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Ten Great Fantasy Books for Boys

Take that contemporary dragon book in your hand right now, set it down, and don't take another look at it until you have completed reading the books on this list of classic fantasy stories. No one should think about reading or writing a modern dragon story (like many boys seem to want to do now) until he has familiarized himself with the greatest stories in the fantasy genre. It'll take him until he is 45 years old to finish them all, of course, and by then he will be fully equipped to write a dragon story, but no longer interested in doing it. Which is just fine. There are way too many modern dragon stories out there anyway.

Martin Cothran
Martin Cothran
May 21st, 2025