# 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.
* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* Other media
* See also
* References

## 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
* 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
* 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
* 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 Orcs: First Blood 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

### 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 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

* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* 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 Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
* The Wheel of Time (TV series)