholm, The Reindeer People
- Jane Lindskold
- Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
- Child of a Rainless Year
- Legends Walking
- Thirteen Orphans
- When the Gods Are Silent
- Kelly Link
- Stranger Things Happen
- Magic for Beginners
- Holly Lisle, Hawkspar
- Anne Logston
- Exile
- Firewalk
- Shadow
- Shadow Hunt
- Waterdance
- Wild Blood
- Anne Lyle, The Alchemist of Souls
- Scott Lynch
- The Thorn of Emberlain
- The Ministry of Necessity
- The Mage and the Master Spy
- Inherit the Night
- Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Dragon's Treasure
- Watchtower
- Dancers of Arun
- The Northern Girl
- Jenn Lyons, The Ruin of Kings
- R. A. MacAvoy
- The Belly of the Wolf
- The Book of Kells
- Damiano's Lute
- Death and Resurrection
- The Grey Horse
- The Third Eagle
- Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan
- Ian R. MacLeod
- The Light Ages
- The House of Storms
- Violette Malan, The Mirror Prince
- Kip Manley, City of Roses
- Michael Marano, Dawn Song
- Juliet Marillier
- Foxmask
- Wolfskin
- Den of Wolves
- George R. R. Martin
- A Dance with Dragons
- Fevre Dream
- A. Lee Martinez, Monster
- Graham Masterton, A Terrible Beauty
- Anne McCaffery (ed.), Alchemy and Academe
- Robert McCammon, Swan Song
- J. M. McDermott, Last Dragon
- Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
- Seanan McGuire
- Every Heart a Doorway
- Sparrow Hill Road
- Rosemary and Rue
- Chandler McGrew, The Darkening
- Patricia McKillip
- Dreams of Distant Shores
- Harrowing the Dragon
- Kingfisher
- Something Rich and Strange
- The Throme of the Erril of Sherril
- Wonders of the Invisible World
- Robin McKinley
- Beauty
- Chalice
- Dragonhaven
- A Knot in the Grain
- The Outlaws of Sherwood
- Pegasus
- Rose Daughter
- Shadows
- Spindle's End
- Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister
- Sean McMullen, Voyage of the Shadowmoon
- Richelle Mead, Dark Swan
- Storm Born
- Thorn Queen
- Iron Crowned
- Shadow Heir
- E. J. Mellow, Song of the Forever Rains
- George Meredith, The Shaving of Shagpat
- A. Merritt, The Ship of Ishtar
- Meyrink, The Golem
- China Mieville
- The City and the City
- Iron Council
- King Rat
- Kraken [Thanks to Henry Farrell for a copy]
- Perdido Street Station
- The Scar
- Un Lun Dun
- A. A. Milne, Once On a Time
- David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi (ed.), Twenty Epics
- Christopher Moore
- Bite Me
- A Dirty Job
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- Sacré Bleu
- Secondhand Souls
- You Suck
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things
- Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
- Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
- William Morris
- The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- The Wood Beyond the World
- James Morrow, Bible Stories for Adults
- Ilana C. Myer, Last Song Before Night
- Linda Nagata, The Wild
- Vera Nazarian
- Cobweb Bride
- Dreams of the Compass Rose
- Lords of Rainbow
- The Duke in his Castle
- Rachel Neumeier, House of Shadows
- Adam Nevill, Apartment 16
- Emma Newman, Between Two Thorns
- Kim Newman
- Bad Dreams
- The Quorum
- Garth Nix
- Lirael
- Abhorsen
- Naomi Novik
- Uprooted
- A Deadly Education
- Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child
- Joyce Carol Oates, Bellefleur
- Stewart O'Nan, The Night Country
- Rebecca Ore, Slow Funeral
- Shannon Page and Jay Lake, Our Lady of the Islands
- Michael Paine, The Night School
- Susan Palwick, The Necessary Beggar
- Alexei and Cory Panshin, Earth Magic
- Jason Pargin, If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe
- Paul Park
- The Tourmaline
- The White Tyger
- The Hidden World
- J. K. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast Trilogy
- Helen Phillips, The Need
- Holly Phillips
- The Engine's Child
- In the Palace of Repose
- Tom Piccirilli, The Night Class
- Meredith Anne Pierce
- The Darkangel, Gathering of Gargoyles, The Pearl of the Soul of the World
- The Firebringer, Dark Moon, The Son of Summer Stars
- The Woman Who Loved Reindeer
- Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Tim Powers
- The Anubis Gates
- The Drawing of the Dark
- Earthquake Weather
- Expiration Date
- Last Call
- On Stranger Tides
- The Stress of Her Regard
- Three Days to Never
- Terry Pratchett
- Eric
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- The Last Continent
- Moving Pictures
- Raising Steam
- Snuff
- Unseen Academicals
- Wintersmith
- Tim Pratt
- Little Gods
- Spell Games
- The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl [Recommended by David Moles]
- E. Hoffman Price
- The Devil Wives of Li-Fong
- The Jade Enchantress
- T. A. Price, Poison Sleep
- Cherie Priest
- Bloodshot
- Dreadful Skin
- Fathom
- Those Who Went Remain There Still
- "Clockwork Centry" series
- Boneshaker
- Dreadnaught
- "Eden Moore" series
- Wings to the Kingdom
- Not Flesh Nor Feathers
- Philip Pullman
- The Amber Spyglass
- Lyra's Oxford
- Melonie Purcell, Hand and Talon
- Cat Rambo, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight
- S. M. Reine, The Descent
- Laura Resnick, Disappearing Nightly
- Kat Richardson
- Downpour
- Seawitch
- Morgan Rice, A Quest of Heroes
- Sile Rice, The Saxon Tapestry
- Phil Rickman
- Chalice
- Candlelight
- Writing as Will Kingdom
- The Cold Calling
- Mean Spirit
- K. Arsenault Rivera, "Their Bright Ascendancy" trilogy
- The Tiger's Daughter
- The Phoenx Empress
- The Warrior Moon
- Jennifer Roberson, "Tiger and Del"
- Sword-Singer
- Madeline E. Robins, The Stone War
- Benjamin Rosenbaum, The Ant King, and Other Stories
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
- Diana Rowland, Touch of the Demon
- Nilajana Roy, The Hundred Names of Darkness
- Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- Michelle Sagara/Michelle West/Michelle Sagara West
- Chronicles of Elantra
- Cast in Sorrow
- Cast in Flame
- Cast in Honor
- The Hidden City
- Into the Dark Lands
- Silence
- The Sun Sword
- The Broken Crown
- The Uncrowned King
- Lilith Saintcrow
- Dante Valentine
- The Iron Wyrm Affair
- Jill Kismet
- Moon's Knight
- Charles Saunders, Imaro II
- Graydon Saunders, Safely You Deliver
- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas
- The Harem of Aman Akbar
- The Healer's War
- Last Refuge
- Nothing Sacred
- Courtney Schafer, The Whitefire Crossing
- V. E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
- Ekaterina Sedia
- The Alchemy of Stone
- The Secret History of Moscow
- Darren Shan, The Procession of the Dead
- Michael Shea
- Nifft the Lean and The Mines of Behomoth
- Polyphemus
- A Quest for Simbilis
- Tomorrow's Men
- In Yana, the Touch of Undying
- Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove
- Joseph Sherman
- The Shining Falcon
- The Horse of Flame
- Frances Sherwood, Book of Splendor
- Will Shetterly
- Dogland
- Gospel of the Knife
- Nevernever
- The Tangled Lands
- Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
- Double Feature
- (eds.) Liavek et seq.
- Michael Shevdon, Sixty-One Nails
- Susan Shwartz
- (ed.) Arabesques
- (ed.) Arabesques 2
- Byzantium's Crown
- Cross and Crescent
- The Grail of Hearts
- Silk Roads and Shadows
- Dan Simmons
- Lovedeath
- Summer of Night
- Mary Sisson, The Weirld
- Clark Ashton Smith, A Rendezvous in Averoigne
- Jeri Smith-Ready, Wicked Game
- Midori Snyder
- Beldan's Fire
- Innamorati
- New Moon
- Sadar's Keep
- Monique Snyman, Dark Country
- Alexandra Sokoloff
- The Price
- The Unseen
- Wen Spencer, Tinker
- William Browning Spencer
- Irrational Fears
- The Ocean and All Its Devices
- Resume with Monsters
- Nancy Springer
- Chance, and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate
- Fair Peril
- Metal Angel
- The Book of Isle:
- The White Hart
- The Silver Sun
- The Sable Moon
- The Black Beast
- Brian Stableford, Curse of the Coral Bride
- Caroline Stevermer
- A Scholar of Magics
- The Serpent's Egg
- Sean Stewart
- Galveston
- Resurrection Man
- Peter Straub
- A Dark Matter
- If You Could See Me Now
- Julia
- Matthew Sturges, Midwinter
- Tasha Suri, Empire of Sand
- Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War
- Michael Swanwick
- The Dragons of Babel
- Jack Faust
- Ciatlin Sweet
- The Door in the Mountain
- Telling of Stars
- Sam Sykes, Seven Blades in Black
- Sonya Taafe, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens
- Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
- Molly Tanzer, Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp
- Judith Tarr
- Alamut
- Arrows of the Sun
- The Dagger and the Cross
- The Hall of the Mountain King
- Pillar of Fire
- Spear of Heaven
- A Wind in Cairo
- Doyce Testerman, Hidden Things
- Ian Tregillis
- Bitter Seeds
- The Alchemy Wars
- The Rising
- The Liberation
- Lisa Tuttle, The Mysteries
- Michael R. Underwood et al., Born to the Blade
- Catherynne M. Valente
- A Dirge for Prester John
- The Habitation of the Blessed
- The Folded World
- Apocrypha
- Deathless
- Fairyland series
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
- The Grass-Cutting Sword
- A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
- The Labyrinth
- Oracles
- The Orphan's Tales
- In the Cities of Coin and Spice
- Palimpsest
- This Is My Letter to the World
- Under in the Mere
- Ventriloquism
- Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
- Anne and Jeff VanderMeer
- (eds.), The New Weird
- (eds.), Fast Ships, Black Sails
- Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
- Jeff VanderMeer
- City of Saints and Madmen
- Finch
- Veniss Underground
- Vivian Vande Velde, User Unfriendly
- Greg Van Eekhout, California Bones
- Sydney Van Scyoc, Drowntide
- Carrie Vaughn
- Kitty Steals the Show
- Kitty's Greatest Hits
- Steel
- Discord's Apple
- Voices of Dragons
- K. S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro
- Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
- Evangeline Walton, Prince of Annwn
- Jo Walton
- Among Others [Self-presentation]
- Lifelode
- Thessaly
- The Philosopher Kings
- Necessity
- Tooth and Claw
- Walton's version of the Matter of Britain:
- The King's Peace
- The King's Name
- The Prize in the Game
- Freda Warrington, Elfland
- Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Gini
- Patrick Weekes, The Paladin Caper
- Martha Wells
- Edge of Worlds
- Emile and the Hollow World
- Stories of the Raksura (2 vols)
- Witch King
- T. H. White, The Once and the Future King
- Kit Whitfield
- Benighted
- In Great Waters
- Deborah Wilde, The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
- Conrad Williams
- Decay Inevitable
- Use Once, Then Destroy
- The Unblemished
- Jen Williams, Winnowing Flame trilogy
- The Bitter Twins
- The Poison Song
- Liz Williams
- "Detective Inspector Chen" series [detective novels
set in a mildly futuristic, franchised Singapore, where the traditional Chinese
afterlife is is entirely real, and thoroughly integrated into the mundane
bureaucracy.]
- The Demon and the City
- Precious Dragon
- The Shadow Pavillion
- Nine Layers of Sky
- Worldsoul
- Tad Williams
- War of the Flowers
- Shadowmarch
- Shadowplay
- Walter Jon Williams, sequel to City on Fire, if it ever appears
- Chris Willrich
- The Silk Map
- The Chart of Tomorrows
- G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
- Terri Windling, The Woodwife
- Carol Wolf, The Summoning
- Gene Wolfe
- Peace
- The Knight
- The Wizard
- Jonathan Wood, No Hero
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbo
- Ariosto
- Blood Games
- Sins of Omission
- Jane Yolen
- Briar Rose
- Dragon's Blood; Heart's Blood; A Sending of Dragons
- Dragonfield
- Except the Queen
- Sister Light, Sister Dark
- White Jenna
- Roger Zelanzy
- A Dark Traveling
- Eye of Cat
- Unicorn Variations
- Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold, Donnerjack
- Sarah Zettel
- Dust Girl
- A Sorcerer's Treason
- Risa
- Stephan Zielinski, Bad Magic
- To read, about fantasy:
- Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears [Review in Bookslut]
- Beal, Religion and Its Monsters
- Ariane and Christian Delacampagne, Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Beastiary
- Stefan Ekman, Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings
- Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
- Eric S. Rabkin, The Fantastic in Literature
- Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great