Best fantasy/supernatural books?

[dangerousandmoving]

There are so many authors out there writing for a younger and younger audience. I really enjoyed the wit of Vivian vandeVelde's Heir Apparent. And Garth Nix from Australia has an exquisite series starting with Sabriel. There is better storytelling in children's stories because they don't get bogged down in sex scenes.

There are and I agree, the storytelling is better in children's stories. It makes no sense to me why they have to add in sex scenes just because the book is aimed at adults.

[dangerousandmoving]

If one had to choose the single best fantasy novel of all time, I think it would almost undoubtedly be J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings...a book that's so good it's almost in a class by itself.

While it is obviously a very popular book it's not the type of fantasy book I read. I prefer more supernatural - ghosts, demons, witches - than fantasy books such as that. No doubt it's well written and great if you like that type of fantasy, but in my opinion there's better fantasy stories