10 Most Influential Fantasy Novels

A. E. Engle
10 min readMar 9, 2022

A 20th Century List…

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No, hopefully I can add some value here, if nothing more than informational and educational (and maybe a little humor). I recently saw a “top 25 most influential list” and it was a) mostly female authors (no issue there) b) all but one from 2000 was female (also no issue), and not one single book on the list with the exception of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings would anyone consider “influential. Hell, they even left off Sanderson, Jordan, and Erikson (none of which I’m a fan which will clearly…

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