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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. | ||
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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. | | 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. | ||
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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. | | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 01:35, 17 January 2011
| 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 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. |  |
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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 | 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. | .jpg) |
| 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 |  |
