 | Sabriel by Garth Nix
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 1st in the Keys of the kingdom trilogy: simply brilliant, fantasy epic that resolves around a line of necromancers or abhorsens in their fight to defeat evil, read all three, brilliant development.
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 | Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 1st in saga: Reeve's books are highly original, inventive and well written. Following the lives two young adults as they struggle for survival in an unrecognisable future.
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 | Uglies (Uglies Quartet) by Scott Westerfeld
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £1.55 1st in saga: great book, highly original sci-fi for younger readers.
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 | Noughts and Crosses (Noughts & Crosses Trilogy) by Malorie Blackman
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.11 1st in trilogy: although the setting is in a fantasy world this is not the focus; instead enjoy what is a moving love story set in a world of prejudice.
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 | Northern Lights: Adult Edition (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £0.01 1st in Pullmans much celebrated trilogy, flawfless pacing, gritting action and expert re-imaginging of myths
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 | The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 1st in the looking glass wars trilogy: great twist on alice in wonderland
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 | Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Thrilling and beautifully written adventure, although childrens anyone and every will love this
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 | The Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom Trilogy) by Clare B. Dunkle
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £4.52 1st in trilogy: although for younger readers some quite dangerous and violent aspects resonate in this tale concerning the myth of goblins stealing young girls.
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 | Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Trilogy) by Celia Friedman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.72 1st in Coldfire Trilogy: set in a worlds where imagination is key, full of magic
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 | The Mists of Avalon (Mists of Avalon 1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.00 1st in Avalon series: focusing on the women in Arthurian legend.
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 | Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera) (Codex Alera) by Jim Butcher
Buy used from: £5.28 1st in the Codex Alera series: great writer, classic fantasy as opposed to his Dresden books.
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 | Poison Study (MIRA) (MIRA) by Maria V. Snyder
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £4.25 1st in trilogy: brilliantly engaging, subtle fantasy read; magic, sourcery, political tensions and love.
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 | Covenants: A Borderlands Novel (Borderland (Roc)) by Lorna Freeman
Buy used from: £3.50 1st in Borderland series: complex but well wrtien enough to keep interest
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 | Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.24 1st in Malazan Book of the Fallen series: pure epic fantasy.
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 | To Ride Hell's Chasm by Janny Wurts
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Set in the world of the authors Wars of Light & Shadow books, but this is a stand alone.
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 | Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters Trilogy) by Juliet Marillier
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 1st in Seven waters trilogy
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 | Good Omens (Discworld) by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Devilishly funny and wickedly poignant; Prattchet's and Gaiman's reflections on all things human are brilliant and not to be matched.
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 | The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £0.01 1st disc world book, read them all Pratchett is a superb writer, sharp, witty and incredibly insightful.
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 | Resenting the Hero by Moira J. Moore
Buy used from: £1.55 1st in Heros series: pretty good semed original and enjoyable
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 | Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green
Buy used from: £1.49 Solid fantasy read, real funny in places
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 | Mordant's Need: The Mirror Of Her Dreams & A Man Rides Through: "The Mirror Of Her Dreams", "A Man Rides Through" (Gollancz S.F.) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy used from: £3.77 Both books in Mordant's Need in this long and convoluted worth reading fantasy.
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 | The Magic of Recluce (Saga of Recluce) by L.E. Modesitt Jr
Buy used from: £0.01 1st in Recluse series: not my favourite by Modesitt but still good if a bit dull, a more subtle and gentle fantasy with sophisticated undertones.
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 | The Many-coloured Land (The Saga of the Exiles) by Julian May
Buy used from: £0.01 1st in the Saga of the Exiles: truthfully it starts abit slow but wonderful once you get into it.
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 | Dragonflight (Corgi Science-Fiction) by Anne McCaffrey
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 1st in dragons of pern series: very good series with real longevity, inventive and complex.
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 | The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Vol 1 by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.01 Fabulous trilogy! Tolkien creates a brilliantly complex and magical world, that I will always come back too.
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