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<p style="text-align:center">The list is imperfect and always growing. | <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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[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| | |[[File:Wizard_knightt.jpg|center|100px]] | ||
|} | |} | ||
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. | 
|
|
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 |  |
