These 100 books were selected based on key factors, including originality, ambition, artistry, critical and popular reception, and influence on the fantasy genre and literature more broadly https://ti.me/2SUuo0v 

Fantasy books help us understand our reality—and panelist @nkjemisin explains how:

“Is it comforting to see how many of the stories on this list wrestle with the need to reform institutions and change the leadership of society? It could be” https://ti.me/3j2msoP 

. @nkjemisin: “Yet the newer storytellers on the list, many of whom hail from colonized cultures and thus have vastly different background stories from those of 'classic' fantasy authors, also warn us of the realities of societal strife” https://ti.me/3j2msoP 

. @nkjemisin: “The good guys don’t always win, the bad guys don’t always lose, and either way, the ones who suffer most will be the people who were already struggling to get by” https://ti.me/3j2msoP 

“This is what both classic and modern fantasy teach us, however: that you have to fight anyway,” @nkjemisin writes https://ti.me/2H43Vey