With a panel of leading fantasy authors—N.K. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Adeyemi, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Cassandra Clare and Marlon James—TIME presents the most engaging, inventive and influential works of fantasy fiction, in chronological order beginning in the 9th century.
* The Arabian Nights
* Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
* Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1862)
* Lewis Caroll - Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
* E. Nesbit - Five Children and It (1902) (Five Children #1)
* L. Frank Baum - Ozma of Oz (1907) (Oz #3)
* P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins (1934) (Mary Poppins #1)
* C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) (Narnia #2)
* Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)
* C.S. Lewis - The Voyage of Dawn Treader (1952) (Narnia #5)
* J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) (LOTR #1)
* Amos Tutuola - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)
* J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers (1954) (LOTR #2)
* J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of the King (1955) (LOTR #3)
* Jin Yong - A Hero Born (1957) (Legends of the Condor Heroes #1)
* T.H. White - The Once and Future King (1958)
* Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach (1961)
* Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
* Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time (1962) (Time Quintet #1)
* Manuel Mujica Lainez - The Wandering Unicorn (1965)
* Anne McCaffrey - Dragonflight (1968)
* Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn (1968)
* Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) Earthsea Cycle #1)
* Mary Stewart - The Crystal Cave (1970) (Arthurian Saga #1)
* Ursula K. Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan (1970) (Earthsea Cycle #2)
* Richard Adams - Watership Down (1972) (Watership Down #1)
* Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising (1973) (The Dark is Rising #2)
* William Goldman - The Princess Bride (1973)
* Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting (1975)
* Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) (Time Quintet #3)
* Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber (1979)
* Roald Dahl - The BFG (1982)
* Tamora Pierce - Alanna - The First Adventure (1983) (Song of the Lioness #1)
* Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986) (Howl's Moving Castle #1)
* Brian Jacques - Redwall (1986) (Redwall #1)
* Ellen Kushner - Swordspoint (1987) (Riverside #1)
* Diana Wynne Jones - The Lives of Christoper Chant (1988) (Chrestomanci #2)
* Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World (1990) (The Wheel of Time #1)
* Terry Pratchett og Neil Gaiman - Good Omens (1990)
* Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) (Khalifa Brothers #1)
* Diana Gabaldon - Outlander (1991) (Outlander #1)
* Guy Gavriel Kay - Tigana (1990)
* Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass (1995) (His Dark Materials #1)
* Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (1996)
* Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted (1997)
* Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (1997) (His Dark Materials #2)
* Nalo Hopkinson - Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)
* J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) (HP #3)
* Robin McKinley - Spindle's End (2000)
* George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords (2000) (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) (lest 2021)
* Neil Gaiman - American Gods (2001)
* Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men (2003) (Discworld #30)
* J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) (HP #6)
* Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn - The Final Empire (2006) (Mistborn Saga #1)
* Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind (2007) (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1)
* Cassandra Clare - City of Glass (2009) (The Mortal Instruments #3)
* Grace Lin - Where The Mountain Meets The Moon (2009)
* N.K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010) (Inheritance Trilogy #1)
* Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death (2010) (Who Fears Death #1)
* Nnedi Okorafor - Akata Witch (2011) (Akata Witch #1)
* Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus (2011)
* Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles (2011)
* Susan Ee - Angelfall (2011) (Penryn & the End of the Days #1)
* Sofia Samator - A Stranger in Olondria (2013) (Olondria #1)
* David Mitchell - The Bone Clocks (2014)
* Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant (2015)
* Sabaa Tahir - An Ember in the Ashes (2015) (An Ember in the Ashes #1)
* N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season (2015) (The Broken Earth #1)
* Kelly Link - Get in Trouble (2015)
* Ken Liu - The Grace of Kings (2015) (The Dandelion Dynasty #1)
* Daniel José Older - Shadowshaper (2015) (Shadowshaper Cypher #1)
* Leigh Bardugo - Six of Crows (2015) (Six of Crows #1)
* Renée Ahdieh - The Wrath and the Dawn (2015) (The Wrath and the Dawn #1)
* Charlie Jane Anders - All the Birds in the Sky (2016)
* Sabaa Tahir - A Torch Against the Night (2016) (An Ember in the Ashes #2)
* Ken Liu - The Wall of Storms (2016) (The Dandelion Dynasty #2)
* Tochi Onyebuchi - Beasts Made of Night (2017) (Beasts Made of Night #1)
* Neon Yang - The Black Tides of Heaven (2017) (Tensorate #1)
* Victor Lavalle - The Changeling (2017)
* Fonda Lee - Jade City (2017) (The Green Bone Saga #1)
* N.K. Jemisin - The Stone Sky (2017) (The Broken Earth #3)
* Roshani Chokshi - Aru Shah and the End of Time (2018) (Pandava #1)
* Anna-Marie McLemore - Blanca og Roja (2018)
* Tomi Adeyemi - Children of Blood and Bone (2018) (Legacy of Orïsha #1)
* Madeline Miller - Circe (2018)
* Tasha Suri - Empire of Sand (2018) (The Books of Ambha #1)
* R.F. Kuang - The Poppy War (2018) (The Poppy War #1)
* L. Penelope - Song of Blood and Stone (2015) (Earthsinger Chronicles #1)
* Rebecca Roanhorse - Trail of Lightning (2018) (The Sixth World #1)
* C.L. Polk - Witchmark (2018) (The Kingston Cycle #1)
* Marlon James - Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
* Tomi Adeyemi - Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2019) (Legacy of Orïsha #2)
* R.F. Kuang - The Dragon Republic (2019) (The Poppy War #2)
* Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019)
* Akwaeke Emezi - Pet (2019)
* Kacen Kallender - Queen of the Conquered (2019) (Islands of Blood and Storm #1)
* Evan Winter - The Rage of Dragons (2017) (The Burning #1)
* Hafsah Faizal - We Hunt the Flame (2019) (Sands of Arawiya #1)
* Darcie Little Badger - Elatsoe (2020)
* Isabel Ibañez - Woven in Moonlight (2020) (Woven in Moonlight #1)
