Best fantasy novels by decade
Here’s an update to this list.
| Winner | Runner Ups | |||
| Decade | Author | Title | Author | Title |
| 2020s | Alix E. Harrow | The Once and Future Witches | Margarita Montimore | Oona Out of Order |
| Matt Haig | The Midnight Library | |||
| Claire North | Notes from the Burning Age | |||
| Jo Walton | Or What You Will | |||
| 2010s | Claire North | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Jasper Fforde | Early Riser |
| Matt Haig | How to Stop Time | |||
| Matt Ruff | Lovecraft Country | |||
| Jo Walton | My Real Children | |||
| 2000s | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Guy Gavriel Kay | The Last Light of the Sun |
| Brandon Sanderson | Elantris | |||
| Jo Walton | Tooth and Claw | |||
| Sarah Zettel | A Sorcerer’s Treason | |||
| 1990s | Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana | Joanne Bertin | The Last Dragonlord |
| Charles de Lint | Someplace to Be Flying | |||
| Robin Hobb | Assassin’s Apprentice | |||
| George R. R. Martin | A Game of Thrones | |||
| Yves Meynard | The Book of Knights | |||
| Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | Good Omens | |||
| Anne Rice | The Witching Hour | |||
| Sean Russell | The Initiate Brother | |||
| Sean Stewart | Nobody’s Son | |||
| 1980s | Orson Scott Card | Seventh Son | Ken Grimwood | Replay |
| Barbara Hambly | Dragonsbane | |||
| Tim Powers | The Anubis Gates | |||
| Fred Saberhagen | The First Book of Swords | |||
| 1970s | William Goldman | The Princess Bride | Richard Adams | Watership Down |
| Terry Brooks | The Sword of Shannara | |||
| Stephen R. Donaldson | Lord Foul’s Bane | |||
| Anne Rice | Interview with the Vampire | |||
| 1960s | Peter S. Beagle | The Last Unicorn | Ursula K. Le Guin | A Wizard of Earthsea |
| Jack Vance | The Eyes of the Overworld | |||
| 1950s | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | Jack Vance | The Dying Earth |
| 1940s | Mervyn Peake | Titus Groan | ||
| 1930s | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | ||