Recommended Reading/Genre fiction

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—2013) 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
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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
Essential works
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New Horror
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Mystery/Crime

Essential works
The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories () by Arthur Conan Doyle	The Big Sleep () by Raymond Chandler	The Complete Father Brown Stories () by G.K. Chesterton	The Maltese Falcon () by Dashiell Hammett	File:That Awful Mess on via Merualan.jpg That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana () by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Additional Crime/Mystery
The Thirty-Nine Steps () by John Buchan
The Name of the Rose () by Umberto Eco
Tales of Mystery & Imagination () by Edgar Allen Poe
Tales from Two Pockets () by Karel Capek
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold () by John le Carre
Rebecca () by Daphne du Maurier
Fatale () by Jean-Pierre Manchette
Three to Kill () by Jean-Pierre Manchette
The End of Lieutenant Boruvka () by Josef Svorecky
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination () by Edogawa Ranpo
The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows () by Edogawa Ranpo
The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi () by Kido Okamoto
Death of a Red Heroine () by Xiaolong Qui
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee () by Robert van Gulik
I Spit on Your Graves () by Boris Vian
The Dead All Have the Same Skin () by Boris Vian
The New York Trilogy () by Paul Auster
Gun, With Occasional Music () by Jonathan Lethem
The Long Goodbye () by Raymond Chandler
Inherent Vice () by Thomas Pynchon
The Shooting Party () by Anton Chekhov
The Yiddish Policemen's Union () by Michael Chabon
The Postman Always Rings Twice () by James M. Cain
Fantomas () by Marcel Allain
Dirty Snow () by Georges Simenon
Rogue Male () by Geoffrey Household
The Big Clock () by Kenneth Fearing
Photo Shop Murder () by Young-Ha Kim

Romance

Essential works
Daphnhis and Chloe () by Longus	Song of Songs () by Solomon	The Story of the Stone () by Cao Xueqin	Troilus and Criseyde () by Geoffrey Chaucer	Anna Karenina () by Leo Tolstoy
Additional Romance
Love in The Time of Cholera () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound of Waves () by Yukio Mishima
Dom Casmurro () by Machado de Assis
The Hour of the Star () by Clarice Lispector
The Maias () by Eca de Queiros
Jamilia () by Chingiz Aitmatov
Six Records of a Floating Life () by Shen Fu
Gone with the Wind () by Margaret Mitchell
Rebecca () by Daphne du Maurier
Nadja () by Andre Breton
Lady Chatterley's Lover () by D.H. Lawrence
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult () by Joseph Bedier
The Betrothed () by Alessandro Manzoni
A Room With a View () by E.M. Forster
Far from the Madding Crowd () by Thomas Hardy
Camille () by Alexander Dumas
The French Lieutenant's Woman () by John Fowles
The Red and the Black () by Stendhal
The Bachelor of Arts () by R.K. Narayan
The Enchanted April () by Elizabeth von Arnim
Love in a Fallen City () by Eileen Chang
The Tale of Genji () by Murasaki Shikibu
First Love () by Ivan Turgenev

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	A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick
Additional dystopian science fiction
The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye
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