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<p style="text-align:center">The list is imperfect and always growing. Please add descriptions where necessary and if there is a book you feel is missing, feel free to add it.</p>


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! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Author
! scope="col"|Author
! scope="col"|Description
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Description
! scope="col"|Book Cover
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Book Cover
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| style="text-align: center;"|1001 Arabian Nights
| style="text-align: center;"|1001 Arabian Nights
| style="text-align: center;"|Various
| style="text-align: center;"|Various
| style="text-align: center;"|Ancient collection of Middle-Eastern folk tales and short stories. Contains such famous tales as "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor"
| style="text-align: center;"|Ancient collection of Middle-Eastern folk tales and short stories. Contains such famous tales as "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor"
|[[File:ArabianNights.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:ArabianNights.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
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| style="text-align: center;"|A Game of Thrones
| style="text-align: center;"|A Song of Ice and Fire Series
| style="text-align: center;"|George R. R. Martin
| style="text-align: center;"|Martin, George R. R.
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|A refreshing take on the timeworn, high-fantasy genre where magic and gritty realism go hand in hand. Beautifully written and nuanced characters who don't fall into simple 'good' and 'evil' categories.
|[[File:AGameOfThrones.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:AGameOfThrones.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|A Midsummer Night's Dream
| style="text-align: center;"|A Midsummer Night's Dream
| style="text-align: center;"|William Shakespeare
| style="text-align: center;"|Shakespeare. William
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:A_midsummer.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:A_midsummer.jpg|center|100px]]
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|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Aeneid
| style="text-align: center;"|The Aeneid
| style="text-align: center;"|Virgil
| style="text-align: center;"|Virgil
| style="text-align: center;"|An Epic Poem about the hero Aeneas' wanderings to Italy and victory in War against the Latins.
| style="text-align: center;"|An Epic Poem about the hero Aeneas' wanderings to Italy and victory in War against the Latins.
|[[File:Aeneid.large.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Aeneid.large.jpg|tcenter|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|Anonymous
| style="text-align: center;"|Anonymous
| style="text-align: center;"|Epic Anglo-Saxon Poem about the hero Beowulf and his battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and an unnamed red dragon.
| style="text-align: center;"|Epic Anglo-Saxon Poem about the hero Beowulf and his battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and an unnamed red dragon.
|[[File:Beowulf.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Beowulf.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Black Company
| style="text-align: center;"|The Black Company
| style="text-align: center;"|Glen Cook
| style="text-align: center;"|Cook, Glenn
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:The_Black_Company.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The_Black_Company.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Chronicles of Amber
| style="text-align: center;"|The Chronicles of Amber
| style="text-align: center;"|Roger Zelazny
| style="text-align: center;"|Zelazny, Roger
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Amber.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Amber.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Conan the Barbarian Anthology
| style="text-align: center;"|Conan the Barbarian Anthology
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Howard
| style="text-align: center;"|Howard, Robert
| style="text-align: center;"|Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan.  
| style="text-align: center;"|Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan.
|[[File:Conan.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Conan.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Dark Tower Series
| style="text-align: center;"|The Dark Tower Series
| style="text-align: center;"|Stephen King
| style="text-align: center;"|King, Stephen
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|Stephen King's magnum opus about a gunslinger searching for the nexus of all realities, The Dark Tower, in a world that is slowly falling apart at the seams.
|[[File:The_gunslinger.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The_gunslinger.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Darkness That Comes Before
| style="text-align: center;"|The Darkness That Comes Before
| style="text-align: center;"|R. Scott Bakker
| style="text-align: center;"|Bakker, R. Scott
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:The_darkness_that_comes.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The_darkness_that_comes.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Earthsea Quartet
| style="text-align: center;"|The Earthsea Quartet
| style="text-align: center;"|Ursula K. Le Guin
| style="text-align: center;"|Le Guin, Ursula
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Earthsea.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Earthsea.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Elric Anthology
| style="text-align: center;"|Elric Anthology
| style="text-align: center;"|Michael Moorcock
| style="text-align: center;"|Moorecock, Michael
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Elric.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Elric.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Exile
| style="text-align: center;"|Exile
| style="text-align: center;"|R.A. Salvatore
| style="text-align: center;"|Salvatore, R.A.
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Exile.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Exile.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Eye of the World
| style="text-align: center;"|The Eye of the World
| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Jordan
| style="text-align: center;"|Jordan, Robert
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:TheEyeOfTheWorld.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:TheEyeOfTheWorld.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Fables
| style="text-align: center;"|Fables
| style="text-align: center;"|Bill Willingham
| style="text-align: center;"|Willingham, Bill
| style="text-align: center;"|A series of comics dealing with a number of fairy tale and fable (hence the name) characters that have been forced out of their homes and formed a small chinatown like community within New York City.
| style="text-align: center;"|A series of comics dealing with a number of fairy tale and fable (hence the name) characters that have been forced out of their homes and formed a small chinatown like community within New York City.
|[[File:Fables(4).jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Fables(4).jpg|center|100px]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser Series
| style="text-align: center;"|Leiber, Fritz
| style="text-align: center;"|In seven volumes, this series consists of Leiber's sword-and-sorcery defining stories about two thieves, the barbarian Fafhrd and the failed wizard's apprentice Gray Mouser.
|[[File:Ftgm2.jpg|thumb|101px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Gardens of the Moon
| style="text-align: center;"|Gardens of the Moon
| style="text-align: center;"|Steven Erikson
| style="text-align: center;"|Erikson, Steven
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Gardens-of-the-moon.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Gardens-of-the-moon.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens
| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens
| style="text-align: center;"|Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman
| style="text-align: center;"|Pratchet, Terry & Gaiman, Neil
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Good-omens1.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Good-omens1.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Grimm's Fairy Tales
| style="text-align: center;"|Grimm's Fairy Tales
| style="text-align: center;"|Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
| style="text-align: center;"|Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
| style="text-align: center;"|The collection that most people know their fairy tales from. Contains Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Little Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, and many many more.
| style="text-align: center;"|The collection that most people know their fairy tales from. Contains Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Little Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, and many many more.
|[[File:Grimms_Fairy_Tales.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Grimms_Fairy_Tales.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit
| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit
| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| style="text-align: center;"|Tolkien, J.R.R.
| style="text-align: center;"|There and Back Again. The children's classic about the titular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins' adventure with the thirteen dwarves and the wizard Gandalf to reclaim Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug.
| style="text-align: center;"|There and Back Again. The children's classic about the titular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins' adventure with the thirteen dwarves and the wizard Gandalf to reclaim Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug.
|[[File:Hobbit.JPG|thumb]]
|[[File:Hobbit.JPG|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The House on the Borderland
| style="text-align: center;"|The House on the Borderland
| style="text-align: center;"|William Hope Hodgson
| style="text-align: center;"|Hodgson, William Hope
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:House_on_the_borderland_first.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:House_on_the_borderland_first.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Iliad
| style="text-align: center;"|The Iliad
| style="text-align: center;"|Homer
| style="text-align: center;"|Homer
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Iliad.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Iliad.jpg|center|100px]]
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|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The King of Elfland's Daughter
| style="text-align: center;"|The King of Elfland's Daughter
| style="text-align: center;"|Lord Dunsany
| style="text-align: center;"|Lord Dunsany
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:The_King_of_Elf.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The_King_of_Elf.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Last Unicorn
| style="text-align: center;"|The Last Unicorn
| style="text-align: center;"|Peter S. Beagle
| style="text-align: center;"|Beagle, Peter S.
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:The_Last_Unicorn.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The_Last_Unicorn.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Lord of the Rings
| style="text-align: center;"|The Lord of the Rings
| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| style="text-align: center;"|Tolkien, J.R.R.
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:LOTR.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:LOTR.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Name of the Wind
| style="text-align: center;"|The Name of the Wind
| style="text-align: center;"|Patrick Rothfuss
| style="text-align: center;"|Rothfuss, Patrick
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:The-name-of-the-wind.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The-name-of-the-wind.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Odyssey
| style="text-align: center;"|The Odyssey
| style="text-align: center;"|Homer
| style="text-align: center;"|Homer
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Odyssey.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Odyssey.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Once and Future King
| style="text-align: center;"|The Once and Future King
| style="text-align: center;"|T.S. White
| style="text-align: center;"|White, T.S.
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Theonceandfuture.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Theonceandfuture.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Princess Bride
| style="text-align: center;"|The Princess Bride
| style="text-align: center;"|William Goldman
| style="text-align: center;"|Goldman, William
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Princessbride.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Princessbride.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Silmarillion
| style="text-align: center;"|The Silmarillion
| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| style="text-align: center;"|Tolkien, J.R.R.
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Silmarillion.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Silmarillion.jpg|center|100px]]
|-
| style="text-align: center; "|The Wise Man's Fear
| style="text-align: center; "|Rothfuss, Patrick
| style="text-align: center; "|Day two of the Kingkiller Chronicles, Sequel to <u>The Name of the Wind</u>
|[[File:The_Wise_Man's_Fear.jpg|thumb|100px]]
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|The Wizard Knight
| style="text-align: center;"|The Wizard Knight
| style="text-align: center;"|Gene Wolfe
| style="text-align: center;"|Wolfe, Gene
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Wizard_knightt.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Wizard_knightt.jpg|center|100px]]
|}
|}


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<p style="text-align:center">[[File:Beginner-fantasy.jpg|left|thumb|Recommended Chart]]</p>
 
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[[Category:Recommended Reading]]

Latest revision as of 23:21, 26 January 2015

The list is imperfect and always growing. Please add descriptions where necessary and if there is a book you feel is missing, feel free to add it.


Title Author Description Book Cover
1001 Arabian Nights Various Ancient collection of Middle-Eastern folk tales and short stories. Contains such famous tales as "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor"
A Song of Ice and Fire Series Martin, George R. R. A refreshing take on the timeworn, high-fantasy genre where magic and gritty realism go hand in hand. Beautifully written and nuanced characters who don't fall into simple 'good' and 'evil' categories.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare. William
The Aeneid Virgil An Epic Poem about the hero Aeneas' wanderings to Italy and victory in War against the Latins. tcenter

Beowulf

 Anonymous Epic Anglo-Saxon Poem about the hero Beowulf and his battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and an unnamed red dragon.
The Black Company Cook, Glenn
The Chronicles of Amber Zelazny, Roger
Conan the Barbarian Anthology Howard, Robert Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan.
The Dark Tower Series King, Stephen Stephen King's magnum opus about a gunslinger searching for the nexus of all realities, The Dark Tower, in a world that is slowly falling apart at the seams.
The Darkness That Comes Before Bakker, R. Scott
The Earthsea Quartet Le Guin, Ursula
Elric Anthology Moorecock, Michael
Exile Salvatore, R.A.
The Eye of the World Jordan, Robert
Fables Willingham, Bill A series of comics dealing with a number of fairy tale and fable (hence the name) characters that have been forced out of their homes and formed a small chinatown like community within New York City.
The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser Series Leiber, Fritz In seven volumes, this series consists of Leiber's sword-and-sorcery defining stories about two thieves, the barbarian Fafhrd and the failed wizard's apprentice Gray Mouser.
Gardens of the Moon Erikson, Steven
Good Omens Pratchet, Terry & Gaiman, Neil
Grimm's Fairy Tales Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm The collection that most people know their fairy tales from. Contains Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Little Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, and many many more.
The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R. There and Back Again. The children's classic about the titular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins' adventure with the thirteen dwarves and the wizard Gandalf to reclaim Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug.
The House on the Borderland Hodgson, William Hope
The Iliad Homer
The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany
The Last Unicorn Beagle, Peter S.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Name of the Wind Rothfuss, Patrick
The Odyssey Homer
The Once and Future King White, T.S.
The Princess Bride Goldman, William
The Silmarillion Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Wise Man's Fear Rothfuss, Patrick Day two of the Kingkiller Chronicles, Sequel to The Name of the Wind
The Wizard Knight Wolfe, Gene




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