Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

Steven Erikson

Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

Steven Erikson

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

Steven Erikson

The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

Mikhail Bakhtin

The Raw and the Cooked (Mythologiques, Vol 1)

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (Stages)

Gérard Genette

Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (Literature, Culture, Theory, Series Number 20)

Gérard Genette

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

Jane Alison

Fantasy: How It Works

Brian Attebery

The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre

Tzvetan Todorov

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)

Brandon Sanderson

The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3)

Mervyn Peake

Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)

Mervyn Peake

Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)

Mervyn Peake

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

Endless Things (The Ægypt Cycle, #4)

John Crowley

Daemonomania (The Aegypt Cycle, #3)

John Crowley

Love & Sleep (The Aegypt Cycle, #2)

John Crowley

Ægypt (The Ægypt Cycle, #1)

John Crowley

The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

Peter S. Beagle

Dæmon Voices

Philip Pullman

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building

David J. Peterson

Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

Michael Livingston

Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings

Stefan Ekman

There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit

Mark Atherton

The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Ursula K. Le Guin