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<h2>Horror</h2> | |||
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Frankenstein.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Mary Shelley </small> | |||
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dracula.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Bram Stoker </small> | |||
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Monk.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Monk|The Monk]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Matthew Lewis </small> | |||
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Turn_of_the_Screw.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Henry James </small> | |||
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Poe.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|The Complete Stories and Poems]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Edgar Allen Poe </small> | |||
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional Classic Horror''' | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' () by Robert Stevenson </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow|The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]'' () by Washington Irving </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The King in Yellow|The King in Yellow]]'' () by Robert Chambers </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Melmoth the Wanderer|Melmoth the Wanderer]]'' () by Charles Maturin </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ambrose Bierce|Ghost and Other Stories]]'' () by Ambrose Bierce </small> | |||
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Revision as of 08:51, 29 December 2012
Fantasy
Epic fantasy | ||||
| Essential works | ||||
 The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien |
 The Black Company (1984—) by Glen Cook |
 A Song of Ice and Fire (1996—) by George R. R. Martin |
 Malazan Book (1999–2011) by Steven Erikson |
 The First Law (2006—) by Joe Abercrombie |
| Additional epic fantasy | ||||
| The Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien | ||||
| Shannara (1977—) by Terry Brooks | ||||
| The Swordbearer (1982) by Glen Cook | ||||
| The Wheel of Time (1990—) by Robert Jordan | ||||
| The Deed of Paksenarrion (1992) by Elizabeth Moon | ||||
| Mistborn (2006–2008) by Brandon Sanderson | ||||
| The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007—) by Patrick Rothfuss | ||||
Young Adult | ||||
| Essential works | ||||
 The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien |
 Earthsea (1968–2001) by Ursula K. LeGuin |
 The Belgariad (1982–1984) by David Eddings |
 His Dark Materials (1995–2000) by Philip Pullman |
 Harry Potter (1997–2007) by J. K. Rowling |
| Additional Young Adult | ||||
| Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams | ||||
Weird fiction | ||||
| Essential works | ||||
 The House on the Borderland (1908) William Hope Hodgson |
 At the Mountains of Madness (1936) by H. P. Lovecraft |
 Perdido Street Station (2000) by China Miéville |
 City of Saints and Madmen (2001) by Jeff VanderMeer |
 The Emperor of Dreams (2002) by Clark Ashton Smith |
| Additional weird fiction | ||||
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft | ||||
| Kraken (2010) by China Miéville | ||||
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Horror
Classic Horror | ||||
| Essential works | ||||
| File:Frankenstein.png Frankenstein ( ) by Mary Shelley |
File:Dracula.png Dracula ( ) by Bram Stoker |
File:The Monk.png The Monk ( ) by Matthew Lewis |
File:The Turn of the Screw.png The Turn of the Screw ( ) by Henry James |
File:Poe.png The Complete Stories and Poems ( ) by Edgar Allen Poe |
| Additional Classic Horror | ||||
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde () by Robert Stevenson | ||||
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow () by Washington Irving | ||||
| The King in Yellow () by Robert Chambers | ||||
| Melmoth the Wanderer () by Charles Maturin | ||||
| Ghost and Other Stories () by Ambrose Bierce | ||||
20th Century Horror | ||||
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Science fiction
Dystopian science fiction | ||||
| Essential works | ||||
 Brave New World (1931) by Aldous Huxley |
 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell |
 Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury |
 Logan's Run (1967) by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson |
.jpg) A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick |
| Additional dystopian science fiction | ||||
| The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London | ||||
| We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin | ||||
| The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick | ||||
| Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner | ||||
| The World Inside (1971) by Robert Silverberg | ||||
| Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick | ||||
| Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) by Kate Wilhelm | ||||
| The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood | ||||
| The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry | ||||
