Read it and weep:
https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/Consider, first, the missing authors: Howard, Smith, Lovecraft, Dunsany, Merritt, Blackwood, MacDonald, Eddison, Leiber, Moorcock, Wolfe, McKillip, Donaldson, Erikson, and many others.
Now here's what y'all will love. Scroll through the list and find Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, a bit over halfway down. That was published in 2007. After that, 45 books remain (meaning, according to Time and the authors on the panel, 45% of the greatest fantasy books ever were published in the last 12 years!).
Those 45 books were written by 37 authors. Of those 37 authors, 7 are male, 6 are white, and 1 is a white man. Meaning, of the 45 books written from 2008 to the present that this article deems as among the 100 greatest of all time, only one was written by a white dude. Meaning, according to this list, white dudes stopped being able to write great books about 12 years ago.
Oh yeah, icing: the panelists all have at least one book on the list - a couple of them have 3 each.
Caveat: Unlike some here, I have no issue with trying to represent, advocate for, or prop up diverse groups and individuals. But why use such a list that is meant to represent the greatest fantasy books of all time as an opportunity to do this? It becomes yet another act of ideological proselytizing. An act of willful exclusion and bias. Why not, instead, write a different article, say "Some Great New Authors, Most of Them Not White"? Why not just be honest about it? I'd have no problem with that whatsoever, and would even approach it with interest. But this masquerade is disingenuous, transparent, and frankly, shameful.
Two of the panelists, NK Jemisin and Tomi Adeyemi, have three books each on the list. Imagine being a well-respected fantasy author and realizing that you have three books on a list at the exclusion of Lord Dunsany, RE Howard, Michael Moorcock, Stephen Donaldson, Patricia McKillip, etc. How could you sleep at night?
I can usually tolerate some degree of wokism, and even agree with some of the underlying goals of inclusivity, giving under-represented groups their due, combatting bigotry, etc. But this...display...just really irks me, probably because it is an instant of its own complaint, and because it makes a mockery of the fantasy tradition.