Top 100 Epic Fantasy Books Ranked By Fan Rating

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss
9.27 out of 10 Stars With 41,320 Votes

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R.R. Martin
9.07 out of 10 Stars with 121,425 Votes

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
9.04 out of 10 Stars with 492,230 Votes

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1) by Brandon Sanderson
9.01 out of 10 Stars with 11,672 Votes

The Lies of Locke Lamora (The Gentleman Bastard #1) by Scott Lynch
8.89 out of 10 Stars with 12,903 Votes

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
8.88 out of 10 Stars with 580,434 Votes

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
8.75 out of 10 Stars with 4,714 Votes

Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) by Juliet Marillier
8.72 out of 10 stars with 12,348 Votes

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson
8.70 out of 10 Stars with 25,349 Votes

The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie
8.59 out of 10 Stars with 13,137 Votes

The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan
8.58 out of 10 Stars with 53,320 Votes

The Heroes (The First Law) by Joe Abercrombie
8.56 out of 10 Stars with 3,420 Votes

The Way of Shadows (Night Angel #1) by Brent Weeks
8.55 out of 10 Stars with 15,396 Votes

Fool's Errand (Tawny Man #1) by Robin Hobb
8.54 out of 10 Stars with 8,942 Votes

The Warded Man (Demon Cycle #1) by Peter V. Brett
8.53 out of 10 Stars with 7,545 Votes

Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy #1) by Robin Hobb
8.49 out of 10 Stars with 19,029 Votes

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
8.47 out of 10 Stars with 7,928 Votes

The Black Prism (Lightbringer #1) by Brent Weeks
8.45 out of 10 Stars 4,308 Votes

Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga #1) by Raymond E. Feist
8.43 out of 10 Stars with 14,520 Votes

The Curse of Chalion (Chalion #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold
8.37 out of 10 Stars with 6,357 Votes

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind
8.35 out of 10 Stars with 37,932 Votes

Hawkwood and the Kings (The Monarchies of God #1-2) by Paul Kearney
8.31 out of 10 Stars with 1,047 Votes

Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera #1) by Jim Butcher
8.30 out of 10 Stars With 13,578 Votes

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
8.22 out of 10 Stars with 31,300 Votes

The Black Company (The Chronicle of the Black Company #1) by Glen Cook
8.16 out of 10 Stars with 4,380 Votes

Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion #1) by Elizabeth Moon
8.15 out of 10 Stars with 1,942 Votes

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King
8.10 out of 10 Stars with 68,239 Votes

The Riddlemaster of Hed (Riddle-Master #1) by Patricia A. McKillip
8.10 out of 10 Stars with 1,972 Votes

Rhapsody: Child of Blood (Symphony of Ages #1) by Elizabeth Haydon
8.07 out of 10 Stars with 5,273 Votes

The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #1) by Tad Williams
8.06 out of 10 Stars with 11,432 Votes

Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen #1) by Steven Erikson
7.97 out of 10 Stars with 9,824 Votes

The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing #1) by R. Scott Bakker
7.89 out of 10 Stars with 3,590 Votes

The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin #1) by Daniel Abraham
7.87 out of 10 Stars with 1,154 Votes

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy #1) by N.K. Jemisin
7.85 out of 10 Stars with 5,032 Votes

Among Thieves (Tales of the Kin #1) by Douglas Hulick
7.83 out of 10 Stars with 1,058 Votes

A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet #1) by Daniel Abraham
7.82 out of 10 Stars with 1,781 Votes

A Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of Shadows #1) by J.V. Jones
7.78 out of 10 Stars with 1,729 Votes

The Briar King (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone #1) by Greg Keyes
7.71 out of 10 Stars with 3,109 Votes

The Red Wolf Conspiracy (Chathrand Voyages #1) by Robert V.S. Redick
7.67 out of 10 Stars with 1,147 Votes

Shadowmarch (Shadowmarch #1) by Tad Williams
7.67 out of 10 Stars with 2,793 Votes

Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
7.65 out of 10 Stars with 1,039 Votes

The One Kingdom (The Swan's War #1) by Sean Russell
7.60 out of 10 Stars with 1,105 Votes

Acacia: The War with the Mein (Acacia #1) by David Anthony Durham
7.59 out of 10 Stars with 1,724 Votes

Winterbirth (The Godless World #1) by Brian Ruckley
7.32 out of 10 Stars with 1,209 Votes

Eragon (Inheritance #1) by Christopher Paolini
7.23 out of 10 Stars with 272,420 Votes