Recommended Reading/Genre fiction

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 Coldfire Trilogy (1991—1995) by C.S. Friedman
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
The Book of The New Sun (1980) by Gene Wolfe

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
The Wasp Factory (1984) by Iain Banks
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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
Collected Stories ( ) by H.P. Lovecraft	Best Ghost Stories ( ) by Algernon Blackwood	Casting the Runes and Other Stories ( ) by M.R. James	It ( ) by Stephen King	House on the Borderland ( ) by William Hope Hodgson
Additional 20th Century Horror
The Tenant () by Roland Topor
Pet Sematary () by Stephen King
Boy in Darkness () by Mervyn Peake
the Haunting of Hill House () by Shirley Jackson
I Am Legend () by Richard Matheson
The Silence of the Lambs () by Thomas Harris
Song of Kali () by Dan Simmons
Something Wicked This Way Comes () by Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood () by Clive Barker
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories () by Horacio Quiroga
Japanese Gothic Tales () by Kyoka Izumi
Kwaidan () by Lafcadio Hearn
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination () by Edogawa Ranpo
The Blind Owl () by Sadegh Hedayat
The Golem () by Gustav Meyrink
Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories () by Lucius Shepard
Lukundoo () by Edward Lucas White
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories () by Robert Aickman
Cold Tales () by Virgilio Piñera
The Other Side () by Alfred Kubin
Aura () by Carlos Fuentes

Mystery/Crime

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Essential works
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Mystery/Crime

Essential works
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes () 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	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
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