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. The list is ordered by author's last name.

Books

*Lloyd Alexander's "The Chronicles of Prydain"
*Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions"
*R. Scott Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" series
*Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn"
*Martin Bertram's "Vanity of Vanities"
*Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy ("Hawk of May", "Kingdom of Summer", "In Winter's Shadow")
*Marie Brennan's "Doppelganger"
*Terry Brooks's "Shannara series"
*Jim Butcher's "Codex Alera"
*Lois McMaster Bujold's "Chalion" series
*C. J. Cherryh's "Ealdwood" and "Fortress series"
*Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising"
*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"/"The Dreamers
*Eric Rücker Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros" and "Zimiamvian Trilogy"
*Kate Elliott's "The Crown of Stars" series
*Michael Ende's "The Neverending Story"
*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
*L. B. Graham's "The Binding of the Blade" series
*Frank Grave's "The Ancestral Trail" series
*Jim Grimsley's "Kirith Kirin"
*Robin Hobb's "Farseer", "Liveship" and "Tawny Man" trilogies
*P. C. Hodgell's "Jame of the Kencyrath" series
*Ian Irvine's "The Three Worlds Cycle" series
*Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" saga
*Guy Gavriel Kay's "The Fionavar Tapestry" trilogy
*Katharine Kerr's "Deverry" series
*Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" saga
*Mercedes Lackey's "Valdemar" series
*Mercedes Lackey's and James Mallory's "Obsidian Trilogy"
*Mercedes Lackey's and Andre Norton's "The Halfblood Chronicles"
*Stephen R. Lawhead's "Song of Albion" Trilogy
*Tanith Lee's Birthgrave series
*Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" series
*C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" series
*George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series
*Ann McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" series
*Dennis L. McKiernan's "The Iron Tower" trilogy
*Patricia A. McKillip's "The Riddle-Master of Hed" trilogy
*Robin McKinley's "The Hero and the Crown"
*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
*Michael Moorcock's "Eternal Champion" series
*Leslie Ann Moore's "Griffin's Daughter" series
*William Morris' "The Well at the World's End"
*Garth Nix' "Abhorsen Trilogy"
*Andre Norton's "Witch World" series
*Margaret Ogden's "The Realm of the Elderlings" series under the name Robin Hobb
*Christopher Paolini's "Inheritance Cycle"
*Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" books
*Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel Trilogy
*Tamora Pierce's Alanna" series, Circle of Magic" series
*Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series
*Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy
*Jennifer Roberson's "Chronicles of the Cheysuli" and "The Sword-Dancer Saga"
*Fred Saberhagen's "Earth End" sequence
*R. A. Salvatore's "Forgotten Realms" and "Demon Wars" series
*Jonathan Stroud's "The Bartimaeus Trilogy"
*Eldon Thompson's "The Legend of Asahiel" series
*J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit", "Silmarillion", "Unfinished Tales", and "Children of Húrin"
*Jack Vance's "Lyonesse Trilogy"
*David Weber's "Oath of Swords/War God" series
*Margaret Weis's and Tracy Hickman's "Dragonlance" series
*Tad Williams's "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" trilogy
*Gene Wolfe's "The Wizard Knight" series and "The Book of the New Sun"
*Roger Zelazny's "Amber" series
*Jennifer Fallon's "The Demon Child Trilogy", "The Hythrun Chronicles" and "Second Sons Trilogy"
*Paul Edwin Zimmer's Dark Border series: "A Gathering of Heroes" and "Ingulf the Mad"