Recommended Reading/Genre fiction

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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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Frankenstein
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by Mary Shelley
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Dracula
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by Bram Stoker
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The Monk
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by Matthew Lewis
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The Turn of the Screw
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by Henry James
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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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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New Horror

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Mystery/Crime

Essential works

The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
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by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Big Sleep
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by Raymond Chandler

The Complete Father Brown Stories
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by G.K. Chesterton

The Maltese Falcon
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by Dashiell Hammett
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That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
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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


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
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