Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. May is Wyrd & Wonder Month, celebrating all things Fantasy!
The topic is technically Favorite Books Released In the Last Ten Years (one book per year), but I am tweaking that to be:
Favorite Fantasy* Books Released In the Last Ten Years
*Fantasy and Fantasy Adjacent (i.e The Princess and the Fangirl isn’t actually a fantasy novel, but it is super geeky and makes a ton of fantasy references, so I consider it an honorary fantasy book!)
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I know that there are waaaay more than 10 books here, and this is top TEN Tuesday, so here are my top ten favorites from the books listed above:
Top 10 Favorite Fantasy* books released in the last 10 years
Perfectly Tolerable 
Great list! I LOVE Dark Triumph – I really need to read Mortal Heart!
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Thanks 😀 I hope you love it if you get around to it! Its my favorite in the series ❤
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I loved Fangirl, and Daughter of the Pirate King is brilliant too! Great choices 🙂
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Thanks! The author of Pirate King is going to be at the Con I am going to this weekend and I am super excited!
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It’s interesting to see how it differs each year. I guess some years were better than others for fantasy reads?
Awesome take on the prompt!
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Hahah I was wondering if its all just random and its a weird coincidence that I didn’t have a lot of books some of the years, or if 2010 was really just a bad year for fantasy? Thanks!
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So many great books on here. I really need to get on Saga and those Sarah Kuhn books. One Con Glory was a great read as well.
My favorites are probably Uprooted, Nimona and Vicious!
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Uprooted is one of my favorite books of all time ❤ And if yoiu liked One Con Glory I think you will like Kuhn's other books 😀
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I love your twist on the prompt, I think this was a great way to approach it! Lots of books to consider and think about!!
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Thanks 😀 Haha it was way to hard to just pick one book!
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Oh wow your list makes mine feel super inadequate! Lol. But it looks like you’ve got some good ones on there! I love the Saga series and Nimona. A lot of these others are still on my TBR.
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Haha your list is definitely not inadequate, you are probably just better at making decisions and was actually able to pick a single book like the prompt called for! 😂😂 I am super indecisive and didn’t even want to try!
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Ready Player One ❤
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Yup! ❤
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I love how you organized your list. It was harder than I expected to narrow things down to one of each year.
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Thanks! Hahah that is why I didn’t even try, I knew there was no way I could pick only one!
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Ahh so nostalgic ❤ I loooved Hunger Games and Divergent when they came out–hard to believe it's been so long!
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I was thinking the same thing! It has been forever! Those are some of the only series that I got sucked into the hype of before I started blogging ❤
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I really need to read Nimona sometime. You’ve reminded me that I’m interested in it, so thanks. 🙂
My TTT.
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You’re very welcome! 😂 Its awesome! I hope you love it ❤
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So many great picks on this list! I love Vicious, and I intend to check out more VE Schwab books soon. I’m so looking forward to reading the Nevernight series, too (but, you know, closer to the release of the third book so I don’t have quiiiite so long to wait on that one). The Cruel Prince was so good, and I loved Sky in the Deep. Can’t wait for The Girl the Sea Gave Back!
Here’s my TTT post.
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Thanks!!! It is super smart to wait to read Nevernight till closer to the release! Its driving me nuts waiting!!! And I can’t wait for Queen of Nothing either! Haha 🙂 The Girl The Sea Gave Back has a gorgeous cover but I am not pining over it quite so bad as the others only because I am not waiting on cliff hangers from the previous books 😂
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Ugh, that’s true. Cliffhangers are the bane of my existence, but it can’t be said that they aren’t effective!
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This is such an incredible selection and so thorough. I really liked the princess and the fangirl and saga too. And I’m super keen for sky in the deep. also fantasy adjacent is a great term!
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Thanks 🙂 Hahah Goodreads made it super easy! I love the term Fantasy Adjacent, but I can’t take credit for it. I don’t know where it was where I saw it but it has stuck with me.
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I love the variety you have here, and you’ve listed some of my favorites as well. It’s really hard to choose only 10, right?
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Haha choosing my overall 10 wasn’t so bad because I was able to choose multiples from the same year and none from other years 😂 but it would have been impossible for me to choose one per year 😂
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This is really cool! I love also seeing how the covers have progressed over the years 🙂
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Thanks! I hadn’t even thought to look at the covers as they progressed but that is really cool 🙂
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Ah, I wish I had done something like this, because choosing 1 book per year was just so hard! 2017 looked like a very good year for you!
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Haha you should have! I hate making decisions and I knew there was no way I could pick only one book per year 😀
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Great idea to tweak the prompt.
So many unread books there. I read The Hunger Games Trilogy and the first one was the best.
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Thanks 😀 And I agree! Though I usually like the first books best
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Great list! I have been wanting to read Saga for a long time but have yet to pick it up. Meh.
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Thanks 😀 I hope you love Saga if you get around to it! I think it is amazing ❤
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I love Felicia Day ❤ (and this book is still on my TBR list for what feels like forever…) I fell in love with her work through the Guild web-series. It's the most hilarious thing ever. I started watching it, while I was playing World of Warcraft and it just spoke to me. 😀
I still re-watch from time to time.
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I do too ❤ I fell in love with her through Supernatural and then watched the Guild and the read the book haha. The Guild is awesome! Have you seen Critical Role? It sounds like it might be similar but I don't know?
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No! I didn’t even know it was a thing! Thank you, I’ll try it this weekend, see if I like it 🙂
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Did you end up watching it? What did you think? I still haven’t seen it yet haha
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Oh that is a fantastic list. I’d be here all day if I even started listing the ones I loved. Perfect!
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Haha thanks! I felt that way commenting on everyone else’s lists! There are just so many great books to choose from 😀
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So many great books on this list! Totally understand it’s hard to choose only 10!
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Thanks! 🙂 And it was impossible haha 😂
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I can’t believe Catching Fire came out 10 whopping years ago. I feel so old! 😛 And Sky in the Deep is one I meant to get to last year but couldn’t. Happy to see it on the list!
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I know!!!! It makes me feel old too haha. I hope you like Sky in the Deep if you get to it ❤
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Great list! I totally agree that Fantasy Adjacent should be a thing.
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Thanks 😀 And yay! haha its such a cool term
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I LOVE your list! and I love you didn’t stick to just one book! 🙂
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Thanks 😀
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So many great books! I love that you include the Parasol Protectorate books as well as Saga, but there are tons more here that I could fangirl over. 🙂
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Thanks 😀 Haha its so easy to fangirl over fantasy books!
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So many good books here! I think my favorite from this list is Divergent.
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Thanks! And thats a good one 😀
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This is an amazing list! I love Nevernight and Sky in the Deep so much ❤️
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Thanks 😀 Me too ❤ They are awesome!
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I have read and loved a lot of the books on your list, but not any of your top faves. I’m heading to goodreads now to add to my TBR! I’m hoping to read Nevernight soon!
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Haha thats surprising! I have a few under represented books on my top faves, but there are also some big names there 🙂 I hope you love it ❤
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Wow, what a trip down memory lane! I love how you focused on fantasy books, too. I LOVED Fire and Graceling back in the day!!
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Thanks 😀 Haha Fantasy is my favorite genre and my list would have been even longer if I didn’t restrain it a bit!!
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I loved Fire & Bitterblue so much.
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I did too! But I don’t remember much about them
so I need to reread them haha
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I’ve actually read many of these and considering I am not a big fantasy fan, I can say at least I read some good ones.
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Haha thats awesome 🙂 I know a lot of these were super hyped so they are pretty popular! I’m glad you liked at least some of them ❤
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Great list. I see lots of my favorites on there, especially Victoria Schwab. 🙂
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She is awesome!! I love her books and am planning on reading more!
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I agree with you on most of these, especially the Schwab books and Hunger games sequels. I loved the Geekerella books as well and FANGIRL is my favorite!! Have a great week.
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Yay!!! Fangirl is awesome ❤
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So many of my faves on here! Love Catching Fire and the Mortal Instruments series especially.
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Those are good ones ❤ I had a lot of fun coming up with the list!
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I love how your list is genre specific! There are so many great books here, but also so many I still need to read.! I especially still need to read The Cruel Prince, Uprooted, and Nevernight.
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Thanks! Haha fantasy is my favorite genre ❤ And I think you should read all three but if you only pick one I would recommend Uprooted! Its one of my favorite books
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So many of my favorites are on this list. I love His Fair Assassin trilogy so much. Have you read the newest book in the series yet? I’m a big fan of Uprooted as well and The Cruel Prince has been such an exciting ride so far. Great list!
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I haven’t 😦 I bought it as soon as it came out but I haven’t had time to re-read the original books yet and I want to do that before I read the new one!! Uprooted it one of my favorite books ❤ Thanks!
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Saga is an amazing series! I’m glad you also enjoyed it!
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Thanks 🙂 I agree! It is amazing ❤ I just wish there was mooooreeeee!
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Me too!
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Ahhhh Catching Fire and Mockingjay and so many others I remember floating around the interwebs – those were good times. I also remember the Divergent series as it came out (still a little upset about Allegiant).
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Haha those were good times! 😀 Those were the few books that broke through and the hype reached me before my blogging days 😂😂
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Nimona and Uprooted! 2015 and 2017 were great release years!
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Uprooted is one of my favorite books ever ❤ Haha 2015 and 2017 really were great release years 😀
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Great list!
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Thanks!
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I like that you broke it up into a specific genre! Trying to pick just one for each year was torture!
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Thanks 😂😂 I didn’t even try to pick just one book haha it would have been impossible!
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Oooh, great lists!!! The Wicked King! I can’t wait for the third book. 😀
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Thanks 😀 And I know!! It feels like it is still forever away
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Such great choices!! I love Kristin Cashore’s and VE Schwab’s books – and I really need to read Saga!
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Thanks! They are both really awesome writers ❤ And I love Saga! I hope you like it if you read it!
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the Parasol Protectorate is pretty awesome!!!
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It really is! Its such a fun series 🙂
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