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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: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Year's Best Fantasy series? Start with "Year's Best Fantasy" (2001) and follow publication order through all 29 books.
The complete Year's Best Fantasy reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Year's Best Fantasy
2001
Year's Best Fantasy 2
2002
Year's Best Fantasy 3
2003
Year's Best Fantasy 4
2004
Year's Best Fantasy 5
2005
Year's Best Fantasy 6
2006
Year's Best Fantasy 7
2007
Year's Best Fantasy 8
2008
Year's Best Fantasy 9
2009
Brit-pulp!
1999
Cities
2003
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
2003
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14
2003
The Children of Cthulhu
2003
Breaking Windows
2003
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection
2003
Best New Horror 17
2006
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
2006
The New Weird
2008
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
2011
Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters
2011
The Recent Weird
2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
2011
The Library Book
2012
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013
2013
The Bestiary
2015
2001: An Odyssey in Words
2018
The Outcast Hours
2019
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology
2021
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