best-of

The Standard has posted a genre bending list of 30 of the Best Fantasy Novels of All Time. I like the list overall because of its genre bending nature. Are Watership Down & 100 Years of Solitude really fantasy? My inclination is towards “Yes”. Neil Gaiman (whose novels make the list a couple of times) holds a discussion of the list’s weaknesses. All the usual caveats about “best of” internet lists apply.

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett