fantasy prior to the 1970s before Del Rey publishing ruined the genre with their "formula for success”
created by emdellarosa
last updated June, 2026
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Travel Light
Naomi Mitchison
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
Mervyn Peake
The Three Impostors
Arthur Machen
Phantastes
George MacDonald
Undine
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)
E. Nesbit
The Shrinking Man
Richard Matheson
Avalon
Anya Seton
The Wood Beyond the World
William Morris
Jurgen (The Biography of Manuel, #7)
James Branch Cabell
The Broken Sword
Poul Anderson
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany
Lud-in-the-Mist
Hope Mirrlees
Mistress of Mistresses
E.R. Eddison
On the Marble Cliffs
Ernst Jünger
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis
The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)
Lloyd Alexander
The Worm Ouroboros
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Philip Pullman
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