Changes: Fantasy

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.

Title	Author	Description
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 Song of Ice and Fire Series	Martin, George R. R.	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.
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Shakespeare. William
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	Cook, Glenn
The Chronicles of Amber	Zelazny, Roger
Conan the Barbarian Anthology	Howard, Robert	Series of pulp-fiction stories featuring the original barbarian Conan.
The Dark Tower Series	King, Stephen	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.
The Darkness That Comes Before	Bakker, R. Scott
The Earthsea Quartet	Le Guin, Ursula
Elric Anthology	Moorecock, Michael
Exile	Salvatore, R.A.
The Eye of the World	Jordan, Robert
Fables	Willingham, Bill	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.
The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser Series	Leiber, Fritz	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.
Gardens of the Moon	Erikson, Steven
Good Omens	Pratchet, Terry & Gaiman, Neil
Grimm's Fairy Tales	Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm	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	Tolkien, J.R.R.	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	Hodgson, William Hope
The Iliad	Homer
The King of Elfland's Daughter	Lord Dunsany
The Last Unicorn	Beagle, Peter S.
The Lord of the Rings	Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Name of the Wind	Rothfuss, Patrick
The Odyssey	Homer
The Once and Future King	White, T.S.
The Princess Bride	Goldman, William
The Silmarillion	Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Wise Man's Fear	Rothfuss, Patrick	Day two of the Kingkiller Chronicles, Sequel to The Name of the Wind
The Wizard Knight	Wolfe, Gene

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