Suggested Readings



         The following are books either my friends or I have read and highly recommend. The goal here is to help you find what we consider the best works among the different genres of literature. Most of the books currently listed are fiction, prodominately science fiction and fantasy; however, you will find some horror and non-fiction, of which we will add more. The layout is temporary; printer friendly version here. In the very near future I plan to direct a full expansion of reviews, ratings and suggested readings based on similar authors: a definitive work in progress.



Recommended
Author
Genre Recommended
Books
Related
Website

Adams, Douglas

Science Fiction

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Official Site

Anderson, Poul

Science Fiction,
Fantasy

Technic series

Other writings:
The Broken Sword
The High Crusade
Three Hearts and Three Lions

Bibliography

Bakker, R. Scott

Fantasy

The Prince of Nothing series:
The Darkness That Comes Before
The Warrior-Prophet
The Thousandfold Thought

Official Site

Bradbury, Ray

General Fiction,
Science Fiction

The Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Fahrenheit 451

Official Site

Brookes, Terry

Fantasy

The Shannara series

Official Site

Brown, Lester R.

Non-fiction

Outgrowing the Earth
and
Plan B 2.0

Official Site

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Science Fiction

Barsoom:
The complete Mars series

Official Site

Canavan, Trudy

Fantasy

Kryalia Series:
The Black Magician trilogy
The Traitor Spy trilogy

Age of the Five Series:
Age of the Five

Official Site

Card, Orson Scott

Science Fiction,
Fantasy

Ender's Game

Official Site

Chetwin, Grace

Science Fiction,
Fantasy

Legends of Ulm series:
Gom on Windy Mountain
The Riddle & The Rune
The Crystal Stair
The Starstone
Gerrad's Quest
The Fall of Aelyth-Kintalyn
The Foundling of Snawbyr Crygg
Wycan
The Stargate of Lyntyn

The Last Legacy Tetralogy:
Vol I: The Atheling
Vol II: The Orborgon

Official Site

Clarke, Arthur C.

Science Fiction

A Space Odyssey series:
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
3001: The Final Odyssey

Official Site

Clarke, Susanna

Historical Fantasy

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

Official Site

Cohen, Leonard

General Fiction

Beautiful Losers

Official Site

Cooper, Susan

Fantasy

The Dark Is Rising sequence:
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark Is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree

Official Site

Cornwell, Bernard

Historical Fiction

The Sharpe series

Official Site

Darwin, Charles

Non-Fiction

Origin of Species

Bibliography

de Boer, Jelle Zeilinga

Non-Fiction

Volcanoes in Human History:
The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

Earthquakes in Human History:
The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

Academic Site

Diamond, Jared

Non-Fiction

Guns, Germs & Steel

Academic Page

Dickens, Charles

General Fiction

Bleak House

Bibliography

Donaldson, Stephen

Fantasy,
Science Fiction

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant:
The First Chronicles
The Second Chronicles
The Last Chronicles

The Gap Cycle series:
The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story
The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises
The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order
The Gap into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die

Official Site

Eddison, E.R.

Fantasy

The Worm Ouroboros

Zimiamvian trilogy:
Mistress of Mistresses
A Fish Dinner in Memison
The Mezentian Gate

Official Site

Feist, Raymond E.

Fantasy

The Riftwar-Series

Official Site

Gabaldon, Diana

Historical Fiction

Outlander series:
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Official Site

Gaiman, Neil

Fantasy,
Non-fiction

American Gods
Neverwhere

Official Site

Gemmell, David

Fantasy,
Historical Fiction

Drenai Tales series
Troy series

Official Site

Gies, Frances

Non-Fiction,
Historical

The Medieval Life Series:
Life in a Medieval City
Life in a Medieval Castle
Life in a Medieval Village
The Knight in History
Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages

Official Site

Guin, Ursula Kroeber Le

Fantasy,
Science Fiction

The Earthsea series
Novels of the Ekumen
The Left Hand of Darkness

Official Site

Hemingway, Ernest

General Fiction

A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea

Official Site

Herbert, Frank

Science Fiction

Classic Dune series

The Void series:
Destination: Void
The Jesus Incident
The Lazarus Effect
The Ascension Factor

Official Site

Holland, Cecilia

Historical Fiction

Corban Loosestrife series:
The Soul Thief
Witches' Kitchen
The Serpent Dreamer
Varranger

Official Site

Howard, Robert E.

Fantasy

Barbarian series:
Conan:
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
The Bloody Crown of Conan
The Conquering Sword of Conan

Kane:
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

Bran:
Bran Mak Morn

Kull:
Kull, Exile of Atlantis

Official Site

James, M.R.

General Fiction,
Ghost Stories,
Non-fiction

2001 A Pleasing Terror:
The Complete Supernatural
Writings of MR James

Bibliography

Jarvis, Robin

Fantasy

The Deptford Mice Trilogy
The Whitby Witches

Official Site

Jones, Diana Wynne

Fantasy,
Science Fiction

Chrestomanci series:
Part I:
Charmed Life
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Conrad's Fate
The Pinhoe Egg
Part II:
The Magicians of Caprona
Witch Week
Mixed Magics
Stealer of Souls

Derkholm series:
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Year of the Griffin

Castle series:
Howl's Moving Castle
Castle in the Air

Other works:
Dalemark Quartet

Official Site

Jordan, Robert

Fantasy

The Wheel of Time series

Official Blog

King, Gabriel

Fantasy

The Wild Road

Official Bio

King, Stephen

General Fiction,
Horror, Fantasy

The Dark Tower series
The Eyes of the Dragon
It
Pet Sematary
The Shining
The Stand, The Complete
and Uncut Edition

Official Site

Kay, Guy Gavriel

Fantasy

The Fionavar Tapestry
Trilogy

Official Site

Kellerman, Jonathan

General Fiction

Alex Delaware Novels

Official Site

Leiber, Fritz

Fantasy,
Horror,
Science Fiction

The Fafhrd & Gray Mouser Series

Official Site

Lewis, C.S.

Fantasy,
Science Fiction

The Chronicles of Narnia
Space trilogy
Until We Have Faces

Official Site

Lovecraft, HP

Horror Fiction

The Dunwich Horror and Others
At the Mountains of Madness
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

Official Site

Malory, Sir Thomas

Arthurian Fiction

King Author:
Malory: Complete Works
aka
Le Morte d'Arthur

Also related:
The Mabinogion and the Mabinogi

Official Site

Martin, George R.R.

Fantasy,
Science Fiction

A Song of Ice and Fire series:
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons (2010)
The Winds of Winter (2012)
A Dream of Spring (2014)

ASoIaF series related prequel novellas:
The Hedge Knight
The Hedge Knight II: The Sworn Sword
The Hedge Knight III: The Mystery Knight

Wild Cards:
Series Web Site

Other Works:
A Song for Lya
Dying of the Light
Fevre Dream
Hunter's Run
Shadow Twin
The Armageddon Rage
The Ice Dragon
Windhaven
Tuf Voyaging
Shadow Twin

Anthologies:
Dreamsongs: Volume I
Dreamsongs: Volume II

Official Site

May, Julian

Science Fiction

The Saga of Pliocene Exile
known in the UK as
The Saga of Exiles series

Other Works:
The Galactic Milieu trilogy
Trillium trilogy
Ramparts World
The Boreal Moon Tale

Bibliography

McCaffrey, Anne

Science Fiction,
Fantasy

The Pern series

Official Site

McCarthy, Cormac

General Fiction

The Border Trilogy:
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Cities of the Plain

Other Works:
Blood Meridian

Official Site

McKillip, Patricia

Fantasy

The Riddle-Master's Game:
The Complete Trilogy

Unofficial Site

Moorcock, Michael

Fantasy

Elric of Melnibone
Elric: The Stealer of Souls
and Stormbringer

Unofficial Site

Niven, Larry

Science Fiction,
Fantasy

Ringworld series:
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
The Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children

Magic Goes Away series:
The Magic Goes Away
The Magic May Return
More Magic

Unofficial Site

Norton, Andre

Science Fiction,
Fantasy

Witch World Universe
The Last Planet
Dark Piper
Star Guard

Official Site
Beginner's
Guide

Orwell, George
(aka Eric Arthur Blair)

General Fiction

Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Bibliography

Pargeter, Edith
aka
Ellis Peters

General Fiction,
Medieval Works

Brother Cadfael series
The Potter's Field

Unofficial site

Poe, Edgar Allan

General Fiction,
Fantasy Horror

Entire Tales & Poems:
Photographic & Annotated Edition

Unofficial Site

Potok, Chaim

General Fiction

The Book of Lights

Official Site

Pratchett, Terry

Science Fiction

Discworld series

Official Site

Pullman, Philip

Fantasy

His Dark Materials series

Official Site

Remarque, Erich Maria

General Fiction

All Quiet on the Western Front

Bibliography

Stewart, Mary

Fantasy

The Merlin/Arthurian series:
The Crystal Cave
The Hollow Hills
The Last Enchantment
The Wicked Day
The Prince and the Pilgrim

Bibliography

Simmons, Dan

Science Fiction

The Hyperion series:
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion

Official Site

Smith, Clark Ashton

Science Fiction,
Fantasy, Horror

Zothique: Collection of
Short Stories

Hyperborea

Official Site

Stroud, Jonothan

Fantasy

Bartimaeus trilogy

Official Site

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Fantasy

The Canon of Arda

The Tolkien Estate

Tolstoy, Leo

Historical Fiction

Anna Karenina
War and Peace

Bibliography

Townsend, Sue

General Fiction

Adrian Mole series

Bibliography

Wells, H.G.

Science Fiction

The Time Machine
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
The Sleeper Awakes

Bibliography

Whyte, Jack

Historical Fiction,
Fantasy

Camulod Chronicles
Templar trilogy

Official Site

Williams, Tad

Fantasy,
Science Fiction

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series:
The Dragonbone Chair
The Stone of Farewell
To Green Angel Tower

Otherland series:
City of Golden Shadow
River of Blue Fire
Mountain of Black Glass
Sea of Silver Light

Shadowmarch series:
Shadowmarch
Shadowplay
Shadowrise

Other books:
The War of the Flowers
Tailchaser's Song

Official Site

Winchester, Simon

Non-Fiction

Krakatoa, The Day the World Exploded

The Crack in the Edge of the World

The Professor and the Madman

The Map that Changed the World

Official Site

Wolfe, Gene

Fantasy

Urth series:
Shadow and Claw
Sword and Citadel
The Book of the New Sun
Litany of the Long Sun
Epiphany of the Long Sun
On Blue's Waters
In Green's Jungles
Return to the Whorl

Other works:
The Wizard Knight

Bibliography

Vance, Jack

Science Fiction,
Fantasy

The Complete Dying Earth series:
The Dying Earth
The Eyes of the Overworld
Cugel's Saga
Rhialto the Marvellous

Official Site

Verne, Jules

Science Fiction

20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea

A Journey to the Interior
of the Earth

Around the World in 80 Days
The Mysterious Island

Unofficial Site

Vonnegut, Kurt

General Fiction

Slaughterhouse-Five

Official Site

Zelazny, Roger

Fantasy

The Chronicles of Amber:
First Chronicles
Second Chronicles
or
The Great Book of Amber:
The Complete Amber Chronicles

Other Works:
Here There Be Dragons
Way Up High

Unofficial Site


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