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—) 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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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