Most Popular Fantasy Books of the 1960s

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Collection · Middle-earth

1968

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Translation

1966

The Moomin Books #7

Moominpappa at Sea

Tove Jansson

Fantasy · Childrens · Translation

1965

The Moomin Books #6

Tales from Moominvalley

Tove Jansson

Fantasy · Childrens · Short Stories · Translation

1962

Earthsea #1

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · TV Series

1968

Green Town

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Fantasy · Horror

1962

Tree and Leaf

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy · Short Stories · Non-fiction

1964

Chronicles of Prydain #5

The High King

Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Young Adult

1968

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Fantasy · Childrens

1964

Chronicles of Prydain #2

The Black Cauldron

Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Young Adult

1965

The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle

Fantasy

1968

Chronicles of Prydain #3

The Castle of Llyr

Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Young Adult

1966

The Dark Is Rising #1

Over Sea, Under Stone

Susan Cooper

Fantasy · Young Adult

1965

Chronicles of Prydain #1

The Book of Three

Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Young Adult

1964

Chronicles of Prydain #4

Taran Wanderer

Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Young Adult

1967

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy · Middle-earth · Poetry · Short Stories

1962

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

Fantasy · Childrens

1961

Smith of Wootton Major

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy · Childrens

1967

Tarzan #23

Tarzan and the Madman

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1964

The Owl Service

Alan Garner

Fantasy · Young Adult · Carnegie Medal

1967

Magic Finger

Roald Dahl

Fantasy · Childrens

1966

Tarzan #24

Tarzan and the Castaways

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy

1965

Bored of the Rings

Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney

Fantasy

1969

Tarzan #11

Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fantasy · Young Adult · Collection

1963

Harold Shea #3

Wall of Serpents

L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt

Fantasy · Short Stories

1960

The Sea Egg

L. M. Boston

Fantasy · Childrens

1967

Dorrie the Little Witch #1

Dorrie's Magic

Patricia Coombs

Fantasy · Childrens

1962

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

Fantasy · Childrens

1961

Atlan #1

The Serpent

Jane Gaskell

Fantasy

1963

Lankhmar #4

Swords Against Wizardry

Fritz Leiber

Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1968

Our Ancestors

Our Ancestors

Italo Calvino

Fantasy · Collection · Translation · Mainstream

1962

Elric Saga #6

Stormbringer

Michael Moorcock

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery

1965

The Shadow Out of Time

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Science Fiction

1968

Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliff

Fantasy · Arthuriana · Historical Fiction

1963

The Borrowers #4

The Borrowers Aloft

Mary Norton

Fantasy · Young Adult

1961

Elric

The Stealer of Souls

Michael Moorcock

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1963