51 Fantasy Series You Need to Read Before You Die
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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J.R.R. Tolkien
4.40 avg rating — 3,050,653 ratings 
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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C.S. Lewis
4.28 avg rating — 694,070 ratings 
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss
4.52 avg rating — 1,051,123 ratings 
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The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set: The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magician's Land
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Lev Grossman
4.32 avg rating — 3,176 ratings 17. 
A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1) 4.47 avg rating — 88,084 ratings
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A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3, Part 2 of 2) 4.55 avg rating — 102,757 ratings
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The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
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Terry Brooks
3.77 avg rating — 100,407 ratings 
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The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)
by:
Steven Erikson
4.49 avg rating — 43,918 ratings 
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The Fionavar Tapestry (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1-3)
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Guy Gavriel Kay
4.23 avg rating — 7,757 ratings 33. 
The Dark Elf Trilogy Collector's Edition (Forgotten Realms: Dark Elf Trilogy, #1-3; Legend of Drizzt, #1-3)
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R.A. Salvatore
4.36 avg rating — 29,119 ratings 
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The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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Glen Cook
3.93 avg rating — 53,320 ratings 
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The Chronicles of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-5)
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Roger Zelazny
4.36 avg rating — 11,454 ratings 40. 
Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 49,454 ratings
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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
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T.H. White
4.07 avg rating — 116,432 ratings 
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The Weird of the White Wolf (The Elric Saga, #3)
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Michael Moorcock
3.93 avg rating — 11,011 ratings 56. 
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
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R. Scott Bakker
3.84 avg rating — 23,048 ratings 
