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01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025
Overview
Spend 2025 in some of the many nooks and crannies of fantasy reads with me! Feel free to follow the prompt order or choose to hop around to your delight.
Fantasy: a genre of literature that features magical and supernatural elements which do not exist in the real world, thereby providing escapism from the mundane of our human condition
Subgenre: a smaller, more specific genre that is part of a larger genre
Fantasy: a genre of literature that features magical and supernatural elements which do not exist in the real world, thereby providing escapism from the mundane of our human condition
Subgenre: a smaller, more specific genre that is part of a larger genre
- Fairy Tale Retelling: fantasy based on or inspired by a fairy tale, or relies heavily on fairy tale tropes
- Romantasy: combines the elements of romance and fantasy, involving a focus on social, political, and romantic relationships
- Portal Fantasy: characters travel from the real world into a fictional fantasy world, often through a portal or gateway
- Urban Fantasy: features supernatural elements in the real-life grit of a modern setting, usually (but not always) a major city
- Cottagecore: any fantasy with cozy, country, rustic vibes, inspired by nature and/or a pastoral lifestyle - garden magic also fits
- Dragon Fantasy: not really a subgenre itself, exactly… but c’mon, dragons! Any dragons, your choice.
- Historical Fantasy: set in a historical period of the real world, often an alternative version of history with magic and/or the supernatural
- Gaslamp Fantasy: a subgenre of historical fantasy typically set in England during the Regency, Victorian or Edwardian eras
- Magical Realism: blends fantasy and reality in a way that appears ordinary and seamless in the story (realistic fiction meets fantasy elements) OR conversely, a story in which the magic/supernatural are the fantasies, imaginings, or delusions of the characters (like a blend of literary fiction and fantasy)
- Dark Academia: themes of academia or intellectualism with a mysterious atmosphere - think dark libraries, campus societies, or elite schools with a gothic aesthetic
- Time-Travel: character(s) move between different points in time, either forward or backward
- Viking/Norse Fantasy: fantasy inspired by or based on Scandinavian and Germanic tales, or influenced by Norse mythology
Fantasy Subgenres 2025
15 participants, 60 books
Starts: 01 Jan 2025Ends: 31 Dec 2025
Overview
Spend 2025 in some of the many nooks and crannies of fantasy reads with me! Feel free to follow the prompt order or choose to hop around to your delight.
Fantasy: a genre of literature that features magical and supernatural elements which do not exist in the real world, thereby providing escapism from the mundane of our human condition
Subgenre: a smaller, more specific genre that is part of a larger genre
Fantasy: a genre of literature that features magical and supernatural elements which do not exist in the real world, thereby providing escapism from the mundane of our human condition
Subgenre: a smaller, more specific genre that is part of a larger genre
- Fairy Tale Retelling: fantasy based on or inspired by a fairy tale, or relies heavily on fairy tale tropes
- Romantasy: combines the elements of romance and fantasy, involving a focus on social, political, and romantic relationships
- Portal Fantasy: characters travel from the real world into a fictional fantasy world, often through a portal or gateway
- Urban Fantasy: features supernatural elements in the real-life grit of a modern setting, usually (but not always) a major city
- Cottagecore: any fantasy with cozy, country, rustic vibes, inspired by nature and/or a pastoral lifestyle - garden magic also fits
- Dragon Fantasy: not really a subgenre itself, exactly… but c’mon, dragons! Any dragons, your choice.
- Historical Fantasy: set in a historical period of the real world, often an alternative version of history with magic and/or the supernatural
- Gaslamp Fantasy: a subgenre of historical fantasy typically set in England during the Regency, Victorian or Edwardian eras
- Magical Realism: blends fantasy and reality in a way that appears ordinary and seamless in the story (realistic fiction meets fantasy elements) OR conversely, a story in which the magic/supernatural are the fantasies, imaginings, or delusions of the characters (like a blend of literary fiction and fantasy)
- Dark Academia: themes of academia or intellectualism with a mysterious atmosphere - think dark libraries, campus societies, or elite schools with a gothic aesthetic
- Time-Travel: character(s) move between different points in time, either forward or backward
- Viking/Norse Fantasy: fantasy inspired by or based on Scandinavian and Germanic tales, or influenced by Norse mythology
