The Black Magician Trilogy is YA, but if you've never read it before, don't be put off. If you love magic in your imagination, the title should indicate that this is something you require in your life. If you want to move on from a specific boy wizard, this will be the series to help you do it.

Trudi Canavan's fantasy fiction series The Black Magician trilogy is set in Australia. The volumes follow Sonea, a slum-dwelling girl who, while being born and reared in Imardin's slums, finds that she possesses innate magical skills often reserved for the upper classes. They explain her attempts to avoid arrest by the Magicians' Guild and regain control of her talents, her struggle to fit in and study magic, and, finally, her attempts to save Kyralia using the one sort of magic that is prohibited to employ. Despite the fact that the series is just three novels long, it is supplemented by a prologue called The Magician's Apprentice and a sequel series named The Traitor Spy trilogy.

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The Daevabad Trilogy is the most recent addition to this list, with the most recent book, The Empire of Gold, published last year. It may appear early to place it on a list of the finest fantasy book series of all time, but it is without a doubt one of the most thrilling series of recent years.

These are the novels for you if you appreciate your fantasy with a twist of alternate history. Our hero, Nahri, is a con woman who interprets palms and defrauds Ottoman aristocrats of their money in an alternative 18th century Ottoman Empire. During an exorcism, she summons a djinn, and so starts a voyage filled with magic, monsters, love, and a deadly civil war that threatens to rip the planet apart. So, if you didn't already know, the Daevabad Trilogy is set in the Middle East and Central Asia. It's a breath of fresh air to read a work of fantasy fiction that focuses on a major and unexpectedly underrepresented community.

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Hobbs is one of the authors who may easily have had many entries on our list; her prolific writing is truly amazing. Her Farseer Trilogy has produced second and third trilogies, The Tawny Man Trilogy and Fitz And The Fool published years later - so if you like the characters in the Farseer Trilogy, you'll be glad to hear there's more to their narrative.

FitzChivalry Farseer is an assassin learning his profession in a kingdom where his uncle is fighting an adversary that converts his people into soulless zombie-like monsters in the Farseer Trilogy. Fans of these works like the characters and their complexity in particular – and the number of novels featuring Fitz demonstrates how well-liked he is.

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Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series is what you'd think of if someone said "greatest fantasy book series of all time"; it's old-school and epic, spanning twenty-one novels published over nearly a quarter-century. Aside from the last trilogy, Goodkind wrote most of the books to stand alone, which means the series is simple to dip in and out of – and if you don't enjoy one book, you can easily go on to the next.

It's impossible, to sum up, a series as vast as this one, but following Richard Cypher, a young man protecting the New World against the Imperial Order and the Old World. It is a series about freedom and fighting for it at any cost.

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You can't talk about the finest fantasy series without including Earthsea. One of the oldest books on the list (the first was published in 1968), it is a great classic. There are enough Earthsea stories to go around, just like Sword of Truth; in addition to the original trilogy, Le Guin released two extra novels and a collection of short stories.

Earthsea is a magical planet made up of a large number of islands. One of the things that actually distinguishes it from many others is that it lacks the conventional 'vaguely Medieval European' flavor that many fantasy series have. Even in 1968, Le Guin was trying hard to include people of all races in her books, which is excellent.

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Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy set a number of firsts. She was not only the first black author to win the Hugo for Best Novel, but she was also the first person to win it three years in a row - for each book in the Broken Earth trilogy. In doing so, she became the first person to win the prize for each book in a trilogy. When it comes to Jemisin and her trilogy, there are no modest accomplishments.

In a distant, post-apocalyptic future, the earth is plagued by periodic disasters that constantly shatter and reshape not just the world, but the people who must survive in it. The world-building of the Broken Earth trilogy, as well as the range of the cast of characters, is what makes it truly stand out.

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If you don't like the epic fantasy style, then Discworld is the series for you. Pratchett immerses his readers in a universe so brimming with life that it's difficult to know where to begin describing it in forty-one fascinating and amusing novels.

From the diligent cops of the City Watch in the huge city of Ankh-Morpork to the witches of the Ramtop Mountains, there is something for everyone on Discworld. And if you think Discworld isn't simply fantasy but also hilarious, you should realize that Pratchett also writes satire so razor-sharp that unwary readers will cut themselves. There isn't a single societal issue that he hasn't addressed.

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His Dark Materials has found a new audience in recent years owing to a reasonably fine BBC television miniseries, but the best way to enjoy these novels is to read them. There is just no comparison. These are officially young adult novels – but young adults are so blindingly superb that adult readers were more than prepared to give it a chance. They are Pullman's masterwork in a literary career full of outstanding work.

The series follows Lyra and Will around a number of parallel universes, chased by the all-powerful Magisterium — an obvious imitation of the Catholic Church – in a world not dissimilar to our own. Pullman's depiction of religion in His Dark Materials has been criticized, but the novels are an excellent examination of philosophy, theology, and physics, as well as organized faith, and have so much more to say than the usual fantasy story that it is well worth listening.

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It's illegal to compile a list of the finest fantasy novel series of all time and leave out The Lord of the Rings. I'm not the one who makes the rules. It was literally formative for so much of the fantasy that followed it, shaping the genre in ways that few other novels did. It's not just one of the finest fantasy novels of all time; it's also one of the best-selling books of all time.

The plot itself is a very straightforward good vs. evil, Chosen One storyline. But it is Tolkien's worldbuilding that has served as a model for so many fantasy authors who have come after him. He was absorbed in Middle-earth in a manner that few authors have been – The Lord of the Rings is merely a small fraction of something far larger.

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