List of high fantasy fiction
This list contains a variety of examples of high fantasy fiction. It is not exhaustive, merely illustrative; the works listed thus cover a very broad spectrum of literary quality.
Books
- Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain
- Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions
- R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy
- Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn
- Martin Bertram's Vanity of Vanities
- Terry Brooks's Shannara series
- Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series
- C. J. Cherryh's Fortress series
- K. G. Childs' The Fortress City
- Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence
- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
- Sara Douglass's The Wayfarer Redemption series
- Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter
- David Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon and Elenium/Tamuli
- Eric Rucker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros and Zimiamvian Trilogy
- Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen saga
- David Farland's The Runelords saga
- Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga and other Midkemian sagas
- Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series
- David Gemmell's Legend saga
- Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth saga
- Frank Grave's The Ancestral Trail series
- Jim Grimsley's Kirith Kirin
- P. C. Hodgell's Jame of the Kencyrath series
- Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time saga
- Katharine Kerr's Deverry series
- Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series
- Mercedes Lackey's and James Mallory's Obsidian Trilogy
- Mercedes Lackey's and Andre Norton's The Halfblood Chronicles
- Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series
- C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series
- Nathan Pyles's An Domhain Chronicles series
- Patricia A. McKillip's The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy
- Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown
- George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga
- Dennis L. McKiernan's The Iron Tower trilogy
- Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist
- L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Saga of Recluce and Spellsong Cycle
- Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion series
- William Morris' The Well at the World's End
- Andre Norton's Witch World series
- Margaret Ogden's The Realm of the Elderlings series under the name Robin Hobb
- Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
- R. A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms and Demon Wars series
- J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy
- Margaret Weis's and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance series
- Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy
- Gene Wolfe's Wizard Knight series
- Roger Zelazny's Amber series
- Christopher Paolini's Inherintence Trilogy