
Something was in the water in 2015 – something fantastical, something magical, something that inspired a bloom of brilliant fantasy works to bolster us through the dark days to come. Despite three tumultuous presidential elections, a global pandemic, a rising billionaire class, and monumental social upheaval, these fantasy authors kept on keeping on. Thank the high fantasy heavens they did, because they blessed our cultural dark night of the soul with rays of magical light: the 10 best fantasy books of the last decade.