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Jin Yong wrote fifteen novels and novellas between 1955 and 1972, serialized a few thousand characters a day in Hong Kong newspapers, and they became, by most accounts, the most widely read fiction in the Chinese language of the twentieth century. Sales estimates for the Jin Yong books run from ...

Thomas Covenant arrived in 1977 as the dark half of the strangest double bet in publishing history. Lester del Rey built the launch of his new fantasy imprint on a pair of unknowns: Terry Brooks, whose The Sword of Shannara answered Tolkien with a photocopy, and Stephen R. Donaldson, whose ...

The Once and Future King is the twentieth century’s Arthur, the version every later retelling either borrows from or argues with, and it has the strangest shape of any masterpiece in fantasy: a children’s comedy from 1938, two darker sequels, and a final part that never appeared on its own, ...

Terry Pratchett books come with one piece of advice nearly every fan agrees on and one problem nobody solves. The advice is not to start at the beginning. The Colour of Magic is the first Discworld novel and it is not the place to begin, because Pratchett hadn’t worked out ...

Travis Baldree books come with the best origin story in modern fantasy publishing, and it isn’t even about the writing. Consider the resume. The man spent two decades making video games, Fate, Torchlight and Rebel Galaxy among them, then became a full-time audiobook narrator with hundreds of titles in his ...

TJ Klune books are the sweetest thing this cluster covers, and right now they’re also the busiest corner of it. We Burned So Bright, his end-of-the-world road trip, landed in spring 2026 with a starred Library Journal review and a box of tissues built into the premise. News broke in ...

Terry Goodkind books require the most honest page in this whole author series, because no shelf in modern fantasy has a wider gap between its commercial scale and its critical standing, or between its first book and its last. The scale is real: 25 million copies by the standard count, ...

Terry Brooks books carry two headlines half a century apart, and both belong at the top of this page. The first is 1977: The Sword of Shannara became the first fantasy novel to hit the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, the book Lester del Rey bet a brand-new ...

Tamsyn Muir books mean, for nearly everyone, one series: the Locked Tomb, which opens with Gideon the Ninth and the most quoted blurb of its era, Charles Stross’s “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” The blurb is accurate, it’s printed on the actual book, and it still ...

Tad Williams books sit at the center of the strangest injustice in modern fantasy: the man taught the doorstopper era how to work, sold more than seventeen million copies of his books, directly inspired the writers who now outrank him in every casual conversation, and somehow became the genre’s best-kept ...