List of high fantasy fiction

This list contains a variety of examples of high fantasy or epic fantasy fiction. The list is ordered alphabetically by author or originator's last name. A separate section is included for non-print media.

A

 * Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy
 * Daniel Abraham's The Long Price Quartet series and The Dagger and the Coin series
 * Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain
 * Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen series
 * Hans Joachim Alpers's Die Piraten des Südmeers
 * Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions
 * Piers Anthony's Xanth
 * Robert Asprin's MythAdventures

B

 * R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series
 * Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes
 * L. Frank Baum's Oz series and Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years, a revisionist version of the same setting
 * Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn
 * Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars
 * John Bellairs's The Face in the Frost
 * Andrei Belyanin's Sword with No Name
 * Hans Bemmann's The Enchanted trilogy
 * K. J. Bishop's The Etched City
 * Elizabeth H. Boyer's World of the Alfar, Wizard's War, and Skyla series
 * Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon
 * Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy (Hawk of May, Kingdom of Summer, In Winter's Shadow)
 * Patricia Bray's The Sword of Change trilogy (Devlin's Luck, Devlin's Honor, Devlin's Justice)
 * Marie Brennan's Doppelganger
 * Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle series
 * Kristen Britain's Green Rider series
 * Terry Brooks's Shannara series
 * N. M. Browne's The Spellgrinder's Apprentice
 * Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series
 * Emma Bull's War for the Oaks
 * Aleksandr Bushkov's Svarog series
 * Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series

C

 * Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician series and Age of the Five trilogy
 * Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series
 * Patrick Carman's Land of Elyon series
 * Joy Chant's Red Moon and Black Mountain
 * C. J. Cherryh's Ealdwood Stories and The Fortress Series
 * Kate Constable's Chanters of Tremaris series
 * Glen Cook's The Black Company series, Sung in Blood The Dread Empire series


 * Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising
 * Alison Croggon's Pellinor series

D

 * Charles de Lint's Moonheart
 * Susan Dennard's Truthwitch
 * Peter Dickinson's Angel Isle
 * Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
 * Sara Douglass's The Wayfarer Redemption series
 * Brian Lee Durfee's The Forgetting Moon
 * Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter
 * David Anthony Durham's Acacia trilogy
 * Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko's Wanderers tetralogy, The Key of the Kingdom trilogy and Varan/The Copper King duology

E

 * David and Leigh Eddings' Belgariad /Malloreon series, Elenium/Tamuli series,The Redemption of Althalus, and The Dreamers series
 * E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros and Zimiamvian Trilogy
 * Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series
 * Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
 * Steven Erikson's Malazan world (Book of the Fallen and related series)
 * Also Ian C. Esslemont's books set in the Malazan world
 * Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer

F

 * Jennifer Fallon's The Demon Child Trilogy, The Hythrun Chronicles and Second Sons Trilogy
 * David Farland's The Runelords series
 * Bill Fawcett's SwordQuest series
 * Raymond E. Feist's The Riftwar Cycle
 * Jude Fisher's Fool's Gold series
 * John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
 * Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series

G

 * Neil Gaiman's Stardust
 * Alan Garner's The Owl Service
 * David Gemmell's Legend series
 * Mary Gentle's Grunts!
 * Felix Gilman's Ararat novels
 * Parke Godwin's Firelord'' series
 * Julia Golding's Dragonfly
 * Lisa Goldstein's The Red Magician
 * Vasili Golovachov's The Saviors of the Fan series
 * Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series
 * Ed Greenwood "Forgotten Realms"
 * Jim Grimsley's Kirith Kirin
 * Alexander Grin's Scarlet Sails

H

 * Barbara Hambly's Dragonsbane
 * J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series
 * Niel Hancock's Circle of Light, Wilderness of Four, and Windameir Circle series
 * Victoria Hanley's Healer and Seer series
 * M. John Harrison's Viriconium cycle
 * Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of Ages series
 * Markus Heitz's The Dwarves
 * Bernhard Hennen's Die Elfen series and Elfenritter trilogy
 * Carolyn Hennesy's Pandora series
 * Stuart Hill's The Icemark Chronicles series
 * Robin Hobb's Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies
 * P. C. Hodgell's Jame of the Kencyrath series
 * Wolfgang Hohlbein's Magic Moon series

I

 * Ian Irvine's The Three Worlds Cycle series
 * Ralf Isau's Neschan-Trilogie and Die Chroniken von Mirad

J

 * Nabila Jamshed's Wish Upon A Time - The Legendary Scimitar
 * N. K. Jemisin's The Inheritance trilogy (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods)
 * Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series

K

 * Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy
 * Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's The Keltiad series
 * Katharine Kerr's Deverry Cycle series
 * Ulrich Kiesow's The Dark Eye novels
 * Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
 * Leena Krohn's Tainaron

L

 * Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series
 * Mercedes Lackey's and James Mallory's Obsidian Trilogy
 * Mercedes Lackey's and Andre Norton's The Halfblood Chronicles
 * Derek Landy 's Skulduggery Pleasant
 * Jay Lake's City Imperishable and Dark Town series
 * Yulia Latynina's Empire of Veya series
 * Stephen R. Lawhead's Song of Albion Trilogy
 * Louise Lawrence's The Earth Witch
 * Tanith Lee's Birthgrave series and The Winter Players
 * Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series; Annals of the Western Shore
 * Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series
 * C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series
 * Svyatoslav Loginov's Terrestrial Ways
 * Sergei Lukyanenko's and Nick Perumov's Not the time for dragons

M

 * Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, A Court of Thorns and Roses series
 * R. A. MacAvoy's Tea with the Black Dragon
 * George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
 * Svetlana Martynchik's Labyrinths of Echo series (under the pseudonym Max Frei)
 * Aleksandr Mazin's Fargal, the World of Ashshur series and The Dragon of Kong series
 * Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series
 * Brian McClellan's Powder Mage series
 * Dennis L. McKiernan's The Iron Tower trilogy and other Mithgar works
 * Patricia A. McKillip's The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy
 * Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown
 * China Miéville's Bas-Lag cycle
 * Karen Miller's Godspeaker trilogy
 * Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist
 * L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Saga of Recluce and Spellsong Cycle and The Imager Portfolio
 * Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion series
 * Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné series, Eternal Champion series


 * William Morris' The Well at the World's End

N

 * Vera Nazarian's Lords of Rainbow
 * Stan Nicholls's Orcs: First Blood trilogy and Orcs: Bad Blood trilogy
 * William Nicholson's Noble Warriors series
 * Yuri Nikitin's The Three Kingdoms series
 * Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy
 * Andre Norton's Witch World series
 * Naomi Novik's Uprooted

O

 * Margaret Ogden's The Realm of the Elderlings series under the name Robin Hobb
 * Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death
 * H. L. Oldie (Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky)'s Fentezi series

P

 * Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle series
 * Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books
 * Nick Perumov's Ring of Darkness, Hjorward chronicles, Keeper of the Swords series
 * Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel Trilogy
 * Tamora Pierce's Tortall universe, Circle of Magic series
 * Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
 * Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy

R

 * Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies and Exiles Trilogy
 * L. James Rice's Sundering the Gods Saga
 * Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli and The Sword-Dancer Saga
 * Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicle
 * Vladislav Adolfovitch Rusanov's Hot Winds of North trilogy, Blades of Boundaries series and Dragons Slayer series
 * Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow

S

 * Fred Saberhagen's Earth End sequence
 * Angie Sage's Septimus Heap
 * R. A. Salvatore's Demon Wars series
 * Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive
 * Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Saga
 * Maria Semyonova's Wolfhound series
 * Jeff Smith's Bone series
 * Maria V. Snyder's Study Series and Glass Series
 * Brynne Stephens' The Dream Palace
 * Paul Stewart and Chris Ridell's The Edge Chronicles
 * Jonathan Stroud's The Bartimaeus Trilogy
 * Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Revelations, Riyria Chronicles and The First Empire
 * Rosemary Sutcliff's Celtic and Iron Age novels
 * Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series
 * Steph Swainston's The Year of Our War, Dangerous Offspring, and No Present Like Time
 * Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter, and the sequel The Dragons of Babel

T

 * Judith Tarr's The Hound and the Falcon series
 * Eldon Thompson's The Legend of Asahiel series
 * C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles Of Narnia series
 * J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and other books set in Middle-earth
 * Licia Troisi’s The Emerged Word series, The Dragon Girl series, Nashira’s Reigns series and Pandora series
 * Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen's Thief series
 * S.I.U.'s Tower of God

V

 * Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy
 * Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris novels
 * Vladimir Vasilyev's Shandalar

W

 * David Weber's Oath of Swords/War God series
 * Brent Weeks' Night Angel series, and Lightbringer series
 * Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance series
 * Janny Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow series
 * Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy and Shadowmarch series
 * Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight series and The Book of the New Sun

Y

 * Lee Yeongdo's Dragon Raja series and The Bird That Drinks Tears/The Bird That Drinks Blood
 * Jane Yolen's The Pit Dragon Chronicles series

Z

 * Roger Zelazny's Amber series
 * Paul Edwin Zimmer's Dark Border series: A Gathering of Heroes and Ingulf the Mad
 * Alexander Zorich's The Ways of Starborned trilogy and The Vault of Equilibrium tetralogy

Other media

 * Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * The Last Airbender
 * The Legend of Korra
 * Game of Thrones
 * House of the Dragon
 * Conan the Barbarian
 * Conan the Destroyer
 * Red Sonja
 * The Barbarians
 * The Lord of the Rings (film series)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
 * The Wheel of Time (TV series)