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*J.R.R. Tolkien '' '' ''- '' ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' | *J.R.R. Tolkien '' '' ''- '' ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' | ||
*George R.R. Martin ''- '' '' A Game | *George R.R. Martin ''- '' '' A Game of Thrones'' | ||
*Joe Abercrombie ''- The Blade Itself '' | *Joe Abercrombie ''- The Blade Itself '' | ||
*R.Scott Bakker '' '' ''- '' ''The Darkness | *R.Scott Bakker '' '' ''- '' ''The Darkness that Comes Before '' | ||
*Steven Erikson ''- '' ''Gardens of the Moon'' | *Steven Erikson ''- '' ''Gardens of the Moon'' | ||
*J.V.Jones '' '' ''- '' ''A Cavern of Black Ice'' | *J.V.Jones '' '' ''- '' ''A Cavern of Black Ice'' | ||
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*Brian Ruckley '' '' ''- '' ''Winterbirth'' | *Brian Ruckley '' '' ''- '' ''Winterbirth'' | ||
*Tad WIlliams '' '' ''- '' ''The Dragonbone Chair'' | *Tad WIlliams '' '' ''- '' ''The Dragonbone Chair'' | ||
*David Zindell '' '' ''- '' ''The | *David Zindell '' '' ''- '' ''The Lightsone'' | ||
*Daniel Abraham ''- '' '' A | *Daniel Abraham ''- '' '' A Shadow in Summer'' | ||
*Chris Wooding '' '' ''- '' ''The | *Chris Wooding '' '' ''- '' ''The Braided Path'' | ||
*S.L.Farrell '' '' ''- '' ''A | *S.L.Farrell '' '' ''- '' ''A Magic of Twilight'' | ||
*Greg Keyes '' '' ''- '' ''The Briar King'' | *Greg Keyes '' '' ''- '' ''The Briar King'' | ||
*Patrick Rothfuss - ''The Name of The Wind'' | *Patrick Rothfuss - ''The Name of The Wind'' | ||
*Scott Lynch'' - The Lies of Locke Lamora'' | |||
Urban Fantasy | Urban Fantasy | ||
*Neil Gaiman '' '' ''- '' ''Neverwhere, American Gods, The Anansi Boys'' | *Neil Gaiman '' '' ''- '' ''Neverwhere, American Gods, The Anansi Boys'' | ||
*Graham Joyce ''- '' ''The | *Graham Joyce ''- '' ''The Tooth Fairy'' | ||
*R.A.Macavoy '' '' ''- '' ''Tea with the | *R.A.Macavoy '' '' ''- '' ''Tea with the Black Dragon'' | ||
*Jonathan Carroll ''- '' '' The | *Jonathan Carroll ''- '' '' The Land of Laughs'' | ||
Swords and | Swords and Sorcery | ||
*R.E.Howard ''- '' ''Conan'' | *R.E.Howard ''- '' ''Conan'' | ||
*Fritz Leiber '' '' ''- '' ''The | *Fritz Leiber '' '' ''- '' ''The First Book of Lankhmar'' | ||
*Michael Moorcock ''- '' '' Elric of Melnibone'' | *Michael Moorcock ''- '' '' Elric of Melnibone'' | ||
*Michael Shea '' '' ''- '' ''The | *Michael Shea '' '' ''- '' ''The Incomplete Nifft'' | ||
*Jack Vance '' '' ''- '' ''Tales of the | *Jack Vance '' '' ''- '' ''Tales of the Dying Earth'' | ||
*Karl Edward Wagner ''- '' ''Gods in Darkness'' | *Karl Edward Wagner ''- '' ''Gods in Darkness'' | ||
*C.L.Moore ''- '' ''Jirel of Joiry'' | *C.L.Moore ''- '' ''Jirel of Joiry'' | ||
Entry Level | Entry Level | ||
*Terry Brooks '' '' ''- '' ''First King of Shamhara'' | *Terry Brooks '' '' ''- '' ''First King of Shamhara'' | ||
*Susan Cooper '' '' ''- '' ''The | *Susan Cooper '' '' ''- '' ''The Dark is Rising'' | ||
*David Eddings '' '' ''- '' ''Pawn of | *David Eddings '' '' ''- '' ''Pawn of Prophecy'' | ||
*David Eddings '' '' ''- '' ''The Diamond Throne'' | *David Eddings '' '' ''- '' ''The Diamond Throne'' | ||
*Raymond E.Feist ''- '' '' Magician '' | *Raymond E.Feist ''- '' '' Magician '' | ||
*Margaret Weis | *Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman '' '' ''- '' ''Dragons of Autumn Twilight'' | ||
*Margaret | *Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman '' '' ''- '' ''Dragon Wing'' | ||
*Margaret Weis | *Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman '' '' ''- '' ''Rose of the Prophet'' | ||
*Margaret Weis | *Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman ''- '' ''Time of the Twins'' | ||
*C.S.Lewis ''The Lion | *C.S.Lewis - ''The Lion'''', ''''The Witch, and the Wardrobe.'' | ||
*R.A.Salvatore ''- '' ''Homeland'' | *R.A.Salvatore ''- '' ''Homeland'' | ||
*Philip Pullman ''- '' ''His | *Philip Pullman ''- '' ''His Dark Materials'' | ||
Coming of | Coming of Age | ||
*Glen Cook ''The | *Glen Cook - ''The Swordbearer'' | ||
*Robin Hobb ''- '' ''Assassin's | *Robin Hobb ''- '' ''Assassin's Apprentice'' | ||
*J.V.Jones ''- '' ''The Baker's | *J.V.Jones ''- '' ''The Baker's Boy'' | ||
*Rebecca Bradley ''- '' ''Lady in | *Rebecca Bradley ''- '' ''Lady in Gil'' | ||
Historic Fantasy | Historic Fantasy | ||
*David Gemell ''- '' ''Troy'' | *David Gemell ''- '' ''Troy'' | ||
*Guy Gavriel Kay ''- '' ''The | *Guy Gavriel Kay ''- '' ''The Lions of Al-Rassan'' | ||
*J.Gregory Keyes ''- '' ''Newton's | *J.Gregory Keyes ''- '' ''Newton's Cannon'' | ||
*R.A.MacAvoy ''- '' ''Damiano'' | *R.A.MacAvoy ''- '' ''Damiano'' | ||
*T.H.White ''- '' ''The | *T.H.White ''- '' ''The Once and Future king'' | ||
*Gene Wolfe ''- '' ''Latro in the | *Gene Wolfe ''- '' ''Latro in the Mist'' | ||
*George R.R. Martin - ''Fevre | *George R.R. Martin - ''Fevre Dream'' | ||
*John M.Ford ''- '' ''The | *John M.Ford ''- '' ''The Dragon Waiting'' | ||
*Mary Gentle ''- '' ''A | *Mary Gentle ''- '' ''A Secret History'' | ||
Mystery | Mystery | ||
*Steven Brust ''- '' ''The | *Steven Brust ''- '' ''The Book of Jhereg'' | ||
*Jim Butcher ''- '' ''Storm Front'' | *Jim Butcher ''- '' ''Storm Front'' | ||
*Glen Cook ''- '' ''Sweet | *Glen Cook ''- '' ''Sweet Silver Blues'' | ||
*Barry Hughart ''- '' ''Bridge of | *Barry Hughart ''- '' ''Bridge of Birds'' | ||
*Matthew Hughes ''- '' ''Majestrum'' | *Matthew Hughes ''- '' ''Majestrum'' | ||
Comic Fantasy | Comic Fantasy | ||
*Terry Pratchett ''- '' ''Carpe Jugulum'' | *Terry Pratchett ''- '' ''Carpe Jugulum'' | ||
*Christopher Moore ''- '' ''Lamb'' | *Christopher Moore ''- '' ''Lamb'' | ||
*Peter David ''- '' ''Sir Apropos of | *Peter David ''- '' ''Sir Apropos of Nothing'' | ||
*Mary Gentle ''- '' ''Grunts'' | *Mary Gentle ''- '' ''Grunts'' | ||
*William Goldman ''- '' ''The | *William Goldman ''- '' ''The Princess Bride'' | ||
Weird | Weird | ||
*H.P.Lovecraft ''- '' ''At the | *H.P.Lovecraft ''- '' ''At the Mountains of Madness'' | ||
*William Hope Hodgson ''- '' ''The | *William Hope Hodgson ''- '' ''The House in the Borderland'' | ||
*Clark Ashton Smith ''- '' ''The | *Clark Ashton Smith ''- '' ''The Emperor of Dreams'' | ||
*Jeff Vandermeer ''- '' ''City of | *Jeff Vandermeer ''- '' ''City of Saints and Madmen'' | ||
*China Miéville ''- '' ''Perdido | *China Miéville ''- '' ''Perdido Street Station'' | ||
Mythic | Mythic | ||
*Roger Zelazny ''- '' ''Creatures of Light and Darkness'' | *Roger Zelazny ''- '' ''Creatures of Light and Darkness'' | ||
*Mickey Zucker Reichert ''- '' ''The | *Mickey Zucker Reichert ''- '' ''The Last of the Renshai'' | ||
*Jonh Myers Myers ''- '' ''Silverlock'' | *Jonh Myers Myers ''- '' ''Silverlock'' | ||
*Steven Brust ''- '' ''To | *Steven Brust ''- '' ''To Reign in Hell'' | ||
*Poul Anderson ''- '' ''The | *Poul Anderson ''- '' ''The Broken Sword'' | ||
*Michael Scott Rogan ''- '' ''The | *Michael Scott Rogan ''- '' ''The Anvil of Ice'' | ||
Alternate | Alternate World | ||
*Stephen R. Donaldson ''- '' ''The | *Stephen R. Donaldson ''- '' ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever'', ''The Mirror in her Dreams'' | ||
*Julian May ''- '' ''The | *Julian May ''- '' ''The Many-Coloured Land'' | ||
*Stephen R. Lawhead ''- '' ''The | *Stephen R. Lawhead ''- '' ''The Paradise War'' | ||
*Poul Anderson ''- '' ''Three | *Poul Anderson ''- '' ''Three Heards and Three Lions'' | ||
*Roger Zelazny ''- '' ''The | *Roger Zelazny ''- '' ''The Great Book of Amber'' | ||
Old School | Old School | ||
*George MacDonal ''- '' ''Phantastes'' | *George MacDonal ''- '' ''Phantastes'' | ||
*E.R.Eddison ''- '' ''The | *E.R.Eddison ''- '' ''The Worm Ouroboros'' | ||
*Lord Dunsany ''- '' ''The | *Lord Dunsany ''- '' ''The King of Elfland's Daughter'' | ||
*Ernest Bramah ''- '' ''The | *Ernest Bramah ''- '' ''The Wallet of Kail Lung'' | ||
*David Lindsay ''- '' ''A | *David Lindsay ''- '' ''A Voyage to Arcturus'' | ||
*Charles G. Finney ''- '' ''The | *Charles G. Finney ''- '' ''The Circus of Dr.Lao'' | ||
*Mikhail Bulgakov ''- '' '' The | *Mikhail Bulgakov ''- '' '' The Master and Margarita'' | ||
*Mervyn Peake ''- '' ''Titus | *Mervyn Peake ''- '' ''Titus Groan'' | ||
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | ||
*Paul Edwin Zimmer ''- '' ''The | *Paul Edwin Zimmer ''- '' ''The Lost Prince'' | ||
*David Gemell ''- '' ''Legend'' | *David Gemell ''- '' ''Legend'' | ||
*C.S.Friedman ''- '' ''Black Sun Rising'' | *C.S.Friedman ''- '' ''Black Sun Rising'' | ||
*K.J.Parker ''- '' ''Shadow'' | *K.J.Parker ''- '' ''Shadow'' | ||
*Kate Elliot ''- '' ''King's | *Kate Elliot ''- '' ''King's Dragon'' | ||
*Michael A.Stackpole ''- '' ''Talion | *Michael A.Stackpole ''- '' ''Talion Revenant'' | ||
*Matthew Woodring Stover ''- '' ''Heroes | *Matthew Woodring Stover ''- '' ''Heroes Die'' | ||
*Gene Wolfe ''- '' ''The | *Gene Wolfe ''- '' ''The Shadow of the Torturer'' | ||
*Tim Powers ''- '' ''The Anubis | *Tim Powers ''- '' ''The Anubis Gates'' | ||
*John Marco ''- '' ''The Jackal of Nar'' | *John Marco ''- '' ''The Jackal of Nar'' | ||
*Andrzej Sapkowski ''- '' ''Blood of | *Andrzej Sapkowski ''- '' ''Blood of Elves'' | ||
*Ken Grimwood ''- '' ''Replay'' | *Ken Grimwood ''- '' ''Replay'' | ||
*Glen Cook ''- '' ''Chronicles of the | *Glen Cook ''- '' ''Chronicles of the Black Company'' | ||
*Patricia A. Mckillip ''- '' ''The | *Patricia A. Mckillip ''- '' ''The Riddle-Master of Hed'' | ||
*Sean Ruselss ''- '' ''The | *Sean Ruselss ''- '' ''The Initiate Brother'' | ||
*Brent Weeks ''- '' ''The | *Brent Weeks ''- '' ''The Way of Shadows'' | ||
*Jeniffer Fallon ''- '' ''The | *Jeniffer Fallon ''- '' ''The Immortal Prince'' | ||
*John Crowley ''- '' ''Little, Big'' | *John Crowley ''- '' ''Little, Big'' | ||
*Catherynne M. Valente ''- '' ''In the | *Catherynne M. Valente ''- '' ''In the Night Garden'' | ||
*M. John Harrison ''- '' ''Viriconium'' | *M. John Harrison ''- '' ''Viriconium'' | ||
*Jack Vance ''- '' ''Lyonesse'' | *Jack Vance ''- '' ''Lyonesse'' | ||
*Frank | *Frank & Brian Herbert - ''The Dune Series'' | ||
*Dave Duncan | *Dave Duncan - ''King's Blades Series'' | ||
*David Eddings | *David Eddings - ''Belgariad Trilogy'' | ||
*Piers Anthony | *Piers Anthony - ''Incarnations of Immortality'' | ||
==Non-Fiction== | ==Non-Fiction== | ||
Revision as of 09:27, 24 April 2012
Fiction
American
Great Short Story Authors and Collections
- Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales
- Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Works
- Mark Twain - Collected Short Stories
- Herman Melville - Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales
- Stephen Crane - Maggie and other Stories
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - Flappers and Philosophers
- Ernest Hemingway - Collected Short Works
- Sherwood Anderson - Death in the Woods and other Stories
- Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From
- John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
- H. P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)
Poets and Poetry Collections
- Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
- Emily Dickinson - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land and other Poems
- Wallace Stevens - Harmonium
- Robinson Jeffers - Selected Poems
- Robert Frost - Collected Poems
- Hart Crane - The Bridge
- Williams Carlos Williams - Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2
- John Ashbery - Collected Poems
- Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
- Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil)
Plays and Playwrights
- Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays (Library of America)
- Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
- Thornton Wilder - Our Town
- Tennessee Williams - Plays 1937 - 1955 (Library of America)
- Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
- Edward Albee - The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
- Sam Shepard - Buried Child
- August Wilson - Fences
- Tony Kushner - Angels in America
Others
- Feminore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
- Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
- Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Henry James - The American
- Henry James - The Turn of the Screw and other short novels
- Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
- Kate Chopin - The Awakening
- Jack London - The Call of the Wild
- Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
- Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
- Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
- Willa Cather - My Ántonia
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Sinclair Lewis - Main Street
- Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt
- Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
- Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
- Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bells Toll
- William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
- Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
- John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra
- Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- John Steinbeck - East of Eden
- John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
- Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
- Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
- Richard Wright - Native Son
- Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
- Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
- J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- William Gaddis - The Recognitions
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
- John Updike - Rabbit,Run
- Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Joseph Heller - Catch-22
- John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor
- Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
- Saul Bellow - Herzog
- Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
- Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
- Thomas Pynchon - V.
- William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
- Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
- Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
- Philip Roth - American Pastoral
- Cormac McCarthy - The Road
- John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
- Don Delillo - Libra
- Don Delillo - Underworld
- David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Slave Narratives
- Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative
- Solomon Northrup - Twelve Years a Slave
- Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- - Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Reconstruction Era
- W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
- - The Collected Poetry of Pawl Laurence Dunbar
- Booker T.Washington - Up From Slavery
Harlem Renaissance
- Langston Hughes - Not Without Laughter
- Jean Toomer - Cane
- George S. Schugler - Black No More
- Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Claude McKay - Home to Harlem
- Mella Larsen - Quicksand and Passing
- - The Walls of Jericho
- - The Blacker and the Berry
Civil Rights Era
- James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Richard Wright - Native Son
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Gwendolyn Brooks - Selected Poems
- Chester Himes - If he Hollers Let Him Go
- Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
Contemporary
- Charles Mingus - Beneath the Underdog
- Alice Walker - The Color Purple
- Toni Morrison - Beloved
- Walter Mosley - Killing Johnny Fry
- Alex haley - Roots
- Amiri Baraka - Somebody Blew Up America
- Terry McMillan - Waiting to Exhale
- Gloria Naylor - Linden Hills
- Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
- - Kindre D
- Edward P. Jones - The Known World
Australian
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(includes some non-fiction as well)
British & Irish
Chinese
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Guide to Journey to the West translations -
Guide to Romance of the Three Kingdoms translations
French
Italian
Japanese
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100 Works of Japanese Literature -
"How do I get into Yukio Mishima" Flowchart
Norse
German
Russian
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Russian lit -
Maksim Gorky - Mother
Spanish
Mexican
Persian
General
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Theater/Drama part 1 -
Theater/Drama part 2 -
Novellas -
100 Novellas -
Classics -
Short Story Collections -
Flash Fiction and Short Short Stories -
Female writers -
Essential Doorstoppers (Unfinished) -
Dystopia & Utopia (Unfinished) -
Essential Poetry Guide -
Humor -
A collection of 'must read' lists.
Genre-Oriented Fiction
Science Fiction
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Sci Fi 1 -
Sci Fi 3
Horror
Classic Horror
- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
- Bram Stoker - Dracula
- Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Edgar Allen Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
- Matthew Lewis - The Monk
- Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
- Ambrose Bierce - Ghost, and Other Stories
20th Century Horror
- Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
- Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
- Clive Barker - Books of Blood
- Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Stephen King - It, Pet Sematary
- Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
- Dan Simmons - Song of Kali
- Algernon Blackwood - Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
- M.R. James - Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
- Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
- William Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
- H. P. Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror
- Peter Straub - Shadowland
New Horror
- Laird Barron - Occultation
- Joe R. Lansdale - The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
- Will Elliot - The Pilo Family Circus
- Edward Lee - Bullet Through Your Face
- Tim Curran - The Devil Next Door
- Dave Brockie - Whargoul
- Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box
- China Mieville - King Rat
- Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
Fantasy
Epic Fantasy:
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
- George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
- Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
- R.Scott Bakker - The Darkness that Comes Before
- Steven Erikson - Gardens of the Moon
- J.V.Jones - A Cavern of Black Ice
- Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time
- Paul Kearney - Hawkwood's Voyage
- K.J.Parker - Devices and Desires
- Melanie Rawn - Dragon Prince
- Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth
- Tad WIlliams - The Dragonbone Chair
- David Zindell - The Lightsone
- Daniel Abraham - A Shadow in Summer
- Chris Wooding - The Braided Path
- S.L.Farrell - A Magic of Twilight
- Greg Keyes - The Briar King
- Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of The Wind
- Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
Urban Fantasy
- Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, American Gods, The Anansi Boys
- Graham Joyce - The Tooth Fairy
- R.A.Macavoy - Tea with the Black Dragon
- Jonathan Carroll - The Land of Laughs
Swords and Sorcery
- R.E.Howard - Conan
- Fritz Leiber - The First Book of Lankhmar
- Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melnibone
- Michael Shea - The Incomplete Nifft
- Jack Vance - Tales of the Dying Earth
- Karl Edward Wagner - Gods in Darkness
- C.L.Moore - Jirel of Joiry
Entry Level
- Terry Brooks - First King of Shamhara
- Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising
- David Eddings - Pawn of Prophecy
- David Eddings - The Diamond Throne
- Raymond E.Feist - Magician
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragons of Autumn Twilight
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragon Wing
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Rose of the Prophet
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Time of the Twins
- C.S.Lewis - The Lion', 'The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
- R.A.Salvatore - Homeland
- Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
Coming of Age
- Glen Cook - The Swordbearer
- Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
- J.V.Jones - The Baker's Boy
- Rebecca Bradley - Lady in Gil
Historic Fantasy
- David Gemell - Troy
- Guy Gavriel Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan
- J.Gregory Keyes - Newton's Cannon
- R.A.MacAvoy - Damiano
- T.H.White - The Once and Future king
- Gene Wolfe - Latro in the Mist
- George R.R. Martin - Fevre Dream
- John M.Ford - The Dragon Waiting
- Mary Gentle - A Secret History
Mystery
- Steven Brust - The Book of Jhereg
- Jim Butcher - Storm Front
- Glen Cook - Sweet Silver Blues
- Barry Hughart - Bridge of Birds
- Matthew Hughes - Majestrum
Comic Fantasy
- Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
- Christopher Moore - Lamb
- Peter David - Sir Apropos of Nothing
- Mary Gentle - Grunts
- William Goldman - The Princess Bride
Weird
- H.P.Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
- William Hope Hodgson - The House in the Borderland
- Clark Ashton Smith - The Emperor of Dreams
- Jeff Vandermeer - City of Saints and Madmen
- China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
Mythic
- Roger Zelazny - Creatures of Light and Darkness
- Mickey Zucker Reichert - The Last of the Renshai
- Jonh Myers Myers - Silverlock
- Steven Brust - To Reign in Hell
- Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword
- Michael Scott Rogan - The Anvil of Ice
Alternate World
- Stephen R. Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, The Mirror in her Dreams
- Julian May - The Many-Coloured Land
- Stephen R. Lawhead - The Paradise War
- Poul Anderson - Three Heards and Three Lions
- Roger Zelazny - The Great Book of Amber
Old School
- George MacDonal - Phantastes
- E.R.Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros
- Lord Dunsany - The King of Elfland's Daughter
- Ernest Bramah - The Wallet of Kail Lung
- David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus
- Charles G. Finney - The Circus of Dr.Lao
- Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
- Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan
Miscellaneous
- Paul Edwin Zimmer - The Lost Prince
- David Gemell - Legend
- C.S.Friedman - Black Sun Rising
- K.J.Parker - Shadow
- Kate Elliot - King's Dragon
- Michael A.Stackpole - Talion Revenant
- Matthew Woodring Stover - Heroes Die
- Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
- Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
- John Marco - The Jackal of Nar
- Andrzej Sapkowski - Blood of Elves
- Ken Grimwood - Replay
- Glen Cook - Chronicles of the Black Company
- Patricia A. Mckillip - The Riddle-Master of Hed
- Sean Ruselss - The Initiate Brother
- Brent Weeks - The Way of Shadows
- Jeniffer Fallon - The Immortal Prince
- John Crowley - Little, Big
- Catherynne M. Valente - In the Night Garden
- M. John Harrison - Viriconium
- Jack Vance - Lyonesse
- Frank & Brian Herbert - The Dune Series
- Dave Duncan - King's Blades Series
- David Eddings - Belgariad Trilogy
- Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality
Non-Fiction
Philosophy
Classical Philosophy.
Pre-socratics:
- Various - Early Greek Philosophy
- Kenneth Sylvan Guthre - The Pythagorean Sourcebook and library
- Charles H.Kahn - The art and thought of Heraclitus
- Parmenides of Elea - Fragments
- David Gallop - Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments
- John Dillon, Tania Gergel - The Greek sophists
- Empedocles - The extant Fragments
- Various links
On Socrates:
- I.F.Stone - The trial of Socrates
- Aristophanes - The clouds
- Charles H.Kahn - Plato and the Socratic dialogue
- Karl R. Popper - The open society and its enemies
- Gail Fine - Plato on knowledge and forms.
By plato:
(Note made by Isabelle: later translations are usually more accessible. I AM not a fan of Jowett. Since she composed this list I thought it necessary to add this)
- Early Works:
- Apology
- Crito
- Euthyphro (holiness, the Euthyphro dilemma)
- Ion
- Laches (courage)
- Protagoras (the teachability of virtue)
- Gorgias (rethoric vs. philosophy)
- Meno (virtue, Meno's paradox)
- Middle Works
- Parmenides - Forms
- Phaedo (the death of socrates, the afterlife)
- Phaedrus (love and rethoric)
- Republic (politics, the state and the soul)
- Symposium (true love, the 'Ladder of Love')
- Theaetetus (knowledge)
- Later Works
- Critias (Atlantis=
- Sophist (more on Forms)
- Timaeus (the purpose of the universe)
On Aristotle
- David M.Balme - Aristotle on Nature and Living Things: Philosophical and Historical Studies
- Cristopher Shields - Aristotle
- David Furley - From Aristotle to Augustine
By Aristotle
(Another note by Isabelle: Oxford translations are best)
- The Nicomachean Ethics (virtue ethics, leads into Politics)
- Rethoric
- Metaphysics
- Poetics
- Politics
Cynicism
- Farrand Sayre - Diogenes of Sinope: A study of Greek cynicism
- R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé -The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy
Epicureanism
- James Warren - The Cambridge's companion to Epicureanism
- Eugene O'connor - The essential Epicurus
- Lucretius - The nature of things
Stoicism
(Isabella specified Penguin Classics)
- Seneca - Letters from a stoic
- Epictetus - Discourses and selected writings
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Skepticism
- Norman Maccoll - The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus
- Sextus Empiricus - Outlines of Pyrrhonism
- Richard T. Wallis - Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
- John Gregory - The neoplatonists
- Plotinus - The enneads
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Christian and Medieval
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Modern
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Modern Part 2
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Scientific Revolution
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German Idealism
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Existentialism
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Analytic
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Analytic Part 2
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Postmodernism
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Feminism/Queer Theory
