Historical Fantasy Books of the 1980s
The 65 most-read historical fantasy books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by Wild Seed (1980), Seventh Son (1987) and Red Prophet (1988).
This list collects 65 books from the 1980s by 55 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Seventh Son
Orson Scott Card
Red Prophet
Orson Scott Card
Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson
Libra
Don DeLillo
The Wicked Day
Mary Stewart
The Samurai's Tale
Erik Christian Haugaard
Taliesin (Pendragon Cycle #1)
Stephen R. Lawhead
Prentice Alvin
Orson Scott Card
Merlín
Stephen R. Lawhead
True Names
Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel
Heartfire
Orson Scott Card
Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin
The Stress of Her Regard
Tim Powers
Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were
Michael F. Page, Robert Ingpen
The Lost Road and Other Writings
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Arthur
Stephen R. Lawhead, Frederick Davidson
The Treason of Isengard
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
On Stranger Tides
Tim Powers
The Way of Wyrd
Brian Bates
King Gilgamesh
Robert Silverberg
Neveryóna
Samuel R. Delany
The Grey Horse
R. A. Macavoy, Steve Coulter
Kingdom of Summer
Gillian Bradshaw
The Dragon Waiting
John M. Ford
The Road to Avalon
Joan Wolf
Kingdom of Shadows
Barbara Erskine
Firelord
Parke Godwin
Beloved Exile
Parke Godwin
Lammas Night
Katherine Kurtz
Players of Gor
John Norman
Hitler Victorious
Gregory Benford, Martin H. Greenberg
The High Kings
Joy Chant
Strands of Starlight
Gael Baudino
Imperial Lady
Andre Norton, Susan Shwartz
The Dragon and the Djinn
Gordon R. Dickson
Merlin's Booke
Jane Yolen
Highlander
Kilworth, Garry
Birds of Prey
David Drake
Guinevere Evermore
Sharan Newman
The Exile
William Kotzwinkle
Blood and Sand
Rosemary Sutcliff
Child of the Northern Spring
Persia Woolley
H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos
Robert M. Price
Wizardry and Wild Romance
Michael Moorcock
The Tangled Thread
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Benjamin Franklin takes the case
Robert Lee Hall
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Douglas C. Jones
Ariadne
June Rachuy Brindel
Savage Empire
Jean Lorrah
Palace of Kings
Mike Jefferies
Lord Darcy Investigates
Randall Garrett
The Pendragon cycle
Stephen R. Lawhead
The road to Underfall
Mike Jefferies
Tage des Wahnsinns
Wolfgang Hohlbein
Tempus
Janet Morris
J.R.R. Tolkien
Richard L. Purtill
The Conference of the Birds
Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār
Anesthesia and the Brain
John D. Michenfelder
The Future of Eternity
Casey Fredericks
Delan the Mislaid
Laurie J. Marks
Starkadder
Bernard King
A Study in Sorcery
Michael Kurland
Tarzan and Tradition
Erling B. Holtsmark
In the Circles of Fear and Desire
William Patrick Day