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title: "Epic Fantasy Books"
description: "Browse award-recognized epic fantasy books with examples, counts, and a filtered app link."
canonical: "https://sffawards.com/subgenres/epic-fantasy/"
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# Epic Fantasy Books

Large-scale fantasy with major stakes, broad conflict, and consequences for nations, worlds, or cosmic orders. Often overlaps high fantasy.

- **matching books:** 288
- **recognitions:** 342
- **winner records:** 19
- **award years:** 1976-2026
- **updated:** Aug 28, 2026

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## Representative Books

- **A Game of Thrones** by George R\.R\. Martin - 4.45 average rating, 2,777,553 ratings, 3 recognitions, 1 wins, published 1996
- **The Name of the Wind** by Patrick Rothfuss - 4.52 average rating, 1,102,650 ratings, 1 recognitions, 0 wins, published 2007

## Related Links

- [Browse all subgenre pages](/subgenres/)
- [High Fantasy books](/subgenres/high-fantasy/)
- [Heroic Fantasy books](/subgenres/heroic-fantasy/)
- [Military Fantasy books](/subgenres/military-fantasy/)
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- [Browse award pages](/awards/)

## Goodreads Genre Reference

[View Epic Fantasy on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/genres/epic-fantasy)

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