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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>
<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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| 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 Game of Thrones
| style="text-align: center;"|George R. R. Martin
| style="text-align: center;"|George R. R. Martin
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:AGameOfThrones.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:AGameOfThrones.jpg|center|100px]]
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| 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;"|William Shakespeare
| 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]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Black Company
| style="text-align: center;"|The Black Company
| style="text-align: center;"|Glen Cook
| style="text-align: center;"|Glen Cook
| 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;"|Roger Zelazny
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Amber.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Amber.jpg|center|100px]]
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| 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;"|Robert Howard
| 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]]
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| 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;"|Stephen King
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[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;"|R. Scott Bakker
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:The_darkness_that_comes.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The_darkness_that_comes.jpg|center|100px]]
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| 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;"|Ursula K. Le Guin
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Earthsea.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Earthsea.jpg|center|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|Elric Anthology
| style="text-align: center;"|Elric Anthology
| style="text-align: center;"|Michael Moorcock
| style="text-align: center;"|Michael Moorcock
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Elric.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Elric.jpg|center|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|Exile
| style="text-align: center;"|Exile
| style="text-align: center;"|R.A. Salvatore
| style="text-align: center;"|R.A. Salvatore
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Exile.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Exile.jpg|center|100px]]
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| 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;"|Robert Jordan
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:TheEyeOfTheWorld.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:TheEyeOfTheWorld.jpg|center|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|Fables
| style="text-align: center;"|Fables
| style="text-align: center;"|Bill Willingham
| style="text-align: center;"|Bill Willingham
| 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]]
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| 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;"|Steven Erikson
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Gardens-of-the-moon.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Gardens-of-the-moon.jpg|center|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens
| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens
| style="text-align: center;"|Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman
| style="text-align: center;"|Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Good-omens1.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Good-omens1.jpg|center|100px]]
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| 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;"|Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
| 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]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit
| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit
| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| 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]]
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| 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;"|William Hope Hodgson
| 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]]
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| 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]]
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| 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;"|Peter S. Beagle
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:The_Last_Unicorn.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:The_Last_Unicorn.jpg|center|100px]]
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| 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;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:LOTR.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:LOTR.jpg|center|100px]]
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| 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;"|Patrick Rothfuss
| 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]]
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| 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]]
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| 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;"|T.S. White
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Theonceandfuture.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Theonceandfuture.jpg|center|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Princess Bride
| style="text-align: center;"|The Princess Bride
| style="text-align: center;"|William Goldman
| style="text-align: center;"|William Goldman
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Princessbride.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Princessbride.jpg|center|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Silmarillion
| style="text-align: center;"|The Silmarillion
| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Silmarillion.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Silmarillion.jpg|center|100px]]
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Wizard Knight
| style="text-align: center;"|The Wizard Knight
| style="text-align: center;"|Gene Wolfe
| style="text-align: center;"|Gene Wolfe
| style="text-align: center;"|
| style="text-align: center;"|
|[[File:Wizard_knightt.jpg|thumb]]
|[[File:Wizard_knightt.jpg|center|100px]]
|}
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Revision as of 04:13, 19 January 2011

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 Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare
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 Glen Cook
The Chronicles of Amber Roger Zelazny
Conan the Barbarian Anthology Robert Howard Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan.
The Dark Tower Series Stephen King
The Darkness That Comes Before R. Scott Bakker
The Earthsea Quartet Ursula K. Le Guin
Elric Anthology Michael Moorcock
Exile R.A. Salvatore
The Eye of the World Robert Jordan
Fables Bill Willingham 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.
Gardens of the Moon Steven Erikson
Good Omens Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman
Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 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 J.R.R. Tolkien 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 William Hope Hodgson
The Iliad Homer
The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany
The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
The Odyssey Homer
The Once and Future King T.S. White
The Princess Bride William Goldman
The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wizard Knight Gene Wolfe




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