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The Master List

“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.

· In alphabetizing the authors’ names, I have tried to follow the general style rules and, where I know of them, the authors’ choices. So, for example, Louis De Bernièrs sorts on “De Bernièrs” because that is apparently how he prefers it; but Antoine de Saint Exupéry sorts on “Saint Exupéry” because that’s how the French do it.

· 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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• Aiken, Joan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  [These are all “children’s books”, but charming and eminently readable by adults.]
  • 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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• Ajvaz, Michal **
  
  • The Other City
  • The Golden Age
  • # Empty Streets

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

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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
    • The State of the Art *
    • Use of Weapons
    • 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.)
  • Novels:
    • Stress Pattern
    • The Aldair Tetralogy:
      • Aldair in Albion
      • Aldair, Across the Misty Sea
      • Aldair, Master of Ships
      • Aldair: The Legion of Beasts
    • Interstate Dreams
    • The Hereafter Gang
  • Story Collections:
    (A few of these collected stories are “mainstream” rather than speculative fiction.)
    • Slightly Off Center *
    • Day the Decorators Came *
    • Perpetuity Blues: And Other Stories *

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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 and Oz, others.
  • 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
    • # Summerlong
  • Short-Story Collections:
    (There is some overlap in these collections, but not lots save that Mirror Kingdoms has only 2 unique stories.)
    • Giant Bones * [“Innkeeper’s World” stories]
    • The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche *
    • The Line Between *
    • We Never Talk About My Brother *
    • Mirror Kingdoms *
    • Sleight of Hand *
    • The Overneath *
  • Chapbooks:
    • # The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version [a “Lost Unicorn” story]
    • # Two Hearts [a “Lost Unicorn” story]
    • # Return [an “Innkeeper’s World” story]
    • # The Story of Kao Yu
    • # In Calabria
    • # The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey [a “Lost Unicorn” story]

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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 containing 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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• Blake, Katherine **
  
  • The Interior Life

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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, above)
    • The Langdon St. Ives Works:
      • Novels
        • The Aylesford Skull
        • Beneath London
        • River’s Edge
      • Omnibus Editions:
        • The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives
          (an omnibus including the two novels listed below plus a novella and two short stories)
          • Homunculus
          • Lord Kelvin’s Machine
        • The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives
          (an omnibus including the two novels listed below plus three novellas)
          • The Ebb Tide
          • The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs
      • The Gobblin’ Society [chapbook]
  • The “California/Christian” Works:
    • The First Three:
      (an omnibus including the three novels listed below.)
      • The Last Coin
      • The Paper Grail
      • All the Bells on Earth
    • Knights of the Cornerstone [this may or may not be an actual part of the cycle]
  • The “Ghosts” Trio:
    • Night Relics
    • Winter Tides
    • The Rainy Season
  • Other Novels:
    • The Magic Spectacles
    • Land of Dreams
    • Pennies From Heaven
  • Collections & Miscellaneous:
    • Thirteen Phantasms * [sixteen tales: the largest set]
    • In For a Penny * [seven tales, none in the above collection: the second-largest set]
    • # The Devils in the Details * [co-authored with Tim Powers; three tales, none in either of the collections above]
    • # Metamorphosis * [three tales, none in any of the collections above]
    • # The Shadow on the Doorstep * [thirteen tales, but only two not in any of the collections above]

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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 ***
  (» Bradbury was primarily a short-story writer; even of his few novels, all but one are “fix-ups” assembled from collections of short stories, often only loosely connected.
  » This list omits a number of good Bradbury books that are mainstream, and so not appropriate for listing on this site.)
  • Novels
    • Fahrenheit 451
    • From the Dust Returned
    • The Martian Chronicles
      (This work has a very complicated publishing history; the link here is to the 1997 updated version. But, for the completist to whom money is no object, the clear winner is the now absurdly priced 2009 Subterranean Press edition, The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition, whose title says it all.)
    • The Halloween Tree [YA]
    • Something Wicked This Way Comes
      (This novel is part of a cycle called “Green Town”, but the other two novels in the cycle—Dandelion Wine and Farewell Summer—are good but not speculative, and hence are not listed here.)
  • Story Collections (1: This listing omits the seemingly innumerable other collections cobbled up out of the contents of the books below, which are—I believe—all his original editions.
     2: For monied completists, the set to have is the 8-volume Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition from The Kent State University Press, of which only the first three volumes have so far been issued.)
    • Summer Morning, Summer Night * [10 of its 17 stories are “Green Town” tales]
    • Dark Carnival *
    • The Small Assassin * [content similar to the above, but not exactly the same; see also The October Country, below.]
    • 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 ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Traveler in Black
  • The Compleat 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
    (A collection of short stories with a common setting and repeating characters: I thus class it a novel.)

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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
    (Translations are important with this book. The 1993 Burgin and O’Connor version may be the best, but check here.)

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• Byatt, A. S. **
  
  • Novels:
    • # Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
  • Story Collections:
    • Sugar and Other Stories *
    • #Angels & Insects * [2 novellas]
    • The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye
    • Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice *
    • Little Black Book of Stories *
    • # Medusa’s Ankles *
      (Of 18 stories, 11 are reprints of tales in the collections above, and 7 are new here; of those 7, 2 are non-genre.)

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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 high three figures (click the link), but individual volumes of it—signed, remember!—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 *
    (containing 34 stories sourced as shown below)
    • Cosmicomics: 12 stories (complete contents)
    • t zero aka Time and the Hunter: 11 stories (complete contents)
    • Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories: 4 stories
    • World Memory and Other Cosmicomic Stories: 7 stories
  • 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, but it’s been a loooong time now…]

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

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• Carr, Terry **
  
  • Cirque: A Novel of the Far Future
  • # The Light at the End of the Universe *

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• Carrington, Leonora **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Hearing Trumpet

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• Carroll, Jonathan ****
  (Another “plus a half-star” author.)
  • The Land of Laughs
  • Voice of Our Shadow
  • The Answered Prayers Sextet:
    • Bones of the Moon
    • Sleeping in Flame
    • A Child Across the Sky
    • Outside the Dog Museum
    • After Silence
    • From the Teeth of Angels
  • Black Cocktail [chapbook]
  • The Panic Hand *
  • The Crane’s View Trilogy:
    • Kissing the Beehive
    • The Marriage of Sticks
    • The Wooden Sea
  • Vincent Ettrich:
    • White Apples
    • Glass Soup
  • The Ghost in Love
  • # The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories *
    (includes the scarce novellas “The Panic Hand”, “Black Cocktail”, and “The Heidelberg Cylinder”, plus numerous short stories—but scarce and expensive)
  • Bathing the Lion
  • Mr. Breakfast
  • Teaching the Dog to Read [chapbook]
  • # The Loud Table [chapbook]
  • # Played Your Eyes [chapbook]
  • # Mama Bruise [chapbook]
  • # Porgee’s Boar [chapbook]

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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 [link is to the preferred edition, annotated by Kenneth Hite.]

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• Chapman, Stepan ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Troika
  • Dossier * [now rare to the vanishing point; what a shame.]

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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 [a weak sf rendition of the Arthur legends]
  • 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
  • The Dreaming Tree
    (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 *
  
  • 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.)
  • San Veneficio:
    • The Divinity Student and Others: Novels and Stories of Michael Cisco
      (an omnibus containing four novels, a story collection, plus—not separately listed below—a baker’s dozen of other short stories, and even a poem—but rare and insanely expensive)
    • The San Veneficio Canon:
      • The San Veneficio Canon
        (an omnibus of the two novels listed below)
        • The Divinity Student
        • The Golem
    • #The Knife Dance [chapbook: very scarce]

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• Clarke, Susanna ***
  
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu and 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. It includes almost all of his short fiction.)

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• Collodi, Carlo *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  
  (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 (a slightly larger reprint of their 1969 edition). This is, of course a “children’s book”, but rather less so than you may think.)
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (Deluxe Edition)

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• Compton, D. G. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Chronocules aka Chronicules aka Hot Wireless Sets, Aspirin Tablets, the Sandpaper Sides of Used Matchboxes, and Something That Might Have Been Castor Oil

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• Connolly, John *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Book of Lost Things

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• Conway, Gerard F. *
  
  • The Midnight Dancers
  • Mindship

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• Cook, Glen ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Dread Empire:
    (This cycle is collected in three omnibus volumes, as shown below, plus a short-story collection.)
    • A Fortress in Shadow
      (This is an omnibus comprising the two books linked individually below.)
      • The Fire in His Hands
      • # With Mercy Toward None
    • A Cruel Wind
      (This is an omnibus comprising the three books linked individually below.)
      • A Shadow of All Night Falling
      • October’s Baby
      • All Darkness Met
    • Wrath of Kings
      (This is an omnibus comprising the three books linked individually below.)
      • Reap the East Wind
      • An Ill Fate Marshalling
      • # A Path to Coldness of Heart
    • # An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat *
    
    
  • The Black Company Saga:
    (This cycle is collected in four omnibus volumes, as shown below, plus a later un-omnibus’ed novel.)
    • Omnibus Volumes:
      • Annals of the Black Company aka Chronicles of the Black Company
        (This is an omnibus comprising the three books linked individually below.)
        • The Black Company
        • Shadows Linger
        • The White Rose
      • The Black Company Goes South aka The Books of the South
        (This is an omnibus comprising the three books linked individually below.)
        • The Silver Spike
        • Shadow Games
        • Dreams of Steel
      • Books of the Glittering Stone Tetralogy:
        • Glittering Stone I aka The Return of the Black Company
          (This is an omnibus comprising the two books linked individually below.)
          • Bleak Seasons
          • She is the Darkness
        • Glittering Stone II aka The Many Deaths of the Black Company
          (This is an omnibus comprising the two books linked individually below.)
          • Water Sleeps
          • Soldiers Live
    • Port of Shadows
      (The 17-years-later addition to the cycle, set in a period roughly contemperaneous with the very second book of the cycle.)
    
    
  • 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
    
    
  • Stand-Alone Novels:
    • The Swordbearer
    • The Tower of Fear
    • The Dragon Never Sleeps
  
  

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• Cook, Hugh *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Chronicles of an Age of Darkness: This is a ten-volume “series”, but the author asserts that the books can be read as individual stand-alones.
    • 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 aka Lords of the Sword
    • # 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 works listed below.)
    • Over Sea, Under Stone
    • The Dark Is Rising
    • Greenwitch
    • The Grey King
    • Silver on the Tree
  • A Box of Boggarts [children’s, but entertaining]:
    (an omnibus containing the works 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 [link is to preferred edition]
    • The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists * [4 novellas; link is to preferred edition]
    • An East Wind Coming [link is to preferred edition]
  • 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 ***
  
  • Otherwise:
    (an omnibus comprising the three novels linked individually below)
    • The Deep
    • Beasts
    • 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 *
  • The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days [a translation by Crowley of Rosencreutz’ 1616 work]
  • # Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
  • # Flint and Mirror
  • # And Go Like This *

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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 ****
  
  • Ursus of Ultima Thule
  • The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy
  • The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy [Includes the Enquiries and adds some five stories of Eszterhazy in youth, but they are late additions to the cycle and regrettably are clearly weaker.]
  • The Island Under the Earth Trilogy:
    • The Island Under the Earth
    • # The Six-Limbed Folk
    • # The Cap of Grace
    (Those last two books were planned but never written: Davidson abandoned the series.)
  • Limekiller
  • The Peregrine Trilogy:
    • Peregrine: Primus
    • Peregrine: Secundus
    • # Peregrine: Tertius
      (This last book was planned but never written: Davidson abandoned the series.)
  • The Vergil Cycle:
    • The Phoenix and the Mirror
    • Vergil in Averno
    • The Scarlet Fig
  • The Boss in the Wall
  • Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty
  • The Short-Story Collections:
    (There are 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 Bernières, Louis *
  
  • The Latin American Trilogy:
    • The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts
    • Señor Vivo And The Coca Lord
    • The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

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• DeMarinis, Rick **
  
  • # A Lovely Monster
  • # Scimitar
  • Cinder
  • # The Burning Women of Far Cry
  • # A Clod of Wayward Marl

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• Dexter, Susan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Calandran Tales:
    • The Wizard’s Shadow
    • The Warhorse of Estragon Cycle [YA]:
      • The Prince of Ill Luck
      • The Wind-Witch
      • The True Knight

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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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• Dorsey, Candas Jane *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • A Paradigm of Earth

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• Dowling, Terry **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Complete Rynosseros:
    (This is a 3-volume slipcased set comprising all the Rynosseros fiction plus several essays about the development of the series.)
    • The Complete Rynosseros, Volume I:
      (This volume comprises the works listed below.)
      • Rynosseros * [including an otherwise uncollected story]
      • # Blue Tyson *
      • #The Library *
    • The Complete Rynosseros, Volume II:
      (This volume comprises the works listed below.)
      • # Twilight Beach * [including an otherwise uncollected story]
      • # Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming * [including an otherwise uncollected story]
    • The Complete Rynosseros, Volume III:
      (This volume comprises the works listed below, none of which are fiction: they are discussions and analyses of the development of the series.)
      • #Songs from the Inland Sea – Writing the Tom Rynosseros Stories *
      • #The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros – In Writing order
      • #The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros – In Publication Order
      • #Appendix A * [“Dancing with Scheherazade” & “Some Reflections in the Djinni’s Glass”]
      • #Appendix B * [“The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros” & “One Reader’s View by Richard Scott”]
      • #Author’s Note

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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 ***
  
  • Beluthahatchie *
  • The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories *
  • An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories * [mostly “selected”; only 2 not in the books above]

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• Duncan, Dave *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Seventh Sword:
    (an omnibus comprising the four novels linked individually below.)
    • The Reluctant Swordsman
    • The Coming of Wisdom
    • The Destiny of the Sword
    • # The Death of Nnanji
  • The Pandemia Cycle:
    (The other books in this cycle are still unrated here.)
    • The Omar Duo:
      • The Reaver Road
      • The Hunters’ Haunt
  • The Great Game Trilogy:
    • Past Imperative
    • Present Tense
    • Future Indefinite
  • Maestro Nostradamus:
    • The Alchemist’s Apprentice
    • The Alchemist’s Code
    • The Alchemist’s Pursuit

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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 Novels:
    • The Shadow Valley Chronicles Duo:
      • The Chronicles of Rodrigues aka Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
      • 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 Short-Story Books:
    • The Great Book of Wonder *
      (An omnibus of the ten books listed below; those are—excepting the two non-fantasy ones—separately linked below, but it would be folly not to just buy the omnibus, which also includes 8 stories never previously collected and is modestly priced.)
      • The Gods of Pegāna *
      • Time and the Gods *
      • The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories *
        (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 this collection, nor with Book of Wonder, nor with The Last Book of Wonder)
      • Fifty-One Tales *
        (As included in the omnibus, it actually has 52 tales, as the omnibus contains both the American and the British editions’ contents, which vary by one story each; the American version was later re-printed as The Food of Death.)
      • The Last Book of Wonder * aka Tales of Wonder *
        (not be confused with this omnibus, nor with Book of Wonder)
      • Tales of Three Hemispheres *
      • Unhappy Far-Off Things *
        (This is non-speculative “war-themed tales”.)
      • Tales Of War *
        (This also is “war-themed tales”, though it is said that “some…are fantasy”.)
      • Plus, as noted above, eight stories never previously collected.
    • The Man Who Ate the Phoenix * [This has 35 tales not to be found elsewhere, but is rather expensive in the U.S. owing to copyright issues.]
  • The Jorkens Sextet:
    (These are all collections of “club story” 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.)
    • Volume 1
      • The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
      • Jorkens Remembers Africa
    • Volume 2
      • Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
      • The Fourth Book of Jorkens
      • (plus one previously uncollected Jorkens tale)
    • Volume 3
      • Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
      • The Last Book of Jorkens
      • (plus three previously uncollected Jorkens tales)
  • Posthumous Short-Story Books:
    (These are collections that contain at least some late-discovered tales not collected during Dunsany’s lifetime and uncollected elsewhere.)
    • The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms * [13 original tales]
    • In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales * [1 original tale: “Helping the Fairies”]
    • The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories * [50 tales, most or all unique]
    • There is also a set of—so far—six collections from the Pegana Press of “Lost Tales”; those have some slight overlap with some of the works in the books above, but seem to be mostly unique. Those books—all of which are super-rare and super-expensive—are:
      
      
      • Lost Tales, Volume 1 (2012) Previously uncollected short stories appearing in magazines between 1909 & 1915.
      • Lost Tales, Volume 2 (2013) Previously uncollected short stories appearing in magazines and newspapers between 1915 & 1920 and a previously unpublished story from 1909.
      • Lost Tales, Volume 3 (2014) Four previously uncollected short stories appearing in magazines and newspapers between 1910 & 1954 and three previously unpublished stories.
      • The Men of Baldfolk & Other Fanciful Tales (2016) Five previously unpublished stories and four uncollected stories ranging from 1908 to 1955.
      • Lost Tales, Volume 4 (2018) Eight previously unpublished stories and one uncollected story ranging from 1909 to 1956.
      • Lost Tales, Volume 5 (2021) Six previously unpublished stories and two uncollected stories from c. 1914.
      • Lost Tales, Volume 6 (2023) Four previously unpublished stories (including a Jorkens) and three previously uncollected stories, plus other goodies.
      
      
  • Later Edited Collections:
    (This books in this list, which may not be complete—it’s hard to keep up with all the public-domain reprints—contain no tales not in the books listed farther above—the books I would call the Dunsany canon; those below are shown here only for attempted completeness.)
    • Published During Dunsany’s Lifetime:
      • Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany * [1912; edited by W. B. Yeats]
      • A Dreamer’s Tales and Other Stories * [1917; A Dreamer’s Tales and The Sword of Welleran; unauthorised edition]
      • Book of Wonder * [1918; The Book of Wonder and Time and the Gods; unauthorised edition]
      • The Sword of Welleran and Other Tales of Enchantment * [1954; collection selected by Lord and Lady Dunsany]
    • Published Posthumously:
      • At the Edge of the World * [1970]
      • Beyond the Fields We Know * [1972]
      • Gods, Men and Ghosts * [1972]
      • Over the Hills and Far Away * [1974]
      • Bethmoora and Other Stories * [1993]
      • The Exiles’ Club and Other Stories * [1993]
      • The Lands of Wonder * [1994]
      • The Hashish Man and Other Stories * [1996]
      • The Complete Pegana * [1998]
      • Time and the Gods * [2000; a collection of Dunsany’s first six short-story books]
      • Dreams Assembled, I * [2009; first of a projected 3-volume set to collect Dunsany’s first eight books]
      • A Dreamer’s Tales: Annotated Edition * [2018]

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• Eco, Umberto **
  (While Eco’s books are all quite bizarre, this is the only one that actually contains portions that can legitimately be classed “fantasy”.)
  • 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 somewhat 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.)
  • Cray Ormuru
    • The Book of Elementals:
      (An omnibus comprising the two books linked individually below.)
      • Sorcerer’s Son
      • The Crystal Palace
    • # The City in Stone
      (Though it is certain that Eisenstein wrote this book, the ISFDB lists it as “unpublished”—yet not one but two ISBNs exist for it, one from 2004 [9781592220113] and one from 2006 [9781592220106]. But no search engine can locate a copy of either, so it may be that the publisher—Meisha Merlin—registered the ISBNs but never actually published the books.)

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• Emmons, Josh **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Loss of Leon Meed

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• Fessier, Michael *
  
  • Clovis
  • Fully Dressed and in his Right Mind

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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
    (Any preferred edition must include the remarkable Boris Artzybasheff illustrations; here are the two most reasonable.)
    • The Circus of Dr. Lao: softcover
    • The Circus of Dr. Lao: hardcover
  • 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:
    • 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. ***
  
  • 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
  • Owl Time *

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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.)
  • Chronicles of the Twelve Kingdoms:
    • Mustapha and His Wise Dog
  • New York:
    • 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]
    (There is also a so-called “Definitive” edition that corrects some typos and errors and adds some illustrations.)
  • Neverwhere
    (There is an “Author’s Preferred Text” edition that also includes a few extras: a novelette, a short story, and some essays; it seems rare.)
  • Stardust
  • The American Gods Quartet:
    (An omnibus comprising:)
    • American Gods
      (Link here is to the annotated edition, which is not the version in the omnibus.)
    • Anansi Boys [not up to Gaiman’s usual standard]
    • # The Monarch of the Glen [novelette; not available as a separate publication]
    • # Black Dog [novelette; not available as a separate publication]
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane
  • Smoke and Mirrors *
  • Fragile Things *
  • Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances *
  • Coraline and Other Stories * aka M Is for Magic * [YA]
  • 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 British chap who continued the James Bond novels; this John Gardner is one of the major figures of American literature.)
  • 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 [stand-alone tale]
    • The Swords of Night and Day [Druss #5; also Skilgannon #2]
  • The “Sipstrassi” Books:
    • Stones of Power:
      (an omnibus of the two novels listed separately below.)
      • Ghost King
      • Last Sword of Power
    • Jon Shannon: Chronicles of the Jerusalem Man:
      (an omnibus of the three novels listed separately below.)
      • 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.)
  • Orthe: Chronicles of Carrick V
    (an omnibus containing the two works linked separately below plus a short story in the cycle)
    • Golden Witchbreed
    • Ancient Light
  • The White Crow:
    • The White Crow
      (An omnibus containing the three novels linked separately below plus two novelettes—unique to this edition—and a novella in the same cycle; see also the third novel below.)
      • Rats and Gargoyles
      • The Architecture of Desire
      • Left to His Own Devices [Includes title novel plus two novelettes—unique to this edition— and a novella.]
  • Ash
    (This single novel was also published in four individually named volumes, linked below.
    • A Secret History
    • Carthage Ascendant
    • The Wild Machines
    • Lost Burgundy
  • Scholars and Soldiers *

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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
  • The Books of the Wars
    (an omnibus containing the three novels linked separately below)
    • Lords of the Starship
    • Out of the Mouth of the Dragon
    • The Siege of Wonder

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

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• Gogol, Nikolai **
  
  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol *
    (The link is to the preferred editions of this work: those translated by the team of Pevear & Volokhonsky, which are available in both paperback and hardcover.)

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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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• Grahame, Kenneth ****
  
  • 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. Also, since there is in general very little difference in price between softcover and hardcover editions, the latter would be the clear choice. There are still numerous candidates even after all that filtering, but after hours of research, I opted for the “preferred edition” linked above.)
  • The Reluctant Dragon [chapbook: 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.
  Note that this is not all of Grant’s speculative fiction.)
  • 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.)
  • Lanark: A Life in Four Books
  • #Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 * [Not all of these are fantastic, but enough are for our purposes.]

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• Gray, Nicholas Stuart **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Grimbold’s Other World [YA]

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• Green, Simon R. *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • 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 **
  
  • Atlanton Earth:
    • Circle of Light:
      • Greyfax Grimwald
      • Faragon Fairingay
      • Calix Stay
      • Squaring the Circle
    • The Wilderness of Four:
      • Across the Far Mountain
      • The Plains of the Sea
      • On the Boundaries of Darkness
      • The Road to the Middle Islands
    • The Windameir Circle:
      • 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 ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Tales of Protection

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• Harrison, M. John *****
  (Harrison also co-authored, with Jane Johnson, a series of four books as by “Gabriel King”, which see.)
  • The Committed Men
  • The Centauri Device
  • Viriconium
    (The link is the Gollancz “Fantasy Masterworks” 4-book omnibus, which is currently the preferred one; I do not individually link its contents.)
    • 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; I do not individually link its contents.)
    • 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 *
    • Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020 *

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• Helprin, Mark ***
  
  • Winter’s Tale
  • A Kingdom Far and Clear: The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy
    (This is a generally well-written series, supposedly “for children” though well readable by adults;
    but be aware that it takes a sharp polemical right turn toward the end, belying that “for children”.)
    • 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. ***
  
  • Chronicles of the Kencyrath:
    • Dark of the Gods
      (an omnibus including the two novels listed below plus “Bones”, a short story in the cycle.)
      • God Stalk
      • Dark of the Moon
    • Seeker’s Bane
      (an omnibus including the two novels listed below.)
      • Seeker’s Mask
      • To Ride a Rathorn
    • Bound In Blood
    • Honor’s Paradox
    • The Sea of Time
    • The Gates of Tagmeth
    • By Demons Possessed
    • Deathless Gods
  • Blood and Ivory *

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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 **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Practical Magic:
    (Other books in this series are not yet read here; check the link just above for details.)
    • Practical Magic

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• Hoffmann, E. T. A. ***
  (Please review the extensive Hoffmann Bibliography notes.)
  • Novels, Novellas, Novelettes:
    • # The Devil’s Elixirs
    • The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
    • Three Märchen
      (an omnibus containing the three novellas listed below)
      • Little Zaches Called Zinnober
      • Princess Brambilla
      • Master Flea
  • Short Stories:
    (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 Hoffmann Bibliography notes, where there is a huge amount of cross-indexed bibliography, plus references to other resources.)
     
    • Basic Collections:
      (this set picks up most of what’s available in English, though with some overlap)
      • The Serapion Brethren [Createspace, 2014: reprint of 1886 Volume I & 1892 Volume II, all translated by Alexander Ewing]
      • # Hoffmann’s Strange Stories [Forgotten Books, 2018: reprint of 1855 edition – reportedly not good translations, but it’s what there is]
      • # Tales of Hoffmann [Christopher Lazare, translator; full-page color plates by Richard Lindner]
      • Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann [University of Chicago Press, 1972, Elizabeth C. Knight, translator: Volume I of the 1969 2-volume set Selected Writings of E. T. A. Hoffmann – Volume II was the novel The Tomcat Murr]
      • The Golden Pot and Other Tales [2009 Oxford University Press edition; translated by Ritchie Robertson – worth it for the Notes alone]
    • Ancillary Collections [this set]:
      (this set picks up the few works available in English not included in the set above, though with considerable overlap)
      • Hoffmann’s Fairy Tales [reprints of 1857 edition; translated by L. Burnham from a French version titled Contes fantastiques]
      • Weird Tales [reprints of 1885 edition—originally two volumes—translated by John Thomas Bealby – all but one story from the Serapion series]
      • Stories by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann [edited by Arthur Ransom; linked are mostly the original 1908 edition, but also some reprints]
      • Tales of Hoffmann [1932; the translations are said to be poor; illustrated by Mario Laboccetta – expensive]
      • The Tales of Hoffmann [1943; various translators; illustrated with lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag]
      • Tales from Hoffmann [1951 edition, various translators; J. M. Cohen, editor; Paul Gavarni, illustrator]
      • Eight Tales of Hoffmann [1952 Pan edition, translated by J. M. Cohen]
      • Four Tales [1962 edition; translated by Michael Bullock]
      • The Tales of Hoffmann [1960 edition, translated by Michael Bullock]
      • The Best Tales of Hoffmann [1967 Dover edition, various translators; edited by E. F. Bleiler]
      • The Tales of Hoffmann [1982|1984|2012 Penguin editions; translated by R. J. Hollingdale]
      • Tales: E.T.A. Hoffmann [1998 Continuum edition, various translators; introduction by Victor Lange, editor]
      • Four Stories / Vier Erzahlungen [bilingual] [2003 Dover edition; edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum]
      • The Sand-Man and Other Night Pieces [2008 Tartarus Press edition, various translators; edited by Rosalie Parker, introduction by Jim Rockhill, illustrated by Jaqueline Vanek – expensive]
      • The Sandman and other tales of Hoffmann [2010 Createspace edition; scarce, not always findable]
      • The Sandman, The Nutcracker, and Other Dark Fairy Tales [2018 Independently Published edition, translations by Alexander Ewing and J. T. Bealby; annotated by M. Grant Kellermeyer]

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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 ***
  (This list omits novels written as by “K. J. Parker”.)
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Management Style of the Supreme Beings

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

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

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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. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • George Dower
    (This is—so far—a three-book series; see the link above for more.)
    • Infernal Devices: A Mad Victorian Fantasy
  • 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” or, in some cases, classed “juvenile”; I think them reasonably entertaining to adults.)
  • 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
    • # Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories *
    • # Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci *
  • 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.)
  • Requiem
  • The Facts of Life
  • How to Make Friends with Demons aka Memoirs of a Master Forge [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 *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • 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.)
  • Tag, the Cat
    • 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, but charming enough for adult reading]

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• Knight, Damon *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Knight was a prolific and noted science-fiction writer; he is almost always readable, but the little work below is his only novel that rises above the “readable” level; for short-story possibilities, click the “Unrated Books” link above.
  • 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 **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Prince of Morning Bells

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• Krohn, Leena ***
  
  • Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction [This is a massive compendium; the full Table of Contents [archived copy] is available on line—click the link.]

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• Lafferty, R. A. *****
  (Some Lafferty notes:
  » Lafferty, like other prolific yet under-appreciated authors, is hard to sort into a coherent bibliography—this is the best I could do.
  » The occasional “series” listed below don’t fully convey Lafferty: certain characters—like “the eminent scientist Willy McGilly”—recur, often as “cameos”, throughout 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; 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.
  » Lafferty is hard to categorize: all or almost all his works are overlooked, are thoroughly—if not always obviously—religiously powered by his devout Catholicism, and are weirdly light-hearted.)
   
  • The Novels:
    • Past Master
    • Space Chantey [as part of an Ace “DoubleBook” edition]
    • The Reefs of Earth
    • 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. Be aware that many—most—component books of this cycle are now either very rare and correspondingly expensive, or, more commonly, absolutely unfindable.)
      • The Devil is Dead
        • Archipelago [generally unfindable]
        • The Devil is Dead
        • More Than Melchisedech:
          (This novel was published in three volumes; the link above is to a very rare and very expensive set of all three. The three individual volumes are each also rare—often unfindable—and quite expensive when found at all.)
          • Tales of Chicago
          • Tales of Midnight
          • Argo [rarest of the 3, normally unfindable at all—try an inter-library loan; also, do not confuse this book with “Episodes of the Argo”, below]
        • Episodes of the Argo [rare; often unfindable]
          (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? [rare; often unfindable]
          (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 [rare and very expensive]
        • (the two concluding tales of this quartet exist, but only—so far—in unpublished manuscript form)
      • Dotty [rare; often unfindable]
    • Arrive at Easterwine
    • Not to Mention Camels
    • Apocalypses
      (a volume comprising thee two novellas listed below:)
      • The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeney
      • Where Have You Been, Sandaliotis?
    • Aurelia [rare; often unfindable]
    • The Annals of Klepsis
    • Serpent’s Egg
    • East of Laughter
    • The Elliptical Grave [rare; often unfindable]
    • Sinbad: The Thirteenth Voyage [rare; often unfindable]
  • The Story Collections:
    • The Centipede Press Short-Story Omnibuses:
      (A series still being issued, volume by volume; these are already scarce—sometimes unfindable—and expensive.)
      • 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 Man Who Never Was *
    • The Story-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]
      • Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? *
      • Golden Gate and Other Stories * [rare and expensive]
      • Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Know Everything * [rare and expensive]
      • Four Stories *
      • Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories *
      • Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories * [usually unfindable]
      • Ringing Changes *
      • Slippery and Other Stories * [rare and expensive]
      • # The Early Lafferty * [rare and expensive]
      • # Promontory Goats * [rare; often unfindable]
      • # The Back Door of History * [rare; often unfindable]
      • # The Early Lafferty II * [rare and expensive]
      • # Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange) * [rare; often unfindable]
      • Lafferty in Orbit *
      • Iron Tears [rare and expensive]

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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 a bit above the “readable” level.)
  • Knight of Delusions

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• Le Fanu, Sheridan *
  (The list below comprises nearly all of Le Fanu’s better short stories; few or none of his novels are of interest. Note that Le Fanu often re-worked stories: some of the tales collected in these books are just such modifications of others therein; the differences can be interesting.)
  • Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu *
  • Madame Crowl’s Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery *
  • The Watcher and Other Weird Stories *

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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 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]
    • The Castle of Dark
    • Prince on a White Horse
  • Sometimes, After Sunset [2 novellas]
    • # Sabella or The Blood Stone
    • Kill the Dead
  • Cyrion
  • The Flat-Earth Cycle:
    (There also exist in this setting a novella and 5 short stories; the novella and 3 of the stories appear in the collection Venus Burning: Realms and the other 2 stories in the collection Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata.)
    • 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:
    (There also exists in this setting a novelette, “Doll Skulls”, which appears in the collection Hunting the Shadows.)
    • 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
  • 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: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee Volume One *
  • Sounds and Furies *

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• Leiber, Fritz *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Snakes & Spiders: The Definitive Change War Collection [includes the novel The Big Time plus related stories]
  • The Best of Fritz Leiber *
  • Swords and Deviltry aka The Three of Swords aka Ill Met in Lankhmar aka The First Book of Lankhmar aka Lankhmar aka The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Volume One
    (This is part of a long series of books about the same characters—Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser—but is the only one I think sufficiently meritorious to list here.)

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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 ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Sunset Warrior Quintet:
    • The Sunset Warrior
    • Shallows of Night
    • Dai-San
    • Beneath an Opal Moon
      (different characters, same world)
    • [The fifth 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 ****
  
  • Works for Adults
    • Phantastes
      [links are to edition extensively annotated by John Pennington & Roderick McGillis]
      • paperback
      • hardcover
    • Lilith
  • Works for Children
    • 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; the link is to the preferred Penguin edition, which contains the important essay “The Fantastic Imagination” as well as critical annotations.)

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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 $75 as I write; another set, also 3 volumes, from Chaosium is distinctly less inclusive—though it has almost all the key works—but can be had for under $30. 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. (Prices I mention here are for used copies, “Very Good” or better condition, including shipping, but not any tax, as of Spring of 2023.)
  
  My suggestion is to get the Chaosium set; it comprises most of the essential works for a total of under $30. You could then fill in with the few major works not so included.
  • 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)
  • Volume 2: The White People and Other Stories
    (an omnibus including the works listed below.)
    • The Red Hand
    • Ornaments in Jade
    • The White People
    • A Fragment of Life
    • The Angels of Mons
  • Volume 3: The Terror and Other Stories
    (an omnibus including the works listed below.)
    • The Terror
    • The Lost Club
    • Munitions of War
    • The Islington Mystery
    • Johnny Double
    • Opening the Door
    • The Children of the Pool
    • The Bright Boy
    • Out of the Picture
    • Change
    • The Dover Road
    • Ritual
  • Other Works
    (The omnibuses listed above omit these significant works by Machen so I link them individually. Mind, which of his works are “significant” is mostly opinion.)
    • The Hill of Dreams (a novel)
    • # The Green Round (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
  • # Every Day Is Mother’s Day
  • Fludd

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

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

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

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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 Forgotten Beasts of Eld [YA]
  • The Riddle-Master’s Game:
    (An omnibus of the three works listed below; the link above is to the only hardcover edition, which is competitively priced with the two paperback editions.)
    • Riddlemaster of Hed
    • Heir of Sea and Fire
    • Harpist in the Wind
  • # Moon-Flash [YA]:
    (The Kyreol Duology: an omnibus of the two works listed below, confusingly titled with the title of the first book of the two.)
    • # Moon-Flash
    • # The Moon and the Face
  • The Throme of the Erril of Sherill [YA]
  • # Fool’s Run [YA]
  • The Changeling Sea
  • Cygnet:
    (An omnibus of the two works listed below.)
    • The Sorceress and the Cygnet
    • The Cygnet and the Firebird
  • The Book of Atrix Wolfe
  • The Winter Rose Duology:
    • Winter Rose
    • Solstice Wood
  • 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
  • The Bell at Sealey Head
  • The Bards of Bone Plain
  • # Wonders of the Invisible World *
  • # Kingfisher
  • # Dreams of Distant Shores *

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• McKinley, Robin *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Beauty
  • The Door in the Hedge *
  • Rose Daughter
  • Spindle’s End

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• Meynard, Yves **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Book of Knights

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• Miéville, China **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • 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:
    • # Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright
      (The fantastic aspect of this novel is hidden in plain sight.)
    • From the Realm of Morpheus
    • Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
    • Enchanted Night (novella)
  • 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)
    • Dangerous Laughter *
    • # We Others: New and Selected Stories * [7 new stories, 14 reprints]
    • Voices in the Night *
    • #Disruptions *

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• Mills, Magnus ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (It is often hard to judge whether a Mills novel is fantastic or simply odd.)
  • Three to See the King
  • The Scheme For Full Employment [“economic science fiction”]

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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 **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Zamonia Books:
    (All the Zamonia books are presented as if written by “Optimus Yarnspinner“, a dinosaur-like inhabitant of the Zamonian sub-continent.)
    • The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
    • Ensel und Krete [not yet translated]
    • Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
    • The Alchemaster’s Apprentice
    • Princess Insomnia and the Nightmare-Colored Nightmare [not yet translated]
    • Autobiography of Hildegunst von Mythenmetz ( = Optimus Yarnspinner):
      
      • The City of Dreaming Books
      • The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books
  • A Wild Ride Through the Night

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• 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 Lost Years:
      • # The Quest for Avalon
      • # Blood and Dreams
    • The Grail War
    • The Final Quest

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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 link to a comprehensive Moorcock bibliography.
  
  Of interest to Moorcock aficionados and completists is the Gollancz Michael Moorcock Collection, a set of 31 physical books plus several ebook-only companion editions comprising—almost—the entirety of Moorcock’s work, at least as of 2015 or so. These are not simple reprints but rather the “ldefinitive” editions, prepared with Moorcock’s oversight and frequent, if modest, revisions and updates. A simple list of the books is available, or you can see more details on the entire project. Note: a complete set of the print editions is somewhere around $600, which is around $20 a book.

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

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• Morris, William ****
  
  • 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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• Mujica Láinez, Manuel ***
  
  • The Wandering Unicorn
  • # Bomarzo

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• Munro, H. H. (“Saki”) ***
  (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
    (An omnibus comprising the novels listed below.)
    • The Third Policeman
    • At Swim-Two-Birds
    • The Dalkey Archive
    • The Poor Mouth [non-specfic]

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• Offutt, Andrew J. *
  
  • The War of the Gods on Earth:
    • The Iron Lords
    • 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 aka 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 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.)
  • 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
  • Cosgrove, Rachel R.: # The Hidden Valley of 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; some do not like them. The reviews suffice to greatly discourage me: modern teens with dysfunctional-family issues? In Oz? Really?)
  • Smith, Sherwood: #The Emerald Wand of Oz
  • Smith, Sherwood: #Trouble Under Oz
  • Smith, Sherwood: #Sky Pyrates over Oz [sic]

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• Ozick, Cynthia **
  
  • The Puttermesser Papers

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• Palmer, Thomas **
  
  • 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—but there’s a lot more Pinkwater out there.)
  • 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 **
  
  • The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Link is to the hardcover edition of the preferred Ian MacLain translation; paperback is no cheaper.

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• Powers, Tim ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Fisher King Trilogy:
    • Last Call
    • Expiration Date
    • Earthquake Weather
  • The Anubis Gates
    (There are also two short stories related to this novel; one appears in the story collection shown farther below, the other as a chapbook.)
  • The “Stress of Her Regard” Universe:
    • # The Stress of Her Regard
    • # Hide Me Among the Graves
  • Vickery and Castine:
    • # Alternate Routes
    • # Forced Perspectives
    • # Stolen Skies
  • The Drawing of the Dark
  • # On Stranger Tides
  • Declare
  • Three Days to Never
  • # Medusa’s Web
  • Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers *
    (This is not quite complete now: at least one story—“My Name Was Tom”— is missing.)
  • Chapbooks:
    (There are too many to just list here—see Powers’ bibliography at the ISFDB.)

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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 [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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• Richardson, Maurice **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • The Exploits of Engelbrecht

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• Roberts, Keith **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (Many of Roberts’ books comprise a series of linked short stories, and are so tagged below; but they are generally classed “novels”.)
  • Pavanne [related stories]
  • The Chalk Giants [related stories]
  • The Kaeti Books:
    • Kaeti & Company *
    • # Kaeti on Tour *
    • # Kaeti’s Apocalypse [chapbook]

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• Ruff, Matt ****
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • 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.)
  • Haroun and Luka:
    (an omnibus of the two tales linked individually below, each nominally a “children’s book”)
    • 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.)
  • Farrland:
    • 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]
    (There are numerous translations available; the linked one—by Richard Howard—seems the best.)

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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, badly cut up by the publisher)
    • The Golden Naginata
    • Thousand Shrine Warrior
  • Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman

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• Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Songs from the Seashell Archives:
    (There are four books in this cycle, of which the one below is #2; see the link above for the others.)
    • 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:
    • The Incompleat Nifft:
      (An omnibus comprising the two books listed separately below; now expensive.)
      • Nifft the Lean
      • The Mines of Behemoth
    • The A’Rak [now expensive]

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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. Her books are virtually all romances, and many are YA—whether or not so labelled.)
  • The Shape-Changer’s Wife
  • The Samaria Works:
    (This is the author’s recommended reading order, not a publication-date order.)
    • Angelica
    • Archangel
    • # Angel Seeker
    • 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 D. *
  (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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• 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—within category—in some sort of roughly chronlogical order.)
  • Series:
    • Dies Irae:
      • The Days of Glory
      • In the Kingdom of the Beasts
      • Day of Wrath
    • Swan Songs
      (an omnibus including the six works individually listed below.)
      • The Halcyon Drift
      • Rhapsody in Black
      • Promised Land
      • The Paradise Game
      • The Fenris Device
      • Swan Song
    • Daedalus Mission:
      • The Florians
      • Critical Threshold
      • Wildeblood’s Empire
      • The City of the Sun
      • Balance of Power
      • The Paradox of the Sets
    • David Lydyard:
      • The Werewolves of London
      • The Angel of Pain
      • The Carnival of Destruction
    • Asgard:
      • Asgard’s Secret
      • Asgard’s Conquerors
      • Asgard’s Heart
    • Genesys:
      • Serpent’s Blood
      • Salamander’s Fire
      • Chimera’s Cradle
    • Biotech Revolution:
      • # Le Fleurs du Mal / The Undead *
      • The Dragon Man: A Novel of the Future
      • # Xeno’s Paradox: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution
      • # Zombies Don’t Cry: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution
      • # Nature’s Shift: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution
      • Emortality:
        (This list is in the author’s intended reading order, not publication order.)
        • The Cassandra Complex
        • Inherit the Earth
        • Dark Ararat
        • Architects of Emortality
        • The Fountains of Youth
        • The Omega Expedition
      • Tales of the Biotech Revolution:
        • # Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution *
        • Designer Genes: Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
        • # The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
        • # The Tree of Life and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
        • # In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
        • # The Great Chain of Being and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
        • # The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution *
    • Mnemosyne:
      • # The Wayward Muse *
      • # Eurydice’s Lament
      • # The Mirror of Dionysius
      • # The Pool of Mnemosyne
    • The Empire of the Necromancers:
      • # The Shadow of Frankenstein *
      • # Frankenstein and the Vampire Countess
      • # Frankenstein in London
    • Auguste Dupin:
      • # The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos *
        (The “other tales” are not part of the Dupin cycle.)
      • # The Mad Trist / Valdemar’s Daughter *
      • The Quintessence of August: A Romance 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
    • Morgan’s Fork:
      • # Spirits of the Vasty Deep
      • # The Insubstantial Pageant
      • # The Truths of Darkness
    • Paul Furneret:
      • The Painter of Spirits
      • The Quiet Dead
      • Living with the Dead
    • Revelations:
      • # The Revelations of Time and Space
      • # After the Revelation
  • Non-Series Novels:
    • Cradle of the Sun
    • The Blind Worm
    • To Challenge Chaos
    • Man in a Cage
    • The Mind-Riders
    • The Realms of Tartarus
    • The Last Days of the Edge of the World
    • The Walking Shadow
    • Optiman
    • The Castaways of Tanagar
    • The Gates of Eden
    • The Empire of Fear
    • Young Blood
    • Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future
    • Year Zero
    • The Eleventh Hour
    • # Curse of the Coral Bride
    • # Kiss the Goat
    • # The Stones of Camelot
    • # Streaking: A Novel of Probability
    • # The New Faust at the Tragicomique
    • # The Moment of Truth
    • # Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity [renamed from “The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires”]
    • # Prelude to Eternity: A Romance of the First Time Machine
    • # Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations
    • # The World Beyond: A Sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s The World Below
    • # Luscinia: A Romance of Nightingales and Roses
    • # The Plurality of Worlds: A 16th-century Space Opera
    • # Echoes of Eternity [print copies, published by Chambrion Books in February of 2016, are unfindable; available in a Kindle edition.]
    • # 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 Tyranny of the Word
    • # The Elusive Shadows
    • # Meat on the Bone
    • # Beyond the Mountains of Madness
  • Non-Series Story Collections:
    • Slumming in Voodooland *
    • Fables and Fantasies *
    • Complications and Other Stories *
    • Salomé and Other Decadent Fantasies *
    • # Sheena and Other Gothic Tales *
    • # The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions *
    • # An Oasis of Horror: Decadent Tales and Contes Cruels *
    • # The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions *
    • # The Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels *
    • # Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales *
    • # The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies *
    • # 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 *
    • # The Womb of Time *
    • # The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos *

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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: A Fantasia on Romantic Themes

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• Stephens, James **
  
  • The Crock of Gold
  • # The Demi-Gods
  • # Irish Fairy Tales *

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• Stevermer, Caroline *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.) (All of Stevermer’s works are considered YA, but these are arguably not.)
  • The Galazon Cycle
    • When the King Comes Home [a medieval prequel to the below]
    • Scholarly Magics
      (an omnibus of the two books linked separately below)
      • A College of Magics
      • A Scholar of Magics

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• Stewart, Sean ***
  
  • # Passion Play
  • # Nobody’s Son
  • Magic Returned:
    • Resurrection Man
    • # The Night Watch
    • Galveston
  • Cloud’s End
  • # Mockingbird
  • Perfect Circle aka Firecracker

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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 links are to the preferred 2015 editions.)
    • The High House
    • The False House [2015 edition is author-revised]
    • # Evenmere

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• Sucharitkul, Somtow **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  (The man’s name is Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; at times, thinking that too difficult for marketing, he wrote under the name S. P. Somtow, but has also writes as Somtow Sucharitkul. I here combine works written under both names; indeed, any given book may—and most do—appear under both names, which name depending on which edition.)
  • The Shattered Horse
  • The Inquestor Tetralogy:
    • Light on the Sound
    • The Throne of Madness
    • Utopia Hunters
    • The Darkling Wind
    • # Homeworld of the Heart

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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 Thirteen Clocks [children’s book]
  • 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.)
    • 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 [Link is to the preferred edition of this work.]
  • The Middle-Earth Works:
    • The Hobbit [Link is to The Annotated Hobbit, the preferred edition.)
    • The Lord of the Rings:
      • The Lord of the Rings [Deluxe multi-volume 60^th Anniversary boxed set; pricey]
      • The Lord of the Rings [Deluxe one-volume slipcased edition]
      • The Lord of the Rings [all-editions search]
    • The Silmarillion
      (The main divide over the many editions is the illustrations: some are by Tolkien himself, others use Nasmith’s. The latter is fuller and richer, but not a few prefer the author’s own. Here are several choices for you:)
      • The Silmarillion: Tolkien-illustrated [a nice, moderately priced recent edition]
      • The Silmarillion: Nasmith-illustrated [a jazzy deluxe edition, but pricey]
      • The Silmarillion: Nasmith-illustrated [an older edition, moderately priced]
      • The Silmarillion [will show all editions]
    • # 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 **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • 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:
      (An omnibus comprising the following four novels.)
      • Mary Poppins
      • 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:
      (An omnibus comprising the following two novels.)
      • # 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 best way to read Vance is, of course, in the 44-volume Vance Integral Edition, but inasmuch as complete sets were $1,200 at issue and are—if one could even find any on offer—vastly more expensive now, that is only a dream; but individual volumes can sometimes be found, and if you ever see one you can afford, snap it up. Also, though I personally abominate “ebooks”, for something this big and otherwise-expensive, you might consider an ebook edition of the VIE—still far from inexpensive, but more nearly manageable.]
  • 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 those listings now notably expensive, 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 rather expensive]
    • The Narrow Land *
    • The Light From a Lone Star * [chapbook, now rather expensive]
    • The Augmented Agent and Other Stories *
    • The Dark Side of the Moon *
    • Chateau D’If *
    • When the Five Moons Rise * [now rather expensive]
    • Wild Thyme, Green Magic * [now rather expensive]
    • The Jack Vance Treasury * [now rather expensive]

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• VanderMeer, Jeff ? [not yet rated]
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Veniss Underground
    (An omnibus comprising the titles listed below;
     there are quite a few editions of Veniss—this is the most complete.)
    • Foreword [essay by Charles Yu]
    • Veniss Underground
    • The Story of Quin [notes constituting a sort of prequel]
    • Afterword [notes by VanderMeer]
    • Preface to the Veniss Stories [essay by VanderMeer]
    • The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight [short story in the Veniss setting]
    • Detectives and Cadavers [short story in the Veniss setting]
    • Balzac’s War [short story in the Veniss setting]
    • A Heart for Lucretia [short story in the Veniss setting]
    • Three Days in a Border Town [novelette by VanderMeer]

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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
  • # Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies *

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• Wellman, Manly Wade *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • John the Balladeer:
    (Neither the stories nor the novels—especially the novels—are of consistent quality, but the best are good and the worst tolerable.)
    • The Novels:
      • The Old Gods Waken
      • After Dark
      • The Lost and the Lurking
      • The Hanging Stones [now expensive]
      • The Voice of the Mountain [now quite expensive]
    • The Short Stories:
      (The collected stories have followed a tortuous path to publication, appearing in numerous editions—under various titles—and nowadays most are direly expensive. And they are not identical: later ones have more stories, and in some there was some re-writing by Other Hands. These are what seem the most utile, though all are relatively expensive:)
      • Who Fears the Devil?
      • John the Balladeer
      • Owls Hoot in Daytime and Other Omens

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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 Element of Fire
    • The Death of the Necromancer
    • The Fall of Ile-Rien:
      • The Wizard Hunters
      • The Ships of Air
      • # The Gate of Gods

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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 Once and Future King
    (There are four good omnibus editions of this collection, two paperback and two hardcover; these are they:)
    paperback (Harper Voyager, 2001)
    paperback (HarperCollins, 1996)

    hardcover (Harper Collins, 2013)
    hardcover (Penguin Galaxy, 2016)
    (Here are the books comprised in the omnibuses above, with individual links:)
    • The Sword in the Stone
    • The Queen of Air and Darkness aka The Witch in the Wood
    • The Ill-Made Knight
    • The Candle in the Wind
    • The Book of Merlyn [a sort of late postscript to what is effectively a pentology]
  • Mistress Masham’s Repose
  • The Elephant and the Kangaroo
  • The Master [nominally a “children’s book”]

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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:
    (These are listed in order by internal chronology, not publication date.)
    • A Sorcerer and a Gentleman
    • The Price of Blood and Honor
    • The Well-Favored Man

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• Williams, Charles ***
  
  • Aspects of Power:
    • softcover
    • hardcover
      (The omnibus collections above each comprise the seven vaguely related novels that are his total prose output, and are the preferred editions; they are expensive, but you are buying seven books. If you prefer them individually, these are they:)
      • 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:
    • 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 links above are to the two 4-book omnibuses; both are now scarce and expensive, so I also link below to the two 2-book omnibuses that the big ones comprise.)
      • Shadow and Claw
        • The Shadow of the Torturer
        • The Claw of the Conciliator
      • Sword and Citadel
        • 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 is now scarce and expensive, when available at all)
      • 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 *
    • The Wolfe at the Door *
  • 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.)
  • Out of the Deeps aka The Kraken Wakes

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• Zelazny, Roger *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)
  • Isle of the Dead
  • To Die in Italbar
  • Lord of Light
  • Creatures of Light and Darkness
  • Roadmarks
  • The Chronicles of Amber (The Corwin Cycle)
    (An omnibus comprising the five books linked separately below. There are also 5 later novels comprising the “Merlin Cycle” Amber sub-series, but they are distinctly lesser works and not listed here.)
    • Nine Princes in Amber
    • The Guns of Avalon
    • Sign of the Unicorn
    • The Hand of Oberon
    • The Courts 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:
    • Neverness:
      • #Shanidar and Other Stories *
        (The title story is from the “Neverness” cycle; the others are not.)
      • Neverness
    • A Requiem for Homo Sapiens: [essentially one novel in 3 volumes]
      • The Broken God
      • The Wild
      • War in Heaven

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