20 Best Fantasy Book Series of All Time

Fantasy books often appear in a series. The intricate worldbuilding, often including sword & sorcery, magic, elves, orcs or goblins of some sort, usually takes more than one volume to accomplish. And we're fine with that. The longer the better, we say! These are our picks for the Top 20 Fantasy Book Series of all time. Don't fret — no spoilers here.

20 Best Science Fiction Book Series of All Time

Like binging a TV show, reading a long series of good books can be trememdously rewarding. Nothing is better than turning the page in a new world. Exluding the myrad of Star Trek and Star Wars books out there, these are the top picks for a good series read, sci-fi tales told in 3 books or more.

Top 20 Vampire Novels in Horror Book History

Vampires have been a big part of fiction literature in the world for more than 200 years. There's something about blood-sucking creatures that come out only at night... it fascinated us. They scare us, but also romance us. We're drawn to them for some odd reason. Secretly, we all want to be one? Here are the top-rated vampire novels of all time:

The Most Iconic Horror Novels of All Time

Sometimes a book stands out and does more than entertain. It lives beyond its pages. These are horror novels that shaped the future of the suspense genre and had the most influence on both the genre and pop culture. If you haven't read them but you're a fan of horror, suspense, and the supernatural, perhaps you should check them out. Here is your reading checklist: 

Top 10 Military Science Fiction Novels

A military sci-fi novel is one where the emphasis is on combat and usually features members of the military as main characters. Think of it as a war novel with an SF element. The best books about war in space — military conflict against aliens on Earth or on other planets. Sci-fi novels with a military angle can be fun and cathartic, especially if the good guys win. Often filled with military jargon and ranks, interspersed with alien terms, these can be a fun trip.

Top 20 Horror Books Made into Movies: Best Horror Screen Adaptations

While it's easy to find horror book that didn't succeed on the Big Screen, it's not so easy to find good movies that met the expectations of the book's readers. There are exceptions, and we've found some good movies based on book, some that even surpassed their novels.

Here are the Top 20 Books to Film Adaptations: 

Top 20 Sci-Fi Book to Movie Adaptations: Best Science Fiction Books to Film

The best science fiction movies adapted from books is a thin list. There are loads of bad science fiction movies adapted poorly from their brilliant novels. Loads of good sci-fi novels were made into really bad movies (or in some cases, merely mediocre movies) — too many to list here. But in this article we want to focus on the best sci-fi movies that truly captured the magic of the novels they were based on. In some cases, they even surpassed.

Top 10 Murder Mystery Novels of All Time

Everyone loves a good mystery novel. Whodunnit? The suspense is killing me. Sitting in a cozy chair by the fireplace reading about clues and suspects is one of life's greatest joys. So, pour a caramel coffee or a glass of Merlot and get ready for our countdown of the best murder mystery novels of all time.

Top 10 Best Haunted House Novels - Horror Fiction

 A haunted house is a wonderful thing in horror fiction, but only if done right. The spooky setting, the creaky stairs, the mirrors with strange images ... and don't forget the ghosts.

These are the 10 best horror novels centered around haunted houses, spooky hotels or haunted places.

Top 10 SF & Fantasy Books without Humans or Human Characters - Animals in Fiction

 Animals and creatures of all sorts can talk and carry the story as well as humans can. Some very interesting (and award-winning) books have carried their weight without the help of human hands. Here are the top 10 books without humans as the main characters. We restricted the list to books with talking animals and also to adult books (or young adult) and not children books.

Top 10 Pandemic World Ending Novels and Viral Fiction

 Now is not the best time to run a list of the Top 10 Pandemic and Virus Outbreak novels, but ... hey, when is? Let's get down to it. These are the best novels about the end of the world via some sort of pathogen. Viral post-apocalyptic calamities in what we hope are not omens of our future. No covid here, thank goodness, but there are some really nasty human bugs and viruses.

Scariest Summer Horror Thrillers

Fiction novels, hot horror in the summer. The Top 10 horror books that take place in the summer, in balmy hot weather. If the killer doesn't make you sweat, the heat will. Even if it's winter where you live, you may want to warm up with some heated horror books. These novels have their characters sweating through the night.

Top 10 Thrillers and Horror Books in Ice and Snow

The best horror and thriller books that take place in ice, snow, blizzards and cold weather. Your winter reading festival . . .  or something to read in the heat of summer to make you appreciate the cold of winter. These books will bury you in chills, so start a fire in the fireplace, close the curtains against the howling wind and start reading. That snowman outside didn't really just grin at you . . . did it?

Top 20 Books about Isolation and Social Distancing

It's time to stay inside and read. Here are the best books about just that ... staying apart, isolation and being separated from society.

Five new Science Fiction Books not to be missed

This year brought some excellent new releases in to the science fiction community. Below are listed the top 5 ranked new Sci-fi books that should not be missed in 2019.  All of these are available in ebook and paperback as of this article's writing.

Top 20 Space Opera Novels: Sci-fi Books in Outer Space

The best science fiction novels in outer space, these are the best books that take us up above the clouds and into the stars. Here are the Top 20 Space Operas in novel format:

Top 20 Science Fiction Books on the Ground and not in Space

The best sci-fi novels on planets, as opposed to space. Most of these are on Earth, but in any case the planet is grounded, and very little space travel is involved. Unlike most sci-fi books, these books take you to strange and wonderful places "under" the stars, here on the ground. The Top 20 ground-level science fiction books:

Best Sci-Fi Movie Taglines

The best and most memorable sci-fi movie taglines that appear on the official movie posters.

Top Post-Apocalyptic Books of All Time

Post Apocalyptic novels have a certain appeal: survivors peeling off an existance, and sometimes fending off gruesome villains in the process.

The Scariest Horror Novels for Halloween Reading

It's getting colder outside, Halloween decorations swing from trees, whose leaves are brown and fallen to the ground. The empty branches rattle in the wind.... No, I'm not writing a horror story here, instead it's a list of scary horror books. This is the time of year to cozy up to a good, spooky horror novel.  This is especially appropriate for Halloween week, so get your itty bitty light ready.

The Top 10 Scary Horror Books for Halloween