David Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels
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A follow-up to his influential SF volume, this presents Pringle's personal selections of the best 100 fantasy novels from 1946 up to the book's publication.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 101
Publication: Grafton, 1988
Compile Notes
One entry, by Blish, covers two titles.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 101
Publication: Grafton, 1988
Compile Notes
One entry, by Blish, covers two titles.
- Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (Hamish Hamilton, 1985)
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972)
- Brian W. Aldiss, The Malacia Tapestry (Jonathan Cape, 1976)
- Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (Cape, 1969)
- Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword (Abelard-Schuman, 1954)
- Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions (Doubleday, 1961)
- J. G. Ballard, The Day of Creation (Gollancz, 1987)
- J. G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company (Jonathan Cape, 1979)
- Iain M. Banks, The Bridge (Macmillan, 1986)
- Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place (Viking, 1960)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- Michael Bishop, Who Made Stevie Crye? (Arkham House, 1984)
- James P. Blaylock, The Digging Leviathan (Ace, 1984)
- James Blish, Black Easter (Doubleday, 1968)
- James Blish, The Day After Judgment (Doubleday, 1971)
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (Doubleday, 1957)
- William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981)
- Ramsey Campbell, The Hungry Moon (Macmillan , 1986)
- Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs (Viking, 1980)
- Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Hart-Davis , 1972)
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (Chatto & Windus , 1984)
- Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve (Gollancz, 1977)
- Joy Chant, Red Moon and Black Mountain (Allen & Unwin, 1970)
- Suzy McKee Charnas, The Vampire Tapestry (Simon & Schuster, 1980)
- John Crowley, Aegypt (Bantam Spectra, 1987)
- John Crowley, Little, Big (Bantam, 1981)
- Avram Davidson, The Phoenix and the Mirror (Doubleday, 1969)
- L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt, The Castle of Iron (Gnome, 1950)
- Gordon R. Dickson, The Dragon and the George (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1976)
- Thomas M. Disch, The Businessman (Harper & Row, 1984)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (series, 1977)
- Phyllis Eisenstein, Sorcerer's Son (Del Rey, 1979)
- Philip José Farmer, A Feast Unknown (Essex House, 1968)
- Jack Finney, Time and Again (Simon & Schuster, 1970)
- John Fowles, The Magus (Little, Brown, 1965)
- Michael Frayn, Sweet Dreams (Collins, 1973)
- John Gardner, Grendel (Knopf , 1971)
- Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Collins, 1967)
- William Golding, Pincher Martin (Faber and Faber, 1956)
- Lisa Goldstein, The Dream Years (Bantam Spectra, 1985)
- Robert Graves, Seven Days in New Crete (Creative Age Press [as Watch the North Wind Rise], 1949)
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate , 1981)
- Ken Grimwood, Replay (Arbor House, 1987)
- M. John Harrison, A Storm of Wings (Doubleday, 1980)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road (Putnam, 1963)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Gnome Press, 1959)
- Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale (Harcourt Brace , 1983)
- Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood (Gollancz, 1984)
- Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian (Gnome, 1950)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
- K. W. Jeter, Soul Eater (Tor, 1983)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry (series, 1984-1986)
- Stephen King, ' Salem's Lot (Doubleday, 1975)
- Stephen King, The Shining (Doubleday , 1977)
- William Kotzwinkle, Fata Morgana (Knopf, 1977)
- R. A. Lafferty, Fourth Mansions (Ace Special, 1969)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife (Twayne, 1953)
- Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness (Berkley-Putnam, 1977)
- Fritz Leiber, The Sinful Ones (Universal, 1953)
- Fritz Leiber, The Swords of Lankhmar (Ace, 1968)
- Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Cape, 1971)
- Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby (Random House, 1967)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- R. A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon (Bantam, 1983)
- John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1962)
- Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1956)
- Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Atheneum, 1974)
- Michael Moorcock, Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (Allison & Busby, 1978)
- Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer (Herbert Jenkins, 1965)
- Michael Moorcock, The War Hound and the World's Pain (Timescape, 1981)
- Brian Moore, Cold Heaven (McClelland & Stewart, 1983)
- Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
- John Myers Myers, Silverlock (Dutton, 1949)
- Andre Norton, Witch World (Ace , 1963)
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967)
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946)
- Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates (Ace, 1983)
- Fletcher Pratt, The Well of the Unicorn (Sloane , 1948)
- Christopher Priest, The Glamour (Jonathan Cape, 1984)
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (Lippincott, 1966)
- Rudy Rucker, White Light (Ace, 1980)
- Salman Rushdie, Grimus (Gollancz , 1975)
- Geoff Ryman, The Unconquered Country (Allen & Unwin, 1986)
- Sarban, The Sound of His Horn (Peter Davies, 1952)
- Michael Shea, Nifft the Lean (DAW, 1982)
- Andrew Sinclair, Gog (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967)
- Thomas Burnett Swann, Day of the Minotaur (Ace, 1966)
- Emma Tennant, Hotel de Dream (Gollancz, 1976)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (Knopf, 1984)
- A. E. van Vogt, The Book of Ptath (Fantasy Press, 1947)
- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1950)
- Jack Vance, The Eyes of the Overworld (Ace, 1966)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- Jack Williamson, Darker Than You Think (Fantasy Press, 1948)
- Gene Wolfe, Peace (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ariosto (Pocket, 1980)
- Roger Zelazny, Jack of Shadows (Walker, 1971)
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