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 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 | ||||
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 | ||||
| File:Frankenstein.png Frankenstein ( ) by Mary Shelley |
File:Dracula.png Dracula ( ) by Bram Stoker |
File:The Monk.png The Monk ( ) by Matthew Lewis |
File:The Turn of the Screw.png The Turn of the Screw ( ) by Henry James |
File:Poe.png The Complete Stories and Poems ( ) 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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
New Horror | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 |
.jpg) 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 | ||||
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