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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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