Dark Fantasy Books of the 2010s
The 105 most-read dark fantasy books first published between 2010 and 2019, led by The Cruel Prince (2018), Gideon the Ninth (2019) and The Assassin’s Blade (2014).
This list collects 105 books from the 2010s by 82 authors, published between 2010 and 2019. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
The Assassin’s Blade
Sarah J. Maas
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
Kingdom of Ash
Sarah J. Maas
King of Scars
Leigh Bardugo
A Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss
Chain of Gold
Cassandra Clare
A Little Hatred
Joe Abercrombie
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
The Hazel Wood
Melissa Albert
Holy Sister
Mark Lawrence
Vita Nostra
Марина Дяченко, Marina Dyachenko
The Cold Commands
Richard K. Morgan
Wicked Saints
Emily A. Duncan
Dark Illusion
Christine Feehan
Boundless
R. A. Salvatore
The Heart Forger
Rin Chupeco
Port of Shadows
Glen Cook
The Night Country
Melissa Albert
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
An Easy Death
Charlaine Harris
Captive in the Dark
CJ Roberts
Red Queen
Christina Henry
Archangel's Enigma
Nalini Singh
The Vagrant
Peter Newman
Girls of Storm and Shadow
Natasha Ngan
The Copper Promise (The Copper Cat Book 1)
Jen Williams
The Dark Defiles
Richard K. Morgan, Núria Gres Llort
Fearful Symmetries
Ellen Datlow, Fleet Cooper
Deeplight
Frances Hardinge
Sword of the North
Luke Scull
Fragile Eternity
Melissa Marr
Infernal Battalion
Django Wexler
Supernatural - Cold Fire
John Passarella
Closer to the Chest (Valdemar: The Herald Spy)
Mercedes Lackey
Middlegame
Seanan McGuire
A Lush and Seething Hell
John Hornor Jacobs
The Girl From the Other Side Siuil, a Run
Nagabe
Only the Devil is Here
Stephen Michell
King of Fools
Amanda Foody
A Skinful of Shadows
Frances Hardinge
Illusion: Chronicles of Nick
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kingdom of Souls
Rena Barron, Robin Miles
The Steel Seraglio
Mike Carey, Linda Carey
Occultation and Other Stories
Laird Barron
Mapping the Interior
Stephen Graham Jones
The House of War and Witness
Mike Carey, Linda Carey
Agents of Dreamland
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Wild Country
Anne Bishop
Legacy of Ash
Matthew Ward
Dark Sun
Alex Irvine, Peter Burgting
The Barrow Will Send What It May
Margaret Killjoy
Almost Midnight
C. C. Hunter
Treason of Thorns
Laura E. Weymouth
Laid Waste
Julia Gfrörer
Diamond City
Francesca Flores, Frankie Corzo
Bearmouth
Liz Hyder
The Traitor God
Cameron Johnston
Last Things
Jacqueline West
We Are Blood and Thunder
Kesia Lupo
The Black Hawks
David Wragg
The Belles
Dhonielle Clayton
The Grand Dark
Richard Kadrey
The Malice
Peter Newman
The Best of Glen Cook
Glen Cook
BROTHER'S RUIN
Emma Newman
Black Goat Blues
Levi Black
Beauty and the Beast
Nancy Holder
The Five Daughters of the Moon (The Waning Moon Duology)
Leena Likitalo
The Seven
Peter Newman
Crown of Stars
Sophie Jaff
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
K. Ritz
Power above Us All
Karl R. De Mesa, Ronaldo Soledad Vivo Jr
The Queen of Swords
R. S. Belcher
When My Heart Was Wicked
Tricia Stirling
Second Verse
Jennifer Walkup
Speak Gigantular
Irenosen Okojie
Till Sudden Death Do Us Part
Simon R. Green
Heir Chronicles
Cinda Williams Chima
ŠRDN - From Bronze and Darkness
Andrea Atzori
City Under the Sand
Jeff Mariotte
The Beasts of Electra Drive
Rohan Quine
Winter of Ice and Iron
Rachel Neumeier
Beauty
Sarah Pinborough
The Guns of Empire
Django Wexler
Under The Crimson Sun
Keith R. A. DeCandido
The Host in the Attic
Rohan Quine
Apricot Eyes
Rohan Quine
God of Broken Things
Cameron Johnston
The Ruthless
Peter Newman
Deviations
Elissa Malcohn
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018 Edition
Paula Guran
The Hammer and the Goat
Peter Newman
The Vagrant and the City
Peter Newman