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.
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 Ivan Baran's The Black Books Cycle tetralogy 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 Carol Berg's The Rai-Kirah 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 T. R. W. Cerce's Ebmundis 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 and The Book of Dust 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 of 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)
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