Fantasy Fiction

Canada Reads American Style

With Tara on vacation, Rebecca and Sarah chat about Fantasy Fiction with a quick nod at the end to Sci-Fi.

What Is the Fantasy Genre? History of Fantasy and Subgenres and Types of Fantasy in Literature by author Dan Brown

The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Time Magazine

Rebecca (@canadareadsamerican style):

• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

Sarah (@sareshears):

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Final Empire (Mistborn #1); Tress of the Emerald Sea; Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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