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Tigana (1990) Kay is the fantasy writer's fantasy writer.Tigana takes as its starting point the Italy of the eleventh-twelth centuries - but this Italy has suffered more sea change than the Spain of The Lions of Al Rassan. A wonderful, well written book! |
Guy Gavriel Kay |
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Dealing With Dragons (1990) If you are wondering what to read after Harry Potter, this may well be it!. Take a journey into the kingdom of Linderwall with Wrede. It is well worth your time! Meet sixteen-year-old Cimorene, Princess of Linderwall, who is everything that a Princess should not be: headstrong, curious, stubborn, opinionated, smart, and tomboyish. Not only that, she is bored. Dealing With Dragons is an incredible read.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Mort (1987) Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.
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Terry Pratchett |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) The story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. From a master storyteller!
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Haruki Murakami |
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The Metamorphosis (1915) Gregor Samsa, finds himself turned into a bug one morning. While Samsa attempts his best to convey what he thinks to his family, the members of family, understandably, are incapable of even conceiving that this bug, Samsa, may have any intellect. One of Kafka's masterpieces!
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Franz Kafka |
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The Odyssey (-800) A chronicle of Odysseus' life after the Trojan War. The difficult straits of his wife, Penelope, are outlined, as suitors try to win her hand in marriage after the assumed death of Odysseus.
After many travails, and being punished at the hands of the gods, Odysseus returns to his home after ten years. A beaufiful and wonderful tale!
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Homer |
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The Eyre Affair (2002) When asked to summarize his creation is a single sentence, Jasper Fforde described it as "a literary detective thriller with romantic overtones, mad-inventor uncles, aunts trapped in Wordsworth poems, global multinationals, scheming evildoers, an excursion inside the novel Jane Eyre, dodos, knight-errant-time-traveling fathers, and the answer to the eternal question: Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays?"
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Jasper Fforde |
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Magic's Pawn (1989) In Magic's Pawn, an ancient age in the history of Valdemar comes to life--an age when the kingdom was ravaged by the ungoverned fury of bandit warlords, ferocious ice dragons, and the wild magic of wizards. |
Mercedes Lackey |
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The Haunting of Hill House (1959) "A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages." It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House. |
Shirley Jackson |
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I Am Legend (1954)
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures. Robert Neville may be the last real human. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn |
Richard Matheson |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Maybe the best Bradbury ever! A wonderful tale!
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Ray Bradbury |
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Inferno (1321) The unforgettable world of the Inferno is perhaps the most graphic vision of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval world. A true masterpiece!
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Dante Alighieri |
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Beauty (1978) Robin McKinley's telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple: Beauty and the Beast.
When Beauty's father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle.
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Robin McKinley |
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Boy's Life (1990) Just a great, great book about a boy, a dog and a bicycle in a small town just like the one you grew up in. So much happens in the story, a murder, a monster, and other mysteries. They are seen through the eyes and imagination of 12 year old Cory as he stumbles through his youth. |
Robert McCammon |
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The Last Unicorn (1968)(filmed 1982) One of the true classics of fantasy. The story recounts the journey of the last unicorn to find "her people," unicorns who have been imprisoned by the evil King Haggard. A wonderful, magical book: Beagle's flawless writing weaves a spell of words and images. |
Peter S. Beagle |
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Book of the New Sun (1980) The book chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a journeyman torturer who is exiled from the guild of torturers for committing the one unforgivable act: showing mercy to his victim. Following the exile, he takes a journey that culminates in his rising to the position of Autarch, the one ruler of the free world.
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Gene Wolfe |
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Naked Lunch (1959, filmed 1992) The book was met with great acclaim and great controversy. It was banned in the United States until 1962, when it won a landmark censorship case in the Supreme Court. Burroughs explored such touchy subjects as drug addiction, homosexuality, and death, all in a disjointed, episodic style that reminded some of hallucinations and others of Impressionist art.
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William S. Burroughs |
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Replay (1987) The story of a man and a woman given the ability to live their lives over. Each dies in 1988 only to awaken as a teenager in 1963 with adult knowledge and wisdom intact and the ability to make new choices. Different spouses, lovers, children, careers, await them in each go-round of the past 25 years. Their deep commitment to one another continues through their many lifetimes. |
Ken Grimwood |
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The Blue Sword (1982)
Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. When Harry Crewe's father dies, she leaves her Homeland to travel east, to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander empire, where her elder brother is stationed. |
Robin McKinley |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) Portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, and their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, as well as with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. This is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage. |
William Shakespeare |
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Death Gate Cycle (1990) (Dragon Wing is book one in the series) The Death Gate Cycle is a series of books written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Again they have created a fully functional world where magic is king.
The series centers on Haplo, one of the Patryns who has escaped exile in The Labyrinth. |
Weis & Hickman |
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Daughter of the Blood (1998) This is a witch story with an adult theme, about a world where witches hold the power and men are used for pleasure and breeding.
There is a dark sensual element that runs through the plot, but it doesn't distract from the story. It is masterfully written, and a book that really captures your attention. A good read. |
Anne Bishop |
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The Cat in the Hat (1957, filmed 2003) The story of the cat that transformed a dull, rainy afternoon into a magical and just-messy-enough adventure. There's another, hidden adventure, too: this book really will help children learn to read. With his simple and often single-vowel vocabular -- laughing all the way. |
Dr Seuss |
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The Black Company (1984) The Black Company is a troop of mercenaries who know the risks they take on all their missions especially whenever they inter one of their comrades, which is frequent. They exclusively serve the great malevolent sorceress Lady. Cook's writing is dense, his characters believable. Good books! |
Glen Cook |
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Bridge Of Birds (1984) "a novel of an ancient China that never was," is an utterly delightful and charming comic fantasy. The narrator, Number Ten Ox, lives a quiet life in a rural village until the day a mysterious plague strikes the children of his village. Setting off to Peking to find a wise man, he encounters Li Kao, a sage with a "slight flaw in his character." |
Barry Hughart |
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