100+ Fantasy Authors
Looking for some great fantasy fiction? Here are a mix of authors and titles that span the all the subgenres of fantasy. Whether you like swords and sorcery, world-building epics, or tales of revenge and political machination there is something on this list for you.
- Lynn Abbey -- Out of Time
- Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- Piers Anthony -- A Spell for Chameleon
- Robert Asprin -- Another Fine Myth
- Peter Beagle -- The Innkeeper’s Song
- Curt Benjamin -- The Prince of Shadows
- Anne Bishop -- Daughter of the Blood
- Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Lady of Avalon
- Kristen Britain -- Green Rider
- Terry Brooks -- The Sword of Shannara
- Steven Brust -- The Phoenix Guards
- Lois McMaster Bujold -- The Curse of Chalion
- Emma Bull -- War for the Oaks
- Orson Scott Card -- Seventh Son
- Jacqueline Carey -- Kushiel’s Dart
- Jonathan Carroll -- Sleeping in Flame
- C.J. Cherryh -- Fortress in the Eye of Time
- James Clemens -- Wit’ch Fire
- David B. Coe -- Rules of Ascension
- Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- Glen Cook -- The Black Company
- Charles De Lint -- Memory and Dream
- Pamela Dean -- The Secret Country
- Tom Deitz -- Bloodwinter: a Tale of Eron
- Stephen R. Donaldson -- Lord Foul’s Bane
- Sara Douglass -- The Wayfarer Redemption
- David Drake -- Lord of the Isles
- Diane Duane -- The Book of Night With Moon
- David Eddings -- Pawn of Prophecy
- Kate Elliott -- King’s Dragon
- David Farland -- The Runelords
- S.L. Farrell -- Holder of Lightning
- Raymond E. Feist -- Magician (or Magician: Apprentice)
- Jeffrey Ford -- The Physiognomy
- Maggie Furey -- Aurian
- Neil Gaiman -- Neverwhere
- David Gemmell -- Legend
- Lisa Goldstein -- The Red Magician
- Terry Goodkind -- Wizard's First Rule
- Ed Greenwood -- The Kingless Land
- Barbara Hambly -- Dragonsbane
- Thomas Harlan -- The Shadow of Ararat
- Elizabeth Haydon -- Rhapsody: Child of Blood
- Robin Hobb -- Assassin’s Apprentice
- Robert Holdstock -- Celtika
- Tanya Huff -- Wizard of the Grove
- Barry Hughart -- Bridge of Birds
- Brian Jacques -- Redwall
- Diana Wynne Jones -- Dark Lord of Derkholm
- J.V. Jones -- A Cavern of Black Ice
- Robert Jordan -- The Eye of the World
- Guy Gavriel Kay -- Tigana
- Katharine Kerr -- Daggerspell
- J. Gregory Keyes -- The Waterborn
- J. Robert King -- Mad Merlin
- Katherine Kurtz -- Camber of Culdi
- Mercedes Lackey -- Arrows of the Queen
- Steve Lawhead -- The Paradise War
- Ursula K. LeGuin -- The Wizard of Earthsea
- Fritz Leiber -- Swords and Deviltry
- Jane Lindskold -- Through Wolf’s Eyes
- Holly Lisle -- Diplomacy of Wolves
- Elizabeth Lynn -- Dragon’s Winter
- John Marco -- The Eyes of God
- Juliet Marillier -- Daughter of the Forest
- George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- Dennis McKiernan -- Dragondoom
- Patricia McKillip -- Riddle-Master: the Complete Trilogy
- Robin McKinley -- Beauty
- China Miéville -- King Rat
- L.E. Modesitt -- The Magic of Recluce
- Michael Moorcock -- Elric of Melniboné (in The Elric Saga)
- Robert Newcomb -- The Fifth Sorceress
- Garth Nix -- Sabriel
- Andre Norton -- Witch World
- Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- Mervyn Peake -- Titus Groan
- Terry Pratchett -- Mort
- Phillip Pullman -- The Golden Compass
- Melanie Rawn -- Dragon Prince
- Mickey Zucker Reichert -- The Last of the Renshai
- Jennifer Roberson -- Shapechanger’s Song
- J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Kristin Kathryn Rusch -- The Black King
- Sean Russell -- The One Kingdom
- R.A. Salvatore -- The Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland)
- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough -- The Godmother
- Jan Siegel -- Prospero’s Children
- Christopher Stasheff -- Her Majesty’s Wizard
- Mary Stewart -- The Crystal Cave
- Sean Stewart -- Mockingbird
- Judith Tarr -- The Isle of Glass
- Sheri S. Tepper -- Beauty
- J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
- Eric Van Lustbader -- The Ring of Five Dragons
- Jeff VanderMeer -- Veniss Underground
- Paula Volsky -- Illusion
- Jo Walton -- Tooth and Claw
- Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Dragon Weather
- Margaret Weis (with Tracy Hickman) -- Dragon Wing
- Martha Wells -- City of Bones
- T.H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Tad Williams -- Tailchaser’s Song
- Janny Wurts -- Curse of the Mistwraith
- Roger Zelazny -- Chronicles of Amber or The Great Book of Amber
- Sarah Zettel -- A Sorcerer’s Treason
