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We just had our vote for Top Novels over on r/Fantasy the other week, so putting together this list was easy, because I’ve already had to think of my favorite books, and it’s blog and I can write about as many as like! Not like those evil mods that make me only pick 10! (note: I am part of said evil mods)

• • Legendborn by Tracy Deonn – Arthurian legends and modern racism
  • Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin – Magic school, dragons, creepy underground
  • The Dark Abyss of Our Sins by Krista D. Ball – Banter and fighting, some kisses
  • The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin – Earth shattering magic, great characters
  • The Kingston Cycle by C.L. Polk – Secrets, take it all down

• • Discworld by Terry Pratchett – Funny, happy, full of heart
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune – Warm hug, sweet, kind, hopeful
  • The Tarot Sequence by K.D. Edwards – Great characters, relationships, & action
  • The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison – Goblin Keanu Reaves learns politics
  • The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold – Beautiful book, beautiful characters

• • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman – very fun, could be gayer
  • Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch – vivid city, cool magical world
  • City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett – gods are dead, do politics
  • The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker – dragonbone ships and talking bird
  • The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan – woman takes notes about dragons

• • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip – woman wants to be left alone
  • Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko – magic school but trippy mindfuck
  • The Reborn Empire by Devin Madson – respectful decapitations, posession, war brewing
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow – magic doors and pretty words