📚 Fantasy

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Secondary worlds built to be believed: magic with rules, maps, and the two Oxbridge men whose shadow hasn’t lifted.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject fantasy fiction in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Road to Oz	L. Frank Baum	1909	538
Phantastes	George MacDonald	1850	472
The Lilac Fairy Book	Andrew Lang	1910	325
Red Nails	Robert E. Howard	1975	175
Wet Magic	Edith Nesbit	1937	166
The Silmarillion	J.R.R. Tolkien	1977	157
Prince Caspian	C. S. Lewis	1951	147
The Last Battle	C. S. Lewis	1956	107
The king of Elfland's daughter	Lord Dunsany	1924	84
The Farthest Shore	Ursula K. Le Guin	1972	65
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth	J.R.R. Tolkien	1980	62
Equal Rites	Terry Pratchett	1987	55
Wintersmith	Terry Pratchett	2006	52
The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2)	Robert Jordan	1990	48
The Last Unicorn	Peter S. Beagle	1968	46
The Serpent's Shadow	Rick Riordan	2012	44
Sabriel	Garth Nix	1995	42
The Wishsong of Shannara	Terry Brooks	1985	40
Inheritance	Christopher Paolini	2010	38
Howl's Moving Castle	Diana Wynne Jones	1986	37
New Spring	Robert Jordan	2004	37
Test of the Twins	Margaret Weis	1986	33
Fire and Ice	Erin Hunter	2003	33
Rising Storm	Erin Hunter	2004	33
Lud-in-the-mist	Hope Mirrlees	1926	32
The Princess Bride	William Goldman	1973	31
The School for Good and Evil	Soman Chainani	2007	31
The Other Wind	Ursula K. Le Guin	2001	30
Pawn of Prophecy	David Eddings	1982	27
The Hero of Ages	Brandon Sanderson	2008	27

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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