Library Journal Best Books - Fantasy (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

2025

The Bones Beneath My Skin
(*)
T.J. Klune

The Ashfire King
(*)
Chelsea Abdullah

The Sovereign
(*)
C.L. Clark

Tonight, I Bleed
(*)
Katharine J. Adams

Immortal
(*)
Sue Lynn Tan

Mother of Rome
(*)
Lauren J.A. Bear

Water Moon
(*)
Samantha Sotto Yambao

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
(*)
Heather Fawcett

The Outcast Mage
(*)
Annabel Campbell

Aunt Tigress
(*)
Emily Yu-Xuan Qin

Greenteeth
(*)
Molly O'Neill

The Keeper of Lonely Spirits
(*)
E.M. Anderson

The River Has Roots
(*)
Amal El-Mohtar

The Tomb of Dragons
(*)
Katherine Addison

The Winter Goddess
(*)
Megan Barnard

A Drop of Corruption
(*)
Robert Jackson Bennett

Eat the Ones You Love
(*)
Sarah Maria Griffin

The Raven Scholar
(*)
Antonia Hodgson

This Monster of Mine
(*)
Shalini Abeysekara

The Adventures of Mary Darling
(*)
Pat Murphy

Anima Rising
(*)
Christopher Moore

Anji Kills a King
(*)
Evan Leikam

Awakened
(*)
A.E. Osworth

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
(*)
Neon Yang

City of All Seasons
(*)
Oliver K. Langmead

Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil
(*)
Oliver Darkshire

When the Tides Held the Moon
(*)
Venessa Vida Kelley

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
(*)
V.E. Schwab

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me
(*)
Django Wexler

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association
(*)
Caitlin Rozakis

Harmattan Season
(*)
Tochi Onyebuchi

Six Wild Crowns
(*)
Holly Race

The Witch Roads
(*)
Kate Elliott

The Memory of the Ogisi
(*)
Moses Ose Utomi

Beasts of Carnaval
(*)
Rosalia Rodrigo

The Dragon Wakes with Thunder
(*)
K.X. Song

Lessons in Magic and Disaster
(*)
Charlie Jane Anders

Silvercloak
(*)
L.K. Steven

Audition For The Fox
(*)
Martin Cahill

Katabasis
(*)
R.F. Kuang

A Ruin, Great and Free
(*)
Cadwell Turnbull

The Summer War
(*)
Naomi Novik

Wild Reverence
(*)
Rebecca Ross

The Glass Slide World
(*)
Carrie Vaughn

Kill the Beast
(*)
Serra Swift

The Ordeals
(*)
Rachel Greenlaw

Psychopomp and Circumstance
(*)
Eden Royce

Red City
(*)
Marie Lu

When They Burned the Butterfly
(*)
Wen-yi Lee

The Witching Moon Manor
(*)
Stacy Sivinski

The Blackfire Blade
(*)
James Logan

Blood for the Undying Throne
(*)
Sung-il Kim

The Bookshop Below
(*)
Georgia Summers

Brigands & Breadknives
(*)
Travis Baldree

Dead Hand Rule
(*)
Max Gladstone

The Everlasting
(*)
Alix E. Harrow

Fallen City
(*)
Adrienne Young

Letters From An Imaginary Country
(*)
Theodora Goss

The Strength of the Few
(*)
James Islington

Turns of Fate
(*)
Anne Bishop

Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore
(*)
Emily Krempholtz

The War Beyond
(*)
Andrea Stewart

Witches of Dubious Origin
(*)
Jenn McKinlay

Award Categories

Christian Fiction

Contemporary Romance

Crime Fiction

Crime Fiction: Mystery

Crime Fiction: Suspense

Crime Fiction: Thriller

Fantasy

Graphic Novels

Historical Fiction

Historical Romance

Horror

LGBTQIA+ Romance

Literary Fiction

Paranormal Romance

Pop Fiction

Romance

Romantasy

Science Fiction

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018