The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Joe Abercrombie

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

George R.R. Martin

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Robin Hobb

Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)

Steven Erikson

The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)

Robert Jordan

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)

Terry Pratchett

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

Fonda Lee

Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

J.K. Rowling

The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)

Scott Lynch

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Dune (Dune, #1)

Frank Herbert

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

Matt Dinniman

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

Patrick Rothfuss

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Tamsyn Muir

Unsouled (Cradle, #1)

Will Wight

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)

Pirateaba Pirateaba

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Empire of Silence (Sun Eater, #1)

Christopher Ruocchio

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

James S.A. Corey

The Witchwood Crown (The Last King of Osten Ard, #1)

Tad Williams

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)

Jim Butcher

The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

James Islington

Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)

Guy Gavriel Kay

Rocannon's World (Hainish Cycle, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin