As starving artists, we appreciate your buying something with our names on it. But as lovers of literature, we also recommend these favorite fantasy and sci-fi books. Each title is linked to Amazon.com; works in the public domain also have an etext (“e“) link.
HALL OF FAME: (chosen unanimously)
The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
—J. R. R. Tolkien
60 Other Greats:
- The Odyssey, Homer
- The Arabian Nights, translated, Burton
- The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny
- The Conan series, Robert E. Howard
- The Earthsea saga, Ursula LeGuin
- The Elric saga, Michael Moorcock
- The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, Fritz Leiber
- The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis
- The Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, Douglas Adams
- The Once and Future King, T. H. White
- A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft
- Beowulf
- Chronicles of Prydain, Lloyd Alexander
- Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
- The Dark Elf trilogy, R. A. Salvatore
- Darkwalker on Moonshae, Douglas Niles
- Dragonlance: Chronicles, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
- The Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
- The Golden Compass (etc.), Philip Pullman
- Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain
- Redwall, Brian Jacques
- A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R. Martin
- Tarnsman of Gor, John Norman
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith
- Alice in Wonderland & Alice through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carrol.
- The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
- The Black Company, Glen Cook
- The Bridge of Birds, Barry Hugart
- The Buchanan Campaign series, Rick Shelley
- Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series, Stephen R. Donaldson
- The Complete Compleat Enchanter, L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt
- Dirk Gently series, Douglas Adams
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Dragonlance: Legends, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
- The Dying Earth, Jack Vance
- The Elfin Ship & The Disappearing Dwarf, James P. Blaylock
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia McKillip
- Gilgamesh (traditonal legend)
- The Gotrek & Felix series, William King
- If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Italo Calvino
- The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
- Master of Five Magics series, Lyndon Hardy
- Metamorphoses, Ovid
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NYMH, Robert C. O’Brien
- Operation Chaos Poul Anderson
- Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, and
Viriconium Nights, M. John Harrison
- Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
- Riverworld, Philip Jose Farmer
- The Saga of the Pliocene Exile, Julian May
- The Shannara series, Terry Brooks
- Tarzan series, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Well of Darkness (Sovereign Stone series), Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
- The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
- Wizard’s First Rule, Terry Goodkind
- The World of Tiers, Philip Jose Farmer