Fantasy Reading

The only reason this whole project isn’t a challenge? Because this list is WAY too long to try and craft a reasonable and conceivable time-table in which to attempt to read it all! Instead, consider this a record as I try to work my way through the 100 science fiction and fantasy titles that (after countless hours googling and Goodreads-ing) I consider part of my own personal ‘canon’ (leaving off arguments about what/how to decide what to put in a canon)! Links to thoughts are provided.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein
4. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R.R. Martin
5. A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2) by George R.R. Martin
6. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) by George R.R. Martin
7. A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4) by George R.R. Martin
8. The Chronicles of Narnia (The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle) by C.S. Lewis
9. His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass; The Amber Spyglass; The Subtle Knife) by Philip Pullman
10. The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss
11. Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind
12. Eragon (Inheritance #1) by Christopher Paolini
13. The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King
14. The Mists of Avalon (Mists of Avalon #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
15. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
17. Redwall (Redwall #1) by Brian Jacques
18. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
19. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
20. Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
21. The Color of Magic (Discworld #1) By Terry Prachett
22. Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels #1) by Anne Bishop
23. The Fionavar Covenant by Guy Gavriel Kay
24. Outlander (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon
25. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
26. Alanna: The First Adventure (The Song of the Lioness #1) by Tamora Pierce
27. City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Claire
28. Harry Potter(…and the Sorcerer’s Stone; …and the Chamber of Secrets; …and the Prisoner of Azkaban; …and the Goblet of Fire; …and the Order of the Phoenix; …and the Half-Blood Prince; …and the Deathly Hallows) by J.K. Rowling
29. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) by Juliet Marillier
30. The Bartimaeus Trilogy (The Amulet of Samarkand; The Golem’s Eye; Ptolemy’s Gate) by Jonathan Stroud
31. Dune (Dune Chronicles #1) by Frank Herbert
32. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Volume I by Diana Wynne Jones
33. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libby Bray
34. Leviathan (Leviathan #1) by Scott Westerfield
35. Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Claire
36. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
37. Neuromancer by William Gibson
38. Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood #1) by Juliet Marillier
39. The Immortals by Tamora Pierce
40. Reckless (Reckless #1) by Cornelia Funke
41. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
42. The Seer and the Sword (Healer and Seer #1) by Victoria Hanley
43. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
44. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
45. 1984 by George Orwell
46. A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
47. Assassin’s Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy #1) by Robin Hobb
48. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffery
49. Watership Down by Richard Adams
50. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
51. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
52. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
53. Contact by Carl Sagan
54. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
56. Ella Enchanged by Gail Carson Levine
57. Winter Rose (Winter Rose #1) by Patricia A. McKillip
58. The Summoner (Chronicles of the Necromancer, Vol. I) by Gail Z. Martin
59. A Search for the King by Gore Vidal
60. Gloriana, Or the Unfulfill’d Queen by Michael Moorcock
61. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
62. The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga #1) by Mary Stewart
63. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
64. Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgaraid #1) by David Eddings
65. In the Night Garden (The Orphan’s Tales #1) by Catherynne M. Valente
66. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
67. Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker #1) by Orson Scott Card
68. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
69. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
70. Pale Demon by Kim Harrison
71. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
72. The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
73. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
74. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
75. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
76. The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany
77. Little, Big by John Crowley
78. Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon
79. The Hollow Kingdom (The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy #1) by Clare B. Dunkle
80. A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
81. Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
82. The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
83. Ringworld by Larry Niven
84. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
85. Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
86. Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede
87. Fablehaven (Fablehaven #1) by Brandon Mull
88. The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan
89. The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard #1) by Scott Lynch
90. Inkheart (Inkheart #1) by Cornelia Funke
91. The Magician’s Guild (Black Magician Trilogy #1) by Trudi Canavan
92. The Thief (The Queen’s Thief #1) by Megan Whalen Turner
93. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
94. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
95. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
96. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
97. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
98. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
99. Lilith by George MacDonald
100. The Curse of Chalion (Chalion #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold