8 Must-Read YA Fantasy Novels by Indian Writers to Read in 2024

For several years now, YA fantasy authors have carved out a beloved and celebrated niche in the world of fantasy and science fiction literature. YA fantasy books stand on their own in this crowded genre, attracting fans new and old.

This post is about best fantasy novels ever written by the Indian authors. And the best part is that we have to update it every month. Good news! More and more authors entering the genre, the list is increasing. There is no more need to be depended on a few over-hyped imagined worlds. If you are a fantasy book reader, read on to get the best names from the Indian literature arena.

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The Heiress: the Cursed Queen by Jaanya Vijh:

The Heiress: the Cursed Queen by Jaanya Vijh is a fascinating YA fantasy novel staged against imaginary worlds where much of the action takes place. This novel depicts life story of one young teenage girl named Eliana Parker, who lives with her abusive father, and her mother being a powerful elementalist carries out tyranny against the mechanism of the world. Eliana Parker has been identified as legal heir over Reyna, her mother. But before she could take up the throne just as easily as cakewalk, a battle against dark forces and monsters awaits her and the team of few brave heart teenagers.

2)

The Ayan Triangle by Avinash Ashu:

Truly a romantasy with shades of light and dark. The novel has mesmerizing elements of illusion and fantasy while narrating a regular tale of love and intensity thought its three young adult lead characters whose life and fate are not only intertwined but also affected by one another. The storyline has leveraged futuristic sci-fi technology in its backdrop that adds charming aspects to its half-real and half-baked world building. Avinash maintained an air of mystery and suspense throughout the narration. The skillful blending of reality and illusion adds dimensional depth and magnificence to the story.

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The Land of Ataraxia Genesis:

The Land of Ataraxia Genesis by SS Merce is a super fabulous fantasy thriller full of action, adventure, with amazing people and places. The novel is set in some fictional Elswyth Sea, in fact, the entire book is highly imaginative and fictional. The novel follows a story of ship named Caelesti Viatrix and its crew. Right since the beginning, you will get to know the rich battle history of the ship and its heady hip-hop culture. The author took all efforts to create an ambience in the ship. As famous as folklore, their ship is legendary.

4)

Pentias: Master of the Elemental Jewels:

Pentias: Master of the Elemental Jewels by Karthika Sajeev is second book in the series. However, it can be read as an independent novel as well. It’s a light fantasy thriller for children, but even hardcore fantasy readers will fall for it. The novel looks like a complete fantasy thriller with many charming aspects such as brilliant storytelling, backdrop, pace, and much more. Like a good fantasy thriller, this one also brims with supernatural forces, magical whims, kingdom stories, slaying of demons, and above all packed with action.

5)

Jean Angel by Atul Mohite:

Jean Angel by Atul Mohite is a light, riveting, and fast-paced fantasy novel with a good dose of adventure. The novel is built around a special boy named Jean, he has ‘J’ scar on his chest. He is kept hidden in some other kingdom from his parents and native kingdom where he was born, as he could be that prophecy child that can overthrow the crown of a cruel king named Robert. Will a saint’s foretelling come true? Will Jean be able to discover himself for the benefit of suppressed people?

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Born to be King by Deepak Thomas:

This novel possesses a very fantastic yet intriguing question — which is mightier to rule a kingdom, ink and intellectual or steel and strength? The protagonist, female Kautilya, so called princess of the Bharata Kingdom, is of the opinion of that a true and righteous king would focus more on ink and intellectual than war and its glory. However, her brother Dhanush is just anti-thesis to her beliefs, and feels otherwise. Who’s going to win, later on, the war between them is about their conflicting beliefs. So, who is right, who is unjust…only time and mettle of the characters will tell.

7)

Inkredia (Luwan of Brida) by Sarang Mahajan:

Inkredia is an incredible fantasy novel. The novel is about Luwan, the protagonist of the book, a hilly village lad. He is in the occupation of collecting herbs from high, steep and tumultuous mountains. While performing his job he often braves the perilous uncertainty of serpentine mountains and their allied creatures with acute fierceness.

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Age of Azmoq by Rajamayyoor Sharma:

The Age of Azmoq is an epic fantasy novel by the Indian author Rajamayyoor Sharma. This is the first book in the Valantian Imperium trilogy. The book possesses a question: for what reasons battles are fought for? As we all know, for greed and power and to seize resources like coal, gold, diamond, and lately oil. As the title suggests, Azmoq is a powerful metal and whosoever can procure it and use it in the armory can rule over the world undoubtedly, and one such that kind of army is, ‘The Valantian Army’.