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Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.

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“The whole narrative is permeated with the odour of
joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness.”

– The Wallet of Kai Lung,
Ernest Bramah

Notes

· This is not a complete bibliography of each of the listed authors. It is a list of the books of each that I know and like. Omission of a given book may mean I didn’t think highly enough of it to include it or may simply mean that I haven’t read that book.

· Each author name below is a link to a page here about that author. That page will contain the same list of the author’s books as does this page, plus a brief discussion of the author and those books. Those discussions are introductory, not profound analyses: they are only meant to help you rank the author and the books on your personal “to-read” list. (Right now, though all the author pages are there, the discussions are missing from some; I am completing them as I can.) The “stars” after each author name indicate my rough assessment of that author’s overall literary merit.

· A # after the writer’s name signifies a quite limited output, at least in the fields of science fiction and fantasy (but not necessarily overall); often that output will comprise but a single book.

· All listed books are novels or collections of stories each about the same few characters unless the listing is followed by an asterisk (*), in which case they are collections of unrelated stories.

· Each book title below is, in turn, a link to a page at ABEBooks (if you don’t know who they are, click the link) showing all editions of that book currently available, new or used, and from which page you can—obviously—buy a copy of any such edition.

· For some books, I link and refer to what I term a “preferred edition”. An edition can be the preferred one for a given book for any of several reasons; perhaps the commonest is that it is an omnibus of several related works, making it more convenient and usually less expensive than those works bought separately. Another reason might be that a given edition has special or extra material (such as the several “Annotated” works or, for example, the Gormenghast omnibus with several extensive critical essays included. Or the book might include especially good illustrations long associated with the text. You get the idea.

· For a few authors—those of high quality with many works—I have included some books that I have not myself read, purely on the strength of authorship; each such book is marked with a “hash sign” (#) in front of the title. I intend to get to those books as quickly as resources—such as time—allow, though many are unavailable or available only at extortionate prices.

· This site is premised on speculative-fiction works suitable for literate adults. Nonetheless, you will find some books listed here that are nominally “young adult” or even “children’s books”. That is because I feel that those particular books are readable for enjoyment by literate adults. That is especially true of the “children’s” classics, such as those by Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum and successors (notables from Gore Vidal to Salman Rushdie have praised the Oz books), E. Nesbit, J. M. Barrie, George MacDonald, and too many more to name. In this list, I have marked out what are supposedly “young adult” books with a [YA], and have noted “children’s books”.

· 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 (and some of their works)

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The Authors:

• Ackroyd, Peter *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • First Light

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• Adams, Douglas ***
  • The Hitchhiker “Trilogy”:
    (The link above is to the one-volume omnibus; the links below are to the individual books.)
    • 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: (The link above is to the one-volume omnibus; the links below are to the individual books.)
    • Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
    • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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• 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

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• Aickman, Robert ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Cold Hand in Mine *

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• Ajvaz, Michal **
  • The Other City
  • The Golden Age

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• Aldiss, Brian W. ****
  • The Malacia Tapestry
  • Report on Probability A

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• Aiken, Joan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  [“Children’s books.”]
  • A Necklace of Raindrops *
  • The Faithless Lollybird *
  • Up the Chimney Down *
  • The Last Slice of the Rainbow *
  • The Moon’s Revenge
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories *
  • The Green Flash *
  • The Far Forests *
  • A Touch of Chill *
  • A Whisper in the Night *
  • A Foot in the Grave *
  • Give Yourself a Fright *
  • Shadows and Moonshine *
  • The Haunting of Lamb House
  • A Fit of Shivers *
  • A Goose on Your Grave *
  • A Creepy Company *

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• Amis, Kingsley *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Green Man

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• Amis, Martin ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Other People

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• Andrews, Allen # *
  • The Plantagenet Duo:
    • The Pig Plantagenet
    • Castle Crespin

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• Arnason, Eleanor **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • To the Resurrection Station
  • The Sword Smith

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• 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

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• 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
  • Travels In The Scriptorium
  • Timbuktu
  • Man in the Dark

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• Baker, Frank **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Miss Hargreaves

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• Ballard, J. G. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Unlimited Dream Company
  • The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard *

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• Banks, Iain M. ***
  • The Bridge
  • The “Culture” Books:
    • Consider Phlebas
    • The Player of Games
    • Use of Weapons
    • The State of the Art *
    • Excession
    • Inversions
    • Look to Windward
    • Matter
    • Surface Detail
    • The Hydrogen Sonata
  • Against a Dark Background
  • Feersum Endjinn
  • The Algebraist
  • # Transition

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• Barker, Clive ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (This list omits his “pure horror” tales, which are outside our field.)
  • The Thief of Always [YA]
  • Weaveworld

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• Barnes, John *
  • A Million Open Doors

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• Barrett, Neal ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Interstate Dreams
  • The Hereafter Gang
  • Slightly Off Center *
  • The Aldair Tetralogy:
    • Aldair in Albion
    • Aldair, Across the Misty Sea
    • Aldair, Master of Ships
    • Aldair: The Legion of Beasts

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• Barrie, J. M. # **
  (Children’s books.)
  • The Peter Pan Tales:
    (The link above is to the preferred-edition one-volume omnibus; the links below are to the individual books.)
    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

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• Barth, John *
  • Chimera
  • The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

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• Bauer, Steven # ****
  • Satyrday

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• Baum, L. Frank *****
  • Queen Zixi of Ix
  • The Magical Monarch of Mo
  • The Santa Claus Tales:
    (An omnibus containg the two books listed below.)
    • The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
    • A Kidnapped Santa Claus
  • The Oz Books:
    (The link above is to a single-volume 15-book omnibus of all of Baum’s own Oz tales; if you prefer individual copies, the list below links to the preferred Dover editions. But I also much recommend The Annotated Wizard of Oz.)
    • Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
    • 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 farther below, and Oz, others, also farther below.
  • The Trot & Cap’n Bill Books:
    • The Sea Fairies
    • Sky Island
  • John Dough and the Cherub
  • The Enchanted Island of Yew

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• Beagle, Peter S. ****
  • Novels:
    • A Fine and Private Place
    • The Last Unicorn
    • The Innkeeper’s Song
    • Tamsin
    • # Return (set in the world of The Innkeeper’s Tale)
    • # Summerlong
    • # In Calabria
  • Short-Story Collections:
    (There is some overlap in these collections, but not lots save that Mirror Kingdoms has only 2 unique stories.)
    • Giant Bones * (set in the world of The Innkeeper’s Tale)
    • The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche *
    • The Line Between *
    • We Never Talk About My Brother *
    • Mirror Kingdoms *
    • Sleight of Hand *
    • The Overneath *

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• Beerbohm, Max **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Seven Men and Two Others *
  • # Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story
  • The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men

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• Bell, Douglas # ***
  (Were I using half-stars I’d have added one here.)
  • Mojo and the Pickle Jar

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• Bellairs, John ****
  (Bellairs was primarily an author of “juveniles”—or perhaps “young adult” books—and while most or all of those have some charm, 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.)
  • Magic Mirrors:
    (A NESFA Press omnibus containg the works listed below, which comprise all of Bellairs’ adult fiction.)
    • The Face in the Frost
    • The Dolphin Cross (a previously unpublished fragment sequel to The Face in the Frost)
    • The Pedant and the Shuffly
    • Saint Fidgita and Other Parodies
  • “Young-Adult” Books:
    • The House With a Clock in its Walls
    • The Figure in the Shadows

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• Benary-Isbert, Margot # **
  • The Wicked Enchantment

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• Benson, Stella # **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Living Alone

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• Bester, Alfred **
  • The Demolished Man

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• Billias, Stephen **
  • The Quest for the 36
  • The American Book of the Dead

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• Bisson, Terry ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Wyrldmaker
  • Talking Man

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• Blaylock, James ****
  • The Twombley Town Trio:
    • The Elfin Ship
    • The Disappearing Dwarf
    • The Stone Giant aka The Goblin Keeper

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    • The Man in the Moon
      (an earlier, somewhat shorter version of what became The Elfin Ship, but worth reading for its own value)
  • The Ignacio Narbondo Cycle:
    • The SoCal Books:
      • The Digging Leviathan
      • Zeuglodon (sequel to Leviathan)
    • The Langdon St. Ives Works:
      • Novels
        • The Aylesford Skull
        • Beneath London
      • Stories [omnibuses]
        • The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives
        • The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives
      • Novellas [uncollected]
        • River’s Edge
        • The Gobblin’ Society
  • The “California/Christian” Works:
    • The Last Coin
    • The Paper Grail
    • All the Bells on Earth
    • Knights of the Cornerstone
  • The “Ghosts” Trio:
    • Night Relics
    • Winter Tides
    • The Rainy Season
  • Other Novels:
    • The Magic Spectacles
    • Land of Dreams
  • Collections & Miscellaneous:
    (This is not all there are, but it includes almost all his other short fiction.)
    • 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]

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• Borges, Jorge Luis *****
  • Collected Fictions *
    (Contains all prose works from these individual collections, and is the preferred edition.)
    • A Universal History of Iniquity *
    • Ficciones *
    • The Aleph *
    • The Maker *
    • In Praise of Darkness *
    • Brodie's Report *
    • The Book of Sand *
    • Shakespeare’s Memory *

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• 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; even of his few novels, many are “fix-ups” assembled from collections of short stories, often only loosely connected.
  » Of his “Green Town” tales, it is stretching a point to even class them as speculative fiction (save Something Wicked), in that the “magic” is more a matter of mood and perception than fact.
  • Novels
    • The Martian Chronicles
    • Fahrenheit 451
    • The Halloween Tree [children’s]
    • From the Dust Returned
    • The “Green Town” Novels:
      • Dandelion Wine
      • Farewell Summer
      • Something Wicked This Way Comes
      (There is also a short-story collection, Summer Morning, Summer Night *, that is a part of the Green Town set.)
  • 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 *
    • The Illustrated Man *
      (Various editions differ substantially.)
    • The Golden Apples of the Sun *
      (Various editions differ substantially.)
    • The October Country *
      (Collects much of Dark Carnival—see above—but many tales were revised for this edition, plus a few new tales added.
    • Switch On the Night [children’s]
    • A Medicine for Melancholy *
      (Various editions differ substantially.)
    • The Day It Rained Forever *
      (often wrongly said to be just an aka of the above, but—despite overlap—significantly different.)
    • R is for Rocket *
    • The Machineries of Joy *
    • S is for Space *
    • I Sing the Body Electric *
    • 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 *
    • # A Pleasure to Burn *

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• Bramah, Ernest *****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Kai Lung Books:
    • The Wallet of Kai Lung
    • Kai Lung’s Golden Hours
    • Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
    • Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree
    • Kai Lung Raises His Voice
  • The Moon of Much Gladness  aka The Return of Kai Lung
    (Return was a title conceived to play on Kai Lung’s popularity, but he is not in the book)

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• Brunner, John ***
  • The Traveler in Black
  • The Compleat Traveller in Black aka The Complete Traveller in Black
    (contains one story more than the “incomplete”, but it is not one of the best, and the first book is currently about half the cost of the later one)

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• Bryant, Edward **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Cinnabar

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• Bulgakov, Mikhail **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Master and Margarita

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• Byatt, A. S. **
  • The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye
  • Elementals *
  • Sugar and Other Stories *
  • Little Black Book of Stories *

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• 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”, a nicely bound integral set of the Biography—published over the years 1927 to 1930—had special introductions and notes, and the volumes were each individually numbered and signed by Cabell. A complete set today—when available at all—costs into the low four figures (click the link), but individual volumes of it can be had for as little as $20.
     
    » In the list below, the number after a title shows the volume of the Storisende set in which that title appeared (a number of the form 4a means the title was one of two or more published as one volume in the set). The links are to all available copies of the given title, but among those you will often find one or more copies of the Storisende volume containing that title; if you can stand the cost, those are by far the best editions available.
     
    • 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
      (verse)
    • 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.

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    • The Witch-Woman:
      (This is 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 are preferred editions in both hardcover and paperback:
      • The Witch-Woman: paperback
      • The Witch-Woman: hardcover
    • 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 Has Triplets
    (the link is to an omnibus edition of the three books listed below; but it is very scarce, usually expensive, and often impossible even to find at a given moment, so I also link the three individual novels separately.)
    • Smirt
    • Smith
    • Smire
  • 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)

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• Cady, Jack ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Jonah Watch

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• Calvino, Italo *****
  (Calvino has written much that is fantasy; he has also written much that is not, but that is—though not listed below—superbly rewarding reading. Seek it out.)
  • Our Ancestors
    (An omnibus containg the following three short novels.)
    • The Baron in the Trees
    • The Cloven Viscount
    • The Non-Existant Knight
  • The Complete Cosmicomics *
    (includes all of Cosmicomics, tZero aka Time and the Hunter, plus much more from other books)
  • 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 *

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• Card, Orson Scott **
  • Hart’s Hope
  • The Alvin Books:
    • Seventh Son
    • Red Prophet
    • Prentice Alvin
    • Alvin Journeyman
    • # Heartfire
    • # The Crystal City
    • # Master Alvin [supposedly forthcoming, no date yet]

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• Carlyon, Richard # *
  • The Dark Lord of Pengersick [YA]

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• Carr, Terry # **
  • Cirque

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• Carroll, Jonathan ****
  (Another “plus a half-star” author.)
  • The Land of Laughs
  • Voice of Our Shadow
  • Black Cocktail (novella)
  • The Answered Prayers 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 supposedly being written)
  • The Ghost in Love
  • # The Woman Who Married a Cloud *
    (includes the scarce novellas “The Panic Hand”, “Black Cocktail”, and “The Heidelberg Cylinder”, plus numerous short stories)
  • # Bathing the Lion
  • The Heidelberg Cylinder (novella)
  • # Teaching the Dog to Read (novella)

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• Carroll, Lewis *****
  • The Annotated Alice
    (This is the preferred version of an omnibus of the two classic Alice stories [children’s books].)
    • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland aka Alice in Wonderland
    • Through the Looking-Glass
  • The Annotated Hunting of the Snark
    (This is the preferred edition of this work.)

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• Carter, Angela ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman aka The War of Dreams
  • Nights at the Circus
  • The Bloody Chamber *
  • Fireworks *

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• Chabon, Michael # ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • Summerland [YA]

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• Chambers, Robert W. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The King in Yellow

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• Chapman, Stepan ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Troika
  • Dossier *

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• Charnas, Suzy McKee ***
  • Dorothea Dreams

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• Cherryh, C. J. ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Alternate Realities
    (an omnibus containing the three works below, the listed two of which are linked separately)
    • Wave Without a Shore
    • Voyager in Night
    • Port Eternity
  • The Complete Morgaine:
    (an omnibus containing the four works below)
    • Gate of Ivrel
    • Well of Shiuan
    • Fires of Azeroth
    • Exile’s Gate
  • The Faded Sun Trilogy
    (an omnibus containing the three works below)
    • Kesrith
    • Shon’jir
    • Kutath
  • The Chanur Pentalogy:
    • The Chanur Saga
      (an omnibus containing the three works linked separately below.)
      • The Pride of Chanur
      • Chanur’s Venture
      • The Kif Strike Back
    • Chanur’s Endgame
      (an omnibus containing the two works linked separately below.)
      • Chanur’s Homecoming
      • Chanur’s Legacy
  • The Rusalka Trio:
    • Rusalka
    • Chernevog
    • # Yvgenie
  • Ealdwood
    (This is an omnibus containing the two works linked separately below—but note that the omnibus versions are significantly updated/revised, and so the omnibus is the preferred edition.)
    • 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 *

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• 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. Also, the collection listed below is mostly fantastic—if sorta/kinda—but eminently readable no matter how classed.)
  • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Annotated Edition)
    (This is the preferred edition of this work.)
  • The Coloured Lands *

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• Chiang, Ted *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Stories of Your Life and Others *
  • Exhalation *

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• Cisco, Michael ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Divinity Student and Others: Novels and Stories of Michael Cisco
    (an omnibus containing four novels, a story collection, plus—not listed below—a baker’s dozen of other short stories—and even a poem)
    • San Veneficio:
      • The Divinity Student
      • The Golem
    • #The Tyrant
    • #The Traitor
    • #Secret Hours *
  • San Veneficio:
    • The Knife Dance [chapbook: very scarce]

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• Clarke, Susanna ***
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories *
    (Do not confuse this with the just plain The Ladies of Grace Adieu; the above also includes a number of other stories.)
  • Piranesi

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• 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

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• Cokal, Susann **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Mirabilis

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• Collier, John *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Fancies and Goodnights *
    (There have been several collections of Collier’s stories published under the same name, but with varying contents; this is the preferred edition.)

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• Collodi, Carlo *
  (There are countless bastardizations of the original Pinocchio tale; seek out only an authentic translation of Collodi’s actual, complete work—no more, no less. There are a few acceptable editions; the one listed below may be the best—: the translation is by Carol della Chiesa and the illustrations are the classics by Attilio Mussino. MacMillan has been producing new editions about every generation since the first in 1929; the linked one is their 1989 deluxe “Big Pinocchio” edition. This is, of course a “children’s book”, but rather less so than you may think.)
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

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• Compton, D. G. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Chronocules

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• Conway, Gerard F. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Midnight Dancers
  • Mindship

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• Connolly, John *
  • The Book of Lost Things

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• Cook, Glen ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Dread Empire Septet:
    • The Fire in His Hands
    • # With Mercy Toward None
    • A Shadow of All Night Falling
    • October’s Baby
    • All Darkness Met
    • Reap the East Wind
    • An Ill Fate Marshalling
    • # A Path to Coldness of Heart
  • The Black Company Saga:
    • Books of the North Trilogy:
      • The Black Company
      • # Port of Shadows
      • Shadows Linger
      • The White Rose
    • 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
    • Books of the Glittering Stone Tetralogy:
      • Bleak Seasons
      • She is the Darkness
      • Water Sleeps
      • Soldiers Live
  • The Garrett Books:
    • The Garrett Files
      (The link is to a hardcover omnibus containing the books linked individually below.)
      • Sweet Silver Blues
      • Bitter Gold Hearts
      • Cold Copper Tears
    • Garrett, P.I.
      (The link is to a hardcover omnibus containing the books linked individually below.)
      • Old Tin Sorrows
      • Dread Brass Shadows
      • Red Iron Nights
    • Garrett Investigates
      (The link is to a hardcover omnibus containing the books linked individually below.)
      • Deadly Quicksilver Lies
      • Petty Pewter Gods
      • Faded Steel Heat
    • Garrett On The Case
      (The link is to a hardcover omnibus containing the books linked individually below.)
      • Angry Lead Skies
      • Whispering Nickel Idols
    • Cruel Zinc Melodies
    • Gilded Latten Bones
    • Wicked Bronze Ambition
  • The Swordbearer
  • The Tower of Fear
  • The Dragon Never Sleeps

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• 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 rota, I list, but do not link to, any I have read 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

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• Cooper, Louise **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Mirage

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• Cooper, Susan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Dark is Rising Sequence [YA]:
    (an omnibus containing the woeks listed below.)
    • Over Sea, Under Stone
    • The Dark Is Rising
    • Greenwitch
    • The Grey King
    • Silver on the Tree
  • A Box of Boggarts [children’s]:
    (an omnibus containing the woeks listed below.)
    • The Boggart
    • The Boggart and the Monster
    • # The Boggart Fights Back

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• Cover, Arthur Byron **
  • The Universe of God-Like Men:
    • Autumn Angels
    • The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists * [4 novellas]
    • An East Wind Coming
  • The Sound of Winter

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• Crawford, F. Marion *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Khaled
  • The Witch of Prague

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• Crowley, John ***
  • The Deep
  • Engine Summer
  • Little, Big
  • The Aegypt Quartet:
    • The Solitudes
      (a revision of the earlier novel Aegypt, rewritten to better integrate with the series)
    • Love and Sleep
    • Daemonomania
    • # Endless Things
  • Novelties & Souvenirs
    (An omnibus containing the two works listed below.)
    • Novelty *
    • Antiquities: Seven Stories *

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• Dahl, Roald *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    (Nominally a children’s book, but clearly aimed at adults as well. The sequel, not listed here, disappoints.)

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• Dalkey, Kara *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Euryale

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• Davidson, Avram ****
  (Yet another “plus a half-star” author.)
  • 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
  • Limekiller *
  • The Short-Story Collections:
    (There are ten or so collections of Davidson’s short fiction, and often a lot of overlap in their contents. I have annotated each entry in the list below to show the number of stories in it (excluding extracts from novels, essays, and introductions and the like.)
    • The Avram Davidson Treasury: 36 stories.
    • The Other Nineteenth Century: 23 stories
    • The Avram Davidson Science Fiction & Fantasy Megapack: 19 stories
    • Or All the Seas with Oysters: 18 stories
    • Strange Seas and Shores: 17 stories
    • The Redward Edward Papers: 10 stories
    • David&Son: Peregrine Parentus and Other Tales: 4 stories

      ---

    • What Strange Stars and Skies: 14 stories, none not in the books listed above
    • The Collected Fantasies of Avram Davidson: 12 stories, none not in the books listed above
    • The Best of Avram Davidson: 11 stories, none not in the books listed above

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• Davies, Robertson ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • High Spirits *
  • # A Gathering of Ghost Stories *
  • Murther and Walking Spirits

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• Davies, Tod *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The “History of Arcadia” Series:
    • Snotty Saves the Day

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• Davis, Kathryn ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Hell
  • The Thin Place

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• 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

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• DeMarinis, Rick # **
  • Cinder
  • # A Lovely Monster
  • # Scimitar

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• Dexter, Susan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Calandran Tales:
    (It is unclear whether some or all of these are YA; the author says The Wizard’s Shadow is not, but the rest are anyone’s guess, so far as I can tell.)
    • The Wizard’s Shadow
    • The Warhorse of Estragon Cycle:
      • The Prince of Ill Luck
      • The Wind-Witch
      • The True Knight
      • # The Wandering Duke

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• Dickinson, Peter **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Blue Hawk [YA]

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• Disch, Thomas M. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Camp Concentration

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• Dowling, Terry **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Tom Rynosseros:
    • Rynosseros *
    • # Blue Tyson *
    • # Twilight Beach *
    • # Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming *

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• Dorsey, Candas Jane *
  • A Paradigm of Earth

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• Ducornet, Rikki *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Phosphor in Dreamland

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• Duncan, Andy ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Beluthahatchie *
  • The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories *

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• Duncan, Dave *
  (For many more possible titles by this proplific author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Seventh Sword Series:
    • The Reluctant Swordsman
    • The Coming of Wisdom
    • The Destiny of the Sword
    • # The Death of Nnanji
  • The Pandemia Cycle:
    • The Omar Duo:
      • The Reaver Road
      • The Hunters’ Haunt
  • The Great Game Trilogy:
    • Past Imperative
    • Present Tense
    • Future Indefinite

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• 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 thus now made a completely separate Dunsany bibliography, which I think well worth perusing by any at all interested in this masterly author’s works. In the summary list below, I have tried a brief sorting-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—though those are in the linked full bibliography—which is arbitrary on my part but there it is.)
   
  • The Original Short-Story Books:
    • Time and the Gods *
      (An ill-named omnibus—because one of the books it includes has that title—of the six books listed below.)
      • The Gods of Pegana *
      • Time and the Gods *
      • The Sword of Welleran *
        (not be confused with the collection The Sword of Welleran and 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)
      • The Last Book of Wonder aka Tales of Wonder *
        (not be confused with the collection Book of Wonder, nor with The Book of Wonder)
    • Fifty-One Tales *
      (The American and British editions vary slightly, each including one story not in the other; the American version was later re-printed as The Food of Death)
    • Tales of Three Hemispheres *
    • The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms *
    • The Man Who Ate the Phoenix *
  • The Novels:
    • The Shadow Valley Chronicles Duo:
      • The Chronicles of Rodrigues aka Don Rodriguez
      • The Charwoman’s Shadow
    • The King of Elfland’s Daughter
    • 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 also The Complete Jorkens, a deluxe three-volume preferred edition; it is now quite expensive, so I also link the individual Jorkens books below, but some are very hard to find outside the set, and even the individual volumes tend to the pricey.)
    • 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 each contain few or no tales not in the books listed above—again, refer to the full bibliography.)
    • 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 *
    • The Complete Pegana *
    • In the Land of Time *
    • Time and the Gods, a collection *
    • Dreams Assembled, I *

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• Eco, Umberto **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Baudolino

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• Eddison, E. R. *****
  • The Worm Ouroboros
  • Zimiamvia
    (That is an omnibus volume of the three works below; because that omnibus is now rather expensive, I also provide links to the individual books of the trilogy.
    • Mistress of Mistresses
    • A Fish Dinner in Memison
    • The Mezentian Gate

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• Effinger, George Alec **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • What Entropy Means to Me

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• 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 (Very scarce!)

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• Emmons, Josh **
  • The Loss of Leon Meed

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• Fessier, Michael *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Clovis

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• Findley, Timothy **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Pilgrim

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• Finney, Charles G. ****
  • The Circus of Dr. Lao
    (The link is to a preferred edition—there are other good ones as well; this edition contains the famous Boris Artzybasheff illustrations.)
  • The Unholy City
    (The Pyramid Books mass-market paperback edition also contains the work below, The Magician Out of Manchuria.)
  • The Magician Out of Manchuria
  • The Ghosts of Manacle *

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• Finney, Jack *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Time and Again
  • From Time to Time
  • About Time *

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• Ford, Jeffrey **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Well-Built-City Trilogy
    (an omnibus of the novels linked below)
    • The Physiognomy
    • Memoranda
    • The Beyond

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• Ford, John M. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Princes of the Air

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• Foster, M. A. ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Transformer Trilogy
    (the link is to an omnibus; the constituent novels are also available individually, as linked below.
    • The Morphodite
    • Transformer
    • Preserver
  • Waves
  • The Book of the Ler
    (the link is to an omnibus; the constituent novels are also available individually, as linked below.
    • The Gameplayers of Zan
    • The Warriors of Dawn
    • The Day of the Klesh

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• Frayn, Michael **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Sweet Dreams

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• Friesner, Esther M. **
  (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

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• Gaiman, Neil **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Good Omens (co-authored with Terry Pratchett)
  • London Below
    • Neverwhere
    • How the Marquis Got His Coat Back [novella]
  • Stardust
  • American Gods
    • American Gods
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane
  • Smoke and Mirrors *
  • Fragile Things *
  • Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances *
  • Coraline and Other Stories *
  • The Wolves in the Walls [YA]
  • The Graveyard Book [YA]

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• Gardner, John ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (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 *

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• Gemmell, David *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Drenai Books:
    (Presenting these in apparent internal order is complicated; this is an attempt.)
    • Waylander (Waylander #1)
    • In the Realm of the Wolf aka Waylander II aka Waylander 2 (Waylander #2)
    • Hero in the Shadows (Waylander #3)
    • The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend aka Druss the Legend (Druss #1)
    • The Legend of Deathwalker (Druss #2)
    • White Wolf (Druss #3; also Skilgannon #1)
    • Legend aka Against the Horde (Druss #4)
    • The King Beyond the Gate (Tenaka Khan #1)
    • Quest For Lost Heroes (Tenaka Khan #2)
    • Winter Warriors
    • The Swords of Night and Day (Druss #5; also Skilgannon #2)
  • 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

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• Gentle, Mary ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • 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, linked below.
    • A Secret History
    • Carthage Ascendant
    • The Wild Machines
    • Lost Burgundy

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• Geston, Mark S. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Day Star

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• Gilliland, Alexis A. *
  • The Wizenbeak Trilogy:
    • Wizenbeak
    • The Shadow Shaia
    • Lord of the Troll Bats

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• Goldstein, Lisa *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Red Magician
  • Dark Cities Underground

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• Gogol, Nikolai **
  (There is a preferred edition of this work, available in both paperback and hardcover; both versions are listed below.)
  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol [hardcover] *
  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol [paperback] *

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• Grahame, Kenneth ****
  • The Wind in the Willows
    (Even discarding any edition that is at all abridged, one is still faced with a tsunami of editions that differ significantly only in their illustrator. The original was E. H. Shepard, and many still think him the best; but there are Arthur Rackham, Michael Hague, Nancy Barnhart, Charles Van Sandwyk, and virtually countless others. I have linked to the latest Egmont editions, which have the Shepard illustrations, showing both the hardcover and the paperback editions; but I also include an “all comers” link as well.
    • Wind in the Willows: Egmont hardcover edition
    • Wind in the Willows: Egmont paperback edition
    • all editions
  • The Reluctant Dragon [children’s]

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• Grant, Richard ***
  (Some of these books are related; I 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

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• Gray, Alasdair ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly *
  • Lanark: A Life in Four Books
  • Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray
    (Not all of these are fantastic, but enough are for our purposes; besides, he’s a great writer.)

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• Gray, Nicholas Stuart **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Neil Gaiman has written that Gray “is one of those authors I loved as a boy who holds up even better on rereading as an adult.” I concur.)
  • Grimbold’s Other World [YA]

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• Green, Simon R. *
  • The Forest Kingdom Trio:
    • Blue Moon Rising
    • Blood and Honor
    • Down Among the Dead Men
      (Green has also written the “Hawk & Fisher” series, whose protagonists many think are those from the series above, but having taken new names; I find them less interesting than these.)
  • Shadows Fall

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• 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

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• Hanratty, Peter # **
  • The Arthur Duology:
    • The Last Knight of Albion
    • The Book of Mordred

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• Hansen, Erik Fosnes # ***
  • Tales of Protection

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• Harrison, M. John ****
  • The Committed Men
  • The Centauri Device
  • Viriconium
    (The link is the Gollancz “Fantasy Masterworks” edition, which is currently the preferred one.)
    • The Pastel City
    • A Storm of Wings
    • In Viriconium aka The Floating Gods
    • Viriconium Nights *
  • Anima
    (This is a two-book omnibus including the books listed below.)
    • The Course of the Heart
    • Signs of Life
  • The Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy (aka “The ‘Light’ Trilogy”):
    • Light
    • Nova Swing
    • Empty Space
  • # The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
  • The Short-Story Collections:
    • The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories *
    • Things That Never Happen *
      (This includes the entire contents of the two collections listed below, plus other stories; supposedly Harrison’s choice of his best stories, arranged in chronological order of composition. Because copies are scarce—only about 750 printed—I also link the component books.)
      • The Ice Monkey and Other Stories *
      • Travel Arrangements *
    • You Should Come with Me Now *

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• Helprin, Mark # ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Winter’s Tale
  • A Kingdom Far and Clear: The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy
    (This is a generally well-written series, but be aware that it takes a sharp polemical right turn toward the end.)
    • Swan Lake
    • A City in Winter
    • The Veil of Snows

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• Hickman, Stephen # ***
  • The Lemurian Stone

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• Hoban, Russell ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • A Russell Hoban Omnibus
    (This omnibus includes the novels listed below plus some short stories and other Hoban material. I have also below given individual links to two of the novels that are what I consider listed on this site.)
    • The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
    • Pilgermann
    • Turtle Diary
    • Mr. Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
  • Kleinzeit

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• Hodgell, P. C. ***
  • The God Stalker Chronicles:
    • God Stalk
    • Dark of the Moon
    • Seeker’s Mask
    • # To Ride a Rathorn
    • # Bound In Blood
    • # Honor’s Paradox
    • # The Sea of Time
    • # The Gates of Tagmeth
    • # By Demons Possessed
  • # Blood and Ivory *
    (includes the contents of the chapbook Bones)

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• Hodgson, William Hope ****
  (The best editions of Hodgson’s work are the five omnibus volumes from Night Shade Press. I see only Volumes 2 and 4 as containing material of significance, and so link those volumes below; but I also provide independent links to his major novels in those volumes.)
  • The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places (Volume 2)
    • The House on the Borderland
    • Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
  • The Night Land and Other Romances (Volume 4)
    • The Night Land (beware abridged versions!)

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• Hoffman, Alice **
  • Practical Magic:
    • Practical Magic

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• Hoffmann, E. T. A. ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • # 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 quite considerable overlap—few of these have more than 2 or 3 stories unique to them—include those listed below. I strenuously recommend that you review the Author page for Hoffmann, where there is a huge amount of cross-indexed bibliography, plus references to other resources.)
     
    • # The Serapion Brethren [Createspace, 2018] (a must-have: lots of stories)
    • # Three Märchen of E. T. A. Hoffmann [University of South Carolina Press, 1971] (three hard-to-find novellas)
    • # Fantasy Pieces in Callot’s Manner [Union College Press, 1996]
    • E. T. A. Hoffmann: Tales (German Library) [Continuum International, 1982]
    • The Best Tales of Hoffmann [Dover, 1979]
    • Tales of Hoffmann [Penguin Classics, 1982]
    • The Golden Pot and Other Tales [Oxford University Press, 2009]
    • Selected Writings of E T A Hoffmann [University of Chicago Press, 1969]
    • The Tales of Hoffmann [Heritage Press, 1943]
    • # Hoffmann’s Strange Stories [Forgotten Books, 2018]
    • # The Best Weird Tales and Fantasies of E. T. A. Hoffmann [Independently published, 2020]
    • # Eight Tales of Hoffmann [Pan Books, 1952]

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• Holdstock, Robert **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Mythago Cycle Books:
    (The internal chronology of the books does not correspond to their publication order; the list below is an attempt to represent the events in their internal-chronology order. But it is said by some that reading order is not crucial.)
    • # The Bone Forest *
    • Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
    • Mythago Wood
    • # Avilon
    • Lavondyss
    • The Hollowing
    • # Merlin’s Wood *
  • Ancient Echoes
  • Where Time Winds Blow

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• 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
  • Open Sesame
  • Wish You Were Here
  • Only Human
  • Snow White and the Seven Samurai
  • Valhalla
  • Nothing But Blue Skies
  • 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
    • The Better Mousetrap
    • May Contain Traces of Magic
    • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages
    • # The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
  • Barking
  • Blonde Bombshell
  • The YouSpace Books:
    • Doughnut
    • When It’s a Jar
    • The Outsorcerer’s Apprentice
    • The Good, the Bad and the Smug
    • # An Orc on the Wild Side

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• Hood, Daniel *
  • The Dragon Books:
    • A Familiar Dragon
      (an omnibus containing the first three novels in the series, as independently linked below)
      • Fanuilh
      • Wizard’s Heir
      • Beggar’s Banquet
    • Scales of Justice
    • # King’s Cure

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• Houarner, Gerard Daniel # **
  • The Bard of Sorcery

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• Hughart, Barry **
  • The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
    (an omnibus containing the three novels linked separately below)
    • Bridge of Birds
    • The Story of the Stone
    • Eight Skilled Gentlemen

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• Hughes, Rhys *
  (For more possible titles by this prolific author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Nowhere Near Milkwood

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• Hunt, Samantha **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Invention of Everything Else

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• Irwin, Robert # **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Arabian Nightmare

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• Jacob, Max # *
  • King Kabul the First and Gawain the Kitchen Boy
  • Vulcan’s Crown

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• Jackson, Shirley **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Haunting of Hill House

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• Jerrold, Douglas # *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Whimsical Tales of Douglas Jerrold

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• Jeter, K. W. **
  • Infernal Devices
    • Infernal Devices
  • Farewell Horizontal

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• Jones, Diana Wynne *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Her books are all technically “young adult”.)
  • Hexwood
  • The Chrestomanci Series:
    • The Chrestomanci Quartet
      (an omnibus containing the four novels linked separately below)
      • Charmed Life
      • The Magicians of Caprona
      • Witch Week
      • The Lives of Christopher Chant
    • The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume III
      (an omnibus containing the two novels linked separately below)
      • Conrad’s Fate
      • The Pinhoe Egg
  • The Dalemark Quartet
    (an omnibus containing the four novels linked separately below)
    • Cart and Cwidder
    • Drowned Ammet
    • The Spellcoats
    • The Crown of Dalemark
  • A Sudden Wild Magic

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• Joyce, Graham **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Facts of Life
  • Requiem
  • How to Make Friends with Demons aka Memoirs of a Master Forger as by “William Heaney”
  • Some Kind of Fairy Tale

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• Karr, Phyllis Ann **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • At Amberleaf Fair
  • Wildraith’s Last Battle

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• Kathryns, G. A. # ***
  (Listing only releases under the pen name “G. A. Kathryns”.)
  • The Borders of Life
  • # Snow City

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• Killus, James *
  • The Book of Shadows

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• King, Gabriel ***
  (“Gabriel King” is a pseudonym for the collaborative team of M. John Harrison and Jane Johnson. I list and review “King” separately from Harrison because it is my fixed opinion that when authors adopt pseudonyms, they intend their writings under each name to be evaluated distinctly.)
  • The “Wild Roads” Books
    • The Wild Road
    • The Golden Cat
    • The Knot Garden
    • Nonesuch

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• King, Stephen ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (This list does not include his horror/terror tales.)
  • The Eyes of the Dragon

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• Kingsley, Charles # *
  • The Water Babies (Children’s book)

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• Knight, Damon *
  (Knight was a prolific and noted science-fiction writer; he is almost always readable, but the little work below is about all that rises above the “readable” level.
  • The World and Thorinn

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• Kotzwinkle, William *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Exile
  • Fata Morgana

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• Kress, Nancy **
  • The Prince of Morning Bells

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• Krohn, Leena # ***
  • Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction
    (This omnibus contains the following novels & novellas plus a half ton of shorter works; the full Contents list is available on line.)
    • Tainaron: Mail from Another City
    • Pereat Mundus: a Novel of Sorts
    • Datura: or a Figment Seen by Everyone
    • Doña Quixote And Other Citizens
    • Gold of Ophir
    • The Pelican’s New Clothes [children’s]

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• Lafferty, R. A. *****
  (Lafferty, like other prolific yet under-appreciated authors, is hard to sort into a coherent bibliography—this is the best I could do. Anything you find by him&—anything—read and enjoy. The occasional “series” listed below don’t fully convey Lafferty: certain characters (like “the eminent scientist Willy McGilly”) recur, often as “cameos”, throughout all his tales.
  The world is not always ready for genius: a shockingly high fraction of Lafferty’s published works were never printed in more than a few hundred copies each and remain shamefully rare (and correspondingly expensive); but Centipede Press is now re-issuing all of Lafferty’s short stories, though sad to say the printings are limited and have thus themselves become inordinately expensive.)
   
  • The Novels:
    • Past Master
    • The Reefs of Earth
    • Space Chantey
    • Fourth Mansions
    • The Argo Mythos
      (This a complex, sprawling work with several subsets. The cycle also includes a few scattered short stories, not listed below.)
      • The Devil is Dead
        • Archipelago
        • The Devil is Dead
        • More Than Melchisedech (one novel in three volumes):
          • Tales of Chicago
          • Tales of Midnight
          • Argo
        • Episodes of the Argo
          (Also contains some material erroneously omitted from The Devil is Dead, but not the “interglossia”; the main story, a part of the Argo mythos, should have been subsumed into the novel Argo, but wasn’t.)
        • How Many Miles to Babylon?
          (Includes the “interglossia” from the novel The Devil is Dead, not printed in that book, plus a short tale in the Argo mythos cycle.)
      • Coscuin
        • The Flame Is Green
        • Half a Sky
        • (the two concluding tales of this quartet exist, but only—so far—in unpublished manuscript form)
      • Dotty
    • Arrive at Easterwine
    • Not to Mention Camels
    • Aurelia
    • The Annals of Klepsis
    • Serpent’s Egg
    • East of Laughter
    • The Elliptical Grave
    • Sinbad: The Thirteenth Voyage
  • The Story Collections:
    • The Centipede Press Short-Story Omnibuses:
      (A series still being issued, volume by volume.)
      • The Man Who Made Models *
      • The Man with the Aura *
      • The Man Underneath *
      • The Man with the Speckled Eyes *
      • The Man Who Walked Through Cracks *
    • The Collection Books As Originally Issued:
      (There may well be some overlap in the contents of the books listed below; moreover, some of them contain other, smaller works not listed separately here.)
      • Nine Hundred Grandmothers *
      • Strange Doings *
      • And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire
        (title/lead story in a several-author compilation; not available elsewhere)
      • Apocalypses
        (two novellas)
      • Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? *
      • Golden Gate and Other Stories *
      • Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Know Everything *
      • Four Stories *
      • Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories *
      • Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories *
      • Ringing Changes *
      • The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories *
      • Slippery and Other Stories *
      • # The Early Lafferty *
      • # Promontory Goats *
      • # The Back Door of History *
      • # The Early Lafferty II *
      • # Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange) *
      • Lafferty in Orbit *
      • Iron Tears

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• Laumer, Keith *
  (Laumer was a prolific science-fiction writer; he is almost always readable, but the quirky little work below is about all that rises above the “readable” level.
  • Knight of Delusions

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• Le Guin, Ursula K. ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Note: Orsinian Tales and Malafrena are fine books—I recommend them—but are not listed below because they are not really in our fields but are essentially mainstream fiction.)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Changing Planes *
  • The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
    (Nominally YA, but quite satisfactorily adult; this omnibus includes the works listed, and in some cases separately linked, below.)
    • A Wizard of Earthsea
    • The Tombs of Atuan
    • The Farthest Shore
    • Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
    • Tales From Earthsea * [itself an omnibus of tales]
    • The Other Wind *
  • The Compass Rose *

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• Lee, Tanith ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Days of Grass
  • Dark Castle, White Horse (two related YA novels)
  • Kill the Dead
  • Cyrion
  • The Flat-Earth Cycle:
    (There also exist in this setting a novelette, “The Man Who Stole The Moon”, and the short stories, “The Origin Of Snow”, “The Snake”, and “I Bring You Forever”, none yet published in book form.)
    • Tales From the Flat Earth
      (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus volume containing the novels listed below.)
      • Night’s Master
      • Death’s Master
      • Delusion’s Master
    • The Lords Of Darkness
      (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus volume containing the novels listed below.)
      • Night’s Daughter
      • Delirium’s Mistress
      • Night’s Sorceries
  • The Paradys Quartet:
    • The Secret Books of Paradys, I and II
      (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
      • The Book of the Damned
      • The Book of the Beast
    • The Secret Books of Paradys, III and IV
      (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
      • The Book of the Dead
      • The Book of the Mad
    (There also exists in this setting a novelette, Doll Skulls, not published in book form.)
  • The Venus Quartet:
    • The Secret Books of Venus, I and II
      (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
      • Faces Under Water
      • Saint Fire
    • The Secret Books of Venus, III and IV
      (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
      • A Bed of Earth
      • Venus Preserved
  • The Unicorn Trio (YA):
    • Black Unicorn
    • Gold Unicorn
    • Red Unicorn
  • Tempting the Gods *
  • Sounds and Furies *

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• LeFanu, Sheridan *
  (The spelling of his last name is, to say the least, unclear: many have it as Le Fanu, some as LeFanu, and some as Lefanu—Google shows a nearly even division of incidences of the versions with and without a space in the name—all of which makes searches of any sort a needlessly tedious process.)
  • In a Glass Darkly *
  • Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu *
    (includes all from In a Glass Darkly plus over a dozen more, including some but not all of the contents of Madame Crowl’s Ghost)
  • Madame Crowl’s Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery *

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• Leiber, Fritz *
  • The Big Time
  • The Best of Fritz Leiber
  • Two Sought Adventure aka Swords Against Death
    (This is part of a long series of books about the same characters, but is the only one I think really meritorious.)

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• Lewis, C. S. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Space Trilogy:
    • Out of the Silent Planet
    • Perelandra aka Voyage to Venus
    • That Hideous Strength
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    (This is one of a set of seven children’s books known as the “Narnia” books; it is the only one I find reasonably readable, and that’s a stretch; his friend Tolkien wasn’t too keen on it, either.)

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• Lieberman, Herbert # *
  • Sandman, Sleep

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• Lightman, Alan # ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Einstein’s Dreams

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• Lindholm, Megan ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Wizard of the Pigeons

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• Lindsay, David ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • A Voyage to Arcturus

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• Lively, Penelope ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The House in Norham Gardens [YA]

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• Lupoff, Richard **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Sword of the Demon

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• Lustbader, Eric Van ***
  • The Sunset Warrior Quintet:
    • The Sunset Warrior
    • Shallows of Night
    • Dai-San
    • Beneath an Opal Moon
      (different characters, same world)
    • (The fifth series book was, regrettably, not up to the rest of the series in quality.)

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• MacAvoy, R. A. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • A Trio for Lute
    (an omnibus containing the three novels linked separately below)
    • Damiano
    • Damiano’s Lute
    • Raphael
  • The Lens of the World Trilogy
    (an omnibus containing the three novels linked separately below)
    • Lens of the World
    • King of the Dead
    • The Belly of the Wolf aka Winter of the Wolf

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• MacDonald, George ****
  • Phantastes
  • Lilith
  • Children’s Books (quite readable by adults):
    • The Curdie Books:
      • The Princess and the Goblin
      • The Princess and Curdie
    • At the Back of the North Wind
    • Complete Fairy Tales *
      (MacDonald’s various fairy tales—many independently famous—have been published in numerous editions, sometimes standalone and sometimes several to a volume; it seems silly not to acquire the complete collection in one volume, which is what the above link is.)

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• Machen, Arthur ****
  (Machen’s work seems to having a revival: where once there were only numerous little books—chapbooks, really—containing overlapping smatters of his work, now there are several all-inclusive, or nearly so, omnibuses and sets: the problem is selecting. One set, in 3 volumes, from Hippocampus Press is pretty thoroughly inclusive, but expensive, around $80 as I write; another set, also 3 volumes, from Chaosium is distinctly less inclusive, but can be had for about $40. Nor does it make much sense to list the many various works individually, as one-off copies of most of his important works tend to be about as expensive as an omnibus volume.
  My suggestion is to consider the two volumes listed below, one from each set, that together cover almost all the ground, with no overlap, at a reasonable total cost of about $35.)
  • Volume 1: The Three Impostors and Other Stories
    (an omnibus including the works listed below.)
    • The Great God Pan
    • The Inmost Light
    • The Shining Pyramid
    • The Three Impostors (complete)
  • Collected Fiction, Volume 2
    (an omnibus including the works listed below.)
    • The Hill of Dreams
    • Ornaments in Jade
    • The White People
    • A Fragment of Life
    • The Secret Glory
  • Other Works
    (The omnibuses listed above omit these few significant works by Machen so I link them individually.)
    • # The Green Round (a novel)
    • # The Children of the Pool * (stories)
    • # The Terror (a novella)
    • # The Great Return (a novel)

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• MacNamara, Desmond # **
  • The Book of Intrusions
  • “Confessions of An Irish Werewolf ” [online story by MacNamara]

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• Mantel, Hilary # ***
  • Beyond Black
  • # Fludd

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• Mark, Jan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Ennead

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• Marks, Laurie J. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Dancing Jack

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• Martel, Yann **
  • Life of Pi

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• Mayhar, Ardath *
  (and yet another "plus a half-star" author)
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Tales of the Triple Moons
    • The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn
    • How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon

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• McDonald, Ian **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Mars:
    • Desolation Road
    • # Ares Express
  • Empire Dreams *
  • Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone

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• McIntyre, Vonda N. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Dreamsnake

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• McKiernan, Dennis *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Mithgar:
    • The Iron Tower
      (a three-novel omnibus containing the titles linked separately below.)
      • The Dark Tide
      • Shadows of Doom
      • The Darkest Day
    • The Silver Call
      (a two-novel omnibus containing the titles linked separately below.)
      • Trek to Kraggen-Cor
      • # The Brega Path

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• McKillip, Patricia ***
  • The Throme of the Erril of Sherill [YA]
  • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
  • The Riddlemaster Trilogy:
    • Riddlemaster of Hed
    • Heir of Sea and Fire
    • Harpist in the Wind
  • The Changeling Sea
  • The Cygnet Duology:
    • The Sorceress and the Cygnet
    • The Cygnet and the Firebird
  • The Book of Atrix Wolfe
  • Winter Rose
  • Song for the Basilisk
  • The Tower at Stony Wood
  • Ombria in Shadow
  • In the Forests of Serre
  • Alphabet of Thorn
  • Od Magic
  • Harrowing the Dragon
  • Solstice Wood
  • The Bell at Sealey Head
  • The Bards of Bone Plain
  
  
  
• McKinley, Robin *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Door in the Hedge *
  • Beauty
  • Rose Daughter
  • Spindle’s End
  
  
  
• Meynard, Yves **
  • The Book of Knights
  
  
  
• Miéville, China **
  • King Rat
  • New Crobuzon:
    • Perdido Street Station
    • The Scar
  • Looking for Jake *
  • Un Lun Dun [YA]
  • The City and the City
  • Kraken: An Anatomy
  • Embassytown
  • # Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories *

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• Millet, Lydia ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

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• Millhauser, Steven ****
  • Novels:
    • From the Realm of Morpheus
    • Martin Dressler
  • Collections:
    (The collections include fine tales of fantasy or something much like it, and the non-fantasy tales in them—equally excellent—often “feel like” fantasies.)
    • In the Penny Arcade *
    • The Barnum Museum *
    • Little Kingdoms (three novellas)
    • The Knife Thrower and Other Stories *
    • The King in the Tree (three novellas)
    • Enchanted Night (novella)
    • Dangerous Laughter *
    • # We Others: New and Selected Stories *
    • # Voices in the Night *

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• Mills, Magnus ****
  (It is often hard to judge whether a Mills novel is fantastic or simply odd; I suspect we might think of him as being like Mervyn Peake.)
  • Three to See the King
  • The Scheme For Full Employment
  • # Explorers of the New Century
  • # A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In
  • # Screwtop Thompson *
    (Includes the contents of two prior collections, Only When the Sun Shines Brightly & Once in a Blue Moon.)

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• Milne, A. A. ****
  (Children’s books. There are countless bastardizations and chop-ups of the original tales; seek out only authentic, unedited versions of Milne’s actual works—no more, no less—preferably with the original illustrations.)
  • The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
    (The link is to the preferred omnibus edition, containing the two works listed below.)
    • Winnie-the-Pooh
    • The House at Pooh Corner

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• Mirrlees, Hope # ****
  • Lud-in-the-Mist

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• Mitchell, David **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Ghostwritten
  • Number9Dream [sic]
  • # Cloud Atlas

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• Modesitt, L. E. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Hammer of Darkness

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• Moers, Walter **
  • The Zamonia Books:
    
    • The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
    • Ensel und Krete (Not yet translated.)
    • Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
    • The City of Dreaming Books
    • The Alchemaster’s Apprentice
    • Princess Insomnia and the Nightmare-Colored Nightmare (Not yet translated.)
    • The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books
  • A Wild Ride Through the Night
  
  
  
• Monaco, Richard **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Parsival Quartet:
    • Parsival, a Knight’s Tale
    • The Grail War
    • The Final Quest
    • # Blood and Dreams

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• Moorcock, Michael ***
  

  Michael Moorcock is a special case in these listings.
  
  Moorcock has by now written something approaching a hundred books, mostly science fiction or fantasy; I would guess that over the years I have read about one-fifth of his fiction output, and have kept very little of it, so I do not feel qualified to set forth a selected list. I offer instead a few comments.
  
  Moorcock seems to me an author capable of high-quality work who has elected, for whatever reasons (but likely financial ones), to substitute quantity for that quality. He is good enough that even his potboilers are passable reading, and the situation is exacerbated by the fact that his quirkiness has caused a devoted cult of followers, who—in my opinion—mistake originality for quality, to arise. What some will pay to read, others will write.
  
  I do not criticize Mr. Moorcock’s choice: it’s his life and I can sympathize deeply with a desire to lead life with as few distractions—like making money—as possible; it’s a shame that Moorcock’s real abilities get so few chances to show themselves, but there it is. I do criticize Moorcock’s work; though it is hard to generalize about so long a list, I would say that his Dancers at the End of Time and Von Bek series are respectable literature as is, in a way, Gloriana, while his various adventure series, though above average for such books, mostly each fit the old lady’s famous dictum, “This is the kind of book you will like if you like this kind of book.” They will pass a rainy afternoon, but that’s pretty much it.
  
  Here is a Moorcock bibliography.

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• Morris, William ****
  • The Story of the Glittering Plain aka The Glittering Plain
  • Golden Wings *
  • The Wood Beyond the World
  • The Well at the World’s End
  • The Sundering Flood
  • The Water of the Wondrous Isles

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• Morley, Christopher ***
  • Where the Blue Begins
  • Thunder on the Left

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• Mujica Láinez, Manuel # ***
  • The Wandering Unicorn

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• Munro, H. H. ***
  (By no means all of Saki’s stories are speculative fiction, but a number are and here’s his entire delightful short-story oeuvre at a reasonable price.)
  • The Complete Stories of Saki ***

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• Myers, John Myers ***
  • Silverlock: Including the Silverlock Companion
    (This is the preferred edition, containing the novel plus numerous essays on it and other extras: another NESFA gem.)
  • The Moon’s Fire-Eating Daughter

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• Nathan, Robert **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Portrait of Jennie

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• Nesbit, E. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Nesbit’s books are all “children’s books” as Oz or Pooh or Alice are “children’s books”. Much of Nesbit’s work is not truly fantasy but reads much like it; her several delightful mainstream works were omitted here with regret.)
  • The Five Children
    (an omnibus of the three novels linked separately below)
    • Five Children and It
    • The Phoenix and the Carpet
    • The Story of the Amulet
  • The Enchanted Castle
  • The Magic City
  • Deliverers of Their Country
  • Wet Magic
  • # Nine Unlikely Tales For Children *
  • The Seven Dragons and Other Stories *

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• Nichols, Ruth **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Song of the Pearl [YA]

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• Norwood, Warren **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Windhover Tapes Tetralogy:
    • An Image of Voices
    • Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets
    • Planet of Flowers
    • Flexing the Warp

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• O’Brien, Flann ***
  • The Complete Novels
    (also includes a non-fantasy novel, The Poor Mouth)
    • The Third Policeman
    • At Swim-Two-Birds
    • The Dalkey Archive

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• Offutt, Andrew *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The War of the Gods on Earth Trilogy:
    • The Iron Lords
    • # King Dragon
    • Shadows Out of Hell
    • The Lady of the Snowmist

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• Ore, Rebecca *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Becoming Alien
    (first of a trilogy, which I think fell off after this one)

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• Orr, A. ***
  • The World in Amber Duo:
    • The World in Amber (Apparently also known as Emperor of Irish.)
    • The Ice King’s Palace

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• Osborne, Mary Pope *
  • Haunted Waters [YA]

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• Oz, others **
  (These so-called “children’s books” are “canonical” Oz books (aka “The Famous Forty”, but see below) by authors other than L. Frank Baum or Ruth Plumly Thompson; there are numerous further Oz works that are “non-canonical” but close to the canon, plus a host of others ranging from well-meant but ill-made tributes to outright travesties.)
  • Cosgrove, Rachel R.: # The Hidden Valley of Oz
  • Neill, John R.: # The Wonder City of Oz
  • Neill, John R.: # The Scalawagons of Oz
  • Neill, John R.: # Lucky Bucky in Oz
  • Snow, Jack: The Magical Mimics in Oz
  • Snow, Jack: # The Shaggy Man in Oz
  • McGraw, Eloise Jarvis & Wagner, Lauren McGraw: Merry-Go-Round in Oz

    ---

    (The following three books by Sherwood Smith have been endorsed by the L. Frank Baum Family Trust as canonical, but are 21st-century additions to the canon; YMMV, aka “follow the money”.)
  • Smith, Sherwood: # The Emerald Wand of Oz
  • Smith, Sherwood: # Trouble Under Oz
  • Smith, Sherwood: # Sky Pyrates over Oz

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• Ozick, Cynthia **
  • The Puttermesser Papers

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• Palmer, Thomas **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Dream Science

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• Panshin, Alexei ***
  • The Anthony Villiers Quartet:
    (Only three books in this obviously incomplete series were ever published. The needed fourth book, listed below, had a title, but whether it, or the putative fifth and sixth books, were ever more manuscript than idea is not now much known outside the Panshin household. That fourth is listed here with the feeble hope that Panshin might someday come out of his stupefaction and return to writing what he writes well—a hope that the years have reduced to nearly zero).
    • Star Well
    • The Thurb Revolution
    • Masque World
    • The Universal Pantograph

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• Park, Paul *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Starbridge Chronicles Trilogy:
    • Soldiers of Paradise
    • Sugar Rain
    • # The Cult of Loving Kindness

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• Peake, Mervyn *****
  • The “Titus” Saga:
    (The series was projected to be many volumes covering the life of Titus from birth to death, but Peake’s untimely death ended it at three books, the last of which required fixup from other hands. Calling the series “Gormenghast” is erroneous.)
    • “Gormenghast”
      (This preferred-edition omnibus also includes several critical essays besides the novels listed below.)
      • Gormenghast
      • Titus Groan
      • Titus Alone
    • Boy in Darkness (a chilling novella featuring Titus)
  • Mr. Pye
  • Letters From a Lost Uncle (nominally a children’s book)
  • Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (nominally a children’s book)

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• Pearson, Edward ***
  • Chamiel

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• Percy, Walker **
  • The Thomas More Duology:
    • Love in the Ruins
    • The Thanatos Syndrome

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• Pierce, Meredith Ann **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Darkangel Trilogy[YA]:
    • The Darkangel
    • A Gathering of Gargoyles
    • The Pearl of the Soul of the World

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• Pinckney, Josephine # **
  • Great Mischief

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• Pinkwater, Daniel **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Because Pinkwater’s several YA novels—screamingly funny—are short and are collected in omnibus works, I list only those omnibus volumes.)
  • 5 Novels
    (an omnibus containing the novels listed below)
    • Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars
    • Slaves of Spiegel
    • The Snarkout Boys & the Avocado of Death
    • The Last Guru
    • Young Adult Novel
  • 4 Fantastic Novels
    (an omnibus containing the novels listed below)
    • Yobgorgle
    • The Worms of Kukumlima
    • The Snarkout Boys & the Baconburg Horror
    • Borgel

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• Piserchia, Doris ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Mr. Justice
  • Star Rider
  • A Billion Days of Earth
  • Earth Child
  • Doomtime
  • Spaceling
  • Earth in Twilight
  • The Deadly Sky
  • The Dimensioneers
  • The Fluger

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• Potocki, Jan # **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

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• Powers, Tim ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Drawing of the Dark
  • The Anubis Gates
  • # On Stranger Tides
  • # The Stress of Her Regard
  • The Fisher King Trilogy:
    • Last Call
    • Expiration Date
    • Earthquake Weather
  • Declare
  • # The Devils in the Details [sic] (co-authored with James Blaylock)
  • # Night Moves and Other Stories *
  • # Strange Itineraries *
  • # The Bible Repairman *
  • Three Days to Never

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• Powys, T. F. ***
  • Mr. Weston’s Good Wine
  • # Unclay
  • # Fables *

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• Pratchett, Terry ****
  • Strata
    (Note: Pratchett has worked the word “strata” into virtually every book he has written since this curious little novel—an “in” joke.)
  • Good Omens (co-authored with Neil Gaiman)
  • The Bromeliad Trilogy [YA]:
    (A preferred-edition omnibus containing the novels listed below.)
    • Truckers
    • Diggers
    • Wings
  • The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy [YA]:
    (The link is to a preferred-edition hardcover omnibus of the three novels listed below, but I also link them separately.)
    • Only You Can Save Mankind
    • Johnny and the Dead
    • Johnny and the Bomb
  • The Discworld Saga:
    (Though the tales form several natural groupings, only some have been collected in corresponding omnibus editions.)
    • The First Discworld Novels
      • The Colour of Magic
      • The Light Fantastic
    • Rincewind
      • Sourcery
      • Eric
      • Interesting Times
    • Witches
      • Equal Rites
      • Wyrd Sisters
      • Witches Abroad
    • Death
      • Mort
      • Reaper Man
      • Soul Music
    • City Watch
      • Guards! Guards!
      • Men at Arms
      • Feet of Clay
    • The Gods Trilogy
      • Pyramids
      • Small Gods
      • Hogfather
    • Moving Pictures
    • Lords and Ladies
    • Maskerade
    • Jingo
    • The Last Continent
    • Carpe Jugulum
    • The Fifth Elephant
    • The Truth
    • Thief of Time
    • The Last Hero
    • Theater of Cruelty – an on-line Discworld short story
    • Night Watch
    • Monstrous Regiment
    • Going Postal
    • Thud!
    • Making Money
    • Unseen Academicals
    • Snuff
    • Raising Steam
    • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
    • Tiffany Aching [YA]:
      • The Wee Free Men: The Beginning
        (An omnibus containing the novels listed below.)
        • The Wee Free Men
        • A Hat Full of Sky
      • Wintersmith
      • I Shall Wear Midnight
      • The Shepherd’s Crown

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• Pratt, Fletcher *
  • The Blue Star
  • The Well of the Unicorn
  • The Land of Unreason (co-authored with L. Sprague De Camp)

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• Price, E. Hoffmann *
  • The Devil Wives of Li-Fong
  • The Jade Enchantress

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• Priest, Christopher ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Indoctrinaire
  • Inverted World
  • The Prestige

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• Read, Herbert # ***
  • The Green Child

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• Resnick, Mike *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Santiago

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• Roberts, Keith **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Pavanne
  • The Chalk Giants
  • The Kaeti Books:
    • Kaeti & Company *
    • # Kaeti on Tour *
    • # Kaeti’s Apocalypse [chapbook]
    
    

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• Ruff, Matt ****
  • The Fool on the Hill
  • Sewer, Gas, and Electric
  • Bad Monkeys

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• Rushdie, Salman ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Kathasaritsagara:
    (nominally children’s books)
    • Haroun and the Sea of Stories
    • Luka and the Fire of Life

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• Russell, Sean **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The River into Darkness
    (a prequel to the “Moontide” series farther below; an omnibus of the two novels linked separately below)
    • Beneath the Vaulted Hills
    • The Compass of the Soul
  • Moontide and Magic Rise
    (an omnibus of the two novels linked separately below)
    • World Without End
    • Sea Without a Shore
  • The Swans’ War:
    • The One Kingdom
    • The Isle of Battle
    • Shadow Roads

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• Ryman, Geoff *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas *

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• Saint Exupéry, Antoine de # **
  • The Little Prince (nominally a children’s book)

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• Salmonson, Jessica Amanda *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Tomoe Gozen Trio:
    • The Disfavored Hero
      (also published as Tomoe Gozen—but, under that name, rather cut up by the publisher)
    • The Golden Naginata
    • Thousand Shrine Warrior
  • Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman

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• Scarborough, Elizabeth *
  • The Unicorn Creed
  • The Harem of Aman Akbar

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• Shea, Michael *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Nifft Trio:
    • Nifft the Lean
    • The Mines of Behemoth
    • The A’Rak

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• Shepard, Lucius **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Kalimantan

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• Sherman, Delia ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Through a Brazen Mirror
  • The Porcelain Dove

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• Shetterly, Will *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Cats:
    • Cats Have No Lord [link is to author-revised version]
  • Witch Blood

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• Shinn, Sharon **
  (Shinn is more than ordinarily variable, with individual works ranging from, I would say, -1 stars—not, obviously, listed here—to 4 stars.)
  • The Shape-Changer’s Wife
  • The Samaria Works:
    (This is the author’s recommendewd reading order, not a publication-date order.)
    • Angelica
    • # Quatrain
    • Archangel
    • # Angel Seeker
    • # To Weave a Web of Magic
    • # Angels of Darkness
    • Jovah’s Angel
    • The Alleluia Files

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• Silas, A. E. # ***
  • The Panorama Egg

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• Silverberg, Robert *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Silverberg has had a long and productive career—he has written under almost three dozen names! I have read a lot of his work over the years, but the books listed below are the only ones now in my library. I think that Silverberg is a good writer who—having entered the field in its early days—seemed great when compared to what was then current.)
   
  • Nightwings
  • Son of Man
  • Star of Gypsies
  • Thebes of the Hundred Gates
  • The Majipoor Books:
    • Lord Valentine’s Castle
    • Majipoor Chronicles
    • Valentine Pontifex
    (Plus, now, many more, not yet read here, but elsewhere widely received luke-warm at best.)

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• Simak, Clifford *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Highway of Eternity
  • Way Station
  • Over the River and Through the Woods *

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• Smith, Cordwainer ****
  (Smith’s work has been published in numerous collections with overlapping contents. NESFA Press put out a nice, definitive two-volume set with all the works, including a couple of previously unpublished stories and some often-omitted content in the novel; those are the two books listed below, and they are very much the preferred editions.)
  • Norstrilia
  • The Rediscovery of Man

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• Smith, Thorne **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Topper:
    • Topper
    • Topper Takes a Trip
  • The Stray Lamb
  • The Night Life of the Gods
  • Rain in the Doorway
  • The Glorious Pool

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• Snyder, Midori **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Innamorati

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• Somtow, S. P. **
  (Pen name of Somtow Sucharitkul; see below.)

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• Spinrad, Norman **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Second Starfaring Age:
    • The Void Captain’s Tale
    • Child of Fortune

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• Stableford, Brian ***
  (To say that Brian Stableford is prolific is to sorely understate matters—yet his work is virtually all of good or better quality. A bibliography becomes quite a headache, but I believe the lists below are complete, and even in some sort of roughly chronlogical order.)
  • Cradle of the Sun
  • The Blind Worm
  • The Dies Irae Trilogy:
    • The Days of Glory
    • In the Kingdom of the Beasts
    • Day of Wrath
  • To Challenge Chaos
    (ISFDB also lists three short stories as part of the “Chaos” cycle: “The Sun’s Tears”, 1974; “An Offer of Oblivion”, 1974; and “Captain Fagan Died Alone”, 1976; all seem uncollected.)
  • The “Hooded Swan” Sextet:
    • Halcyon Drift
    • Rhapsody in Black
    • Promised Land
    • The Paradise Game
    • The Fenris Device
    • Swan Song
  • The Realms of Tartarus (first pubished as three separate volumes)
  • Man in a Cage
  • The Mind Riders
  • The “Daedalus” Sextet:
    • The Florians
    • Critical Threshold
    • Wildeblood’s Empire
    • The City of the Sun
    • Balance of Power
    • The Paradox of the Sets
  • The Last Days of the Edge of the World
  • The Walking Shadow
  • Optiman
  • The Castaways of Tanagar
  • The Gates of Eden
  • The Cosmic Perspective / Custer’s Last Stand * [chapbook)
  • The Empire of Fear
  • The Lydyard Series:
    • The Werewolves of London
    • The Angel of Pain
    • The Carnival of Destruction
  • Slumming in Voodooland [chapbook)
  • Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future
  • # Fables and Fantasies * [chapbook)
  • Genesys:
    • Serpent’s Blood
    • Salamander’s Fire
    • Chimera’s Cradle
  • The Emortality Series:
    (These were published out of their intended reading order; that intended order is what is shown below.)
    
    • The Cassandra Complex
    • Inherit the Earth
    • Architects of Emortality
    • Fountains of Youth
    • Dark Ararat
    • The Omega Expedition
    • The Dragon Man
  • Year Zero
  • The Eleventh Hour
  • Complications and Other Stories *
  • # Curse of the Coral Bride
  • The Asgard Series:
    • Asgard’s Secret
      (substantially revised from an earlier novel titled Journey to the Centre, which itself revised the yet earlier Journey to the Center)
    • Asgard’s Conquerors
      (revised and expanded from Invaders from the Centre)
    • Asgard’s Heart
      (revised and expanded from The Centre Cannot Hold)
  • Salome and Other Decadent Fantasies *
  • # Kiss the Goat
  • # The Stones of Camelot
  • # Sheena and Other Gothic Tales *
  • # Streaking
  • # The New Faust at the Tragicomique
  • # The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions *
  • # An Oasis of Horror: Decadent Tales and Contes Cruels *
  • # The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions *
  • The Biotech Revolution Series:
    (Related to but not perfectly congruent with the Emortality series.)
    • # Sexual Chemistry *
    • Designer Genes *
    • # The Cure for Love *
    • # The Tree of Life *
    • # In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
    • # The Great Chain of Being and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
    • # The Undead: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution
    • # Zombies Don’t Cry
    • # Xeno’s Paradox
    • # Nature’s Shift: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution
    • # The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
  • # The Moment of Truth: A Novel of the Future
  • # Prelude to Eternity: A Romance of the First Time Machine
  • The Empire of the Necromancers Series:
    • # The Shadow of Frankenstein
    • # Frankenstein and the Vampire Countess
    • # Frankenstein in London
  • # The World Beyond: Being a Sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s Classic Science Fiction Novel, “The World Below”
  • # Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity
    (An earlier version of this book was published in 1996 as The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires, which was itself a expansion of a yet earlier novella of the same title.)
  • # The Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels *
  • # Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales *
  • # The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies * [chapbook)
  • # The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales *
  • # Beyond the Colors of Darkness and Other Exotica *
  • # The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas *
  • # Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations
  • # Luscinia: A Romance of Nightingales and Roses
  • # The Plurality of Worlds: A Sixteenth-Century Space Opera
  • # The Womb of Time *
  • The Auguste Dupin Series:
    • # The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos *
    • # The Mad Trist: A Romance of Bibliomania/Valdemar’s Daughter: A Romance of Mesmerism
    • The Quintessence of August: A Novel of Possession
    • # The Cthulhu Encryption: A Romance of Piracy *
    • # Journey to the Core of Creation: A Romance of Evolution *
    • # Yesterday Never Dies: A Romance of Metempsychosis *
  • The Mnemosyne Series:
    • # The Wayward Muse *
    • # Eurydice’s Lament
    • # The Mirror of Dionysius
    • # The Pool of Mnemosyne
  • # Echoes of Eternity
  • # Vampires of Atlantis: A Love Story
  • # The Darkling Wood: A Scientific Fantasy
  • # The Devil in Detail
  • # Portals of Paradise
  • # Tangled Web of Time
  • # Further Beyond: A Lovecraftian Science Fiction Novel
  • # The Death of Broceliande: A Tale of Faery
  • # The Alchemy of Blood
  • The Morgan’s Fork Series:
    • # Spirits of the Vasty Deep
    • # The Insubstantial Pageant
    • # The Truths of Darkness
  • # The Tyranny of the Word

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• Starrett, Vincent # *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Seaports in the Moon

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• Stephens, James **
  • The Crock of Gold
  • # The Demi-Gods
  • # In the Land of Youth *

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• Stevermer, Caroline *
  (All of Stevermer’s works are considered YA, but these are arguably not.)
  • The College of Magics Series:
    • Scholarly Magics
      (an omnibus of the two books linked separately below)
      • A College of Magics
      • A Scholar of Magics
    • When the King Comes Home

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• Stewart, Sean ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Magic Returned:
    • Resurrection Man
    • Galveston
  • Cloud’s End
  • Perfect Circle

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• Stockton, Frank R. # *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales *

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• Stoddard, James **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Evenmere:
    • The High House
    • The False House
    • # Evenmere

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• Sucharitkul, Somtow **
  (He also ppublishes under the pen name “S. P. Somtow”.) (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Shattered Horse
  • The Inquestor Tetralogy:
    • Light on the Sound
    • The Throne of Madness
    • Utopia Hunters
    • The Darkling Wind

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• Tarn, W. W. # ***
  • The Treasure of the Isle of Mist (a “children’s book”)

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• Tepper, Sheri S. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Revenants
  • Beauty [link is to author’s preferred version]
  • The Marianne Trilogy
    (an omnibus of the three books linked separately below)
    • Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore
    • Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods
    • Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse
  • The Awakeners
    (an omnibus of the two books linked separately below)
    • Northshore
    • Southshore
  • The Marjorie Westriding Trilogy:
    • # Grass
    • # Raising the Stones
    • Sideshow

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• Theroux, Paul ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Millroy the Magician

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• Thompson, Ruth Plumly ****
  (After Baum’s death, Thompson continued the Oz series past his 14 titles, writing 19 herself; they are closely comparable to the originals in flavor and quality. (There are 7 more Oz books, written by a total of seven authors other than Baum & Johnson, considered by fans to be “part of the canon”, plus a host of “non-canonical” others; see the Oz, others listing farther above. These are, of course, nominally children’s books.)
  • The Thompson Oz Books:
    • The Royal Book of Oz
    • Kabumpo in Oz
    • The Cowardly Lion of Oz
    • Grampa in Oz
    • The Lost King of Oz
    • The Hungry Tiger of Oz
    • The Gnome King of Oz
    • The Giant Horse of Oz
    • Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz
    • The Yellow Knight of Oz
    • Pirates in Oz
    • The Purple Prince of Oz
    • Ojo in Oz
    • Speedy in Oz
    • The Wishing Horse of Oz
    • Captain Salt in Oz
    • Handy Mandy in Oz
    • The Silver Princess in Oz
    • Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz

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• Thurber, James *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The White Deer (children’s book)
  • Many Moons (children’s book)

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• Tinniswood, Peter # **
  • The Stirk of Stirk

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• Tolkien, J. R. R. *****
  • Mr. Bliss (children’s book)
  • Tales From the Perilous Realm
    (This is a preferred-edition omnibus of several of Tolkien’s shorter but important works, as listed below.)
    • Roverandom (children’s book)
    • Farmer Giles of Ham
    • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
    • Leaf by Niggle
    • Smith of Wootton Major
    • “On Fairy-Stories” [Tolkien essay]
  • Letters From Father Christmas
    (This is the preferred edition of this work.)
  • The Middle-Earth Works:
    • The Hobbit
      (The link is to copies of The Annotated Hobbit, the preferred edition.)
    • The Lord of the Rings:
      • The Lord of the Rings [Deluxe multi-volume 60th Anniversary boxed set]
      • The Lord of the Rings [Deluxe one-volume slipcased edition]
      • The Lord of the Rings [all-editions search]
    • The Silmarillion
      (There are a couple of preferred editions of this work, listed and linked below.)
      • The Silmarillion: Nasmith-illustrated
      • The Silmarillion: 30th-Anniversary Edition
    • # The Children of Hurin
    • # Beren and Lúthien
  • Tree and Leaf *
    (This work includes a couple of Tolkien pieces not in the books above; its contents are as listed below.)
    • Leaf by Niggle
    • On Fairy-Stories
    • Mythopoeia
    • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
  • The History of Middle-Earth:
    (This is a set of 13 volumes compiled, edited, and annotated by Tolkien’s son Christopher, which presents Tolkien’s evolving Middle-Earth legendarium. I also include under this heading the earlier stand-alone Unfinished Tales, which is something like an Appendix for The Silmarillion. There is a three-volume boxed collection of all the volumes, priced at roughly the national budget of a third-world nation; but there are inexpensive paperback editions.)
    • Unfinished Tales
    • The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1
    • The Book of Lost Tales, Part 2
    • The Lays of Beleriand
    • The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta and the Annals
    • The Lost Road and Other Writings
    • The Return of the Shadow
    • The Treason of Isengard
    • The War of the Ring
    • Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age
    • Morgoth’s Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One
    • The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion, Part Two
    • The Peoples of Middle-Earth
    • The History of Middle-Earth, Index
  • Non-Fiction:
    • Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
    • J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
    • The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Tournier, Michel **
  • The Four Wise Men

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• Travers, P. L. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Mary Poppins Books:
    (These are, of course, “children’s books”.)
    • Mary Poppins
      (The 1935 original was re-issued in 1981 with a Travers revision of the “Bad Tuesday” chapter eliminating some racial stereotyping.)
    • Mary Poppins Comes Back
    • Mary Poppins Opens the Door
    • Mary Poppins in the Park
    • # Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane
    • Mary Poppins and the House Next Door

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• Vance, Jack *****
  (Vance has been writing literally wonderful tales for over half a century; naturally the list is long. But, while they are, of course, not equally fine, there is scarcely a dud in the lot, even in his earliest work.
  Note: the titles in [brackets] after some books are the titles Vance intended for them, as opposed to those under which editors—many of whom were jackasses—published them.)
  • The Dying Earth
    (The link is to an omnibus preferred edition containing the books listed below.)
    • The Dying Earth [Mazirian the Magician]
    • The Eyes of the Overworld [Cugel the Clever]
    • Rhialto the Marvelous
    • Cugel’s Saga [Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight]
  • Big Planet
    (The link is to an omnibus preferred edition containing the books listed below.)
    • Big Planet
    • Showboat World [The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, South Big Planet]
  • The Five Gold Bands [The Rapparee]
  • To Live Forever [Clarges]
  • Slaves of the Klau [Gold and Iron]
  • The Languages of Pao
  • The Dragon Masters
  • The Demon Princes:
    (The link is to an omnibus preferred edition containing the books listed below.)
    • The Star King
    • The Killing Machine
    • The Palace of Love
    • The Face
    • The Book of Dreams
  • Galactic Effectuator *
  • Son of the Tree
  • The Houses of Iszm
  • Space Opera
  • The Blue World [The Kragen]
  • Nopalgarth aka The Brains of Earth
  • The Last Castle
  • Planet of Adventure
    (The link is to an omnibus preferred edition containing the books listed below.)
    • The Chasch aka City of the Chasch
    • The Wannek aka Wankh aka Servants of the Wankh
    • The Dirdir
    • The Pnume
  • Emphyrio
  • Durdane
    (The link is to an omnibus edition, but it’s scarce and pricey, so below I also link the individual novels.)
    • The Anome aka The Faceless Man
    • The Brave Free Men aka The Roguskhoi
    • The Asutra
  • The Alastor Cluster Trio:
    (The trilogy is available in single omnibus preferred editions, in both paperback and hardcover, each containing the novels listed below.)
    • Trullion: Alastor 2262
    • Marune: Alastor 933
    • Wyst: Alastor 1716
  • The Magnus Ridolph Book(s):
    • The Complete Magnus Ridolph
      (this has all 10 Ridolph tales—do not confuse it with The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph, which had 6, or the “expanded” Many Worlds, which had 8)
  • The Lyonesse Trilogy:
    (There exists an omnibus edition, but both hardcover and paperback are comically expensive, so I don’t link to them.)
    • Suldrun’s Garden
    • The Green Pearl
    • Madouc
  • The Cadwal Chronicles Trilogy:
    • Araminta Station
    • Ecce and Old Earth
    • Throy
  • Night Lamp
  • Ports of Call:
    (The link is to an omnibus preferred edition containing the books listed below.)
    • Ports of Call
    • Lurulu
  • The Short-Story Collections:
    (There will be overlap in the contents of the books listed below.
    Note: I have here indicated listings of notably expensive editions, but left them in for eager completists.)
    • Future Tense aka Dust of Far Suns *
    • The World Between, and Other Stories aka The Moon Moth *
    • The Worlds of Jack Vance *
    • The Best of Jack Vance *
    • Eight Fantasms and Magics * (not the same as “Fantasms and Magics”: has two extra stories)
    • Green Magic *
    • Lost Moons * [now expensive]
    • The Narrow Land *
    • The Light From a Lone Star * [chapbook, now expensive]
    • The Augmented Agent and Other Stories *
    • The Dark Side of the Moon * [now expensive]
    • Chateau D’If *
    • When the Five Moons Rise *
    • Wild Thyme, Green Magic * [now expensive]
    • The Jack Vance Treasury *

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• Wangerin Jr., Walter # ****
  • The Books of Parable Duo:
    • The Book of the Dun Cow
    • # The Book of Sorrows

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• Warner, Sylvia Townsend # **
  • Lolly Willowes
  • Kingdoms of Elfin
  • # The Cat’s Cradle-Book *

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• Wellman, Manly Wade *
  • Silver John:
    (Neither the stories nor the novels—especially the novels—are of consistent quality, but the best are good and the worst tolerable.)
    • John the Balladeer
      (includes all the “John” short stories in their orignal forms)
    • The Old Gods Waken
    • After Dark
    • The Lost and the Lurking
    • The Hanging Stones
    • The Voice of the Mountain

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• Wells, Martha **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • City of Bones
  • Wheel of the Infinite
  • Ile-Rien:
    • The Death of the Necromancer
    • The Element of Fire
    • The Fall of Ile-Rien:
      • The Wizard Hunters
      • The Ships of Air

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• Werfel, Franz # **
  • Star of the Unborn

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• White, E. B. # *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Stuart Little (A “children’s book”.)

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• White, T. H. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Elephant and the Kangaroo
  • Mistress Masham’s Repose
  • The Master (nominally a “children’s book”)
  • The Once and Future King
    (This charming series is nominally children’s or YA books.)
    • The Sword in the Stone
    • The Queen of Air and Darkness
    • The Ill-Made Knight
    • The Candle in the Wind
    • The Book of Merlyn (a sort of late postscript to what is effectively a tetraology)

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• Whitehead, Colson # **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Intuitionist

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• Whittemore, Edward ****
  (These books are on the borderline between mainstream and fantasy, but I judge them to have sufficient qualities of unreality to be justifed in these lists.)
  • Quin’s Shanghai Circus (arguably related to the series below)
  • The Jerusalem Quartet:
    • Sinai Tapestry
    • Jerusalem Poker
    • Nile Shadows
    • Jericho Mosaic

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• Wilde, Oscar **
  (Considering that one can get a preferred edition of all of Wilde’s works for a modest amount, it seems silly to link any individual works. In the omnibus volume listed below, I have called out only those component works that would be, by themselves, listed on this site—but all of Wilde is worth reading.)
  • Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
    • Complete Fairy Tales *
    • Poems in Prose *

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• Wilhelm, Kate *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Killer Thing
  • Cambio Bay

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• Willey, Elizabeth *
  • The Kingdom of Argylle Trio:
    • The Well-Favored Man
    • A Sorcerer and a Gentleman
    • The Price of Blood and Honor

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• Williams, Charles ***
  • Aspects of Power
    (The link is to the 7-volume omnibus—somewhat expensive, but it’s seven books; nonetheless, I also link the individual books.)
    • Many Dimensions
    • War in Heaven
    • Descent into Hell
    • The Greater Trumps
    • The Place of the Lion
    • Shadows of Ecstasy
    • All Hallows’ Eve

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• Williams, Michael **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (One more place for an extra half-star.)
  • Arcady Collection
    • Arcady
    • Allamanda

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• Williams, Tad *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Caliban’s Hour
  • The Otherland Tetralogy:
    • City of Golden Shadow
    • River of Blue Fire
    • Mountain of Black Glass
    • Sea of Silver Light

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• Williams, Walter Jon *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Ten Points For Style
    (an omnibus containing the three novels linked sepArately below)
    • The Crown Jewels
    • House of Shards
    • Rock of Ages

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• Wolf, Gary K. # *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

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• Wolfe, Gene ****
  • The Fifth Head of Cerberus
  • Peace
  • The Devil in a Forest (foolishly classed YA)
  • The Briah Cycle:
    (A cycle with three major subdivisions.)
    • Book of the New Sun aka Severian of the Guild)
      (The link is to copies of Severian of the Guild, an omnibus of the first four listed below; the SFBC omnibus is now much more expensive.)
      • The Shadow of the Torturer
      • The Claw of the Conciliator
      • The Sword of the Lictor
      • The Citadel of the Autarch

        ---

      • The Urth of the New Sun
      • “Empires of Foliage and Flower” (a story in the collection Starwater Strains)
    • Book of the Long Sun:
      (Available as two omnibus volumes, linked below.)
      • Litany of the Long Sun
        • Nightside the Long Sun
        • Lake of the Long Sun
      • Epiphany of the Long Sun
        • Caldé of the Long Sun
        • Exodus from the Long Sun
    • Book of the Short Sun
      (The SFBC omnibus seems no longer available, even used)
      • On Blue’s Waters
      • In Green’s Jungles
      • Return to the Whorl
  • Free Live Free
  • The Latro Trio:
    • Soldier of the Mist
    • Soldier of Arete
    • Soldier of Sidon
  • There Are Doors
  • Castleview
  • The Wizard Knight Duology:
    • The Knight
    • The Wizard
  • # Home Fires
  • # Pirate Freedom
  • # An Evil Guest
  • # The Sorcerer’s House
  • # The Land Across
  • # A Borrowed Man
  • Story Collections:
    (There may well be some overlap in the contents of the books listed below)
    • The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories [sic] *
    • Gene Wolfe’s Book of Days * (included in Castle of Days, below)
    • The Wolfe Archipelago * (three of the four stories in this are in The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, above)
    • # Plan(e)t Engineering *
    • Storeys from the Old Hotel *
    • Endangered Species *
    • Castle of Days * (includes Gene Wolfe’s Book of Days and Castle of the Otter)
    • Young Wolfe *
    • Strange Travelers *
    • # Innocents Aboard *
    • Starwater Strains *
    • # The Best of Gene Wolfe *
  • Short-Novel Chapbooks:
    • # At the Point of Capricorn
    • Memorare (link is to archived on-line version)
    • (All others have since been incorporated into the Story Collections listed above.)

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• Woolf, Virginia # ****
  • Orlando

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• Wrede, Patricia C. *
  (Wrede’s work is marketed as YA.)
  • The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
    (an omnibus containing the four novels linked separately below)
    • Dealing with Dragons aka Dragonsbane
    • Searching for Dragons aka Dragon Search
    • Calling on Dragons
    • Talking to Dragons
      (Link is to the 1995 edition, a revised version of the original 1985 edition.)
  • Magic & Malice aka A Matter of Magic
    (an omnibus containing the two novels linked separately below)
    • Mairelon the Magician
    • Magician’s Ward
  • Snow White and Rose Red
  • Book of Enchantments *

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• Wright, Austin Tappan # **
  • Islandia

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• Wright, Grahame # ****
  • Jog Rummage

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• Wyndham, John *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Kraken Wakes aka Out of the Deeps

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• Zelazny, Roger *
  • Isle of the Dead
  • To Die in Italbar
  • Lord of Light
  • Creatures of Light and Darkness
  • Roadmarks
  • The Amber Dexad:
    • Nine Princes in Amber
    • The Guns of Avalon
    • Sign of the Unicorn
    • The Hand of Oberon
    • The Courts of Chaos
    • Trumps of Doom
    • Blood of Amber
    • Sign of Chaos
    • Knight of Shadows
    • Prince of Chaos
  • A Night in the Lonesome October

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• Zindell, David **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Neverness Universe:
    • A Requiem for Homo Sapiens:
      • The Broken God
      • The Wild
      • War in Heaven
    • Neverness:
      • Neverness

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