According to UNESCO, over 2 million books are published every year. That’s a lot of books. And if we’re being honest, not all of them are well-written — especially fantasy books.
If you’re a fan of fantasy, then you know that worldbuilding, nuanced, but endearing, characters, and a great plot are the keys to getting people to love your book. But how do you find great fantasy books amongst the 2 million books published yearly?
Enter Kindle Unlimited.
Contrary to popular opinion, Kindle Unlimited has books that are not in the romance niche. So if you want to read fantasy novels without spending too much money on them, subscribe to Kindle Unlimited for $9.99/month.
This article will explore the best fantasy books on Kindle Unlimited. If you’re a fantasy fan, these books will stimulate your imagination with their expert world-building and nuanced characters.
Let’s dive in!
7 best fantasy books on Kindle Unlimited
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- Audible Audiobook
- Leigh Bardugo (Author) – Lauren Fortgang (Narrator)
- English (Publication Language)
- 11/30/2012 (Publication Date) – Audible Studios (Publisher)
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near-impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves her life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha… and the secrets of her heart.
This book is Book 1 of the Shadow and Bone series. The other two books are Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising.
- The Witch’s Tree by Elena Collins
- Audible Audiobook
- Elena Collins (Author) – Antonia Beamish (Narrator)
- English (Publication Language)
- 05/17/2022 (Publication Date) – Boldwood Books (Publisher)
Present day
As a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dreams for her future, artist Selena needs a retreat. The picture-postcard Sloe Cottage in the Somerset village of Ashcombe promises to be the perfect place to forget her problems, and Selena settles into her new home as spring arrives. But it isn’t long before Selena hears the past whispering to her. Sloe Cottage is keeping secrets that refuse to stay hidden.
1682
Grace Cotter longs for nothing more than a husband and family of her own. Content enough with her work on the farm, looking after her father, and learning the secrets of her grandmother Bett’s healing hands, nevertheless Grace still hopes for love. But these are dangerous times for dreamers, and rumors and gossip can be deadly. One mis-move and Grace’s fate looks set…
Separated by three hundred years, two women are drawn together by a home bathed in blood and magic. Grace Cotter’s spirit needs to rest, and only Selena can help her now.
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Audible Audiobook
- Tomi Adeyemi (Author) – Bahni Turpin (Narrator)
- English (Publication Language)
- 03/06/2018 (Publication Date) – Macmillan Audio (Publisher)
In Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut.
They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers – and her growing feelings for an enemy.
This book is the first in the ‘Legacy of Orisha’ duology. The two other books in this trilogy are Children of Virtue and Vengeance
- The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
- Audible Audiobook
- Rick Riordan (Author) – Sean Welsh Brown, Rainy Fields, Avi Roque (Narrators)
- English (Publication Language)
- 09/24/2022 (Publication Date) – Disney Hyperion (Publisher)
Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently, she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.
This is the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series. The four other books in the series are:
- The Son of Neptune
- The Mark of Athena
- The House of Hades
- The Blood of Olympus
- What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods
- Audible Audiobook
- Harper L. Woods (Author) – Ava Lucas (Narrator)
- English (Publication Language)
- 06/28/2022 (Publication Date) – Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)
Once, we’d worshipped them as Gods.
For nearly 400 years, the Veil has protected us from the Fae of Alfheimr. In their absence, our lives have shifted from decadence and sin to survival and virtue under the guidance of the New Gods. I’ve spent my entire life tending to the gardens next to the boundary between our worlds, drawn to the shimmering magic like a moth to the flame.
Then, we died on their swords.
All of that changes the day the Veil shatters, unleashing the fae upon our world once again. The magic of faerie marks those of us they mean to take, but the Mist Guard protecting Nothrek will kill us all before they let the fae have us. There’s no choice but to flee everything I’ve ever known, not if I want to live to see my twenty-first birthday as a free woman.
Now, they’ll claim what’s theirs.
But before they capture me, Caelum saves me from the Wild Hunt. Fae-marked and on the run, he is able to fight back in ways I only dream of. From tentative alliance to all-consuming passion, our bond strengthens as the fae close in and evil lurks ever nearer. With my life on the line, he is everything I shouldn’t dare to want and a distraction I can’t afford. I can’t seem to stay away, not even with something greater on the line.
My heart.
This is the first book in the Of Flesh and Bone series. The second book is titled What Hunts Inside the Shadows.
- The Primal Hunter by Zogarth
- Audible Audiobook
- Zogarth (Author) – Travis Baldree (Narrator)
- English (Publication Language)
- 03/08/2022 (Publication Date) – Aethon Audio (Publisher)
On just another average day, Jake finds himself in a forest filled with monsters, dangers, and opportunity….
It was a day like any other when suddenly the world changed. The universe reached a threshold that humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse. A place where power is the only thing anyone can truly rely on.
Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into this new world. Into a tutorial filled with dangers and opportunities.
His new reality should breed fear and concern. His fellow coworkers falter at every turn. Jake, however, finds himself thriving.
Perhaps… This is the world Jake was meant to be born in.
- Free the Darkness by Kel Kade
- Audible Audiobook
- Kel Kade (Author) – Nick Podehl (Narrator)
- English (Publication Language)
- 08/30/2016 (Publication Date) – Podium Audio (Publisher)
Raised and trained in seclusion at a secret fortress on the edge of the northern wilds of the Kingdom of Ashai, a young warrior called Rezkin is unexpectedly thrust into the outworld when a terrible battle destroys all that he knows. With no understanding of his life’s purpose and armed with masterful weapons mysteriously bestowed upon him by a dead king, Rezkin must travel across Ashai to find the one man who may hold the clues to his very existence.
Determined to adhere to his last orders, Rezkin extends his protection to an unlikely assortment of individuals he meets along the way, often leading to humorous and poignant incidents.
As if pursuing an elite warrior across a kingdom, figuring out who he is and why everyone he knows is dead, and attempting to find these so-called friends and protect them is not enough, strange things are happening in the kingdom. New dangers begin to arise that threaten not only Rezkin and his friends, but possibly everyone in Ashai.
This is the first installment of the King’s Dark Tidings series. The other books in the series are:
- Reign of Madness
- Legends of Ahn
- Kingdoms and Chaos
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Although these books have different plots, they contain magical and supernatural elements that are reminiscent of the fantasy genre. These books and the subsequent books in each respective series would blow you away and leave you wanting more.
