Fantasy Faction's Top Books of 2014

Another Best Fantasy of 2014 came out, and this one is a whopper. The folks at Fantasy Faction picked out more than 50 books that they wanted to highlight from 2014.  I found a lot of books that I would expect on such a list, and some that are new to me that I want to check out. Hopefully you will to.  Here is a link to their article.

And here are the covers for the books:

The titles include are:

• Assail (Malazan Empire, #6) by Ian C. Esslemont
• Banished (The Blackhart Legacy, #1) by Liz de Jager
• Blood and Iron (The Book of the Black Earth, #1) by Jon Sprunk
• Blood Will Follow (The Valhalla Saga, #2) by Snorri Kristjansson
• Dust and Light (The Sanctuary Duet, #1) by Carol Berg
• Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant, #5) by Ben Aaronovitch
• Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence, #3) by Max Gladstone
• Mirror Sight (Green Rider, #5) by Kristen Britain
• Murder (Mayhem, #2) by Sarah Pinborough
• Night of the Hunter (Companions Codex, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #25) by R.A. Salvatore
• Seal of the Worm (Shadows of the Apt, #10) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Shattered (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #7) by Kevin Hearne
• Steles of the Sky (Eternal Sky #3) by Elizabeth Bear
• Sworn in Steel (Tales of the Kin, #2) by Douglas Hulick
• The Boy with the Porcelain (Erebus Sequence, #1) by Den Patrick
• The Dark Defiles (A Land Fit for Heroes, #3) by Richard K. Morgan
• The Fell Sword (The Traitor Son Cycle, #2) by Miles Cameron
• The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M Harris
• The High Druid’s Blade (The Defenders of Shannara, #1) by Terry Brooks
• The Magician’s Land (The Magicians, #3) by Lev Grossman
• The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns, #2) by Django Wexler
• The Splintered Gods (The Memory of Flames #6) by Stephen Deas
• The Widow’s House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4) by Daniel Abraham
• Thief’s Magic (Millenium’s Rule, #1) by Trudi Canavan
• Tower Lord (Raven’s Shadow, #2) by Anthony Ryan
• Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen #2) by John Gwynne
• Veil of the Deserters (Bloodsounder’s Arc, #2) by Jeff Salyards
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
• The Emperor’s Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1) by Brian Staveley
• Dreamer’s Pool (Blackthorn And Grim #1) by Juliet Marillier
• The Crimson Campaign (The Powder Mage, #2) by Brian Mcclellan
• Ruin And Rising (The Grisha, #3) by Leigh Bardugo
• Son of the Morning by Mark Alder
• Traitor’s Blade (Greatcoats, #1) by Sebastien De Castell
• Shadowplay (Micah Grey, #2) by Laura Lam
• Age of Iron (Iron Age, #1) by Angus Watson
• The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga, #1) by Kameron Hurley
• Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3) by Laini Taylor
• Skin Game (Dresden Files, #15) by Jim Butcher
• Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy, #1) by Pierce Brown
• The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1) by Erika Johansen
• Smiler’s Fair (The Hollow Gods, #1) by Rebecca Levene
• The City Stained Red (Bring Down Heaven, #1) by Sam Sykes
• Half A King (Shattered Sea, #1) by Joe Abercrombie
• Prince of Fools (The Red Queen’s War, #1) by Mark Lawrence
• Breach Zone (Shadow Ops, #3) by Myke Cole
• City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Copper Promise (The Copper Promise, #1) by Jennifer Williams
• The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3) by Brent Weeks
• Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson
• Fool’s Assassin (The Fitz And the Fool Trilogy, #1) by Robin Hobb

Well done...to all the authors, and well done too goes out to Fantasy Faction for putting together such a comprehensive list.