Andrews & Rennison, 100 Must-Read Fantasy Novels
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Like Bloomsbury's science fiction volume, this book consists of 100 main entries, arranged alphabetically by author, with each appended by several "read on" recommendations by the same and other authors.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 517
Publication: A&C Black, 2009
Compile Notes
Posted so far are the 100 main entry titles. Additional titles are listed here -->.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 517
Publication: A&C Black, 2009
Compile Notes
Posted so far are the 100 main entry titles. Additional titles are listed here -->.
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972)
- Brian W. Aldiss, The Malacia Tapestry (Jonathan Cape, 1976)
- Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword (Abelard-Schuman, 1954)
- Clive Barker, Weaveworld (Simon & Schuster, 1987)
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (George Hill , 1900)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- James P. Blaylock, Homunculus (Ace, 1986)
- Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand (Dutton, 1977; Argentina 1975)
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (Doubleday, 1957)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Knopf, 1983)
- Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara (Ballantine, 1977)
- John Brunner, The Compleat Traveler in Black (Bluejay, 1986)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Harper & Row, 1967; France 1967)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (McClurg, 1914)
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974; Italy 1972)
- Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs (Viking, 1980)
- Lewis Carroll & Martin Gardner, annotated2, The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (Norton, 1999)
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and other stories (Gollancz, 1979)
- G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (Arrowsmith, 1908)
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury, 2004)
- Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone (Cape, 1965)
- John Crowley, Little, Big (Bantam, 1981)
- L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt, The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1975)
- Gordon R. Dickson, The Dragon and the George (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, 1976)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
- Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter (Putnam, 1924)
- David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (Del Rey , 1982)
- E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros (Jonathan Cape, 1922)
- Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon (Transworld/Bantam, 1999)
- Philip José Farmer, A Feast Unknown (Essex House, 1968)
- Raymond E. Feist, Magician (Doubleday , 1982)
- Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao (Viking, 1935)
- Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (Scholastic/Chicken House, 2003)
- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (BBC Books, 1996)
- John Gardner, Grendel (Knopf , 1971)
- Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins , 1960)
- Jane Gaskell, The Serpent (Hodder and Stoughton, 1963)
- David Gemmell, Legend (Century, 1984)
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Thames Methuen, 1908)
- Ken Grimwood, Replay (Arbor House, 1987)
- H. Rider Haggard, She (Harper and Bros, 1886)
- M. John Harrison, The Pastel City (NEL, 1971)
- Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor (Macmillan, 2002)
- James Hilton, Lost Horizon (Macmillan, 1933)
- Russell Hoban, Kleinzeit (Jonathan Cape, 1974)
- Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood (Gollancz, 1984)
- Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp, Conan the Conqueror (Gnome , 1950)
- C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, The Lost Continent (Hutchinson, 1900)
- Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland (Ernest Benn, 1951; Finland 1946)
- Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle (Methuen, 1986)
- Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (Tor, 1990)
- Anna Kavan, Mercury (Peter Owen, 1994)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana (Viking UK, 1990)
- Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (Donald M. Grant, 1982)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned (Unwin Hyman, 1988)
- Fritz Leiber, Swords and Deviltry (Ace, 1970)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- Megan Lindholm, Wizard of the Pigeons (Ace, 1986)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (Astounding, 1936)
- Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower (Berkley-Putnam, 1979)
- George MacDonald, Lilith (Chatto and Windus, 1895)
- George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (HarperCollins Voyager, 1996)
- Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Atheneum, 1974)
- A. Merritt, The Ship of Ishtar (Putnam , 1926)
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillan, 2000)
- Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Collins, 1926)
- Michael Moorcock, The City in the Autumn Stars (Grafton, 1986)
- Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné (Hutchinson, 1972)
- Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
- C. L. Moore, Jirel of Joiry (Paperback Library, 1969)
- William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World (Kelmscott Press, 1894)
- Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Knopf, 1997; Tokyo 1994-5)
- John Myers Myers, Silverlock (Dutton, 1949)
- Robert Nye, Merlin (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946)
- Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark (Ballantine, 1979)
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens (Gollancz, 1990)
- Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic, 1995)
- Herbert Read, The Green Child: A Romance (Heinemann, 1935)
- Keith Roberts, Anita (Ace, 1970)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury, 1997)
- Geoff Ryman, The Warrior Who Carried Life (Allen & Unwin, 1985)
- Michael Shea, Nifft the Lean (DAW, 1982)
- Robert Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle (Harper & Row, 1980)
- Clark Ashton Smith, The Emperor of Dreams: Best Fantasy Tales (Gollancz, 2002)
- Michael Swanwick, The Iron Dragon's Daughter (Millennium, 1993)
- Sheri S. Tepper, Beauty (Doubleday Foundation, 1991)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (Hillman, 1950)
- T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone (Collins, 1938)
- Charles Williams, War in Heaven (Gollancz, 1930)
- Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair (DAW, 1988)
- Gene Wolfe, Peace (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando (Hogarth , 1928)
- Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia (Farrar and Rinehart, 1942)
- Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber (Doubleday, 1970)
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