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| style="text-align: center;"|George R. R. Martin |
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| style="text-align: center;"|A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Aeneid |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Virgil |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Black Company |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Chronicles of Amber |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Chronicles of Amber |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Conan the Barbarian Anthology |
| style="text-align: center;"|Conan the Barbarian Anthology |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Howard |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Dark Tower Series |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Dark Tower Series |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Stephen King |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Darkness That Comes Before |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Darkness That Comes Before |
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| style="text-align: center;"|R. Scott Bakker |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Earthsea Quartet |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Ursula K. Le Guin |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Exile |
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| style="text-align: center;"|R.A. Salvatore |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Eye of the World |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Robert Jordan |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Fables |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Bill Willingham |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Steven Erikson |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens |
| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Grimm's Fairy Tales |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit |
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| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The House on the Borderland |
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| style="text-align: center;"|William Hope Hodgson |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Iliad |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Iliad |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Homer |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The King of Elfland's Daughter |
| style="text-align: center;"|The King of Elfland's Daughter |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Last Unicorn |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Last Unicorn |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Peter S. Beagle |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Lord of the Rings |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Lord of the Rings |
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| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Name of the Wind |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Name of the Wind |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Patrick Rothfuss |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Odyssey |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Odyssey |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Once and Future King |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Silmarillion |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Silmarillion |
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| style="text-align: center;"|J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Wizard Knight |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Wizard Knight |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Gene Wolfe |
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1001 Arabian Nights | Various | Ancient collection of Middle-Eastern folk tales and short stories. Contains such famous tales as "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor" | |
A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | ||
A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | ||
The Aeneid | Virgil | An Epic Poem about the hero Aeneas' wanderings to Italy and victory in War against the Latins. | |
Beowulf |
Anonymous | Epic Anglo-Saxon Poem about the hero Beowulf and his battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and an unnamed red dragon. | |
The Black Company | Glen Cook | ||
The Chronicles of Amber | Roger Zelazny | ||
Conan the Barbarian Anthology | Robert Howard | Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan. | |
The Dark Tower Series | Stephen King | ||
The Darkness That Comes Before | R. Scott Bakker | ||
The Earthsea Quartet | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
Elric Anthology | Michael Moorcock | ||
Exile | R.A. Salvatore | ||
The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan | ||
Fables | Bill Willingham | A series of comics dealing with a number of fairy tale and fable (hence the name) characters that have been forced out of their homes and formed a small chinatown like community within New York City. | |
Gardens of the Moon | Steven Erikson | ||
Good Omens | Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman | ||
Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | The collection that most people know their fairy tales from. Contains Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Little Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, and many many more. | |
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | There and Back Again. The children's classic about the titular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins' adventure with the thirteen dwarves and the wizard Gandalf to reclaim Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug. | |
The House on the Borderland | William Hope Hodgson | ||
The Iliad | Homer | ||
The King of Elfland's Daughter | Lord Dunsany | ||
The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle | ||
The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | ||
The Odyssey | Homer | ||
The Once and Future King | T.S. White | ||
The Princess Bride | William Goldman | ||
The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
The Wizard Knight | Gene Wolfe |