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| style="text-align: center;"|A | | style="text-align: center;"|A Song of Ice and Fire Series | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|Martin, George R. R. | | 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. | ||
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Dark Tower Series | | style="text-align: center;"|The Dark Tower Series | ||
| style="text-align: center;"|King, Stephen | | 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | |||
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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 |
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| 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. | 
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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. | .jpg) |
| 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 |  |
