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
Black Swan, White Raven
Buy on Amazon1997
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
Buy on Amazon1999
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Buy on Amazon2000
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
Buy on Amazon2000
Fourteenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2001
Queer Fear II
Buy on Amazon2002
Mojo
Buy on Amazon2003
Reading the Bones
Buy on Amazon2004
Girls Who Bite Back
Buy on Amazon2004
So Long Been Dreaming
Buy on Amazon2004
Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
Buy on Amazon2005
Lust for Life: Tales of Sex & Love
Buy on Amazon2006
Apex Magazine - February 2011
Buy on Amazon2011
Walking the Clouds
Buy on Amazon2012
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia
Buy on Amazon2012
The Time Traveler's Almanac
Buy on Amazon2013
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales
Buy on Amazon2014
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014
Buy on Amazon2014
Imaginarium 3
Buy on Amazon2015
Blood Sisters
Buy on Amazon2015
Sisters of the Revolution
Buy on Amazon2015
Warrior Women
Buy on Amazon2015
People of Color Destroy Science Fiction!
Buy on Amazon2016
Imaginarium 4
Buy on Amazon2016
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 11: Trials by Whiteness
Buy on Amazon2017
People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Buy on Amazon2017
Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition
Buy on Amazon2017
Particulates
Buy on Amazon2018
Current Futures
Buy on Amazon2019
Edited By
Buy on Amazon2020
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century
Buy on Amazon2021
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
Buy on Amazon2021
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue
Buy on Amazon2022
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
Buy on Amazon2022
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
Buy on Amazon2023
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 39 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Year's Best Fantasy series by Nalo Hopkinson contains 44 books. The series began in 2001 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Year's Best Fantasy series is written by Nalo Hopkinson. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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