The list has been composed from various sources including: http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/fantasy100/lists_books.html
Often, I have included all the books in a series. Some books have an asterix (*) beside the title; this is to indicate that it belongs to a series of books, but only one volume (or a select few) appeared on the lists I sourced mine from.
Enjoy, recommendations welcome!
AUTHOR | TITLE | OWN | READ |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down | ||
| Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet In Heaven | ||
| Aldiss, Brian | Helliconia: Winter | ||
| Aldiss, Brian | Helliconia: Spring | ||
| Aldiss, Brian | Helliconia: Summer | ||
| Alexander, Lloyd | (The Chronicles of Prydain – 1) The Book of Three | ||
| Alexander, Lloyd | (CP – 2) The Black Cauldron | ||
| Alexander, Lloyd | (CP – 3) The Castle of Llyr | ||
| Alexander, Lloyd | (CP – 4) Taran Wanderer | ||
| Alexander, Lloyd | (CP – 5) The High King | ||
| Alighieri, Dante | Inferno | ||
| Anderson, Paul | The High Crusade | ||
| Anon. | Beowulf | X | |
| Anthony, Piers | A Spell for Chameleon | ||
| Anthony, Piers | On A Pale Horse* | ||
| Asimov, Isaac | I, Robot | ||
| Asimov, Isaac | Foundation | ||
| Bach, Richard | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | ||
| Barber, Catherine | Stellar Wind 2012 | ||
| Barclay, James | Nightchild* | ||
| Barclay, James | Elfsorrow* | ||
| Beagle, Peter | A Fine and Private Place | ||
| Beagle, Peter S | The Last Unicorn | ||
| Bear, Greg | Blood Music | ||
| Benford, Gregory | Timescape | ||
| Bester, Alfred | The Demolished Man | ||
| Bester, Alfred | The Stars My Destination | ||
| Bishop, Anne | Daughter of the Blood | ||
| Bradbury, Ray | The Martian Chronicles | ||
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | ||
| Bradbury, Ray | Something Wicked This Way Comes | ||
| Bradley, Marion Zimmer | The Mists of Avalon | ||
| Briggs, Patricia | Moon Called* | ||
| Brin, David | The Postman | ||
| Brin, David | (The Uplift Series – 1) Sundiver | ||
| Brin, David | (US – 2) Startide Rising | ||
| Brin, David | (US – 3) The Uplift War | ||
| Brooks, Terry | The Sword of Shannara* | ||
| Brooks, Terry | Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD* | ||
| Bulgakov, Mikhail | The Master and Margarita | X | |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange | ||
| Butcher, Jim | Storm Front* | ||
| Card, Orson Scott | (The Ender Series – 1) Ender's Game | ||
| Card, Orson Scott | (ES – 2) Speaker for the Dead | ||
| Card, Orson Scott | (ES – 3) Xenocide | ||
| Card, Orson Scott | (ES – 4) Children of the Mind | ||
| Card, Orson Scott | (ES – 5) A War of Gifts | ||
| Card, Orson Scott | (ES – 6) Ender in Exile | ||
| Carey, Jacqueline | (Kushiel's Legacy – 1) Kushiel's Dart | ||
| Carey, Jacqueline | (KL – 2) Kushiel's Chosen | ||
| Carey, Jacqueline | (KL – 3) Kushiel's Avatar | ||
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | X | |
| Carroll, Lewis | Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There | X | |
| Chalker, Jack | (The Four Lords of the Diamond series – 1) Lilith: A Snake In the Grass | ||
| Chalker, Jack | (FLD – 2) Cerberus: A Wolf In the Fold | ||
| Chalker, Jack | (FLD – 3) Charon: A Dragon At the Gate | ||
| Chalker, Jack | (FLD – 4) Medusa: A Tiger By the Tail | ||
| Clarke, Arthur C. | The Songs of Distant Earth | ||
| Clarke, Susanna | Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell | ||
| Coelho, Paulo | The Alchemist | ||
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl* | ||
| Cook, Glen | (The Books of the North – 1) The Black Company | ||
| Cook, Glen | (BN – 2) Shadows Linger | ||
| Cook, Glen | (BN – 3) The White Rose | ||
| Cooper, Susan | (The Dark is Rising Sequence – 1) Over Sea, Under Stone | ||
| Cooper, Susan | (DIR – 2) The Dark is Rising | ||
| Cooper, Susan | (DIR – 3) Greenwitch | ||
| Cooper, Susan | (DIR – 4) The Grey King | ||
| Cooper, Susan | (DIR – 5) Silver on the Tree | ||
| Dick, Phillip K. | The Man in the High Castle | ||
| Dick, Phillip K. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | ||
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol | X | |
| Donaldson, Stephen | (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever – 1) Lord Foul's Bane | ||
| Donaldson, Stephen | (CTCU – 2) The Illearth War | ||
| Donaldson, Stephen | (CTCU – 3) The Power That Preserves | ||
| Douglass, Sara | Battleaxe | X | X |
| Douglass, Sara | Enchanter | X | X |
| Douglass, Sara | Starman | X | X |
| Eddings, David | (The Elenium – 1) The Diamond Throne | ||
| Eddings, David | (TE – 2) The Ruby Knight | ||
| Eddings, David | (TE – 3) The Sapphire Rose | ||
| Eddings, David | Pawn of Prophecy | ||
| Eddings, David | Queen of Sorcery | ||
| Eddings, David | Magician’s Gambit | ||
| Eddings, David | Castle of Wizardry | ||
| Eddings, David | Enchanter's End Game | ||
| Eddings, David | (The Malloreon Series – 1) Guardians of the West | ||
| Eddings, David | (MS – 2) King of the Murgos | ||
| Eddings, David | (MS – 3) Demon Lord of Karanda | ||
| Eddings, David | (MS – 4) Sorceress of Darshiva | ||
| Eddings, David | (MS – 5) The Seeress of Kell | ||
| Erikson, Steven | Gardens of the Moon* | ||
| Feist, Raymond | Magician | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Silverthorn | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Darkness at Sethanon | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | King's Buccaneer | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Prince of the Blood | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Servant of the Empire | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Mistress of the Empire | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Shadow of a Dark Queen | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Rise of a Merchant Prince | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Rage of a Demon King | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Shards of a Broken Crown | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Krondor: the Betryal | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Krondor: the Assassins | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Krondor: Tear of the Gods | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Honoured Enemy | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Murder in LaMut | ||
| Feist, Raymond | Talon of the Silver Hawk | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | King of Foxes | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Exile's Return | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Flight of the Nighthawks | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Into a Dark Realm | X | X |
| Feist, Raymond | Wrath of a Mad God | ||
| Feist, Raymond | Rides a Dread Legion | ||
| Feist, Raymond | At the Gates of Darkness | ||
| Feist, Raymond | Jimmy the Hand | X | |
| Feist, Raymond | Daughter of the Empire | X | X |
| Fforde, Jasper | The Eyre Affair | ||
| Funke, Cornelia | Inkheart* | ||
| Gaarner, Jostein | Sophie's World | ||
| Gabaldon, Diana | (Outlander Series - 1) Outlander | ||
| Gabaldon, Diana | (OS - 2) Dragonfly in Amber | ||
| Gabaldon, Diana | (OS – 3) Voyager | ||
| Gabaldon, Diana | (OS – 4) Drums of Autumn | ||
| Gabaldon, Diana | (OS – 5) The Fiery Cross | ||
| Gabaldon, Diana | (OS – 6) A Breath of Snow and Ashes | ||
| Gabaldon, Diana | (OS – 7) An Echo in the Bone | ||
| Gaiman, Neil | Neverwhere | ||
| Gaiman, Neil | Stardust | ||
| Gaiman, Neil | American Gods | ||
| Gemmell, David | Legend | ||
| Gibson, William | (Sprawl Trilogy – 1) Neuromancer | ||
| Gibson, William | (Sprawl Trilogy – 2) Count Zero | ||
| Gibson, William | (Sprawl Trilogy – 3) Mona Lisa Overdrive | ||
| Goldman, William | The Princess Bride | ||
| Goodkind, Terry | Wizard's First Rule* | ||
| Hamilton, Laurell K | Guilty Pleasures | ||
| Harris, Charlaine | Living Dead in Dallas* | ||
| Harris, Charlaine | Dead Until Dark* | ||
| Harrison, Harry | Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat | ||
| Harrison, Harry | West of Eden | ||
| Heinlein, Robert | Stranger in a Strange Land | ||
| Heinlein, Robert | Starship Troopers | ||
| Heinlein, Robert | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | ||
| Herbert, Frank | Dune | ||
| Hobbs, Robin | Assassin's Apprentice | X | |
| Hobbs, Robin | Royal Assassin | X | |
| Hobbs, Robin | Assassin's Quest | X | |
| Holdstock, Robert | Mythago Wood | ||
| Homer | The Iliad | X | X |
| Homer | The Odyssey | X | X |
| Howard, Robert E. | Conan | ||
| Jacques, Brian | Redwall* | ||
| Jones, Dianna Wynne | Howl's Moving Castle | ||
| Jordan, Robert | New Spring – A WOT Novel | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 1) Eye of the World | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 2) The Great Hunt | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 3) The Dragon Reborn | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 4) The Shadow Rising | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 5) The Fires of Heaven | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 6) Lord of Chaos | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 7) A Crown of Swords | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 8) The Path of Daggers | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 9) Winter's Heart | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 10) Crossroads of Twilight | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 11) Knife of Dreams | X | X |
| Jordan, Robert | (WOT 12) The Gathering Storm | X | X |
| Juster, Norton | The Phantom Tollbooth | ||
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphoses | ||
| Kay, Guy Gavriel | Tigana | ||
| Kay, Guy Gavriel | (The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy – 1) The Summer Tree | ||
| Kay, Guy Gavriel | (FT – 2) The Wandering Fire | ||
| Kay, Guy Gavriel | (FT – 3) The Darkest Road | ||
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon | ||
| King, Stephen | (The Dark Tower Series – 1) The Gunslinger | ||
| King, Stephen | (DTS – 2) The Drawing of the Three | ||
| King, Stephen | (DTS – 3) The Waste Lands | ||
| King, Stephen | (DTS – 4) Wizard and Glass | ||
| King, Stephen | (DTS – 5) Wolves of the Calla | ||
| King, Stephen | (DTS – 6) Song of Susannah | ||
| King, Stephen | (DTS – 7) The Dark Tower | ||
| Koontz, Dean | Lightning | ||
| L'Engle, Madeliene | A Wrinkle in Time | ||
| Lackey, Mercedes | (The Last Herald Mage – 1) Magic's Pawn | X | |
| Lackey, Mercedes | (LHM – 3) Magic's Price | ||
| Lackey, Mercedes | (LHM – 2) Magic's Promise | ||
| LaHaye, Tim & Jenkins, Jerry B | Left Behind* | X | X |
| Le Guin, Ursula | A Wizard of Earthsea | X | X |
| Le Guin, Ursula | The Tombs of Atuan | X | X |
| Le Guin, Ursula | The Farthest Shore | X | X |
| Le Guin, Ursula | Tehanu | X | X |
| Lethem, Jonathan | Gun, with Occasional Music | ||
| Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted | ||
| Lewis, CS | (The Space Trilogy – 1) Out of the Silent Planet | ||
| Lewis, CS | (ST – 2) Perelandra | ||
| Lewis, CS | (ST – 3) That Hideous Strength | ||
| Lewis, CS | The Magician’s Nephew | X | X |
| Lewis, CS | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | X | X |
| Lewis, CS | Prince Caspian | X | X |
| Lewis, CS | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | X | X |
| Lewis, CS | The Silver Chair | X | X |
| Lewis, CS | The Horse and His Boy | X | X |
| Lewis, CS | The Last Battle | X | X |
| Lewis, CS | The Screwtape Letters | X | X |
| Lieber, Fritz | (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Series – 1) Swords and Deviltry | ||
| Lieber, Fritz | (FGMS – 2) Swords Against Death | ||
| Lieber, Fritz | (FGMS – 3) Swords In the Mist | ||
| Lieber, Fritz | (FGMS – 4) Swords Against Wizardry | ||
| Lieber, Fritz | (FGMS – 5) The Swords of Lankhmar | ||
| Lieber, Fritz | (FGMS – 6) Swords and Ice Magic | ||
| Lieber, Fritz | (FGMS – 7) The Knight and Knave of Swords | ||
| Mallory, Sir Thomas | Le Morte d’Arthur | ||
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | One Hundred Years of Solitude | ||
| Martel, Yann | The Life of Pi | ||
| Martin, George RR | A Game of Thrones | X | X |
| Martin, George RR | A Clash of Kings | X | |
| Martin, George RR | A Storm of Swords:Steel and Snow | X | |
| Martin, George RR | A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold | ||
| Martin, George RR | A Feast for Crows | ||
| Matheson, Richard | I Am Legend | ||
| McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonflight* | ||
| McKinley, Robin | The Blue Sword | ||
| Meyer, Stephenie | Twilight | X | X |
| Meyer, Stephenie | New Moon | X | X |
| Meyer, Stephenie | Eclipse | X | X |
| Meyer, Stephenie | Breaking Dawn | X | X |
| Meyer, Stephenie | The Secret Life of Bree Tanner | X | X |
| Mieville, China | Perdido Street Station | ||
| Moorcock, Michael | (The Elric of Melnibone Series – 1) The Stealer of Souls | ||
| Moorcock, Michael | (EMS – 2) Stormbringer | ||
| Moorcock, Michael | (EMS – 3) Elric of Melnibone | ||
| Moorcock, Michael | (EMS – 4) The Sailor on the Seas of Fate | ||
| Moorcock, Michael | (EMS – 5) The Vanishing Tower | ||
| Moorcock, Michael | (EMS – 6) Elric at the End of Time | ||
| Niffenegger, Audrey | The Time Traveller's Wife | ||
| Niven, Larry | Ringworld | ||
| Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry | The Mote in God’s Eye | ||
| Nix, Garth | Sabriel* | ||
| Novik, Naomi | His Majesty's Dragon* | ||
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm | ||
| Paolini, Christopher | Eragon* | ||
| Pierce, Tamora | Alanna: The First Adventure* | ||
| Powers, Tim | The Anubis Gates | ||
| Pratchett, Terry | Mort* | ||
| Pratchett, Terry | The Wee Free Men* | ||
| Pratchett, Terry | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents* | ||
| Pratchett, Terry | A Hat Full of Sky* | ||
| Pratchett, Terry | Nation* | ||
| Pratchett, Terry | Night Watch* | ||
| Pratchett, Terry | The Colour of Magic* | ||
| Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | ||
| Pullman, Philip | (His Dark Materials Trilogy – 1) Northern Lights | ||
| Pullman, Philip | (HDM – 2) The Subtle Knife | ||
| Pullman, Philip | (HDM – 3) The Amber Spyglass | ||
| Quinn, Daniel | Ishmael | ||
| Rice, Anne | Interview with a Vampire* | ||
| Rothfuss, Patrick | The Name of the Wind | ||
| Rowling, JK | Harry Potter: The Philosopher's Stone | X | X |
| Rowling, JK | Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets | X | X |
| Rowling, JK | Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban | X | X |
| Rowling, JK | Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire | X | X |
| Rowling, JK | Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix | X | X |
| Rowling, JK | Harry Potter: The Half-Blood Prince | X | X |
| Rowling, JK | Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows | X | X |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine de | The Little Prince | ||
| Salvatore, RA | (The Dark Elf Trilogy – 1) Homeland | ||
| Salvatore, RA | (DET – 2) Exile | ||
| Salvatore, RA | (DET – 3) Sojourn | ||
| Sanderson, Brandon | Mistborn: The Final Empire* | ||
| Sebold, Alice | The Lovely Bones | X | |
| Shakespeare, William | A Midsummer Night's Dream | X | X |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | ||
| Simak, Clifford | Way Station | ||
| Simmons, Dan | Carrion Comfort | ||
| Simmons, Dan | The Rise of Endymion | ||
| Simmons, Dan | Endymion | ||
| Simmons, Dan | The Fall of Hyperion | ||
| Simmons, Dan | Hyperion | ||
| Stephenson, Neal | Snow Crash | ||
| Stirling, Bruce | Crystal Express | ||
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula | ||
| Stroud, Jonathan | (The Bartimaeus Trilogy – 1) The Amulet of Samarkand | ||
| Stroud, Jonathan | (BT – 2) The Golem's Eye | ||
| Stroud, Jonathan | (BT – 3) Ptolemy's Gate | ||
| Suskind, Patrick | Perfume | ||
| Tolkien, JRR | The Lord of the Rings | X | X |
| Tolkien, JRR | The Hobbit | X | X |
| Tolkien, JRR | The Silmarillion | X | X |
| Twain, Mark | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | ||
| Vance, Jack | (Lyonesse Trilogy – 1) Lyonesse | ||
| Vance, Jack | (LT – 2) The Green Pearl | ||
| Vance, Jack | (LT – 3) Madouc | ||
| Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | ||
| Vinge, Joan | Catspaw | ||
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (The Dragonlance Chronicles – 1) Dragons of Autumn Twilight | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DC – 2) Dragons of Winter Night | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DC – 3) Dragons of Spring Dawning | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (The Death Gate Cycle – 1) Dragon Wing | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DGC- 2) Elven Star | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DGC – 3) Fire Sea | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DGC – 4) Serpent Mage | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DGC – 5) The Hand of Chaos | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DGC – 6) Into the Labyrinth | ||
| Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy | (DGC – 7) The Seventh Gate | ||
| Wells, HG | The Invisible Man | X | |
| Wells, HG | The Time Machine | X | |
| White, T.H | The Once and Future King | X | |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray | X | |
| Williams, Tad | Memory, Sorrow and Thorn* | ||
| Wolfe, Gene | (The Book of the New Sun – 1) The Shadow of the Torturer | ||
| Wolfe, Gene | (BNS – 2) The Claw of the Conciliator | ||
| Wolfe, Gene | (BNS – 3) The Sword of the Lictor | ||
| Wolfe, Gene | (BNS – 4) The Citadel of the Autarch | ||
| Wrede, Patricia C | Dealing with Dragons* | ||
| Wydham, John | The Kraken Wakes | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (The Chronicles of Amber – 1) Nine Princes in Amber | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 2) The Guns of Avalon | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 3) Sign of the Unicorn | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 4) The Hand of Oberon | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 5) The Courts of Chaos | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 6) Trumps of Doom | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 7) Blood of Amber | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 8) Sign of Chaos | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 9) Knight of Shadows | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – 10) Prince of Chaos | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – Short Stories) A Secret of Amber | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – Short Stories) Prologue to Trumps of Doom | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – Short Stories) The Salesman's Tale | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – Short Stories) Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – Short Stories) The Shroudling and The Guisel | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – Short Stories) Coming to a Cord | ||
| Zelazny, Roger | (CA – Short Stories) Hall of Mirrors |
I read "The Dark is Rising" series by Susan Cooper in high school, which I see is on your list. I must say I have not read them since, but very much enjoyed them back then. Although I found the first book "Over Sea, Under Stone" slightly boring, they got progressively better and were an interesting storyline - though probably more so for teenagers. But we are both kids at heart! :P
ReplyDeleteI also would like to point out that you do not have any books by Isobelle Carmody on your list. As she has been one of my favourite fantasy writers since high school, I felt I should say that the Obernewtyn Chronicles are very good, as are the Darkfall series. I must also say, however, that neither series is finished, which is a constant frustration to me. Lol. Also, Obernewtyn was her first book, which I think she wrote in high school, so each consecutive book becomes better as she matures as a writer... Just thought I would share. :)
Thank you Bethany! I'll add a bit of Carmody to the list then. xo
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