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On October 15, 2020, Time published a list of the 100 best fantasy books of all time as chosen by a panel of fantasy authors (Tomi Adeyemi, Cassandra Clare, Diana Gabaldon, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, N.K. Jemisin, George R.R. Martin, and Sabaa Tahir) and then TIME editors.
These are given in the same order as they were given in their list, which appears to be in publication order.
| Husain Haddawy (trans.) | The Arabian Nights | |
| Thomas Malory | Le Morte d'Arthur | |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 9 out of 10 |
| Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking-Glass | 8 out of 10 |
| E. Nesbit | Five Children and It | |
| L. Frank Baum | Ozma of Oz | 7 out of 10 |
| P.L. Travers | Mary Poppins | 6 out of 10 |
| C.S. Lewis | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 7 out of 10 |
| Amos Tutuola | The Palm-Wine Drunkard | |
| C.S. Lewis | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 9 out of 10 |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Fellowship of the Ring | 9 out of 10 |
| Amos Tutuola | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Two Towers | 10 out of 10 |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Return of the King | 10 out of 10 |
| Jin Yong | A Hero Born | |
| T.H. White | The Once and Future King | |
| Roald Dahl | James and the Giant Peach | |
| Norton Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth | 10 out of 10 |
| Madeleine L’Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | 6 out of 10 |
| Manuel Mujica Lainez | The Wandering Unicorn | |
| Anne McCaffrey | Dragonflight | 7 out of 10 |
| Peter S. Beagle | The Last Unicorn | 7 out of 10 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | A Wizard of Earthsea | 6 out of 10 |
| Mary Stewart | The Crystal Cave | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | The Tombs of Atuan | 10 out of 10 |
| Richard Adams | Watership Down | |
| Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising | 8 out of 10 |
| William Goldman | The Princess Bride | |
| Natalie Babbitt | Tuck Everlasting | |
| Madeleine L'Engle | A Swiftly Tilting Planet | |
| Angela Carter | The Bloody Chamber | |
| Roald Dahl | The BFG | |
| Tamora Pierce | Alanna: The First Adventure | |
| Diana Wynne Jones | Howl's Moving Castle | |
| Brian Jacques | Redwall | |
| Ellen Kushner | Swordspoint | 9 out of 10 |
| Diana Wynne Jones | The Lives of Christopher Chant | 7 out of 10 |
| Robert Jordan | The Eye of the World | |
| Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | Good Omens | 8 out of 10 |
| Salman Rushdie | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | |
| Diana Gabaldon | Outlander | |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana | 8 out of 10 |
| Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass | 8 out of 10 |
| Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere | 8 out of 10 |
| Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted | |
| Philip Pullman | The Subtle Knife | 7 out of 10 |
| Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 4 out of 10 |
| Robin McKinley | Spindle's End | |
| George R.R. Martin | A Storm of Swords | 7 out of 10 |
| Neil Gaiman | American Gods | 7 out of 10 |
| Terry Pratchett | The Wee Free Men | 8 out of 10 |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | |
| Brandon Sanderson | Mistborn | |
| Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind | |
| Cassandra Clare | City of Glass | |
| Grace Lin | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | |
| N.K. Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | 7 out of 10 |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Who Fears Death | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Akata Witch | |
| Erin Morgenstern | The Night Circus | |
| Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | |
| Susan Ee | Angelfall | |
| Sofia Samatar | A Stranger in Olondria | |
| David Mitchell | The Bone Clocks | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | The Buried Giant | |
| Sabaa Tahir | An Ember in the Ashes | |
| N.K. Jemisin | The Fifth Season | 8 out of 10 |
| Kelly Link | Get in Trouble | |
| Ken Liu | The Grace of Kings | |
| Daniel José Older | Shadowshaper | |
| Leigh Bardugo | Six of Crows | |
| Renée Ahdieh | The Wrath & the Dawn | |
| Charlie Jane Anders | All the Birds in the Sky | 5 out of 10 |
| Sabaa Tahir | A Torch Against the Night | |
| Ken Liu | The Wall of Storms | |
| Tochi Onyebuchi | Beasts Made of Night | |
| Neon Yang | The Black Tides of Heaven | |
| Victor LaValle | The Changeling | |
| Fonda Lee | Jade City | |
| N.K. Jemisin | The Stone Sky | 9 out of 10 |
| Roshani Chokshi | Aru Shah and the End of Time | |
| Anna-Marie McLemore | Blanca & Roja | |
| Tomi Adeyemi | Children of Blood and Bone | |
| Madeline Miller | Circe | 8 out of 10 |
| Tasha Suri | Empire of Sand | |
| R.F. Kuang | The Poppy War | |
| L. Penelope | Song of Blood & Stone | |
| Rebecca Roanhorse | Trail of Lightning | 4 out of 10 |
| C.L. Polk | Witchmark | |
| Marlon James | Black Leopard, Red Wolf | |
| Tomi Adeyemi | Children of Virtue and Vengeance | |
| R.F. Kuang | The Dragon Republic | |
| Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Gods of Jade and Shadow | |
| Akwaeke Emezi | Pet | |
| Kacen Callender | Queen of the Conquered | |
| Evan Winter | The Rage of Dragons | |
| Hafsah Faizal | We Hunt the Flame | |
| Darcie Little Badger | Elatsoe | |
| Isabel Ibañez | Woven in Moonlight |
Ratings for books that don't have a review are based on my memory of the book. The rating may well change if I get a chance to read the book again.
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