List of high fantasy fiction

This list contains a variety of examples of high fantasy fiction. The list is ordered alphabetically by author's last name.

 

Books

A

• Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy
• Daniel Abraham's The Long Price Quartet series and The Dagger and the Coin series
• Julius David Adelar's A Trevott's Tale
• Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain
• Hans Joachim Alpers's Die Piraten des Südmeers
• Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions
• Piers Anthony's Xanth series
• Sarah Ash's The Tears of Artamon trilogy

B

• R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series
• 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
• Bradley P. Beaulieu's The Winds of Khalakovo
• Andrei Belyanin's Sword with No Name
• Hans Bemmann's The Enchanted trilogy
• Martin Bertram's Vanity of Vanities
• K. J. Bishop's The Etched City
• Elizabeth Boyer's World of the Alfar, Wizard's War, and Skyla series
• Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy (Hawk of May, Kingdom of Summer, In Winter's Shadow)
• Marie Brennan's Doppelganger
• Peter V. Brett's Demon Series
• Terry Brooks's Shannara series
• Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series
• Aleksandr Bushkov's Svarog series
• Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series

C

• Alan Campbell's The Deepgate Codex series
• Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician series
• Trudi Canavan's Age of the Five trilogy
• C. J. Cherryh's Ealdwood and Fortress series
• Glen Cook's The Black Company and The Dread Empire series
• Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising
• Alison Croggon's Pellinor series

D

• Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
• Sara Douglass's The Wayfarer Redemption series
• Sterling Drake's The Hero Sagas trilogy
• Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter
• Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko's Wanderers tetralogy, The Key of the Kingdom trilogy and Varan/The Copper King dualogy

E

• David and Leigh Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon series, Elenium/Tamuli series,The Redemption of Althalus, and The Dreamers series
• Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros and Zimiamvian Trilogy
• Kate Elliott's The Crown of Stars series
• Iar Elterrus's The Burden of the Emperor series
• Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
• Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series
• Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer

F

• Jennifer Fallon's The Demon Child Trilogy, The Hythrun Chronicles and Second Sons Trilogy
• David Farland's The Runelords series
• Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga and other Midkemian sagas
• Jude Fisher's Fool's Gold series
• Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series
• Jeffrey Ford's The Well-Built City series

G

• Neil Gaiman's Stardust
• David Gemmell's Legend series
• Mary Gentle's Grunts!
• Felix Gilman's Ararat novels
• Vasili Golovachov's The Saviors of the Fan series
• Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series
• L. B. Graham's The Binding of the Blade series
• Frank Grave's The Ancestral Trail series
• Ed Greenwood" "Forgotten Realms"
• Jim Grimsley's Kirith Kirin
• Alexander Grin's Scarlet Sails

H

• Niel Hancock's Circle of Light, Wilderness of Four, and Windameir Circle series
• M. John Harrison's Viriconium cycle
• Markus Heitz's The Dwarves
• Bernhard Hennen's Die Elfen series and Elfenritter trilogy
• Stuart Hill's "The Icemark Chronicles"
• Robin Hobb's Farseer, Liveship 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 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods)
• 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 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
• Mercedes Lackey's and James Mallory's Obsidian Trilogy
• Mercedes Lackey's and Andre Norton's The Halfblood Chronicles
• Jay Lake's City Imperishable and Dark Town series
• Yulia Latynina's Empire of Veya series
• Stephen R. Lawhead's Song of Albion Trilogy
• Tanith Lee's Birthgrave series
• Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series
• C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series
• Svyatoslav Loginov's Terrestrial Ways
• Sergey Lukyanenko's and Nick Perumov's Not the time for dragons

M

• 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
• 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
• Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion series
• Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series
• Leslie Ann Moore's Griffin's Daughter series
• William Morris' The Well at the World's End

N

• Vera Nazarian's Lords of Rainbow
• Stan Nicholls's Orcs: First Blood trilogy and Orcs: Bad Blood trilogy
• Yuri Nikitin's The Three Kingdoms series
• Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy
• Andre Norton's Witch World series

O

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

P

• Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle
• Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books
• Alexey Pehov's The Chronicles of Siala series
• Nick Perumov's Ring of Darkness, Hjorward chronicles, Keeper of the Swords series
• Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel Trilogy
• Tamora Pierce's Alanna series, Circle of Magic series
• Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
• Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
• Nathan Pyles's The An Domhain Chronicles

R

• Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies and Exiles Trilogy
• Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli and The Sword-Dancer Saga
• Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicle, an ongoing series.
• J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
• Vladislav Adolfovitch Rusanov's Hot Winds of North trilogy, Blades of Boundaries series and Dragons Slayer series

S

• Fred Saberhagen's Earth End sequence
• Angie Sage's Septimus Heap
• R. A. Salvatore's Demon Wars series
• Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy and 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
• Jonathan Stroud's The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Revelations
• 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

• Eldon Thompson's The Legend of Asahiel series
• J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and Children of Húrin

V

• Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy
• Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris novels
• Vladimir Vasilyev's Shandalar
• Alex Verman's Arkasandriel Series
• Christian von Aster's Die große Erzferkelprophezeiung

W

• David Weber's Oath of Swords/War God series
• Brent Weeks' Night Angel trilogy, and Lightbringer series
• Margaret Weis's 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

• Lee Yeongdo's Dragon Raja series and The Bird That Drinks Tears/The Bird That Drinks Blood

Z

• Roger Zelazny's 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