Fantasy Through Time

Epic fantasy, before 1950 · 5 universes:

• Middle-earth · 4.39
• The Well at the World's End · 3.77
• The Well of the Unicorn · 3.42
• The Worm Ouroboros · 3.70
• Zimiamvia · 3.66

Epic fantasy, 1950s · 1 universe:

• Darkover · 3.89

Epic fantasy, 1960s · 5 universes:

• Dragonriders of Pern · 4.13
• Earthsea Cycle · 4.07
• The Atlan Saga · 3.60
• The Letter for the King · 4.19
• Witch World · 3.82

Epic fantasy, 1970s · 7 universes:

• Chronicles of Amber · 4.08
• Chronicles of the Deryni · 4.01
• Dread Empire · 3.87
• Riddle-Master · 4.08
• Shannara · 3.99
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant · 3.93
• The Dalemark Quartet · 3.94

Epic fantasy, 1980s · 30 universes:

• Avaryan Rising · 3.80
• Belgariad Universe · 4.14
• Chronicles of the Cheysuli · 4.01
• Darwath · 4.03
• Deverry · 4.06
• Dragon Prince · 4.06
• Dragonlance · 4.09
• Forgotten Realms · 4.20
• Incarnations of Immortality · 4.02
• Kencyrath · 4.28
• Lyonesse · 4.05
• Majipoor Cycle · 3.83
• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Osten Ard · 4.10
• Pendragon Cycle · 4.03
• Redwall · 4.09
• Riftwar Cycle · 4.16
• Saga of Pliocene Exile · 4.13
• Tekumel · 3.70
• The Chronicles of Damar · 4.20
• The Chronicles of the Black Company · 4.06
• The Darksword Trilogy · 3.67
• The Drenai Saga · 4.27
• The Elenium Universe · 4.00
• The Fionavar Tapestry · 4.07
• The Paksenarrion Universe · 4.14
• The Steerswoman · 4.22
• The Windsingers · 3.75
• Tortall · 4.26
• Valdemar · 4.13
• Winterlands · 3.97

Epic fantasy, 1990s · 30 universes:

• A Song of Ice and Fire · 4.41
• Black Jewels · 4.15
• Circle of Magic (Emelan) · 4.12
• Crown of Stars · 3.87
• Dark Sun: The Prism Pentad · 3.65
• Green Rider · 4.17
• Ile-Rien
• Malazan · 4.27
• Nightrunner · 4.14
• Realm of the Elderlings · 4.29
• Sword of Truth · 4.01
• Symphony of Ages · 4.06
• The Axis Trilogy · 4.00
• The Book of Words · 3.87
• The Death Gate Cycle · 4.07
• The DemonWars Saga · 3.99
• The Edge Chronicles · 4.18
• The Innkeeper's World · 3.89
• The Monarchies of God · 3.87
• The Queen's Thief · 4.09
• The Rigante
• The Runelords · 3.82
• The Saga of Recluce · 4.05
• The Spellsong Cycle · 3.80
• The Twelve Kingdoms · 4.22
• The Wars of Light and Shadow · 4.02
• The Witcher · 4.16
• Tigana · 4.08
• Wheel of Time · 4.21
• Wolfhound · 4.11

Epic fantasy, 2000s · 46 universes:

• Acacia
• Age of the Five · 4.01
• Annals of the Western Shore · 3.91
• Chronicles of Ixia · 4.07
• Chronicles of the Emerged World · 3.99
• Cosmere · 4.46
• Crossroads · 3.76
• Crónicas de Allaryia · 3.72
• Deltora Quest · 4.01
• GameWorld Trilogy · 3.97
• Graceling Realm · 4.06
• Gwendalavir · 4.31
• Inda · 4.06
• Krönikan om den femte konfluxen · 3.78
• La Horde du Contrevent · 4.42
• Memories of Idhún · 4.14
• Night Angel Trilogy · 4.21
• Ranger's Apprentice · 4.30
• Saga of the Borderlands · 4.12
• Seven Realms · 4.30
• Shadowmarch · 3.91
• Shadows of the Apt · 4.02
• The Bitterbynde Trilogy · 3.79
• The Black Magician Trilogy and the Kyralia World · 4.03
• The Books of Pellinor · 4.10
• The Chathrand Voyage · 3.77
• The Codex Alera · 4.30
• The Corean Chronicles · 4.06
• The Demon Cycle · 4.20
• The Dreamers · 3.33
• The Dwarves · 4.03
• The Elven · 4.11
• The Imager Portfolio · 4.16
• The Inheritance Cycle · 4.03
• The Kingkiller Chronicle · 4.53
• The Long Price Quartet · 3.88
• The Lord of the Ice Garden · 4.20
• The Redemption of Althalus · 3.86
• The Second Apocalypse · 3.96
• The Seventh Tower · 3.91
• The Shamer Chronicles · 3.99
• The Sharing Knife · 3.89
• The Soldier Son Trilogy · 3.53
• The Sundering · 3.54
• Ulldart · 4.03
• World of the Five Gods · 4.22

Epic fantasy, 2010s · 57 universes:

• A Chorus of Dragons · 4.00
• An Ember in the Ashes · 4.22
• Ash and Sand · 4.30
• Ash Princess · 3.92
• Bone Universe · 3.60
• Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne · 4.09
• Dragões de Éter · 4.02
• Empire of Sand / Realm of Ash · 3.86
• Eternal Sky · 3.80
• Green Bone Saga · 4.26
• Legacy of Orisha · 4.01
• Legends of the First Empire · 4.32
• Lightbringer · 4.33
• Magisterium · 4.03
• Raven's Shadow · 4.21
• Sands of Arawiya · 3.95
• Seraphina · 3.90
• Shades of Magic · 4.13
• Shadowfell · 4.02
• Shattered Sea · 4.05
• Swords and Fire / Rooks and Ruin · 4.02
• The Books of the Raksura · 4.09
• The Broken Earth · 4.29
• The Burning · 4.33
• The Chimes · 3.37
• The Cinder Spires · 4.20
• The Craft Sequence · 4.04
• The Daevabad Trilogy · 4.29
• The Dandelion Dynasty · 4.01
• The Deathless · 3.97
• The Divine Cities · 4.20
• The Draconis Memoria · 4.11
• The Dreamblood Duology · 4.07
• The Faithful and the Fallen · 4.38
• The Founders Trilogy · 4.10
• The Grishaverse · 4.17
• The Inheritance Trilogy · 3.98
• The Legend of Eli Monpress · 4.07
• The Licanius Trilogy · 4.22
• The Masquerade · 4.03
• The Poison Wars · 3.83
• The Poppy War · 4.22
• The Powder Mage · 4.30
• The Raven Rings · 4.17
• The Raven Tower · 3.91
• The Roots of Chaos · 4.18
• The Shadow Campaigns · 4.14
• The Shiva Trilogy · 4.06
• The Song of the Shattered Sands · 4.07
• The Sword of Kaigen · 4.42
• The Traitor Son Cycle · 4.22
• The Winnowing Flame Trilogy · 4.11
• The Wounded Kingdom · 4.07
• Their Bright Ascendency · 3.90
• Throne of Glass · 4.43
• Wings of Fire · 4.37
• Witchlands · 3.93

Epic fantasy, 2020s · 33 universes:

• A Última Vida de Sir David · 4.00
• Between Earth and Sky · 4.14
• Burningblade & Silvereye · 4.03
• Capitale du Sud · 4.28
• Chronicles of the Wolf Queen · 3.77
• Empire of the Wolf · 4.08
• Glass Immortals · 4.39
• Godkiller (The Fallen Gods Trilogy) · 3.89
• House of Dusk · 3.89
• Letters of Enchantment · 4.08
• Magic of the Lost · 3.92
• Rook & Rose · 4.16
• Saga of the Unfated · 3.90
• Saint Death's Daughter · 4.06
• Shadow of the Leviathan · 4.35
• The Bird That Drinks Tears · 4.12
• The Bloodsworn Saga · 4.33
• The Bound and the Broken · 4.33
• The Chronicles of Castellane · 3.82
• The Drowning Empire · 3.98
• The Hierarchy · 4.49
• The Jasmine Throne / Burning Kingdoms · 4.16
• The Library Trilogy · 3.93
• The Nameless Republic · 3.73
• The Rages Trilogy · 3.56
• The Raven and Eagle · 3.82
• The Raven Scholar · 4.38
• The Sandsea Trilogy · 3.97
• The Scorched Throne · 4.17
• The Serpent Gates · 3.79
• The Tyrant Philosophers · 4.20
• The Witch Roads · 4.07
• Witch King · 3.76

Mythic fantasy, before 1950 · 8 universes:

• At the Back of the North Wind · 4.01
• Baltaragis's Mill · 3.66
• Journey to the West · 3.86
• Kai Lung · 3.82
• Lilith · 3.88
• The Ayesha Series · 3.59
• The King of Elfland's Daughter · 3.80
• The Moon Pool · 3.33

Mythic fantasy, 1950s · 2 universes:

• The Once and Future King · 4.06
• The Palm-Wine Drinkard · 3.71

Mythic fantasy, 1960s · 9 universes:

• A Fine and Private Place
• Lord of Light · 4.05
• The Chronicles of Prydain · 4.10
• The Dark Is Rising · 4.02
• The Master and Margarita · 4.28
• The Minotaur Trilogy · 3.70
• The Owl Service · 3.66
• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen · 3.90
• Time Quintet · 3.98

Mythic fantasy, 1970s · 9 universes:

• Dogsbody · 4.10
• Krabat · 3.91
• Tales from the Flat Earth · 4.14
• The Book of Wirrun · 4.07
• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld · 4.07
• The Mabinogion Tetralogy · 4.01
• The Vandarei Trilogy · 3.84
• Wars of Vis · 3.51
• Watership Down · 4.08

Mythic fantasy, 1980s · 8 universes:

• Kalpa Imperial · 3.92
• Little, Big · 3.80
• Mythago Wood · 3.82
• Pendragon Cycle · 4.03
• Rose of the Prophet · 3.86
• The AEgypt Cycle
• The Mists of Avalon · 4.13
• Wraeththu · 4.07

Mythic fantasy, 1990s · 8 universes:

• Age of Misrule
• Dragon Rider · 4.00
• Moribito · 4.11
• Newford · 4.14
• Song of Albion · 4.15
• The Wood Wife · 4.20
• Thomas the Rhymer · 3.88
• Zamonia · 4.29

Mythic fantasy, 2000s · 17 universes:

• American Gods · 4.10
• Anansi Boys · 4.04
• Camp Half-Blood Chronicles · 4.36
• Chronicles of Ancient Darkness · 4.30
• El Ciclo de la Luna Roja · 4.19
• Lavinia · 3.87
• Od Magic · 3.99
• Saga of the Borderlands · 4.12
• The Bitterbynde Trilogy · 3.79
• The Dreamers · 3.33
• The Leviathan of Babylon · 3.75
• The Merlin Codex · 3.70
• The Salt Roads · 3.84
• The Spiderwick Chronicles · 3.94
• The Thief Lord · 3.99
• Vita Nostra · 3.96
• Ysabel · 3.63

Mythic fantasy, 2010s · 36 universes:

• A Monster Calls · 4.34
• A Stranger in Olondria · 3.73
• Alif the Unseen · 3.84
• Among Others · 3.70
• Beasts Made of Night · 3.31
• Bibliomantik · 3.96
• Binti · 3.89
• David Mogo, Godhunter · 3.60
• Gods of Jade and Shadow · 3.87
• Greenhollow Duology · 3.97
• Kingfisher · 3.74
• Legacy of Orisha · 4.01
• Les Sentiers des Astres · 4.20
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard · 4.28
• The Daevabad Trilogy · 4.29
• The Dark Star Trilogy · 3.56
• The Dreamblood Duology · 4.07
• The Green Man · 4.16
• The Inheritance Trilogy · 3.98
• The Jumbies · 3.88
• The Kane Chronicles · 4.16
• The Nsibidi Scripts · 4.08
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane · 4.01
• The Pandava Quintet · 4.24
• The Raven Cycle · 4.16
• The Raven Tower · 3.91
• The Red Abbey Chronicles · 3.90
• The Shiva Trilogy · 4.06
• The Song of Achilles and Circe · 4.25
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps · 3.65
• The Star-Touched Queen · 3.69
• The Starless Sea · 3.80
• The Tale of the Serpent's Heart · 4.06
• The Tensorate Series · 3.77
• Thessaly · 3.85
• Tristan Strong · 4.21

Mythic fantasy, 2020s · 40 universes:

• A Snake Falls to Earth · 3.94
• A Song of Wraiths and Ruin · 3.96
• Audition for the Fox · 3.81
• Beasts of Prey · 3.95
• Between Earth and Sky · 4.14
• Celestial Kingdom · 4.03
• Elatsoe · 3.98
• Elements of Cadence · 4.15
• Fathomfolk · 3.21
• Kaikeyi · 4.17
• Katabasis · 3.86
• Legendborn · 4.28
• Mad Sisters of Esi · 4.04
• Masquerade · 3.89
• Once Was Willem · 4.03
• Or What You Will · 3.75
• Raybearer · 4.28
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon · 3.64
• Sistersong · 3.94
• Six Crimson Cranes · 4.07
• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi · 4.26
• The Bright Sword · 3.93
• The City in Glass · 3.68
• The Everlasting · 4.16
• The Fox Wife · 3.97
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue · 4.16
• The Isle in the Silver Sea · 3.76
• The Melancholy of Untold History · 3.59
• The Raven and Eagle · 3.82
• The River Has Roots · 3.94
• The Sandsea Trilogy · 3.97
• The Singing Hills Cycle · 4.01
• The Spear Cuts Through Water · 4.12
• The Water Outlaws · 3.73
• The Weaver and the Witch Queen · 3.83
• The Witch's Heart · 4.03
• Thistlefoot · 3.93
• Under the Whispering Door · 4.10
• Wearing the Lion · 3.61
• When the Angels Left the Old Country · 4.25

Dark fantasy, before 1950 · 3 universes:

• Conjure Wife · 3.79
• Gormenghast · 3.91
• Lilith · 3.88

Dark fantasy, 1950s · 1 universe:

• The Broken Sword · 3.87

Dark fantasy, 1960s · 2 universes:

• The Elric Saga · 3.92
• The Owl Service · 3.66

Dark fantasy, 1970s · 7 universes:

• Kane · 4.10
• Krabat · 3.91
• Our Lady of Darkness · 3.59
• Tales from the Flat Earth · 4.14
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant · 3.93
• The Vampire Chronicles · 3.96
• Zothique · 4.22

Dark fantasy, 1980s · 4 universes:

• Mythago Wood · 3.82
• The Dark Tower · 4.11
• Weaveworld · 4.13
• Wraeththu · 4.07

Dark fantasy, 1990s · 11 universes:

• A Night in the Lonesome October
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter · 4.00
• Black Jewels · 4.15
• Deerskin · 3.94
• Fault Lines Trilogy · 3.96
• Lives of the Mayfair Witches · 3.97
• The Coldfire Trilogy · 4.06
• The Old Kingdom · 4.20
• The Watch Series · 4.05
• The Well-Built City · 3.79
• The Witcher · 4.16

Dark fantasy, 2000s · 10 universes:

• A Scattering of Jades · 3.58
• Coraline · 4.13
• Deepgate Codex · 3.62
• Doctrine of Labyrinths · 3.90
• Ombria in Shadow · 3.99
• Tender Morsels · 3.60
• The Graveyard Book · 4.15
• The Magicians · 3.73
• The Nightside · 4.02
• Vita Nostra · 3.96

Dark fantasy, 2010s · 25 universes:

• Aeons' Gate · 3.44
• Armed in Her Fashion · 3.67
• Cuckoo Song · 3.96
• Dominion of the Fallen · 3.53
• Islands of Blood and Storm · 3.44
• Legado Ranger · 3.89
• Ninth House (Alex Stern) · 4.03
• Osama · 3.47
• Reckless · 3.90
• Sisters of the Salt · 3.92
• The Bone Witch · 3.93
• The Broken Earth · 4.29
• The Changeling · 3.76
• The Chimes · 3.37
• The Dark Star Trilogy · 3.56
• The Library at Mount Char · 4.05
• The Locked Tomb · 4.23
• The Near Witch · 3.64
• The Nevernight Chronicle · 4.29
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane · 4.01
• The Shadow · 3.88
• The Sixth World · 4.02
• The Vagrant Trilogy · 3.78
• The Wounded Kingdom · 4.07
• Who Fears Death · 3.93

Dark fantasy, 2020s · 34 universes:

• A Dowry of Blood · 3.91
• A Sorceress Comes to Call · 4.03
• A Study in Drowning · 3.66
• Asunder · 4.08
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence · 4.13
• Between Two Fires · 4.18
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil · 3.88
• Even Though I Knew the End · 3.80
• Gallant · 3.70
• Harmattan Season · 3.46
• Hemlock & Silver · 4.01
• Katabasis · 3.86
• Nettle & Bone · 4.07
• Ring Shout · 3.92
• Saint Death's Daughter · 4.06
• Snake-Eater · 4.20
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In · 3.86
• Sour Cherry · 3.49
• Starling House · 3.78
• The Atlas Six · 3.47
• The Bog Wife · 3.57
• The Butcher of the Forest · 3.84
• The Charlatan Duology · 3.59
• The Endsong · 3.65
• The Hussite Trilogy · 3.72
• The Incandescent · 3.92
• The Reformatory · 4.43
• The Saint of Bright Doors · 3.64
• The Scholomance · 4.05
• The Stonewater Kingdom · 4.22
• The Wings Upon Her Back · 4.04
• Trouble the Saints · 3.35
• Vespertine · 4.09
• Witch King · 3.76

Urban fantasy, 1970s · 1 universe:

• Our Lady of Darkness · 3.59

Urban fantasy, 1980s · 5 universes:

• Archer's Goon · 4.07
• Garrett P.I. · 4.05
• Tea with the Black Dragon · 3.92
• War for the Oaks · 4.01
• Wizard of the Pigeons · 3.72

Urban fantasy, 1990s · 11 universes:

• Age of Misrule
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter · 4.00
• Blood and Chocolate · 3.80
• Blood Books · 3.79
• Brown Girl in the Ring · 3.85
• Fault Lines Trilogy · 3.96
• Lives of the Mayfair Witches · 3.97
• Neverwhere · 4.16
• Newford · 4.14
• The Watch Series · 4.05
• The Wood Wife · 4.20

Urban fantasy, 2000s · 23 universes:

• Alpha and Omega · 4.26
• American Gods · 4.10
• Anansi Boys · 4.04
• Arkadien · 3.92
• Dark Swan · 3.98
• Georgina Kincaid · 4.08
• Kate Daniels · 4.35
• Mercy Thompson · 4.31
• Merry Gentry · 4.07
• October Daye · 4.20
• Secret Histories · 3.97
• Skulduggery Pleasant · 4.35
• Sunshine · 3.84
• The Bartimaeus Sequence · 4.14
• The Dresden Files · 4.26
• The Hollows · 4.30
• The Modern Faerie Tales · 3.78
• The Nightside · 4.02
• The Shadowhunter Chronicles · 4.15
• The Southern Vampire Mysteries · 3.97
• The Wolves of Mercy Falls · 3.81
• Vampire Academy · 4.24
• Ysabel · 3.63

Urban fantasy, 2010s · 31 universes:

• Alchemical Journeys · 3.97
• Alex Verus · 4.17
• Alif the Unseen · 3.84
• All Souls Universe · 4.08
• All the Birds in the Sky · 3.59
• Among Others · 3.70
• Bloodlines · 4.28
• Bobby Dollar · 3.76
• Brooklyn Brujas · 3.77
• City of Ghosts · 3.94
• David Mogo, Godhunter · 3.60
• Dominion of the Fallen · 3.53
• Hidden Legacy · 4.37
• InCryptid · 4.09
• Lockwood & Co · 4.38
• Ninth House (Alex Stern) · 4.03
• Rivers of London · 4.06
• The Bone Season · 4.07
• The Changeling · 3.76
• The Checquy Files · 4.10
• The Craft Sequence · 4.04
• The Curse Workers · 3.88
• The Engelsfors Trilogy · 4.09
• The Green Man · 4.16
• The Iron Druid Chronicles · 4.21
• The Iron Fey · 4.03
• The Nsibidi Scripts · 4.08
• The Others · 4.27
• The Raven Cycle · 4.16
• The Sixth World · 4.02
• Vassa in the Night · 3.44

Urban fantasy, 2020s · 13 universes:

• Amari and the Night Brothers · 4.32
• Black Water Sister · 3.83
• Crescent City · 4.38
• Edinburgh Nights · 3.63
• Elatsoe · 3.98
• Even Though I Knew the End · 3.80
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe · 4.00
• Legendborn · 4.28
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves · 3.55
• The Charlatan Duology · 3.59
• The Great Cities Duology · 3.88
• The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World · 3.66
• The Scapegracers · 4.07

Historical fantasy, before 1950 · 1 universe:

• Bran Mak Morn · 3.86

Historical fantasy, 1980s · 6 universes:

• The Anubis Gates · 3.93
• The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox · 4.20
• The Dragon Waiting
• The Hound and the Falcon · 4.01
• The Legend of the Ice People · 3.78
• The Tales of Alvin Maker · 3.80

Historical fantasy, 1990s · 8 universes:

• A Song for Arbonne · 4.25
• Crown of Stars · 3.87
• Sevenwaters · 4.25
• The Elemental Masters · 3.97
• The Halfblood Chronicles · 3.98
• The Lions of Al-Rassan / The Sarantine Mosaic · 4.23
• The Rigante
• Tigana · 4.08

Historical fantasy, 2000s · 10 universes:

• A Scattering of Jades · 3.58
• Bridei Chronicles · 4.12
• Grimpow · 3.40
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell · 3.88
• Kushiel's Legacy · 4.20
• Saga of the Light Isles · 4.09
• Tales of the Otori · 4.06
• Temeraire · 3.99
• The Cardinal's Blades · 3.70
• The Salt Roads · 3.84

Historical fantasy, 2010s · 24 universes:

• All Souls Universe · 4.08
• Armed in Her Fashion · 3.67
• Eternal Sky · 3.80
• Gods of Jade and Shadow · 3.87
• His Fair Assassin · 3.98
• Ironskin · 3.39
• Islands of Blood and Storm · 3.44
• River of Stars · 4.13
• Serpent & Dove · 3.84
• Sorcerer to the Crown · 3.74
• The Bird King · 3.72
• The Dead Djinn Universe · 3.98
• The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club · 3.89
• The Ghost Bride · 3.81
• The Gilded Wolves · 3.84
• The Golem and the Jinni · 4.13
• The Kingston Cycle · 3.86
• The Legend of the Condor Heroes · 4.12
• The Memoirs of Lady Trent · 4.02
• The Tale of the Serpent's Heart · 4.06
• The Winternight Trilogy · 4.23
• Thessaly · 3.85
• Under Heaven · 4.17
• Warrior Bards · 4.15

Historical fantasy, 2020s · 29 universes:

• A Dowry of Blood · 3.91
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence · 4.13
• Between Two Fires · 4.18
• Masquerade · 3.89
• Nampeshiweisit · 4.08
• Once Was Willem · 4.03
• Regency Faerie Tales · 4.00
• Ring Shout · 3.92
• Secrets of the Nile · 3.81
• Sistersong · 3.94
• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi · 4.26
• The Chosen and the Beautiful · 3.54
• The First Bright Thing · 3.57
• The Fox Wife · 3.97
• The Hussite Trilogy · 3.72
• The Last Binding · 3.96
• The Melancholy of Untold History · 3.59
• The Once and Future Witches · 4.02
• The Radiant Emperor Duology · 3.88
• The Reformatory · 4.43
• The Secret Market of the Dead · 3.58
• The Shadow Histories · 3.90
• The Warm Hands of Ghosts · 3.96
• The Water Outlaws · 3.73
• The Weaver and the Witch Queen · 3.83
• The Wolf and the Woodsman · 3.49
• Trouble the Saints · 3.35
• When the Angels Left the Old Country · 4.25
• Written on the Dark · 4.02

Fairy tale retelling, before 1950 · 5 universes:

• At the Back of the North Wind · 4.01
• Lud-in-the-Mist · 3.85
• Phantastes · 3.89
• The King of Elfland's Daughter · 3.80
• The Well at the World's End · 3.77

Fairy tale retelling, 1960s · 1 universe:

• The Last Unicorn · 4.16

Fairy tale retelling, 1980s · 4 universes:

• Fire and Hemlock · 3.95
• Howl's Moving Castle · 4.21
• Lyonesse · 4.05
• Magic Moon · 3.85

Fairy tale retelling, 1990s · 8 universes:

• Beauty · 3.85
• Deerskin · 3.94
• Ella Enchanted · 4.02
• Sevenwaters · 4.25
• Stardust · 4.09
• Tam Lin · 3.84
• The Elemental Masters · 3.97
• Winter Rose · 3.84

Fairy tale retelling, 2000s · 5 universes:

• Five Hundred Kingdoms · 3.91
• Tender Morsels · 3.60
• The Books of Bayern · 4.09
• The Hollow Kingdom · 4.06
• The Modern Faerie Tales · 3.78

Fairy tale retelling, 2010s · 16 universes:

• An Enchantment of Ravens · 3.64
• Blackthorn & Grim · 4.14
• Blanca & Roja · 3.75
• Fairyland · 4.02
• Hamster Princess · 4.23
• Ironskin · 3.39
• Reckless · 3.90
• Redemption in Indigo · 3.87
• Spinning Silver · 4.17
• The Folk of the Air · 4.14
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon · 4.11
• The School for Good and Evil · 4.06
• The Winternight Trilogy · 4.23
• The Wrath and the Dawn · 4.04
• Uprooted · 4.02
• Vassa in the Night · 3.44

Fairy tale retelling, 2020s · 14 universes:

• A Sorceress Comes to Call · 4.03
• A Study in Drowning · 3.66
• Cinder House · 3.77
• Hemlock & Silver · 4.01
• Little Thieves · 4.21
• Malice Duology · 3.86
• Nettle & Bone · 4.07
• Six Crimson Cranes · 4.07
• The Adventures of Mary Darling · 3.97
• The Butcher of the Forest · 3.84
• The River Has Roots · 3.94
• The Singing Hills Cycle · 4.01
• The West Passage · 3.86
• Thornhedge · 3.93

Portal fantasy, before 1950 · 5 universes:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · 3.99
• Barsoom · 3.82
• Bed-Knob and Broomstick
• Oz · 3.96
• The Harold Shea Series · 3.97

Portal fantasy, 1950s · 2 universes:

• The Chronicles of Narnia · 4.14
• Tom's Midnight Garden · 4.05

Portal fantasy, 1960s · 4 universes:

• Elidor · 3.85
• Three Hearts and Three Lions · 3.83
• Time Quintet · 3.98
• Witch World · 3.82

Portal fantasy, 1970s · 5 universes:

• Chrestomanci · 4.03
• The Dragon Knight · 3.88
• The Morgaine Cycle · 3.99
• The Neverending Story · 4.18
• The Vandarei Trilogy · 3.84

Portal fantasy, 1980s · 6 universes:

• Darwath · 4.03
• Guardians of the Flame · 3.92
• Magic Kingdom of Landover · 3.88
• Magic Moon · 3.85
• The Fionavar Tapestry · 4.07
• Young Wizards · 4.01

Portal fantasy, 1990s · 4 universes:

• Harry Potter · 4.52
• His Dark Materials · 4.06
• Magids · 4.02
• Stardust · 4.09

Portal fantasy, 2000s · 6 universes:

• Brave Story · 4.19
• Inkheart · 3.94
• The Keys to the Kingdom · 3.90
• The Leviathan of Babylon · 3.75
• The Magicians · 3.73
• The Wizard Knight · 3.82

Portal fantasy, 2010s · 11 universes:

• Bibliomantik · 3.96
• Caraval · 4.04
• Fairyland · 4.02
• Magisterium · 4.03
• Shades of Magic · 4.13
• The Invisible Library · 3.97
• The Iron Fey · 4.03
• The Starless Sea · 3.80
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January · 4.01
• The Wildwood Chronicles · 3.80
• Wayward Children · 3.95

Portal fantasy, 2020s · 6 universes:

• A Snake Falls to Earth · 3.94
• Secrets of the Nile · 3.81
• The Echo Archives · 3.86
• The Library Trilogy · 3.93
• The Serpent Gates · 3.79
• Time of Iron · 3.86

Sword and sorcery, before 1950 · 6 universes:

• Barsoom · 3.82
• Bran Mak Morn · 3.86
• Conan the Barbarian · 3.92
• Elak of Atlantis
• Kull of Atlantis · 3.59
• Solomon Kane · 3.79

Sword and sorcery, 1950s · 1 universe:

• The Dying Earth · 3.99

Sword and sorcery, 1960s · 6 universes:

• Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser · 3.96
• Hawkmoon: The History of the Runestaff · 3.85
• Jirel of Joiry · 3.72
• Novaria · 3.57
• The Atlan Saga · 3.60
• The Elric Saga · 3.92

Sword and sorcery, 1970s · 11 universes:

• Corum · 3.89
• Erekose / The Eternal Champion · 3.84
• Guin Saga · 3.71
• Kane · 4.10
• Return to Nevèrÿon · 3.99
• The Birthgrave Trilogy · 3.76
• The Chronicles of Tornor · 3.70
• The Morgaine Cycle · 3.99
• Thieves' World · 3.85
• Wars of Vis · 3.51
• Zothique · 4.22

Sword and sorcery, 1980s · 10 universes:

• Dilvish, the Damned · 3.81
• Dragaera · 4.12
• Garrett P.I. · 4.05
• Imaro · 4.01
• Kencyrath · 4.28
• Liavek · 3.99
• Nifft the Lean · 3.98
• Tekumel · 3.70
• The Drenai Saga · 4.27
• The Windsingers · 3.75

Sword and sorcery, 1990s · 3 universes:

• Dark Sun: The Prism Pentad · 3.65
• Gotrek and Felix · 4.08
• Nightrunner · 4.14

Sword and sorcery, 2000s · 3 universes:

• Night Angel Trilogy · 4.21
• Riyria · 4.35
• The Gentleman Bastards · 4.27

Sword and sorcery, 2010s · 7 universes:

• Aeons' Gate · 3.44
• Les Sentiers des Astres · 4.20
• The Band · 4.23
• The Copper Cat · 3.88
• The Lot Lands · 4.11
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps · 3.65
• The Tensorate Series · 3.77

Sword and sorcery, 2020s · 2 universes:

• Capitale du Sud · 4.28
• The Blacktongue Thief · 4.19

Romantasy, 1990s · 1 universe:

• Symphony of Ages · 4.06

Romantasy, 2000s · 4 universes:

• Kushiel's Legacy · 4.20
• Merry Gentry · 4.07
• The Sharing Knife · 3.89
• The Wolves of Mercy Falls · 3.81

Romantasy, 2010s · 16 universes:

• A Court of Thorns and Roses · 4.40
• Ash Princess · 3.92
• Caraval · 4.04
• Empire of Sand / Realm of Ash · 3.86
• Greenhollow Duology · 3.97
• Hidden Legacy · 4.37
• His Fair Assassin · 3.98
• Serpent & Dove · 3.84
• Sorcery of Thorns · 4.02
• The Folk of the Air · 4.14
• The Frostblood Saga · 3.91
• The Grishaverse · 4.17
• The Night Circus · 3.99
• The Roots of Chaos · 4.18
• The Star-Touched Queen · 3.69
• Throne of Glass · 4.43

Romantasy, 2020s · 23 universes:

• Blood and Ash · 4.21
• Celestial Kingdom · 4.03
• Crescent City · 4.38
• Crowns of Nyaxia · 4.15
• Elements of Cadence · 4.15
• Faebound · 3.58
• House of Dusk · 3.89
• Letters of Enchantment · 4.08
• Saga of the Unfated · 3.90
• Shield of Sparrows · 4.40
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In · 3.86
• The Empyrean · 4.42
• The Isle in the Silver Sea · 3.76
• The Jasmine Throne / Burning Kingdoms · 4.16
• The Last Binding · 3.96
• The Magpie and the Wolf · 3.80
• The Powerless Trilogy · 4.09
• The Saint of Steel · 4.11
• The Scorched Throne · 4.17
• The Shepherd King · 4.30
• Time of Iron · 3.86
• Tomes & Tea · 3.87
• Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore · 3.78