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Great Science-Fiction
& Fantasy Works

science-fiction & fantasy literature:
a critical list with discussions

Particular Science-Fiction & Fantasy Books By Author:
The Master List

You might want to also look at the listings on the two pages bullet-listed below, which are of authors and books not yet read here but which appear, for various reasons--typically, many strongly positive reviews by sources I consider credible--to be plausible candidates for these lists:

• Other Books by Authors Already Listed Here
• Authors Not Yet Listed Here

The Authors:

• Ackroyd, Peter *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • First Light
  
  
  
• Adams, Douglas ***
  
  
  • The Hitchhiker "Trilogy":
    
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    • Life, the Universe and Everything
    • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    • Mostly Harmless
    
    
  • The Dirk Gently Duo:
    
    • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
  
  
  
• Adams, Richard ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Watership Down
  • Shardik
  • The Girl in a Swing
  
  
  
• Aldiss, Brian W. ****
  
  
  • The Malacia Tapestry
  • Report on Probability A
  
  
  
• Aiken, Joan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • A Necklace of Raindrops *
  • Not What You Expected *
  • Up the Chimney Down *
  • The Last Slice of the Rainbow *
  
  
  
• Amis, Kingsley *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Green Man
  
  
  
• Amis, Martin ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Other People
  
  
  
• Andrews, Allen # *
  
  
  • The Plantagenet Duo:
    
    • The Pig Plantagenet
    • Castle Crespin
  
  
  
• Arnason, Eleanor **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • To the Resurrection Station
  • The Sword Smith
  
  
  
• Attanasio, A. A. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Radix: Tetrad
    
    • Radix
    • In Other Worlds
    • Arc of the Dream
    • The Last Legends of Earth
    
    
  • The Arthor Tetralogy:
    
    • The Dragon and the Unicorn
    • The Eagle and the Sword aka Arthor
    • # The Wolf and the Crown aka # The Perilous Order
    • # The Serpent and the Grail
    
    
  • Wyvern
  • Kingdom of the Grail
  
  
  
• Auster, Paul ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  Auster is a fine writer with many other books so very close to being speculative--though probably "surreal" is closer--that he, like a few other authors here, is also listed separately in the article "The Book on the Borderland" section on the obiter dicta page.
  
  
  • In the Country of Last Things
  • Mr. Vertigo
  • # Man in the Dark
  
  
  
• Banks, Iain M. ***
  
  
  • The Bridge
    
    
  • The "Culture" Books:
    
    • Consider Phlebas
    • The Player of Games
    • The State of the Art *
    • Use of Weapons
    • Excession
    • Inversions
    • Look to Windward
    
    
  • Against a Dark Background
  • Feersum Endjinn
  • The Algebraist
  
  
  
• Barker, Clive ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  (not considering "pure horror" tales outside our field)
  
  
  • The Thief of Always
    (nominally a "juvenile")
  • Weaveworld
  
  
  
• Barnes, John *
  
  
  • A Million Open Doors
  
  
  
• Barrett, Neal ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Aldair Tetralogy:
    
    • Aldair in Albion
    • Aldair, Across the Misty Sea
    • Aldair, Master of Ships
    • Aldair: The Legion of Beasts
    
    
  • The Hereafter Gang
  • Interstate Dreams
  • Slightly Off Center *
  
  
  
• Barrie, J. M. # **
  
  
  • The Peter Pan Tales:
    The character "Peter Pan" first appeared in an 1902 adult novel by Barrie titled "The Little White Bird", in which Peter Pan is described in a story told to a child. In 1904, Barrie wrote the famous play, "Peter Pan"; in 1906, a prose text--like the original description but quite unlike the play--was published under the title Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens; in 1911, he turned the play into a book called Peter and Wendy, which is now usually just called Peter Pan and is the widely known form of the tale. As with most "children's books", publishers repeatedly show their veneration for a classic by chopping it up or dumbing it down, or both; don't ask me how, or why, you "dumb down" a book meant for, and very successful with, small children--ask a publisher.
    
    
    • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
    • Peter and Wendy aka Peter Pan
      (There is a preferred edition omnibus collecting both the works listed above.)
  
  
  
• Barth, John *
  
  
  • Chimera
  • The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
  
  
  
• Bauer, Steven # ****
  
  
  • Satyrday
  
  
  
• Baum, L. Frank *****
  
  
  • The Oz Books:
    (There are preferred editions of all of these work.)
    
    
    • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz aka The Wizard of Oz
    • The Marvelous Land of Oz aka The Land of Oz
    • Ozma of Oz
    • Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
    • The Road to Oz
    • The Emerald City of Oz
    • The Patchwork Girl of Oz
    • Tik-Tok of Oz
    • The Scarecrow of Oz
    • Rinkitink in Oz
    • The Lost Princess of Oz
    • The Tin Woodman of Oz
    • The Magic of Oz
    • Glinda of Oz
    • Little Wizard Stories of Oz *
    Other authors carried on the Oz tradition; see Ruth Plumly Thompson below, and Oz, others, also below.
    
    
  • The Trot & Cap'n Bill Books:
    
    • The Sea Fairies
    • Sky Island
    
    
  • # John Dough and the Cherub
  • Queen Zixi of Ix
  • The Magical Monarch of Mo
  • The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
  • A Kidnapped Santa Claus
    (There is a preferred edition combining this and the book above.)
  • The Enchanted Island of Yew
  
  
  
• Beagle, Peter S. ****
  
  
  • A Fine and Private Place
  • The Last Unicorn
  • The Innkeeper's Song
  • Giant Bones * aka The Magician of Karakosk *
  • Tamsin
  • The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche *
  • A Dance For Emilia
  • The Line Between *
    (includes, inter alia, "Two Hearts", a short sequel to The Last Unicorn, and A Dance For Emilia)
  
  
  
• Bell, Douglas # ***
  
  (were I using half-stars I'd have added one)
  
  
  • Mojo and the Pickle Jar
  
  
  
• Bellairs, John ****
  
  Bellairs was primarily an author of "juveniles" (or perhaps "young adult" books); most or all of those have some charm, but only a couple--the first two, written directly after his adult works--really capture the strengths of his best writing, and only those two are listed below.
  
  
  • Adult Books:
    
    • St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies *
    • The Pedant and the Shuffly
    • The Face in the Frost
      (There was a preferred edition of this work.)
    
    
  • "Young-Adult" Books:
    
    • The House With a Clock in its Walls
    • The Figure in the Shadows
  
  
  
• Benary-Isbert, Margot # **
  
  
  • The Wicked Enchantment
  
  
  
• Bester, Alfred **
  
  
  • The Demolished Man
  
  
  
• Billias, Stephen **
  
  
  • The Quest for the 36
  • The American Book of the Dead
  
  
  
• Bisson, Terry ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Wyrldmaker
  • Talking Man
  
  
  
• Blaylock, James ****
  
  
  • The Twombley Town Trio:
    
    • The Man in the Moon
      (an earlier, somewhat shorter version of what became The Elfin Ship, worth reading for its own value)
    • The Elfin Ship
    • The Disappearing Dwarf
    • The Stone Giant aka The Goblin Keeper
    
    
  • The Langdon St. Ives Books:
    
    • Homunculus
      (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
    • Lord Kelvin's Machine
      (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
    
    
  • Other Novels:
    
    • The Digging Leviathan
      (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
    • Land of Dreams
    • The Last Coin
      (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
    • The Magic Spectacles
    • The Paper Grail
    • Night Relics
    • Winter Tides
    • All the Bells on Earth
    • The Rainy Season
    
    
  • Collections & Miscellaneous:
    
    • Thirteen Phantasms *
      (includes many stories previously published as chapbooks, which I thus no longer list separately above)
    • In For a Penny *
      (includes some stories previously published on the net, which I thus no longer list separately here)
    • # The Devils in the Details *
      (co-authored with Tim Powers)
    • The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives [forthcoming]
      (omnibus of the two novels and several associated short stories)
  
  
  
• Borges, Jorge Luis *****
  
  No links are given for the individual-collection books because they are now usually published together in a single collection (Andrew Hurley's translation is excellent).
  
  
  • Individual Short-Story Collections:
    
    • A Universal History of Iniquity *
    • Ficciones *
    • The Aleph *
    • The Maker *
    • In Praise of Darkness *
    • Brodie's Report *
    • The Book of Sand *
    • Shakespeare's Memory *
    
    
  • Collected Fictions *
    (contains all prose works from those individual collections)
    (That is the preferred edition of these works.)
  
  
  
• Bradbury, Ray ***
  
  This listing omits the seemingly innumerable collections cobbled up out of the contents of the books shown, which are--I believe--all his original editions. It also omits a number of good Bradbury books that are mainstream, and so not appropriate for listing on this site.
  
  Bradbury was primarily a short-story writer: there are only four novels in the list below, two of which (The Halloween Tree and Switch On the Night) are nominally "juveniles".
  
  As with too many authors, publishers have muddied the waters by issuing short-story collections with identical titles but differing sets of story content; the web site Ray Bradbury Online provides excellent bibliographical notes on the many and various editions of each Bradbury title. As usual, there is much overlap in many of the story collections.
  
  
  • Dark Carnival *
  • The Small Assassin * (Content similar to the above, but not exactly the same; see also The October Country, below)
  • The Martian Chronicles * aka The Silver Locusts * (contents slightly differ from original)
  • The Illustrated Man * (various editions differ substantially)
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Golden Apples of the Sun * (various editions differ substantially)
  • The October Country * (collects much of Dark Carnival--see above--but many tales revised for this edition, plus a few new tales
  • Switch On the Night (juvenile)
  • A Medicine for Melancholy * (another title with several variant versions)
  • The Day It Rained Forever * (often wrongly said to be just an AKA of the above, but--despite overlap--significantly different.)
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • R is for Rocket *
  • The Machineries of Joy *
  • S is for Space *
  • I Sing the Body Electric *
  • The Halloween Tree *
  • Long After Midnight *
  • The Last Circus and the Electrocution *
  • Dinosaur Tales *
  • The Toynbee Convector *
  • Quicker Than the Eye *
  • Driving Blind *
  • One More For the Road *
  
  
  
• Bramah, Ernest *****
  
  
  • The Kai Lung Sextet:
    
    • The Wallet of Kai Lung
    • Kai Lung's Golden Hours
    • Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
    • The Return of Kai Lung aka The Moon of Much Gladness
    • Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree
    • # Kai Lung: Six
  
  
  
• Brunner, John ***
  
  
  • The Traveler in Black
  • The Compleat Traveller in Black aka The Complete Traveller in Black
    (contains one story more than the "incomplete")
  
  
  
• Bryant, Edward **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Cinnabar
  
  
  
• Bulgakov, Mikhail **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Master and Margarita
  
  
  
• Byatt, A. S. **
  
  
  • The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
  • Elementals *
  • Sugar and Other Stories *
  • Little Black Book of Stories *
  
  
  
• Cabell, James Branch *****
  
  
  • The "Biography" Cycle:
    The full cycle is a mix of fantasies, historical romances, essays, verse, and plays. Although some of the component works are, in and of themselves, not exactly in our fields, they are integral parts of a larger whole that most assuredly is, and so are all duly noted in the list. The "Storisende Edition", an integral set of the Biography--published over the years 1927 to 1930--had special introductions and notes. The numbers after the titles below are their volume designation in the Storisende set (a number of the form 4a means the title was one of two or more published as one volume in the set).
    
    
    • Beyond Life, #1
      (nominally fiction but essentially an essay on life and fiction-writing)
    • Figures of Earth, #2
    • The Silver Stallion, #3
    • Domnei, #4a
      (an earlier version of this was published as The Soul of Melicent)
    • The Music from Behind the Moon, #4b
    • Chivalry, #5
    • Jurgen, #6
    • The Line of Love, #7
    • The High Place, #8
    • Gallantry, #9
    • Something About Eve, #10
    • The Certain Hour, #11
    • The Cords of Vanity, #12
    • From the Hidden Way, #13a
      (verse)
    • The Jewel Merchants, #13b
      (a play)
    • The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, #14
    • The Eagle's Shadow, #15
    • The Cream of the Jest, #16a
    • The Lineage of Lichfield, #16b
      (a pseudo-genealogy of the Biography)
    • Straws and Prayer-Books, #17
      (essays, plus one fantasy story)
    • Townsend of Lichfield, #18a
      (essay)
    • The Way of Ecben, #18b
    • The White Robe, #18c
    • Sonnets of Antan, #18d
      (verse)
    • Taboo, #18e
      (a thinly veiled fantasy-style recounting of the Jurgen obscenity trial)
      The #18 Storisende volume also contains several more essays and appendices.
      
      
    • The Witch-Woman
      (an omnibus of three related books--The Music From Behind the Moon, The Way of Ecben, and The White Robe--extracted from the Biography, plus a discursive introduction); not part of the Storisende set.
      (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
    • Preface to the Past
      (prefaces & notes extracted from the Storisende Edition)
    
    
  • The "Heirs and Assigns" Trio:
    These are nominally related to the "Biography of Manuel", though how is not obvious.
    
    • Hamlet Had an Uncle
    • The King Was in His Counting House
    • The First Gentleman of America
    
    
  • The Florida Trio:
    
    • The St. Johns
      (with A.J. Hanna) - nonfiction relevant to the following two books
    • There Were Two Pirates
    • The Devil's Own Dear Son
    
    
  • The Nightmare Trilogy:
    
    • Smirt
    • Smith
    • Smire
    • The Nightmare Has Triplets
      an omnibus edition of the three books listed above
      (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
    
    
  • Between Dawn and Sunrise
    (Cabell selections edited and annotated by John Macy)
  • These Restless Heads
    (a mix of fantastic and biographical reflections on life in general and the Biography in particular)
  
  
  
• Cady, Jack ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Jonah Watch
  
  
  
• Calvino, Italo *****
  
  Calvino has written much that is fantasy; he has also written much that is not, but which--though not listed below--is superbly rewarding reading. Seek it out.
  
  
  • The Baron in the Trees
    (Maybe fantasy, maybe not, but a fine book.)
  • The Cloven Viscount
    (usually published with the next in one volume)
  • The Nonexistent Knight
    (usually published with the previous in one volume)
    
    
  • The Qfwfq Duo:
    
    • Cosmicomics
    • t Zero
    (A few more Qfwfq stories appear in Numbers in the Dark, listed below.)
    
    
  • Invisible Cities
    (Maybe fantasy, maybe not, but a fine book.)
  • The Watcher and Other Stories *
  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies
    (two novellas)
  • Numbers in the Dark *
  
  
  
• Card, Orson Scott **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Hart's Hope
    
    
  • The Alvin Books:
    
    • Seventh Son
    • Red Prophet
    • Prentice Alvin
    • Alvin Journeyman
    • # Heartfire
    • # The Crystal City
    • # Master Alvin [forthcoming]
  
  
  
• Carlyon, Richard # *
  
  
  • The Dark Lord of Pengersick
  
  
  
• Carr, Terry # **
  
  
  • Cirque
  
  
  
• Carroll, Jonathan ****
  
  (a "plus a half-star" case)
  
  
  • The Land of Laughs
  • Voice of Our Shadow
  • Black Cocktail (novella)
    
    
  • The Rondua Sextet:
    
    • Bones of the Moon
    • Sleeping in Flame
    • A Child Across the Sky
    • From the Teeth of Angels
    • Outside the Dog Museum
    • After Silence
    
    
  • The Panic Hand *
    
    
  • The Crane's View Trilogy:
    
    • Kissing the Beehive
    • The Marriage of Sticks
    • The Wooden Sea
    
    
  • The White Apples Trilogy:
    
    • White Apples
    • Glass Soup
    • (third book being written)
    
    
  • The Heidelberg Cylinder (novella, issued as chapbook, 1000 copies only--see Carroll's web site for more)
  
  
  
• Carroll, Lewis *****
  
  
  • The Alice Duo:
    (There is a preferred edition of these works.)
    
    
    • Alice in Wonderland aka Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    • Through the Looking-Glass
    
    
  • The Hunting of the Snark
    (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
  
  
  
• Chambers, Robert W. *
  
  
  • The King in Yellow
  
  
  
• Carter, Angela ***
  
  
  • The War of Dreams aka The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
  • Nights at the Circus
  • The Bloody Chamber *
  • Fireworks *
  
  
  
• Chabon, Michael # ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • Summerland
  
  
  
• Chapman, Stepan ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Troika
  
  
  
• Charnas, Suzy McKee ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Dorothea Dreams
  
  
  
• Cherryh, C. J. ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Wave Without a Shore
  • Voyager in Night
    
    
  • The Morgaine Quartet:
    
    • Gate of Ivrel
    • Well of Shiuan
    • Fires of Azeroth
    • Exile's Gate
    
    
  • The Faded Sun Trilogy:
    
    • Kesrith
    • Shon'jir
    • Kutath
    
    
  • The Chanur Pentalogy:
    
    • The Pride of Chanur
    • Chanur's Venture
    • The Kif Strike Back
    • Chanur's Homecoming
    • Chanur's Legacy
    
    
  • The Rusalka Trio:
    
    • Rusalka
    • Chernevog
    • # Yvgenie
    
    
  • The Arafel Duology:
    
    • The Dreamstone
    • The Tree of Swords and Jewels
    
    
  • The Fortress Pentology:
    
    • Fortress in the Eye of Time
    • Fortress of Eagles
    • Fortress of Owls
    • Fortress of Dragons
    • Fortress of Ice
    
    
  • The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh *
  
  
  
• Chesterton, G. K. # ****
  
  Several of Chestertons's "mainstream" fictions are rather fantastic, if not actual fantasy; things like The Club of Queer Trades, Manalive, and The Napoleon of Notting Hill are highly recommended; see the Chesterton list at The Book on the Borderland section here.
  
  
  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    (There is a preferred edition of this work.)
  
  
  
• Chiang, Ted *
  
  
  • Stories of Your Life and Others *
  
  
  
• Cisco, Michael **
  
  
  • The San Veneficio Canon:
    
    • The Divinity Student
    • # The Golem
  • # The Tyrant
  • # The Traitor
  • # Secret Hours *
  
  
  
• Clarke, Susanna ***
  
  
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories *
  
  
  
• Clayton, Jo *
  
  
  • The Drinker of Souls Trilogy:
    
    • Drinker of Souls
    • Blue Magic
    • A Gathering of Stones
    
    
  • The Wild Magic Trilogy:
    
    • Wild Magic
    • Wildfire
    • The Magic Wars
  
  
  
• Collier, John *
  
  There have been several collections of Collier's stories published under the same name, but with varying contents. Apparently the later the edition, the more the stories in it. The current edition is thus the preferred edition.
  
  
  • Fancies and Goodnights *
  
  
  
• Collodi, Carlo *
  
  There are countless bastardizations of the original tale; seek out only an authentic translation of Collodi's actual work--no more, no less. (There is an incomplete but useful list of some acceptable versions on the preferred editions page--I will do more later.)
  
  
  • Pinocchio
  
  
  
• Compton, D. G. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Chronocules
  
  
  
• Conway, Gerard F. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Midnight Dancers
  
  
  
• Cook, Glen ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Dread Empire Septet:
    
    • # With Mercy Toward None
      (nominally a "prequel")
    • The Fire in His Hands
      (nominally a "prequel")
    • A Shadow of All Night Falling
    • October's Baby
    • All Darkness Met
    • Reap the East Wind
    • An Ill Fate Marshalling
    
    
  • The Black Company Saga:
    
    
    • The Black Company: Annals of the Black Company Trilogy--
      
      • The Black Company
      • Shadows Linger
      • The White Rose
      
      
    • The Black Company: Books of the South Trio--
      
      • The Silver Spike
        (not listed as a "Book of the South," but it is; best read in this order)
      • Shadow Games
      • Dreams of Steel
      
      
    • The Black Company: Glittering Stone Tetralogy--
      
      • Bleak Seasons
      • She is the Darkness
      • Water Sleeps
      • Soldiers Live
      
      
  • The Garrett Books:
    
    • Sweet Silver Blues
    • Bitter Gold Hearts
    • Cold Copper Tears
    • Old Tin Sorrows
    • Dread Brass Shadows
    • Red Iron Nights
    • Deadly Quicksilver Lies
    • Petty Pewter Gods
    • Faded Steel Heat
    • Angry Lead Skies
    • Whispering Nickel Idols
    • Cruel Zinc Melodies
    
    
  • The Swordbearer
  • The Tower of Fear
  • The Dragon Never Sleeps
  
  
  
• Cook, Hugh *
  
  This is a ten-volume "series", but the author asserts that the books can be read as individual stand-alones. To preserve the series list, I have listed, but not linked to, those few I have actually found that are not up to snuff.
  
  
  • The "Chronicles of an Age of Darkness" Dexad:
    
    • The Wizards and the Warriors aka Wizard War
    • The Wordsmiths and the Warguild,
      (also issued in the U.S. as two separate, individually named volumes, The Questing Hero and The Hero's Return, a cheapjack approach I deprecate)
    • The Women and the Warlords aka The Oracle
    • The Walrus and the Warwolf
    • # The Wicked and the Witless
    • # The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers
    • # The Wazir and the Witch
    • # The Werewolf and the Wormlord
    • # The Worshippers and the Way
    • # The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster
  
  
  
• Cooper, Louise **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Mirage
  
  
  
• Cooper, Susan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  (her books are all classed as "juveniles" but they are fine adult reading)
  
  
  • The Dark is Rising Pentalogy:
    
    • Over Sea, Under Stone
    • The Dark Is Rising
    • Greenwitch
    • The Grey King
    • Silver on the Tree
    
    
  • The Boggart Duo:
    
    • The Boggart
    • The Boggart and the Monster
  
  
  
• Cover, Arthur Byron **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Autumn Angels
  • The Sound of Winter
  
  
  
• Crawford, F. Marion *
  
  
  • Khaled
  • The Witch of Prague
  
  
  
• Crowley, John ***
  
  
  • The Deep
  • Engine Summer
  • Little, Big
    
    
  • The Aegypt Quartet:
    
    • Aegypt (since rewritten and reissued as The Solitudes--see below)
    • The Solitudes (a revision of the earlier Aegypt, rewritten to better integrate with the series)
    • Love and Sleep
    • Daemonomania
    • # Endless Things
    
    
  • Novelty *
  • Antiquities: Seven Stories *   [only 1000 copies printed]
  • Novelties & Souvenirs *
    (includes the complete contents of Novelty and Antiquities)
    
    
  
  
  
• Dahl, Roald *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  
  
  
• Dalkey, Kara *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Euryale
  
  
  
• Davidson, Avram ****
  
  (yet another "plus a half-star" case)
  
  
  • Ursus of Ultima Thule
  • The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy
  • The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy
    (includes the Enquiries and adds some five stories of Eszterhazy in youth, but they are late additions to the cycle and regrettably are clearly weaker).
    
    
  • The Island Under the Earth Trilogy:
    
    • The Island Under the Earth
    • # The Six-Limbed Folk
    • # The Cap of Grace
    Those last two books were planned but never written: Davidson abandoned the series.
    
    
  • Limekiller
  • The Peregrine Trilogy:
    
    • Peregrine: Primus
    • Peregrine: Secundus
    • # Peregrine: Tertius
      This last book was planned but never written: Davidson abandoned the series.
    
    
    
  • The Vergil Cycle:
    
    • The Phoenix and the Mirror
    • Vergil in Averno
    • # The Scarlet Fig
    
    
  • The Boss in the Wall
  • Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty
    
    
  • The Short-Story Collections:
    (There are two volumes of preferred editions that collect most of his best short-story work.)
    (There may well be some overlap in the contents of the books listed below)
    
    
    • Or All the Seas with Oysters *
    • What Strange Stars and Skies *
    • Strange Seas and Shores *
    • The Redward Edward Papers *
    • The Best of Avram Davidson *
    • The Collected Fantasies of Avram Davidson *
    • The Avram Davidson Treasury *
    • The Other Nineteenth Century *
  
  
  
• Davies, Robertson ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Murther and Walking Spirits
  
  
  
• Davis, Kathryn **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Thin Place
  
  
  
• De Bernieres, Louis *
  
  
  • The Latin American Trilogy:
    
    • The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
    • # Senor Vivo And The Coca Lord
    • # The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
  
  
  
• DeMarinis, Rick # **
  
  
  • Cinder
  
  
  
• Dexter, Susan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Wizard's Shadow
    
    
  • The Warhorse of Esdragon Cycle:
    
    • The Prince of Ill Luck
    • The Wind-Witch
    • The True Knight
  
  
  
• Dickinson, Peter **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Blue Hawk
    (nominally a "juvenile")
  
  
  
• Disch, Thomas M. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Camp Concentration
  
  
  
• Dowling, Terry **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Rynosseros
  
  
  
• Dorsey, Candas Jane *
  
  
  • A Paradigm of Earth
  
  
  
• Ducornet, Rikki *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Phosphor in Dreamland
  
  
  
• Duncan, Dave *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Seventh Sword Trilogy:
    
    • The Reluctant Swordsman
    • The Coming of Wisdom
    • The Destiny of the Sword
    
    
  • The Omar Duo:
    
    • The Reaver Road
    • The Hunters' Haunt
    
    
  • The Great Game Trilogy:
    
    • Past Imperative
    • Present Tense
    • Future Indefinite
  
  
  
• Dunsany, Lord *****
  
  A Dunsany bibliography can be confusing, for three reasons: first, many of his original titles are quite similar; second, some of his books are known under two titles; and third--and most serious--many later-assembled collections of his tales, containing a few stories each from a number of his original works, have titles confusingly similar to those original works. I have tried below to sort out some of the mess, though I'm not sure whether I have helped or made it more confusing yet. I have omitted all books composed entirely of poetry or of plays, which is arbitrary on my part but there it is.
  
  
  • The Original Short-Story Books:
    (There is a preferred edition collecting six of the first seven of these.)
    
    
    • The Gods of Pegana
    • Time and the Gods *
      (not be confused with the stupendously ill-named omnibus of like title)
    • The Sword of Welleran *
      (not be confused with the collection The Sword of Welleran Other Tales of Enchantment)
    • A Dreamer's Tales *
      (not be confused with the collection A Dreamer's Tales & Other Stories)
    • The Book of Wonder *
      (not be confused with the collection Book of Wonder, nor with The Last Book of Wonder)
    • Fifty-One Tales * aka The Food of Death *
    • Tales of Wonder * aka The Last Book of Wonder *
    • Tales of Three Hemispheres *
    • The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms *
    • # The Man Who Ate the Phoenix *
    
    
  • The Novels:
    
    • The Chronicles of Rodrigues aka Don Rodriguez
    • The King of Elfland's Daughter
    • The Charwoman's Shadow
    • The Blessing of Pan
    • The Curse of the Wise Woman
    • My Talks With Dean Spanley
    • The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders
    
    
  • The Jorkens Sextet:
    These are all collections of short stories featuring Jorkens.
    (There is now a preferred edition collecting the entire lot.)
    
    
    • The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
    • Jorkens Remembers Africa
    • Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
    • The Fourth Book of Jorkens
    • Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
    • The Last Book of Jorkens
    
    
  • Later Edited Collections:
    (There is much overlap in the contents of the books listed below, which contain no tales not in the books listed above.)
    
    
    • Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany *
    • A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories *
    • Book of Wonder *
    • The Sword of Welleran and Other Tales of Enchantment *
    • At the Edge of the World *
    • Beyond the Fields We Know *
    • Gods, Men and Ghosts *
    • Over the Hills and Far Away *
    • Bethmoora and Other Stories *
    • The Exiles' Club and Other Stories *
    • The Lands of Wonder *
    • The Hashish Man and Other Stories *
    • In the Land of Time *
    • Time and the Gods, a collection *
  
  
  
• Eco, Umberto **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Baudolino
  
  
  
• Eddison, E. R. *****
  
  
  • The Worm Ouroboros
    
    
  • The Zimiamvia Trilogy:
    (There was a preferred edition collecting these works.)
    
    • Mistress of Mistresses
    • A Fish Dinner in Memison
    • The Mezentian Gate
  
  
  
• Effinger, George Alec **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • What Entropy Means to Me
  
  
  
• Eisenstein, Phyllis ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Cray Ormoru Trio:
    
    • Sorcerer's Son
    • The Crystal Palace
    • # The City in Stone
      (the original publisher-to-be, Meisha Merlin, went out of business before this could see print; Ms. Eisenstein is seeking another publisher)
  
  
  
• Findley, Timothy **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Pilgrim
  
  
  
• Finney, Charles G. ****
  
  
  • The Circus of Dr. Lao
    (There was a preferred edition of this work.)
  • The Unholy City
  • The Magician Out of Manchuria
  • The Ghosts of Manacle *
  
  
  
• Finney, Jack *
  
  
  • Time and Again
  • From Time to Time
  • About Time *
  
  
  
• Ford, John M. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Princes of the Air
  
  
  
• Foster, M. A. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Waves
  • The Transformer Trilogy
    also available individually, as:
    
    • The Morphodite
    • Transformer
    • Preserver
  
  
  
• Friesner, Esther **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  (Some of the books below are parts of series--no two the same series--but I am including, at least for now, only what is shown here.)
  
  
  • Mustapha and His Wise Dog
  • New York by Knight
  • Druid's Blood
  • Yesterday We Saw Mermaids
  
  
  
• Gaiman, Neil **
  
  
  • Good Omens
    (co-authored with Terry Pratchett)
  • Neverwhere
  • Stardust
  • American Gods
  • Smoke and Mirrors *
  • Coraline
  • The Wolves in the Walls
  • Fragile Things *
  
  
  
• Gardner, John ***
  
  Do not confuse this John Gardner--John Champlin Gardner--with the chap who continued the James Bond novels; this John Gardner is one of the major figures of American literature (the books below are only those few of his that lie in our fields--his complete oeuvre is much wider and larger).
  
  
  • Grendel
  • Freddy's Book
  • Mickelsson's Ghosts
  • The Sunlight Dialogs
  • The King's Indian: Stories and Tales *
  
  
  
• Gemmell, David *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Drenai Books:
    
    
    • The Druss Quintet--
      
      • Legend aka Druss the Legend aka Against the Horde
      • The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend
      • The Legend of Deathwalker
      • The "Skilgannon" (or "Damned") Tales--
        
        • White Wolf
        • The Swords of Night and Day
      
      
    • The Tenaka Khan Duo--
      
      • The King Beyond the Gate
      • Quest For Lost Heroes
      
      
    • The Waylander Trio--
      
      • Waylander
      • In the Realm of the Wolf aka Waylander 2 aka Waylander II
      • Hero in the Shadows
      
      
    • Winter Warriors
      (a one-off Drenai tale not linked with any sub-series)
    
    
  • The "Stones of Power" (or "Sipstrassi") Books:
    
    • Ghost King
    • Last Sword of Power
    • The Jerusalem Man (or "Jon Shannow") Trio--
      
      • Wolf in Shadow aka The Jerusalem Man
      • The Last Guardian
      • Bloodstone
  
  
  
• Gentle, Mary ***
  
  
  • The White Crow Quartet:
    
    • Scholars and Soldiers
    • Rats and Gargoyles
    • The Architecture of Desire
    • Left to His Own Devices
    
    
  • Ash
    This single novel was also published in four individually named volumes:
    
    • A Secret History
    • Carthage Ascendant
    • The Wild Machines
    • Lost Burgundy
  
  
  
• Gilliland, Alexis A. *
  
  
  • The Wizenbeak Trilogy:
    
    • Wizenbeak
    • The Shadow Shaia
    • Lord of the Troll Bats
  
  
  
• Goldstein, Lisa *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Red Magician
  • Dark Cities Underground
  
  
  
• Gogol, Nikolai **
  
  
  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol *
    (There are several preferred editions of this work.)
  
  
  
• Grahame, Kenneth ****
  
  
  • The Wind in the Willows
    (There are several preferred editions of this work.)
  
  
  
• Grant, Richard ***
  
  (Some of these books are related, though I'd hesitate to call them a "series"; but I'm thinking about it.)
  
  • Saraband of Lost Time
  • Rumors of Spring
  • Views from the Oldest House
  • Through the Heart
  • Tex and Molly in the Afterlife
  
  
  
• Gray, Nicholas Stuart **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Grimbold's Other World
  
  
  
• Green, Simon R. *
  
  
  • The Forest Kingdom Trio:
    
    • Blue Moon Rising
    • Blood and Honor
    • Down Among the Dead Men
    
    
  • Shadows Fall
  
  
  
• Hancock, Niel **
  
  
  • The Windameir Books:
    
    
    • The Circle of Light Tetralogy--
      
      • Greyfax Grimwald
      • Faragon Fairingay
      • Calix Stay
      • Squaring the Circle
      
      
    • The Wilderness of Four Tetralogy--
      
      • Across the Far Mountain
      • The Plains of the Sea
      • On the Boundaries of Darkness
      • The Road to the Middle Islands
      
      
    • The Windameir Circle Tetralogy--
      
      • The Fires of Windameir
      • The Sea of Silence
      • A Wanderer's Return
      • Bridge of Dawn
      
      
  • Dragon Winter
  
  
  
• Hanratty, Peter # **
  
  
  • The Arthur Duology:
    
    • The Last Knight of Albion
    • The Book of Mordred
  
  
  
• Hansen, Erik Fosnes # ***
  
  
  • Tales of Protection
  
  
  
• Harrison, M. John ****
  
  Some of Harrison's books stride that grey border between speculative fiction and mainstream, but they are all close enough (and good enough) to fit here.
  
  
  • The Committed Men
  • The Centauri Device
    
    
  • The Viriconium Quartet:
    (There is a preferred edition of these works.)
    
    
    • The Pastel City
    • A Storm of Wings
    • The Floating Gods aka In Viriconium
    • Viriconium Nights
    
    
  • The Course of the Heart
  • Signs of Life
  • Light
  • Nova Swing
    
    
  • The Short-Story Collections:
    
    • The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories *
    • The Ice Monkey and Other Stories *
    • Travel Arrangements *
    • Things That Never Happen *
      (includes the entire contents of The Ice Monkey, Travel Arrangements, plus more)
  
  
  
• Helprin, Mark # ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Winter's Tale
  
  
  
• Hickman, Stephen # ***
  
  
  • The Lemurian Stone
  
  
  
• Hoban, Russell ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
  • Kleinzeit
  • Pilgermann
    (There is a preferred edition of these works collecting all plus a deal more of Hoban.)
  
  
  
• Hodgell, P. C. ***
  
  
  • The Kencyrath Chronicles:
    
    • God Stalk
    • Dark of the Moon
    • Seeker's Mask
    • # Blood and Ivory
      (includes the contents of the chapbook Bones)
    • # To Ride a Rathorn
  
  
  
• Hodgson, William Hope ****
  
  
  • The Night Land
    (There is a preferred editionomnibus of work listed above plus a half dozen short stories.)
  • The Dream of X
    (This oddity is The Night Land as rewritten by Hodgson himself to a drastically shortened form for U.S. copyright purposes.)
  • The House on the Borderland
  • Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
    (There is a preferred edition omnibus collecting the two works listed above plus 11 short stories.)
  
  
  
• Hoffman, Alice **
  
  
  • Practical Magic
  
  
  
• Hoffmann, E. T. A. ***
  
  
  • # The Devil's Elixirs
  • The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
  • The Tales of Hoffmann: there is no complete English version of Hoffmann's many tales. The best reasonably available collections, which have some overlap, include:
    
    • Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner
    • The Best Tales of Hoffmann [Dover]
    • Tales of Hoffmann [Penguin]
    • The Golden Pot and Other Tales [OUP]
    • E. T. A. Hoffmann - Tales [German Library]
    • Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann [U Chicago]
  
  
  
• Holdstock, Robert **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Ryhope Wood Books:
    
    • Mythago Wood
    • Lavondyss
    • # The Bone Forest
    • The Hollowing
    • # Merlin's Wood
    • Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
    
    
  • Ancient Echoes
  • Where Time Winds Blow
  
  
  
• Holt, Tom ***
  
  
  • Expecting Someone Taller
  • Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
  • Flying Dutch
  • Ye Gods!
  • Overtime
  • Here Comes the Sun
  • Grailblazers
  • Faust Among Equals
  • Odds and Gods
  • Djinn Rummy
  • My Hero
  • Paint Your Dragon
  • Wish You Were Here
  • Open Sesame
  • Snow White and the Seven Samurai
  • Valhalla
  • Nothing But Blue Skies
  • Only Human
  • Falling Sideways
  • Little People
    
    
  • The J. W. Wells & Co. Books:
    
    • The Portable Door
    • In Your Dreams
    • Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
    • You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps
    
    
  • Barking
  • # The Better Mousetrap
  • # May Contain Traces of Magic [forthcoming]
  
  
  
• Hood, Daniel *
  
  
  • The Dragon Books:
    
    • Fanuilh
    • Wizard's Heir
    • Beggar's Banquet
    • Scales of Justice
  
  
  
• Houarner, Gerard Daniel # **
  
  
  • The Bard of Sorcery
  
  
  
• Hughart, Barry **
  
  
  • The Master Li Trio:
    
    • Bridge of Birds
    • The Story of the Stone
    • Eight Skilled Gentlemen
  
  
  
• Irwin, Robert # **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Arabian Nightmare
  
  
  
• Jacob, Max # *
  
  
  • King Kabul the First and Gawain the Kitchen Boy
  • Vulcan's Crown
  
  
  
• Jackson, Shirley **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Haunting of Hill House
  
  
  
• Jeffries, Michael **
  
  (not yet rightly rated)
  
  
  • The Elundium Books:
    I am just starting to make my way through these; the series looks promising, but I hesitate to suggest it until I see if the quality bears up.
  
  
  
• Jerrold, Douglas # *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Whimsical Tales of Douglas Jerrold
  
  
  
• Jeter, K. W. **
  
  
  • Infernal Devices
  • Farewell Horizontal
  
  
  
• Jones, Diana Wynne *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  (her books are all classed as "juveniles" but they are fine adult reading)
  
  
  • Hexwood Witch's Business
    
    
  • The Chrestomanci Series:
    
    • Charmed Life
    • The Lives of Christopher Chant
    • The Magicians of Caprona
    • Witch Week
    • Conrad's Fate
    • The Pinhoe Egg