The Top 25 Best Stand Alone Fantasy Books

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From BestFantasyBooks.com:

"Great standalone fantasy books DO exist! This list offers some of the top standalone fantasy novels."

Note: A couple of these (ex: A Wizard of Earthsea are indeed part of a series, by can be read as a stand alone novel, with plots resolved).

  1. 1.
    Tigana
    by Guy Gavriel Kay

  2. 2.
    American Gods: A Novel
    by Neil Gaiman

  3. 3.
    The Anubis Gates
    by Tim Powers

  4. 4.
    Talion: Revenant
    by Michael A. Stackpole

  5. 5.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

  6. 6.
    Elantris
    by Brandon Sanderson

  7. 7.
    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel
    by Susanna Clarke

  8. 8.
    The Silmarillion
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  9. 9.
    Terror
    by Dan Simmons

  10. 10.
    Mists Of Avalon
    by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  11. 11.
    Magician: Apprentice
    by Raymond Feist

  12. 12.
    Lord of Light
    by Roger Zelazny

  13. 13.
    Perdido Street Station
    by China Mieville

  14. 14.
    The Curse of Chalion
    by Lois McMaster Bujold

  15. 15.
    War for the Oaks: A Novel
    by Emma Bull

  16. 16.
    Fevre Dream
    by George R.R. Martin

  17. 17.
    Heroes Die
    by Matthew Woodring Stover

  18. 18.
    The Neverending Story
    by Michael Ende

  19. 19.
    Best Served Cold
    by Joe Abercrombie

  20. 20.
    A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  21. 21.
    The War Of The Flowers
    by Tad Williams

  22. 22.
    God's Demon
    by Wayne Barlowe

  23. 23.
    The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)
    by N. K. Jemisin

  24. 24.
    The Etched City
    by K.J. Bishop

  25. 25.
    The Once and Future King
    by Terence Hanbury White

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Created by Dreda457 on Jan 18, 2012.
 

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