Fantasy: The 100 Best Books

100 Works 512,856 Books 8,961 Reviews ½ 3.9
A rather eccentric selection by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock of fantasy books by authors from classic literature.
Years:
All, 1987 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (2), 1975 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1969 (3), 1968 (1), 1967 (2), 1964 (2), 1963 (1), 1959 (1), 1956 (2), 1955 (1), 1954 (1), 1953 (2), 1951 (2), 1950 (2), 1948 (1), 1947 (1), 1946 (3), 1945 (1), 1943 (2), 1941 (2), 1940 (2), 1939 (2), 1938 (1), 1937 (1), 1936 (2), 1935 (3), 1934 (1), 1933 (2), 1932 (2), 1931 (2), 1930 (1), 1927 (1), 1926 (2), 1924 (1), 1922 (3), 1920 (1), 1918 (1), 1915 (1), 1912 (3), 1911 (2), 1909 (1), 1908 (2), 1898 (1), 1897 (1), 1891 (2), 1888 (1), 1886 (2), 1884 (1), 1871 (1), 1864 (1), 1851 (1), 1847 (1), 1843 (1), 1838 (1), 1820 (1), 1818 (1), 1796 (1), 1786 (1), 1765 (1), 1726 (1)
WorkYear
Expecting Someone Taller by Tom Holt
1987
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
1985
The Businessman by Thomas M. Disch
1984
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
1983
The Sending by Geoffrey Household
1980
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
1979
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
1977
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
1976
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
1976
The Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp
1975
Red Shift by Alan Garner
1973
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
1972
The Pastel City by M. John Harrison
1971
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
1969
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand by Gordon Honeycombe
1969
The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson
1969
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
1968
The Devil's Day by James Blish
1967
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
1967
The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
1964
The Serpent / The Dragon / Atlan / The City / Some Summer Lands by Jane Gaskell
1964
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
1963
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
1959
The Golden Strangers by Henry Treece
1956
The Great Captains (The Epic Romance of King Arthur) by Henry Treece
1956
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
1955
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
1954
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
1953
The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett
1953
The Tritonian Ring by L. Sprague de Camp
1951
The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr
1951
You're All Alone [collection] by Fritz Leiber
1950
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
1950
The Well of the Unicorn by Fletcher Pratt
1948
Adept's Gambit [short story] by Fritz Leiber
1947
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
1946
The Exploits of Engelbrecht by Maurice Richardson
1946
Mistress Masham's Repose by T. H. White
1946
The Dark World / The Valley of the Flame by Henry Kuttner
1945
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
1943
The Book of Ptath by A. E. van Vogt
1943
Land of unreason by L. Sprague de Camp
1941
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft
1941
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
1940
Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson
1940
Slaves of sleep by L. Ron Hubbard
1939
Caravan for China by Frank S. Stuart
1939
Roads by Seabury Quinn
1938
To Walk the Night by William Sloane
1937
Conan the Conqueror by Robert E. Howard
1936
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] by H. P. Lovecraft
1936
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney
1935
Jirel of Joiry by C. L. Moore
1935
Land under England by Joseph O'Neill
1935
Northwest Smith by C. L. Moore
1934
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore
1933
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
1933
Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt
1932
Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith
1932
The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
1931
Turnabout by Thorne Smith
1931
War in Heaven by Charles Williams
1930
Witch Wood by John Buchan
1927
The Castle / The Trial by Franz Kafka
1926
The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt
1926
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
1924
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
1922
Lady Into Fox and a Man in the Zoo by David Garnett
1922
The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay
1922
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
1920
The Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens
1918
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1915
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1912
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
1912
The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
1912
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
1911
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1911
Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen
1909
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
1908
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
1908
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
1898
Dracula by Bram Stoker
1897
The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of the Living Men by William Morris
1891
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
1891
The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Garnett
1888
She by H. Rider Haggard
1886
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
1886
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
1884
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
1871
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1864
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1851
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1847
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1843
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
1838
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
1820
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1818
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
1796
Vathek by William Beckford
1786
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
1765
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
1726

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A rather eccentric selection by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock of fantasy books by authors from classic literature. (English, Member-written)
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