Modern
Authors such as John Flanagan, Terry Pratchett, George R.R. Martin, R.A. Salvatore, J.K.Rowling, Christopher Paolini, Peter S. Beagle, Terry Brooks, Steven Erikson, Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Rick Riordan, Scott Lynch, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Eddings, Tamora Pierce, Charles de Lint, Raymond E. Feist, Laura Gallego, Brandon Mull, and partly Laurell K. Hamilton and Angie Sage are maintaining the genre's popularity.
Though it is not uncommon for fantasy novels to be ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list, to date the only fantasy novelists whose works have debuted at number one on the list are Robert Jordan in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2009, George R. R. Martin in 2005, and 2011, Neil Gaiman in 2005, Terry Goodkind in 2006, and Patrick Rothfuss in 2011.
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