Five top fantasy novels

Lev Grossman is the author of The Magicians and The Magician King, which were both New York Times bestsellers. He also writes about books and technology for Time magazine.

One of his five favorite fantasy novels, as told to Sophie Roell at The Browser:
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K Le Guin

It was published in 1968 and it was a revelation for fantasy readers, and possibly a revolution. In Le