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Completed Fantasy Trilogies

What are some completed fantasy trilogies?

BookBinge tracks 30 completed fantasy trilogies whose final book is already out. The best-known places to start are The Lord of the Rings, The Powerless Trilogy and The Folk of the Air.

30 series · Updated 18 October 2026

Fantasy stories told in exactly three books, all finished. A trilogy is the sweet spot for a binge: a full arc with room to build a world, without a ten-book commitment.

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1. 

   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 →

2. 

   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 →

3. 

   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 →

4. 

   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 →

5. 

   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 →

6. 

   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 →

7. 

   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 →

8. 

   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 →

9. 

   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 →

10. 

    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 →

11. 

    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 →

12. 

    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 →

13. 

    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 →

14. 

    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 →

15. 

    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 →

16. 

    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 →

17. 

    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 →

18. 

    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 →

19. 

    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 →

20. 

    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 →

21. 

    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 →

22. 

    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 →

23. 

    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 →

24. 

    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 →

25. 

    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 →

26. 

    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 →

27. 

    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 →

28. 

    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 →

29. 

    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 →

30. 

    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 this list was built

This page lists every three-book 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.

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