Hi guys, I hope you are all well. Today I wanted to share my favourite books of all time. I’ve mentioned many of my favourite books in past posts, but I realised that I’ve never done a full post of them, so here we are. I have a lot of favourites but I’ve narrowed it down to 30 books that I love. I have also mentioned some honourable mentions for the fantasy books because there are just so many to pick from. I’ve picked one book or series for each author. Let’s get started.
Fantasy books/series:
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His Dark Materials / Philip Pullman / full review
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The Faithful and the Fallen series / John Gwynne / full review
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Fudoki / Kij Johnson / full review
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Pellinor series / Alison Croggon / 5 reasons to read review
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Old Kingdom trilogy / Garth Nix / 5 reasons to read review
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Under Heaven / Guy Gavriel Kay / full review
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Powder Mage trilogy / Brian McClellan / bullet point review
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The Sword of Kaigen / M. L.Wang / full review
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The Goblin Emperor / Katherine Addison / full review
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The Beast Player / Nahoko Uehashi / full review
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The Black Magicians trilogy / Trudi Canavan / full review
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Daughter of the Forest / Juliet Marillier / 5 reasons to read review
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Echoes of the Fall trilogy / Adrian Tchaikovsky / full review
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Warbreaker / Brandon Sanderson / full review
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Inheritance cycle / Christopher Paolini / full review
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The Winternight trilogy / Katherine Arden / 5 reasons to read review
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The Hobbit / J. R. R. Tolkien / 5 reasons to read review
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld / Patricia A. McKillip / full review
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Circe / Madeline Miller
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Spellslinger series / Sebastien de Castell / full review
Honourable mentions: Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher, the Riyria Revelations series by Michael J. Sullivan, Never Die by Rob J. Hayes, the Licanius trilogy by James Islington and the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver.
Non-fantasy books:
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Watership Down / Richard Adams / 5 reasons to read review
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North and South / Elizabeth Gaskell / 5 reasons to read review
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Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen / 5 reasons to read review
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War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy / some thoughts while reading
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Bronte / 5 reasons to read review
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Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte / 5 reasons to read review
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Shardlake series / C. J. Sansom / 5 reasons to read review
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To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee / 5 reasons to read review
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Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro / 5 reasons to read review
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The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood / 5 reasons to read review
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The Hound of the Baskervilles / Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Book Thief / Markus Zusak / 5 reasons to read review
thelittlebookowl 
I want to read Circe, the Book Thief and To Kill a Mockingbird so badly! Thank you so much for sharing your favorites with us! You’ve made me discover so many books that I did not even know about (and most of them are fantasies so that’s great!).
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I hope you enjoy any you check out in this list. 🙂
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Great list! I’m with you on many of them!
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Thank you.
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To be honest, you’ve covered a lot of my favourite books too! The only other ones I would add would be: The Night Angels Trilogy by Brent Weeks, The Riyria Chronicles by Michael J. Sullivan and the Mistborn series by Brando Sanderson.
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Ah year the Riyria Chronicles and the Mistborn trilogy are both fantastic. I haven’t read the night angels trilogy though.
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The Night Angels trilogy is pretty dark, great if you like Joe Abercrombie’s books or George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire but it does cover some really dark topics.
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That’s a quite eclectic selection of books. Reviewers are so productive these days that I can’t keep up with it anymore and it’s hard to chose among such a big a range of titles. Lately some other reviewers are raving about the Goblin Emperor, so I might just add this one to my TBR.
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Yeah I like to read a wide range of books. There are a lot of books out there so I completely agree that it can be tricky to keep track of them all. 🙂
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I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t read so many of these, although many or on my to resd list! (Of the fantasy books at least)
The bear and the nightingale and warbreaker are also some of my favourites!
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Such a great list! This is a reminder that I have to read Under Heaven! 😀
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YES Under Heaven is fantastic. I hope you enjoy when you get to it. Thank you. 🙂
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