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Completed Fantasy Series to Binge

Which fantasy series are finished?

BookBinge tracks 72 finished fantasy series whose final book is already out. The best-known places to start are Harry Potter, Throne of Glass and The Lord of the Rings.

The short answer

72 series · checked 11 Oct 2026

How many?: 72 finished fantasy series, each status checked 11 October 2026.
Quickest binge: Stonewater Kingdom: 2 books, about 740 pages.
Longest: Discworld: 41 books, about 14,500 pages.
Most recently finished: The Bridge Kingdom, whose last book came out in 2026.

72 series · Updated 18 October 2026

Every fantasy series in BookBinge's catalogue whose last book is already out, so you can read start to finish without waiting years for a sequel. Sort by length to find a weekend read or a year-long saga.

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Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
An orphan learns he is a wizard and grows up over seven school years at a boarding school for magic.
7 books~3,900 pages1997–2007★ 4.8
Start with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) · Reading order →
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
Freed from a prison mine, a teenage assassin competes for a royal post before the story grows into war fantasy.
8 books~5,000 pages2012–2018★ 4.5
Start with Throne of Glass (2012) · Reading order →
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Hobbits leave their quiet shire to destroy a dangerous ring, in the founding work of modern quest fantasy with deep invented history.
3 books~1,400 pages1954–1955★ 4.9
Start with The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) · Reading order →
The Powerless Trilogy
Lauren Roberts
Romantasy where a girl without powers hides among the gifted elite and enters royal trials alongside a prince.
3 books~1,600 pages2023–2025★ 4.4
Start with Powerless (2023) · Reading order →
The Folk of the Air
Holly Black
Court intrigue in Faerie, seen by a mortal girl raised among cruel immortals who decides to scheme back.
3 books~1,000 pages2018–2019★ 4.3
Start with The Cruel Prince (2018) · Reading order →
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
Fourteen-book fantasy following villagers swept up in a cyclical war, with a large cast, detailed magic and many nations.
14 books~11,200 pages1990–2013★ 4.5
Start with The Eye of the World (1990) · Reading order →
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross
Letters exchanged through enchanted typewriters connect two rival journalists while a war between gods spreads across their country.
2 books~920 pages2023★ 4.61
Start with Divine Rivals (2023) · Reading order →
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Heist fantasy about six young criminals, told in turn from several of their points of view, hired to break into an unbreakable fortress.
2 books~1,100 pages2015–2016★ 4.7
Start with Six of Crows (2015) · Reading order →
Shadow and Bone / Grishaverse
Leigh Bardugo
Russian-inspired fantasy in which an orphaned mapmaker discovers a rare power that could split open a cursed darkness.
5 books~2,000 pages2012–2021★ 4.3
Start with Shadow and Bone (2012) · Reading order →
Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin
Enemies-to-lovers romance in a French-inspired city, pairing a witch on the run with the witch hunter forced to marry her.
3 books~1,700 pages2019–2021★ 4.82
Start with Serpent & Dove (2019) · Reading order →
The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen
Spy-turned-bride romantasy where a princess trained for sabotage marries the king of an island nation that controls the only trade bridge.
6 books~2,800 pages2019–2026★ 4.8
Start with The Bridge Kingdom (2019) · Reading order →
Flesh and Fire
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Prequel romantasy to Blood and Ash, following a princess raised as an assassin who is promised to the god of death.
4 books2021–2024★ 4.61
Start with A Shadow in the Ember (2021) · Reading order →
Lightlark
Alex Aster
Six cursed rulers meet every century for a deadly island game, seen through a sheltered young ruler hiding her missing powers.
4 books~1,700 pages2022–2025★ 4.62
Start with Lightlark (2022) · Reading order →
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber
Fairy-tale romance built on a risky bargain with an immortal trickster, in a whimsical empire where old stories hide real curses.
4 books~1,500 pages2021–2026★ 4.81
Start with Once Upon a Broken Heart (2021) · Reading order →
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
Boarding-school fantasy narrated by a brash half-human bodyguard in training, sworn to protect her best friend, a royal vampire.
6 books~2,200 pages2007–2010★ 4.82
Start with Vampire Academy (2007) · Reading order →
The First Law Trilogy
Joe Abercrombie
Grim, darkly funny fantasy built around a torturer, a barbarian and a vain nobleman, with heroes who rarely behave like heroes.
3 books~1,800 pages2006–2008★ 4.5
Start with The Blade Itself (2006) · Reading order →
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Steven Erikson
Military fantasy on an enormous scale, with meddling gods, dozens of soldier viewpoints, and little hand-holding for new readers.
10 books~8,600 pages1999–2011★ 4.82
Start with Gardens of the Moon (1999) · Reading order →
Discworld
Terry Pratchett
Comic fantasy that skewers real institutions, from newspapers to banks to the police, across dozens of loosely linked novels.
41 books~14,500 pages1983–2015★ 4.82
Start with Guards! Guards! (1989) · Reading order →
Cradle
Will Wight
Progression fantasy where a weak outcast climbs a strict ladder of martial magic one hard-won rank at a time; quick and funny.
12 books~4,700 pages2016–2023★ 4.61
Start with Unsouled (2016) · Reading order →
Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff
Told by a captive vampire hunter to a vampire chronicler, this grim, profane dark fantasy unfolds in a world without daylight.
3 books~2,400 pages2021–2025★ 4.4
Start with Empire of the Vampire (2021) · Reading order →
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
Children step through doors into a talking-animal kingdom, with each short book visiting a different era of its history.
7 books~1,400 pages1950–1956★ 4.6
Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) · Reading order →
The Broken Earth
N.K. Jemisin
On a continent hit by recurring apocalypses, a mother with feared earth-moving powers searches for her daughter.
3 books~1,400 pages2015–2017★ 4.6
Start with The Fifth Season (2015) · Reading order →
Shades of Magic
V.E. Schwab
A magician who can cross between four parallel Londons, each with its own amount of magic, smuggles more than he should.
3 books~1,600 pages2015–2017★ 4.4
Start with A Darker Shade of Magic (2015) · Reading order →
Lightbringer
Brent Weeks
Magic drawn from colour and light drives a story of a ruler hiding an enormous secret, with frequent twists.
5 books~3,800 pages2010–2019★ 4.4
Start with The Black Prism (2010) · Reading order →
The Farseer Trilogy
Robin Hobb
Slow, intimate first-person fantasy about a royal bastard raised as a court assassin and bound by loyalty.
3 books~1,900 pages1995–1997★ 4.5
Start with Assassin's Apprentice (1995) · Reading order →
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
Military fantasy drawn from 20th-century Chinese history, in which a poor orphan wins a place at an elite war academy.
3 books~1,400 pages2018–2020★ 4.3
Start with The Poppy War (2018) · Reading order →
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
Two narrators, a slave spying for rebels and a soldier who wants out, inside a harsh Rome-inspired military empire.
4 books~1,900 pages2015–2020★ 4.3
Start with An Ember in the Ashes (2015) · Reading order →
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
Philosophical adventure across parallel worlds, starting in an Oxford where each person's soul lives outside them as an animal.
3 books~1,300 pages1995–2000★ 4.3
Start with The Golden Compass (1995) · Reading order →
Ranger's Apprentice
John Flanagan
Undersized orphan trains in stealth, tracking and archery in a medieval kingdom; brisk adventure that suits readers from about ten.
12 books~4,000 pages2004–2013★ 4.4
Start with The Ruins of Gorlan (2004) · Reading order →
Codex Alera
Jim Butcher
Roman-flavored legions, elemental furies and a boy with no magic of his own who has to win with wits instead.
6 books~3,200 pages2004–2009★ 4.4
Start with Furies of Calderon (2004) · Reading order →
The Powder Mage
Brian McClellan
Flintlock military fantasy where sorcerers draw power from gunpowder, told through a field marshal, his sniper son and a private investigator.
3 books~1,800 pages2013–2015★ 4.3
Start with Promise of Blood (2013) · Reading order →
The Demon Cycle
Peter V. Brett
Grim adult fantasy where demons rise each night and people survive behind painted wards, until a few start fighting back.
5 books~3,300 pages2008–2017★ 4.4
Start with The Warded Man (2008) · Reading order →
Legacy of Orïsha
Tomi Adeyemi
West African-inspired YA fantasy about a young diviner trying to bring magic back after a king had its practitioners slaughtered.
3 books~1,400 pages2018–2024★ 4.3
Start with Children of Blood and Bone (2018) · Reading order →
The Licanius Trilogy
James Islington
Intricate classic-style fantasy built on time magic and foreshadowing, best for readers who enjoy rereads and payoffs planned from page one.
3 books~2,300 pages2014–2019★ 4.4
Start with The Shadow of What Was Lost (2014) · Reading order →
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
Western, fantasy and horror blended into one long quest across linked worlds, with ties to many other Stephen King novels.
8 books~4,300 pages1982–2012★ 4.1
Start with The Gunslinger (1982) · Reading order →
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
YA fantasy where blood color sets your class, and a common-born girl with forbidden power is placed inside the royal court.
4 books~2,100 pages2015–2018★ 4.1
Start with Red Queen (2015) · Reading order →
The Mortal Instruments
Cassandra Clare
Urban fantasy set in present-day New York, where a teenage girl discovers a hidden world of demon hunters, warlocks and family secrets.
6 books~3,600 pages2007–2014★ 4.2
Start with City of Bones (2007) · Reading order →
The Infernal Devices
Cassandra Clare
Victorian London with clockwork automatons and demon hunters; a self-contained trilogy that also works as an entry point to Clare's world.
3 books~1,400 pages2010–2013★ 4.4
Start with Clockwork Angel (2010) · Reading order →
Caraval
Stephanie Garber
Two sisters escape their father into a magical game played across an island, where performance and danger blur; romantic YA fantasy.
3 books~1,400 pages2017–2019★ 4.2
Start with Caraval (2017) · Reading order →
The Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon
Enemies-to-lovers epic fantasy in which the last Lightweaver is forced into a marriage alliance with the shadow-wielding heir of the empire she's fighting.
3 books~1,400 pages2023–2026★ 4.6
Start with The Hurricane Wars (2023) · Reading order →
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
Dark academia about six gifted magicians competing for entry into a secretive society that guards the lost Library of Alexandria.
3 books~1,300 pages2020–2024★ 4.6
Start with The Atlas Six (2020) · Reading order →
Faebound
Saara El-Arifi
Queer romantasy in which two exiled elf sisters, a disgraced soldier and a fortune-teller, stumble into a hidden fae court.
3 books~1,300 pages2024–2026★ 4.62
Start with Faebound (2024) · Reading order →
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong
Romeo and Juliet moved to 1920s Shanghai, where heirs of rival gangs team up against a contagion driving people to madness.
2 books~980 pages2020–2021★ 4.62
Start with These Violent Delights (2020) · Reading order →
The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh
Retelling of One Thousand and One Nights in which a young woman weds a murderous caliph to avenge her best friend.
2 books~820 pages2015–2016★ 4.61
Start with The Wrath and the Dawn (2015) · Reading order →
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
Adult dark fantasy set at Yale, where a young woman with a rough past who sees ghosts monitors its occult secret societies.
3 books~1,500 pages2019–2026★ 4.61
Start with Ninth House (2019) · Reading order →
The Raven Cycle
Maggie Stiefvater
Small-town Virginia fantasy about a psychic's non-psychic daughter and four prep-school boys hunting for a sleeping Welsh king.
4 books~1,800 pages2012–2016★ 4.62
Start with The Raven Boys (2012) · Reading order →
Fable
Adrienne Young
Seafaring fantasy about a teenage gem dredger stranded on a lawless island, fighting her way onto a trading ship's crew.
2 books~770 pages2020–2021★ 4.61
Start with Fable (2020) · Reading order →
Ash Princess
Laura Sebastian
Rebellion fantasy about a dethroned heir kept as a humiliated trophy in her own palace for ten years, now plotting with rebels.
3 books~1,400 pages2018–2020★ 4.4
Start with Ash Princess (2018) · Reading order →
The Iron Fey
Julie Kagawa
Faerie-court fantasy that pulls a teenager from rural Louisiana into the Nevernever, where Summer and Winter face a new technological threat.
4 books~1,300 pages2010–2011★ 4.42
Start with The Iron King (2010) · Reading order →
Winternight Trilogy
Katherine Arden
Slavic folklore fantasy set in medieval Rus', following a girl who can see household spirits as the church and old ways collide.
3 books~1,100 pages2017–2019★ 4.4
Start with The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) · Reading order →
The Cursebreakers
Brigid Kemmerer
Beauty and the Beast retelling that sends a Washington, D.C. teenager with cerebral palsy into a cursed kingdom.
3 books~1,400 pages2019–2021★ 4.42
Start with A Curse So Dark and Lonely (2019) · Reading order →
Nightbirds
Kate J. Armstrong
Gilded-age fantasy about girls whose outlawed magic is sold in secret to the city's elite through a kiss.
2 books2023–2024★ 4.4
Start with Nightbirds (2023) · Reading order →
The Four Winds
Alexandria Warwick
Adult romantasy in which each book centers on a different wind god and his heroine, starting with an icy Hades-and-Persephone style bargain.
4 books2022–2026★ 4.42
Start with The North Wind (2022) · Reading order →
Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Quiet, thoughtful wizard fantasy set on scattered islands, where magic works through true names and every spell carries a cost.
6 books~1,500 pages1968–2001★ 4.82
Start with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) · Reading order →
The Belgariad
David Eddings
Classic quest fantasy with a farm boy, a squabbling band of companions, and an old prophecy; light, quick, and newcomer-friendly.
5 books~1,700 pages1982–1984★ 4.62
Start with Pawn of Prophecy (1982) · Reading order →
Sword of Truth
Terry Goodkind
Old-school high fantasy about a forest guide pulled into a war of wizards and rules; long, intense, and often violent.
11 books~7,200 pages1994–2007★ 4.61
Start with Wizard's First Rule (1994) · Reading order →
Green Bone Saga
Fonda Lee
Family crime saga in an island city where rival clans fight over jade that grants martial powers, built like a mob drama.
3 books~1,800 pages2017–2021★ 4.6
Start with Jade City (2017) · Reading order →
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Tad Williams
Slow-building, old-school high fantasy following a castle scullion drawn into a war with immortal elves and a long-dead prince.
3 books~2,600 pages1988–1993★ 4.6
Start with The Dragonbone Chair (1988) · Reading order →
The Faithful and the Fallen
John Gwynne
Grim, battle-heavy fantasy drawing on Celtic and Norse myth, following a smith's son and rival viewpoints toward a war of gods.
4 books~2,700 pages2012–2016★ 4.62
Start with Malice (2012) · Reading order →
Book of the Ancestor
Mark Lawrence
Convent-school fantasy where novice nuns train as fighters and assassins on an icy world circling a dying sun.
3 books~1,300 pages2017–2019★ 4.62
Start with Red Sister (2017) · Reading order →
The Divine Cities
Robert Jackson Bennett
Spy-led mystery fantasy in a city whose gods were killed, looking hard at colonial rule and life after the miracles end.
3 books~850 pages2014–2017★ 4.6
Start with City of Stairs (2014) · Reading order →
Temeraire
Naomi Novik
Napoleonic Wars retold with an aerial dragon corps, centred on a naval captain and the curious, bookish dragon he bonds with.
9 books~3,400 pages2006–2016★ 4.6
Start with His Majesty's Dragon (2006) · Reading order →
Riyria Revelations
Michael J. Sullivan
Light, quick adventure fantasy built on the banter of a thief and a swordsman who keep getting framed for bigger trouble.
6 books~2,000 pages2008–2011★ 4.42
Start with The Crown Conspiracy (2008) · Reading order →
The Scholomance
Naomi Novik
Dark-humoured school fantasy narrated by a sardonic sorceress who must survive a monster-infested academy with no teachers and a lethal graduation.
3 books~1,000 pages2020–2022★ 4.3
Start with A Deadly Education (2020) · Reading order →
The Ending Fire
Saara El-Arifi
Fantasy set in a desert empire ruled by blood caste, drawing on West African and Arabian myth, with a queer romance.
3 books2022–2024★ 4.1
Start with The Final Strife (2022) · Reading order →
Gilded
Marissa Meyer
Dark Rumpelstiltskin retelling where a miller's daughter's tall tale about spinning gold catches the attention of the Erlking.
2 books2021–2022★ 4.1
Start with Gilded (2021) · Reading order →
The Shepherd King
Rachel Gillig
Gothic romantasy built around magical cards and a creeping mist, following a young woman who hides an ancient voice in her mind.
2 books~870 pages2022–2023★ 4.2
Start with One Dark Window (2022) · Reading order →
Stonewater Kingdom
Rachel Gillig
Set around a cathedral of vision-granting gods, this dark romantasy pairs a devout seer with an irreverent knight as her sisters vanish.
2 books~740 pages2025–2026★ 4.2
Start with The Knight and the Moth (2025) · Reading order →
Crier's War
Nina Varela
Sapphic enemies-to-lovers YA fantasy pitting a vengeful human handmaiden against the android heiress of the ruling automaton class.
2 books~860 pages2019–2020★ 3.9
Start with Crier's War (2019) · Reading order →
The Kane Chronicles
Rick Riordan
Egyptian-mythology adventure for middle-grade readers, told in alternating recorded chapters by a brother and sister who discover they are magicians.
3 books~1,400 pages2010–2012★ 4.2
Start with The Red Pyramid (2010) · Reading order →
How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell
Funny, illustrated Viking adventures for younger readers about an unremarkable boy and his tiny, disobedient dragon, and quite different from the films.
12 books2003–2015★ 4.2
Start with How to Train Your Dragon (2003) · Reading order →
Kindred's Curse Saga
Penn Cole
Romantasy about a mortal healer who discovers divine blood in her veins, caught between rebels and a guarded royal heir.
4 books~2,800 pages2023–2026★ 4.2
Start with Spark of the Everflame (2023) · Reading order →

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How this list was built

This page lists every fantasy series in BookBinge's catalogue of 333 series whose status we checked against the author's or publisher's own announcements on 11 October 2026. A series that has another main book announced, or whose author has hinted at more without confirming, stays off the list. It is sorted with the best-known series first; use the menu to sort by length, the year the last book came out, or average rating. Page totals are summed from each book's page count, and the catalogue is the same one the BookBinge app uses, so new books and status changes reach this page when the catalogue is updated.

Frequently asked questions

Which fantasy series are finished?

BookBinge tracks 72 finished fantasy series whose final book is already out. The best-known places to start are Harry Potter, Throne of Glass and The Lord of the Rings.

What is the shortest of these fantasy series?

Stonewater Kingdom by Rachel Gillig: 2 books and about 740 pages in total, roughly 12 hours of reading.

Which of these fantasy series has the most books?

Discworld by Terry Pratchett, with 41 books (1983–2015).

How do you decide a series is complete?

A series is listed only when its author or publisher has said the final book is out (or the author has died with no continuation announced) and no further main-series book is announced. We checked every series on this page on 11 October 2026. Companion books and spin-offs set in the same world can still appear later.

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