The difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy is arbitrary but it should be clear enough for this list. Looking for Fantasy novels with between 1000 and 9999 ratings on Goodreads. fantasy mjf

Helpful Librarians - if you help maintain this and other similar lists - please don't remove books from one of these lists for too many ratings unless you are willing to put it on the next list.

Some Subgenres:
Best Epic Fantasy
Best Urban Fantasy

Fantasy by Time Period:
Pre-Tolkien Fantasy (Fantasy up through 1937)
Classic Fantasy (Fantasy written before 1980)

Fantasy by Decade:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s

Locus Recommended Fantasy:
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Fantasy By Ratings:
More than 100000, 50000 to 99999, 25000 to 49999, 10000 to 24999
1000 to 9999, 100 to 999, Less than 100

Other Fantasy Lists of Note:
Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century
Best Fantasy of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Fantasy of the 20th Century
Popular Highly Rated Fantasy

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4,139 books · 133 voters · list created November 4th, 2014 by Mitchell Friedman (votes) .
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message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Mulengro and The Hidden Relic would be added to this list, if only I had more votes. Which I would have if people would vote for books on this list.


message 4: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Finders-Seekers would be added to this list, if only I had more votes. Which I would have if people would vote for books on this list.


message 5: by Maarit (new)

Maarit I added Finders-Seekers to the list. I also fixed the list description as it stated "Looking for Fantasy novels with between 100 and 999 ratings on Goodreads." and this is list for book between 1000 and 9999 ratings.


message 7: by Maarit (new)

Maarit City of Dragons graduated


message 8: by Maarit (new)

Maarit Fool's Assassin graduated


message 9: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman check out this nice fantasy list I found r fantasy s Official Underrated and Underread Fantasy.

It's especially good in the 1000 to 9999 ratings fantasy books. This list would have to have a lot more voters (or maintainers to be as good - given the 100 votes per person limit.


message 10: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman there are still a lot of books on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5... that are from 1000 to 9999 ratings but not on this list.


message 11: by Maarit (new)

Maarit The Crown Tower graduated


message 12: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Baptism of Fire graduated


message 13: by Maarit (new)

Maarit Blood of Dragons and Chalice graduated


message 15: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman King of Foxes graduated


message 36: by Navi (new)

Navi Graduated:
The Hallowed Hunt
Valor

Moved to "Less than 100 Ratings" list:
DarkSkull Hall

Moved to "100 to 999" list:
The Black Egg


message 40: by Navi (new)

Navi Graduated:

Spellslinger


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message 43: by Navi (new)


message 45: by Ketutar (new)

Ketutar Jensen A Dead Djinn in Cairo — 10,072 ratings


message 46: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Ketutar wrote: "A Dead Djinn in Cairo — 10,072 ratings" - given the size of this list - having the page number is always helpful

Thank you for pointing this out. These lists require a lot of upkeep. As a non-librarian you can most help by voting for 100 books already on these lists that only have one vote.

As a librarian if you would add the books over number to the next list and remove them from the current list.


message 48: by Naomi (new)

Naomi Galatea by Madeline Miller
29,098 ratings -> moved


Charlotte Igelkott Graduated:
Crown of Feathers
Ysabel
Thor: God of Thunder, Volume 1: The God Butcher
Fired Up
Bridge of Birds
The Hidden Relic
Mystic and Rider
A Kingdom Besieged
Heart on Fire
Wrath
The Little Witch
Skybowl
The Twilight Before Christmas
Prince of Chaos
The King of Crows
The Hourglass Door
The Power
Berserk, Vol. 2
The Elder Gods
Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet
Moominsummer Madness
The Too-Clever Fox
The Lost Queen
The Firebrand
Goddess of Spring
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
Man from Mundania

I didn't have the patience to go through the full 40+ pages, so if someone else wants to start from the back, there's probably plenty to do there as well... Or for that matter, if you're the only person to have voted for a book, you can just add it to the next list and remove your vote for it on this list :)


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