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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 102 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
TriQuarterly 49: Science Fiction
1980
Universe 11
1981
Magicats!
1984
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction
1985
Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr
1987
The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction
1989
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1989
1989
Third Annual Collection
1989
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
1990
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection
1990
Slow Dancing Through Time
1990
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
1990
Isaac Asimov's Earth
1992
Omni Visions Two
1994
Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994
1994
Spirits Of Christmas: Twenty Other-Worldly Tales
1995
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1995
1995
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
1996
Starlight 1
1996
Modern Classics of Fantasy
1997
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
1998
Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1998
1998
The Good New Stuff
1999
Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999
1999
Year's Best SF 4
1999
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999
1999
Explorers
2000
Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2000
2000
Nebula Awards 35 (2001)
2001
Meditations on Middle-Earth
2001
Infinity Plus One
2001
Supermen
2002
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2002
2002
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction
2002
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15
2002
Year's Best SF 8
2003
I premi Hugo 2002
2003
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16
2003
The Hard SF Renaissance
2003
The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21 Annual Edition
2004
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
2004
The Fiction Factory
2005
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels
2005
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection
2006
Year's Best SF 11
2006
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006
2006
Futures Past
2006
The Best of the Best, Vol 2
2007
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology
2007
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
2007
Rewired
2007
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy
2008
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition
2008
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 2008
2008
From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled
2008
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21
2008
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22
2008
The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF
2009
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2010
2010
Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27
2011
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
2012
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition
2012
The Palencar Project
2012
Timeless Time Travel Tales
2012
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection
2012
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
2012
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4
2012
Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy
2012
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 Edition
2013
Steampunk Specs
2013
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF
2013
Shadows of the New Sun
2013
The Time Traveler's Almanac
2013
Rogues
2014
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine
2014
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6
2014
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
2014
Far Voyager: A Postcripts Anthology 32/33
2014
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7
2015
Letters to Tiptree
2015
Clarkesworld: Year Eight
2016
Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2017
2017
Once Upon a Time Machine Volume 2
2018
The Final Frontier
2018
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018
2018
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 38, May 2019
2019
Devil's Ways
2020
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book
2020
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One
2021
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 58, September 2022
2022
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 61, March 2023
2023
The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 3
2023
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fourth Annual Collection
2023
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