Recommended Reading/Genre fiction
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By genre
Fantasy | ||||
Epic fantasy | ||||
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 | ||||
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 | ||||
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 | ||||
Recommendation images | ||||
Science fiction | ||||
Dystopian science fiction | ||||
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 | ||||
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 |