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| style="text-align: center;"|1001 Arabian Nights |
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+ | | style="text-align: center;"|A Song of Ice and Fire Series |
− | | style="text-align: center;"|George R. R. |
+ | | style="text-align: center;"|Martin, George R. R. |
+ | | style="text-align: center;"|A refreshing take on the timeworn, high-fantasy genre where magic and gritty realism go hand in hand. Beautifully written and nuanced characters who don't fall into simple 'good' and 'evil' categories. |
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| style="text-align: center;"|A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Black Company |
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| 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;"|Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan. |
| style="text-align: center;"|Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan. |
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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;"|King, Stephen |
+ | | style="text-align: center;"|Stephen King's magnum opus about a gunslinger searching for the nexus of all realities, The Dark Tower, in a world that is slowly falling apart at the seams. |
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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;"|The Earthsea Quartet |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Earthsea Quartet |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Elric Anthology |
| style="text-align: center;"|Elric Anthology |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Exile |
| style="text-align: center;"|Exile |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Eye of the World |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Fables |
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+ | | style="text-align: center;"|Willingham, Bill |
| style="text-align: center;"|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. |
| style="text-align: center;"|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. |
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+ | | style="text-align: center;"|In seven volumes, this series consists of Leiber's sword-and-sorcery defining stories about two thieves, the barbarian Fafhrd and the failed wizard's apprentice Gray Mouser. |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Gardens of the Moon |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens |
| style="text-align: center;"|Good Omens |
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| style="text-align: center;"|Grimm's Fairy Tales |
| style="text-align: center;"|Grimm's Fairy Tales |
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| style="text-align: center;"|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. |
| style="text-align: center;"|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. |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Hobbit |
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+ | | style="text-align: center;"|Tolkien, J.R.R. |
| style="text-align: center;"|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. |
| style="text-align: center;"|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. |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The House on the Borderland |
| style="text-align: center;"|The House on the Borderland |
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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;"|The Lord of the Rings |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Lord of the Rings |
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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;"|The Silmarillion |
| style="text-align: center;"|The Silmarillion |
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+ | | style="text-align: center;"|Tolkien, J.R.R. |
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| style="text-align: center;"|The Wizard Knight |
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Latest revision as of 23:21, 26 January 2015
The list is imperfect and always growing. Please add descriptions where necessary and if there is a book you feel is missing, feel free to add it.