Year's Best Fantasy Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Year's Best Fantasy books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Year's Best Fantasy
Buy on Amazon2001
Year's Best Fantasy 2
Buy on Amazon2002
Year's Best Fantasy 3
Buy on Amazon2003
Year's Best Fantasy 4
Buy on Amazon2004
Year's Best Fantasy 5
Buy on Amazon2005
Year's Best Fantasy 6
Buy on Amazon2006
Year's Best Fantasy 7
Buy on Amazon2007
Year's Best Fantasy 8
Buy on Amazon2008
Year's Best Fantasy 9
Buy on Amazon2009
Dragons & Dreams
Buy on Amazon1986
Borderland
Buy on Amazon1986
First Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1988
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1
Buy on Amazon1988
Second Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1989
Third Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1989
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
Buy on Amazon1990
Drabble II: Double Century
Buy on Amazon1990
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
Buy on Amazon1990
Cafe Purgatorium
Buy on Amazon1991
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1991
Fourth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1991
Life on the Border
Buy on Amazon1991
Fifth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1992
Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1992
Buy on Amazon1992
A Wizard's Dozen
Buy on Amazon1993
Snow White, Blood Red
Buy on Amazon1993
Temporary Walls
Buy on Amazon1993
Christmas Forever
Buy on Amazon1993
Northern Stars
Buy on Amazon1994
Seventh Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1994
Love in Vein
Buy on Amazon1994
Excalibur
Buy on Amazon1995
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1996
Eleventh Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1998
What If...?
Buy on Amazon1998
The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams
Buy on Amazon1998
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Buy on Amazon2000
Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower
Buy on Amazon2000
Tails of Wonder and Imagination
Buy on Amazon2001
Meditations on Middle-Earth
Buy on Amazon2001
Fourteenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2001
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
Buy on Amazon2002
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Buy on Amazon2002
Fifteenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2002
New Magics
Buy on Amazon2004
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2004
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
Buy on Amazon2004
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005
Buy on Amazon2005
Firebirds Rising
Buy on Amazon2005
Dreams and Visions
Buy on Amazon2006
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2006
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
Buy on Amazon2007
TwentiethAnnual Collection
Buy on Amazon2007
Ravens in the Library
Buy on Amazon2009
Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology
Buy on Amazon2010
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2010
Buy on Amazon2010
Happily Ever After
Buy on Amazon2011
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons
Buy on Amazon2011
Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012
Buy on Amazon2012
Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire
Buy on Amazon2012
Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012
Buy on Amazon2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
Buy on Amazon2012
Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT
Buy on Amazon2012
Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Buy on Amazon2012
Season of Wonder
Buy on Amazon2012
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2013
Buy on Amazon2013
Woman: An Anthology
Buy on Amazon2014
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2016
Buy on Amazon2016
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2016
Buy on Amazon2016
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2018
Buy on Amazon2018
Mythic Journeys
Buy on Amazon2019
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Year's Best Fantasy series is publication order: 1. Year's Best Fantasy (2001), 2. Year's Best Fantasy 2 (2002), 3. Year's Best Fantasy 3 (2003), 4. Year's Best Fantasy 4 (2004), 5. Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005), and 66 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Year's Best Fantasy series by Charles De Lint contains 71 books. The series began in 2001 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Year's Best Fantasy series is written by Charles De Lint. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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