Last year I wrote on Mastodon that on Booktube people always have the same books on their best fantasy lists, and they usually aren’t by female authors.
So I decided to write a list of fantasy books by female authors. Some of these standalone, some are a series.
I’ve now updated my list with some recent reads. Here it is, in no particular order:
the covers of the books mentioned below
Robin Hobb - Fitz and the Fool trilogy (start with the Farseer trilogy if you haven’t read the Fitz books yet)
Becky Chambers - A Psalm for the Wild-Built (this is technically science fiction, but it has a definite fantasy feel to it)
Trudy Canavan- Black Magician trilogy
Karen Miller - Kingmaker Kingbreaker
Robin Mc Kinley - The Blue Sword
T. Kingfisher - Nettle & Bone
Lynn Flewelling - Luck in the Shadows
Emma Bull - War for the Oaks
Olivia Atwater - Half a Soul
Mercedes Lackey - The Last Herald-Mage
These books have all in big or small ways influenced me as a writer, as well. Then again, any book does. One of the reasons why writers should read as well 😊
