Recommended Reading/old

By Genre

Suggested horror titles.

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
• 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
• Stephen King - Pet Sematary
• William Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
• H. P. Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror

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

Fantasy

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Epic Fantasy:

• The blade itself (Joe Abercrombie)
• The darkness that comes before (R.Scott Bakker)
• Gardens of the moon (Steven Erikson)
• A Cavern of black Ice (J.V.Jones)
• The eye of the world (Robert Jordan)
• Hawkwood's voyage ( Paul Kearney )
• A game of thrones (George R.R. Martin)
• Devices and desires (K.J.Parker)
• Dragon Prince (Melanie Rawn)
• Winterbirth ( Brian Ruckley )
• The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
• The Dragonbone chair (Tad WIlliams)
• Wizard's first rule (Terry Goodkind)
• The lightsone (David Zindell)
• A shadow in summer (Daniel Abraham)
• The braided path (Chris Wooding)
• A magic of Twilight ( S.L.Farrell)
• The Briar King (Greg Keyes)

Urban Fantasy

• Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
• The tooth fairy (Graham Joyce)
• Tea with the black dragon ( R.A.Macavoy)
• The land of laughs (Jonathan Carroll)

Swords and sorcery

• Conan (R.E.Howard)
• The first book of Lankhmar (Fritz Leiber)
• Elric of Melnibone (Michael Moorcock)
• The incompleat nifft (Michael Shea)
• Tales of the dying earth (Jack Vance)
• Gods in Darkness (Karl Edward Wagner)
• Jirel of Joiry (C.L.Moore)

Entry Level

• First King of Shamhara (Terry Brooks)
• The dark is rising (Susan Cooper)
• Pawn of prophecy (David Eddings)
• The Diamond Throne (David Eddings)
• Magician ( Raymond E.Feist)
• Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman)
• Dragon Wing (Margaret Weiss, Tracy Hickman)
• Rose of the Prophet (Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman)

Philosophy

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  Classical
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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

Science Fiction

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  Sci Fi 1
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  Sci Fi 3

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Japanese

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  100 Works of Japanese Literature

Norse

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German

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Russian

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  Russian lit
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  Maksim Gorky - Mother

Spanish

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Mexican

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General

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  Theater/Drama part 1
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  Theater/Drama part 2
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  Novellas
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  Classics
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  100 Novellas
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  Short Story Collections
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  Female writers
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  A collection of 'must read' lists.
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  Essential Doorstoppers (Unfinished)
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  Dystopia & Utopia (Unfinished)
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  Essential Poetry Guide