Fantasy

The Best Fantasy Books of 2023

Many of this year's best fantasy books feature plenty of magic, monsters, and mayhem, with dashes (or more than dashes)…

1 year ago

Review: <em>Legends & Lattes</em> by Travis Baldree

This book sells itself as “high fantasy and low stakes” and delivers on both counts. There’s all manner of creatures…

2 years ago

The Best Fantasy Books of 2022

Women and authors of color really brought their A game in 2022. Holy cow. They're tearing it up. RIP your…

2 years ago

26 Best Grimdark Books

Grimdark is a fantasy subgenre that is particularly dystopian, amoral, or violent. Its protagonists tend toward the conflicted antihero, and…

4 years ago

15 Best Weird Fantasy Books

Weird fantasy has to leave me with a "That was great, but what the hell did I just read?" feeling.…

4 years ago

23 Best Fantasy Mystery Books

We like mystery because life is mysterious, and storytelling exists to help us figure out how to live. Mysteries help…

4 years ago

23 Best Fantasy Graphic Novels

There’s still a stigma to reading graphic novels. As a grown man, I wouldn’t do it in public. However, at…

4 years ago

<em>The Worst Warlock</em> by A. A. Livingston & Dan Livingston

Apologies for the self-promotion, but my New-York-Times-bestselling wife and I wrote an audiobook and I'm pretty excited about it. The…

4 years ago

13 Best Science Fantasy Books

It takes a deft hand to combine advanced technology and magic in a way that isn't embarrassingly silly. These books…

5 years ago