Top 5 Fantasy Books

It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means… The Bionic Book Worm’s Top 5 Tuesday!!

This week we’re talking about Fantasy books. I struggled with this, because I don’t know what counts as a fantasy book. If you’ve been following along with my crazy rants for more than a day, than you probably know I have a lot of trouble assigning/recognizing the lines of genres. So, I’ll do my best…

The Obvious Choices

No, that’s not the title of a book, though it would make a pretty good title, now that I think about it. I’ve sacrificed this first pick to appease the obvious choices: The Lord of the Rings series, The Wheel of Time series, The Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones), and the Harry Potter series.

Six of Crows book cover

Six of Crows

Not the traditional fantasy of swords and dragons, but I’m pretty sure it’s still fantasy, and it’s awesome. Though I still haven’t gotten around to Crooked Kingdom.

Steelheart

This is the one that I worry doesn’t count as fantasy. There are no swords, it’s set in current day, and it’s about superheroes. But isn’t that still fantasy???

Nevernight

Nevernight

Finally read this one a few months ago thanks to a little nudge from Taylor @ Nerd Narration, and despite the beginning being a little rocky, I loved it. Now to read Godsgrave before the third book comes out!

The Warded Man

The opening book to The Demon Cycle, and probably my favourite of the whole series. It has a lot of elements that are very familiar to fantasy books but with some awesome twists and a magic system that feels completely new but somehow immediately comfortable.

Fun fact about this post: It’s taking me way longer than it should to write because I’m watching The Avengers with my son.