Have I Read the 100 Best Fantasies?

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So time posted ‘The 100 best fantasies of all time’ and I thought it would be fun to see how many of these I have read and what I rated those!

I have seen this one someone else’s blog (sorry do not remember whose..) and thought it was such a fun idea!

Everything in bold I have read! Everything in Italic is on my TBR!

  1. Arabian Nights
  2. Le Morte D’Arthur by Thomas Malory
  3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – Love it!
  4. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll – This is okay!
  5. Five Children and It by E Nesbit
  6. Ozma of Oz by L Frank Baum
  7. Marry Poppins by PL Travers
  8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis – Love it!
  9. The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
  10. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis – Really like it!
  11. The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien – Not a fan..
  12. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
  13. The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien – not a fan!
  14. The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien – not a fan!
  15. A Hero Born by Jin Yong – Not a fan..
  16. The Once and Future King by TH White
  17. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  18. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  19. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  20. The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Lainez
  21. Dragonlight by Anne McCaffrey
  22. The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
  23. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin – I liked this!
  24. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
  25. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin – This series went downhill from book one..
  26. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  27. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
  28. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  29. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  30. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L´Engle
  31. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
  32. The BFG by Roald Dahl
  33. Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
  34. Howl´s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones – Not really my thing..
  35. Redwall by Brian Jacques
  36. Swordspoint by Ellen Kusher
  37. The Lives of Christopher Chanet by Diana Wynna Jones
  38. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan – Loved it! One of my favourite books!
  39. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neill Gaiman
  40. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
  41. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon – I really like this series!
  42. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
  43. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  44. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman – I loved this!
  45. Ella Enchanted By Gail Carson Levine
  46. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
  47. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
  48. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling – Love it!
  49. Spindle´s End by Robin McKinley
  50. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin – Not for me!
  51. American Gods by Neil Gaiman – Not a fan..!
  52. The Wee Free Man by Terry Pratchett
  53. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling – Love it!
  54. Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson – Love it! One of my faves!
  55. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss – One of my faves!
  56. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare – Loved it when I read it!
  57. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
  58. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
  59. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
  60. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
  61. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – Not for me..!
  62. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  63. Angelfall by Susan Ee – I liked it when I read it!
  64. A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
  65. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
  66. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  67. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir – One of my faves!
  68. The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin – Unfortunately not for me!
  69. Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
  70. The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
  71. Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
  72. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo – One of my faves!
  73. The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh – This was good!
  74. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
  75. A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir – One of my faves!
  76. The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu
  77. Beast Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi
  78. The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
  79. The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
  80. Jade City by Fonda Lee
  81. The Stone Sky by NK Jemisin
  82. Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi – Loved this!
  83. Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
  84. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi – Loved this!
  85. Circe by Madeline Miller
  86. Empire of Sands by Tasha Suri
  87. The Poppy War by RF Kuang – One of my faves!
  88. Song of Blood & Stone by L Penelope
  89. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhoarse
  90. Witchmark by CL Polk
  91. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James – DNF’ed this..
  92. Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi – Disappointing..
  93. The Dragon Republic by RF Kuang – One of my faves!
  94. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – One of my faves!
  95. Pet by Awaeke Emezi
  96. Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender
  97. The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
  98. We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal– Enjoyed this one!
  99. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
  100. Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibanez

While going through this list I started to wonder how they made this list?! I really do not understand the books on here. Some are not really surprising at all, but there are some that I would never have expected on here!

So I’ve read 36/100! Which was actually more then I had expected haha! My thought on those are really diverse ahah. There is one that I DNF’ed, some that I really didn’t like but also quite some of my faves!

Also 23 are on my TBR! Some of those are really high on my TBR, others are more like ‘someday’!

What do you think of this list? How many have you read?

23 thoughts on “Have I Read the 100 Best Fantasies?”

  1. Oh wow I’ve only read 8 of these I’d say another 20 or so are books I majorly want to read next year though, and quite a few others are on my TBR. I agree it’s an odd list though. Some of the titles are older fantasy books I’ve heard of from other readers but there are others with titles or authors that I don’t recognize at all.

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  4. Such an odd list lol. I’ve read 41 of these! Given that so many are recent, that’s probably why I’ve read so many lol. 🙂

  5. These kind of lists are always so interesting to me! I’ve only read 24, and some of them I’ve never even heard of! There are a lot of great ones on there, and if you ever feel the urge, The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell is absolutely incredible!

    1. The Bone Clocks is one of the ones I never heard about before ahah, but I will definitely look into it!

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  7. Hmm, interesting list – good mix of classics and newer titles, but so many I’ve never even heard of . . . and it irks me when trilogies are broken up, taking 3 spots in a list.

    Looks like 20 read for me and another 15 on the TBR.

    1. I agree, series should be put on there as a whole, giving more books/series a chance to get on here!

  8. What a fun idea for a post! I was so happy to see how diverse the list got as we moved into more recent publications.

  9. Ooh, this was really interesting! If I didn’t miscount, I’ve read 32 of these (and I’m about to read The Dragon Republic, making it 33) 🙂 Seeing some of these books actually made me feel quite nostalgic, since I read them all the way back in elementary school! Though I’m also very curious as to how they made this list… Like, why are there two Harry Potter books on here, but not the first one? Or the fifth one? Or all of them, for that matter? xD And who decided on the order?

    1. I recounted like three times haha!
      Same! I totally forgot about some!
      I was thinking the same thing about Harry Potter, I think they should just have put the series on there as a whole (just taking one spot)!

  10. It looks like I have read 40 and many of them are on my TBR. It is an interesting list. There are quite a few I have never heard of and why list some books in a series but not all? Anyways, fun post!

    1. Oh quite many!
      Yeah quite some I did not know either..
      I think they should just list series on one spot! And indeed not randomly one middle book in a series!

  12. Hmm, interesting list – good mix of classics and newer titles, but so many I’ve never even heard of . . . and it irks me when trilogies are broken up, taking 3 spots in a list.

    Looks like 20 read for me and another 15 on the TBR.

    1. Yeah I had the same! Happy to see both old and new, but so many I do not know..
      Exactly! Just list book one, or the whole series..
      I hope you will like the ones you still have on you TBR!

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