Fantasy Bibliography

Fantasy Classics

Watership Down by Richard Adams FIC ADA

Summary: In a constant struggle against oppression, a group of rabbits search for peaceful co-existence.

Over sea under stone by Susan Cooper FIC COO

Summary: Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur.

The princess bride by William Goldman FIC GOL

A writer's view on life and art are revealed during his attempts to edit the children's classic that shaped his literary ambitions

A wizard of earthsea by Ursula La Guin FIC GUI

During a spell recalling the dead, the boy Sparrowhawk, a sorcerer's apprentice, unwittingly unleashes evil on the land. He grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world.

Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey FIC MCC

Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards that, along with her music, open a new life for her.

The hero and the crown by Robin McKinley FIC MCK

Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.

Sabriel by Garth Nix FIC NIX

Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

The golden compass by Philip Pullman FIC PUL

Accompanied by her shape-shifting daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

The hobbit by J.R. Tolkien FIC TOL

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return

Humorous Fantasy

Swords for hire by Will Allen FIC ALL

In the ancient kingdom of Parmall, sixteen-year-old Sam Hatcher and an eccentric Royal Guard set out on a mission to rescue the rightful king who has been imprisoned in a faraway dungeon by his evil brother.

Once upon a marigold by Jean Ferris FIC FER

A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix FIC HAD

In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.

Goose chase by Patrice Kindl FIC KIN

Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.

Wizards of the game by David Lubar FIC LUB

Eighth grader Mercer, whose passion is the fantasy role-playing game Wizards of the Warrior World, hopes to use a fund raiser to bring a gaming convention to his middle school, but instead he attracts four genuine wizards who are trapped on Earth and want his help in returning to their own world.

Bras and broomsticks by Sarah Mlynowski FIC MLY

Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.

The wee free men by Terry Pratchett FIC PRA

A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

Dealing with dragons by Patricia Wrede FIC WRE

Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom.

Contemporary Fairy Tale Adaptations

The rose and the beast by Francesca Lia Block FIC BLO

Nine fairy tales are turned "inside out"

Kissing the witch by Emma Donoghue FIC DON

A collection of thirteen interconnected stories that give old fairytales an old twist.

Beastly by Alex Flinn FIC FLI

A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

If I have a wicked stepmother by Melissa Kantor FIC KAN

After her father remarries, high school sophomore Lucy Norton is forced to move to Long Island, where her evil new stepmother and annoying stepsisters make her life miserable.

Snow by Tracy Lynn FIC LYN

When her father, the duke, decides to remarry in the hopes of producing an heir to the throne, the young princess must learn to cope with her jealous and evil stepmother, but when the situation becomes dangerous, the princess flees to London.

Bound by Donna Jo Napoli FIC NAP

In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.

Witches

In the forests of the night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes FIC ATW

Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.

So mote it be by Isobel Bird FIC BIR

Kate cast the love spell with results unforeseen. She cannot stop it by herself, but the book of spells tells her of two strangers who can help her - if only she can find them.

Jinx by Meg Cabot FIC CAB

Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

Enter three witches by Caroline Cooney FIC COO

When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and Lady Macbeth.

The last apprentice by Joseph Delany FIC DEL

Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."

The witch’s boy by Michael Gruber FIC GRU

A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart’s desire.

Raven’s gate by Anthony Horowitz FIC HOR

Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.

The Merlin conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones FIC JON

Roddy and Nick two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use find that they must work together to save Roddy’s home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards.

The hunter’s moon by O.R. Melling FIC MEL

Two teenage cousins, one Irish, the other from the United States, set out to find a magic doorway to the Faraway Country, where humans must bow to the little people.

Blue is for nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz FIC STO

Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea—unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.

Book of shadows by Cate Tiernan FIC TIE

Life is uneventful for sixteen-year-old Morgan Rowlands in her upstate New York town until her best friend Bree drags her to a Wiccan circle led by newcomer Cal Blaire, and Morgan begins to experience things she never had before.