But fantasy was, as I mentioned before, always my first love as a kid, so when you stumble on a book that renders it really well, you should grab on with both hands. It can be easy to get distracted by all the well-written realistic stuff out there. This year, I honestly don’t feel like I read enough high fantasy. This is just a sampling of what was on offer. Please bear in mind, though, that I missed a LOT of middle grade books this year.
With that in mind, here then are the books I read in 2020 that I thought were just stand up and cheer great. There aren’t any hard and fast rules to this game so these rules are fairly arbitrary. Does Magical Realism count as Fantasy? If it doesn’t (and I don’t think it does) then technically A Game of Fox and Squirrels doesn’t belong on this list. In sorting through all of this I also had to make some big choices. That means I’ll not just include chapter books but comics as well!
This year I’m doing what I already did with the humor and science fiction lists. I dedicated long hours of my childhood to Apple paperback ghost stories and Susan Cooper and Pern (which is technically science fiction, but shhhh!). Can you believe that last year I had a nice, big, beautiful science fiction list and then entirely eschewed fantasy? For! Shame! Fantasy was my first genre love.
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