Fantasy authors: books in reading order, page 2

Dan Willis

25 books• 8 series

Dan Willis is an American fantasy author living in Utah who has written novels for Dragonlance, the setting created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Early titles in the catalogue include The Dragon Well (2004), Dragon Knight (2005) and Wizard's Return (2006), and Krynn appears among the subjects. Willis also writes the Dragons of the Confederacy, Arcane Irregulars and Shattered West series, and the subjects also include westerns and historical fiction. Later titles include Lincoln's Wizard (2015), Dead Letter (2018) and In Plain Sight (2018). Center Mass is scheduled for 2027.

Janny Wurts is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator who often paints her own covers and has won Chesley Awards for that artwork. The Wars of Light and Shadow, her longest sequence, turns on the half-brothers Arithon s'Ffalenn and Lysaer s'Ilessid and opens with The Curse of the Mistwraith (1993). Wurts also wrote the Cycle of Fire trilogy and, with Raymond E. Feist, the Empire trilogy. Her collection That Way Lies Camelot was nominated for the 1995 British Fantasy Award. Twenty-six titles reach Song of the Mysteries (2024).

Fonda Lee

14 books• 4 series

The Green Bone Saga is the work most associated with Fonda Lee, a Canadian-American author of speculative fiction born March 10, 1979. Jade City, the first Green Bone Saga book, won the 2018 World Fantasy Award, and Time magazine placed Jade City among its 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. NPR included the saga in its 50 favourite science fiction and fantasy books of the past decade. The catalogue lists 14 books from Zeroboxer (2015) to Mark of the Warrior (2026), with Exo and Breathmarked as other series.